Boston and DC Crix Chose Holdovers and American Fiction as Best Pix

Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Giamatti, and
Dominic Sessa in
The Holdovers

The 2023 film award season continues to spread the wealth among a variety of pix, making this year's Oscar nominations harder to predict. The Boston Society of Film Critics and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association voted for their awards on Sun. Dec. 10 (same day as the Los Angeles Film Critics Association) and went in two directions. The Beantown scribes chose The Holdovers, Alexander Payne's comedy-drama about a misanthropic school teacher spending the holidays with a rebellious student and the school's cook, as best picture. The DC critics went for American Fiction, first-time director-writer Cord Jefferson's satire about an African-American novelist. Da'Vine Joy Randolph who plays the cook in Holdovers, continued her dominance of the Supporting Actress category, winning from both groups.  

Killers of the Flower Moon took top prizes from the NY Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review, while Zone of Interest won the Best Picture slot from the Los Angeles reviewers.

Boston Society of Film Critics:

Best Film – The Holdovers

Runners-up: The Zone of Interest and May December

Best Director – Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest

Runners-up: Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer and Todd Haynes for May December

Best Actor – Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers

Runners-up: Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer and Kōji Yakusho for Perfect Days

Best Actress – Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon

Runners-up: Emma Stone for Poor Things, Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall, Natalie Portman for May December

Best Supporting Actor – Ryan Gosling for Barbie

Runners-up: Charles Melton for May December, Mark Ruffalo for Poor Things, Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress – Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers

Best Ensemble – Oppenheimer

Runners-up: Asteroid City, The Iron Claw, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Adapted Screenplay – Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest

Runners-up – Kelly Fremon Craig for Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret and Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese for Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Screenplay – David Hemingson for The Holdovers

Runners-up: Samy Burch for May December and Nicole Holofcener for You Hurt My Feelings

Best New Filmmaker – Celine Song for Past Lives

Runners-up: Cord Jefferson for American Fiction and A.V. Rockwell for A Thousand and One

Best Film Editing – Thelma Schoonmaker for Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Cinematography – Jonathan Ricquebourg for The Taste of Things (La passion de Dodin Bouffant)

Runners-up: Poor Things and Asteroid City

Best Original Score – Robbie Robertson for Killers of the Flower Moon

Runner-up: Mica Levi for The Zone of Interest

Best Animated Film – The Boy and the Heron

Runners-up: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Robot Dreams, The Peasants

Best Documentary – Geographies of Solitude

Best Non-English Language Film – The Zone of Interest

Washington, DC Area Film Critics Circle Nominees and Winners

Best Feature

American Fiction – WINNER
Barbie
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer
Past Lives

Best Director

Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – WINNER
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer – WINNER
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Actress

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December – WINNER
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Viola Davis, Air
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers – WINNER

Best Original Screenplay

Alex Convery, Air
Justin Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Celine Song, Past Lives – WINNER

Best Adapted Screenplay

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction – WINNER
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Ava DuVernay, Origin
Tony McNamara, Poor Things

Best Animated Feature

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – WINNER
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony – WINNER
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
They Shot the Piano Player

Best International/Foreign Language Film

Anatomy of a Fall (France) – WINNER
Perfect Days (Japan)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
The Taste of Things (France)
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Best Voice Performance

Jack Black, The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Daniel Kaluuya, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – WINNER
Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Masaki Suda, The Boy and the Heron

Best Youth Performance

Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Ariana Greenblatt, Barbie
Milo Machado-Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers – WINNER
Iman Vellani, The Marvels

Best Acting Ensemble

American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer – WINNER

Best Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto, Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer – WINNER
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things

Best Editing

Nick Houy, Barbie
Nathan Orloff, John Wick: Chapter 4
Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Michelle Tesoro, Maestro
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer – WINNER

Best Production Design

Asteroid City – Adam Stockhausen (production designer), Kris Moran (set decorator)
Barbie – Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Katie Spencer (set decorator) – WINNER
Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk (production designer), Adam Willis (set decorator)
Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong (production designer), Claire Kaufman (set decorator)
Poor Things – Shona Heath, James Price (production designer), Zsuzsa Mihalek (set decorator)

Best Original Score

Kris Bowers, The Color Purple
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer – WINNER
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon