2023 DFCA Award Winners

Keith NoakesJanuary 7, 2024n/a7 min

Read the complete list of winners of the 5th Annual DiscussingFilm Critic Awards, recognizing the best in film this past year.

BEST PICTURE

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Past Lives

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Jonathan Glazer – The Zone Of Interest

BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Lily Gladstone – Killers Of The Flower Moon
Runner-up: Emma Stone – Poor Things

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Charles Melton – May December
Runner-up: Ryan Gosling – Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Runner-up: Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Winner: Anatomy Of A Fall
Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One

BEST ENSEMBLE

Winner: The Color Purple
Runner-up: Oppenheimer

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Winner: May December
Runner-up: Anatomy Of A Fall

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: All Of Us Strangers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST FILM EDITING

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Killers Of The Flower Moon

BEST SOUND

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: The Zone Of Interest

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Winner: Poor Things
Runner-up: Barbie

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Winner: “I’m Just Ken” – Barbie
Runner-up: “What Was I Made For” – Barbie

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Winner: Godzilla Minus One
Runner-up: The Creator

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Winner: Beyond Utopia
Runner-up: 20 Days in Mariupol

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Winner: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Runner-up: The Boy And The Heron

BEST DEBUT FEATURE

Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: American Fiction

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Winner: Charles Melton – May December
Runner-up: Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE

Winner: John Wick: Chapter 4
Runner-up: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

BEST INDEPENDENT FILM

Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: A Thousand And One

BEST COMEDY

Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST HORROR FILM

Winner: Talk To Me
Runner-up: Evil Dead Rise

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