2023 IFSCA Award Winners

Read the complete list of winners of the 2023 International Film Society Critics Association awards, recognizing the best in film this past year.

BEST PICTURE
Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: The Zone of Interest
Second Runner-up: Oppenheimer

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Celine Song – Past Lives

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Winner: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Runner-up: Emma Stone – Poor Things & Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall tie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Winner: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Ryan Gosling – Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Runner-up: Claire Foy – All Of Us Strangers

BEST YOUNG PERFORMER
Winner: Milo Machado-Graner
Runner-up: Abby Ryder Fortson

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Barbie

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: Anatomy of a Fall

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: All Of Us Strangers & Poor Things tie

BEST ACTION FILM
Winner: John Wick Chapter 4
Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One

BEST COMEDY / MUSICAL
Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST HORROR/SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE
Winner: Godzilla Minus One
Runner-up: Talk to Me

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Winner: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Runner-up: The Boy and the Heron

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: Still: A Michael J. Fox Story
Runner-up: Four Daughters

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: American Fiction

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST FILM EDITING
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Anatomy of a Fall

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: Barbie
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Poor Things

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Winner: «I’m Just Ken» – Barbie
Runner-up: «What Was I Made For» – Barbie

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Winner: Poor Things
Runner-up: Barbie

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: Poor Things
Runner-up: Barbie

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Godzilla Minus One
Runner-up: Oppenheimer

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Winner: The Zone of Interest
Runner-up: Oppenheimer

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

BODY OF WORK
Winner: Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Sisi & I

EXCEEDING (ONE-INCH) BARRIERS
Winner: Past Lives
Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One & The Zone of Interest

still courtesy of Elevation Pictures

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