The Year in Film: 2023

Best Picture

1. Poor Things
2. The Taste of Things
3. Oppenheimer
4. About Dry Grasses
5. Monster
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. May December
8. R.M.N.
9. Trenque Lauquen
10. The Killer

Honorable mention: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Past Lives, Fallen Leaves, Anatomy of a Fall, Afire, The Holdovers, Saltburn, The Eight Mountains, Asteroid City, The Plains, Showing Up, A Still Small Voice, Killers of the Flower Moon, Passages, Napoleon, Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros, Bottoms, The Teachers’ Lounge, Will-o’-the-Wisp, The Zone of Interest, Godland, Perfect Days, The Delinquents, The Unknown Country, The Royal Hotel, The Pigeon Tunnel, You Hurt My Feelings, American Fiction, Robot Dreams, and Walk Up

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Best Director

1. Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
2. Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
3. Tran Anh Hung (The Taste of Things)
4. Nuri Bilge Ceylan (About Dry Grasses)
5. Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Honorable mentions: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Monster), Cristian Mungiu (R.M.N.), Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon), Todd Haynes (May December), and Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall)

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Best Actor

1. Joaquin Phoenix (Beau Is Afraid)
2. Franz Rogowski (Passages)
3. Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
4. Barry Keoghan (Saltburn)
5. Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Honorable mentions: Joaquin Phoenix (Napoleon), Peter Sarsgaard (Memory), Kōji Yakusho (Perfect Days), Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer), and Marin Grigore (R.M.N.)

Best Actress

1. Emma Stone (Poor Things)
2. Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
3. Greta Lee (Past Lives)
4. Juliette Binoche (The Taste of Things)
5. Laure Calamy (Full Time)

Honorable mentions: Aunjanue Ellis (Origin), Carey Mulligan (Maestro), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), Leonie Benesch (The Teachers’ Lounge), and Julianne Moore (May December)

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Best Supporting Actor

1. Willem Dafoe (Poor Things)
2. John Magaro (Past Lives)
3. Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)
4. Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)
5. Jeremy Allen White (Fremont)

Honorable mentions: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer), Charles Melton (May December), Sōya Kurokawa (Monster), Benny Safdie (Oppenheimer), and Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)

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Best Supporting Actress

1. Penelope Cruz (Ferrari)
2. Vanessa Kirby (Napoleon)
3. Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
4. Hong Chau (Showing Up)
5. Merve Dizdar (About Dry Grasses)

Honorable mentions: Rasti Farooq (Joyland), Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Rachel McAdams (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.), Rosamund Pike (Saltburn), and Patti LuPone (Beau Is Afraid)

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Best Original Screenplay

1. Past Lives
2. R.M.N.
3. Anatomy of a Fall
4. May December
5. Showing Up

Honorable mentions: About Dry Grasses, The Holdovers, Fallen Leaves, The Teachers’ Lounge, and Trenque Lauquen

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Poor Things
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Oppenheimer
4. The Taste of Things
5. Beau Is Afraid

Honorable mentions: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, American Fiction, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Zone of Interest, and Barbie

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Best Cinematography

1. El Conde
2. Oppenheimer
3. Poor Things
4. Pacifiction
5. About Dry Grasses

Honorable mentions: Priscilla, Maestro, Ferrari, Godland, and Napoleon

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Best Film Editing

1. Oppenheimer
2. Poor Things
3. Maestro
4. Napoleon
5. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Honorable mentions: Ferrari, The Killer, When Evil Lurks, The Taste of Things, and About Dry Grasses

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Best Score

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. The Boy and the Heron
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. Poor Things

Honorable mentions: Carmen, The Zone of Interest, Napoleon, John Wick Chapter 4, and How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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Best Song

1. “syntynyt suruun ja puettu pettymyksin” (Fallen Leaves)
2. “Am I Dreaming” (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
3. “What Was I Made For?” (Barbie)
4. “Quiet Eyes” (Past Lives)
5. “I Am” (Origin)

Honorable mentions: “Suzume” (Suzume), “Dance the Night” (Barbie), “Space and Time” (Master Gardener), “Camp Isn’t Home” (Theater Camp), and “High Life” (Flora and Son)

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Best Production Design

1. Poor Things
2. Napoleon
3. Beau Is Afraid
4. Asteroid City
5. The Taste of Things

Honorable mentions: Barbie, Maestro, Priscilla, Oppenheimer, and Wonka

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Best Costume Design

1. Poor Things
2. Barbie
3. Priscilla
4. Napoleon
5. Wonka

Honorable mentions: The Taste of Things, Maestro, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Oppenheimer

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Best Makeup & Hairstyling

1. Maestro
2. Poor Things
3. When Evil Lurks
4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
5. Barbie

Honorable mentions: Society of the Snow, Beau Is Afraid, Carmen, Asteroid City, and The Exorcist: Believer

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Best Sound

1. Oppenheimer
2. Maestro
3. Ferrari
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One

Honorable mentions: Godzilla Minus One, When Evil Lurks, Society of the Snow, Napoleon, and The Killer

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Best Visual Effects

1. Oppenheimer
2. Poor Things
3. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
4. The Creator
5. M3GAN

Honorable mentions: Wonka, When Evil Lurks, Godzilla Minus One, Full River Red, and Extraction 2

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Worst Film of the Year

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Dishonorable mentions: Saw X, Hypnotic, Manodrome, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Dicks the Musical, About My Father, Renfield, Foe, and House Party