Washington for Wicked

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
in Wicked.
Credit: Giles Keyte / Universal Pictures

The Washington DC Area Film Critics Association voted Wicked Best Picture during its annual voting meeting to chose the top cinema efforts of 2024. The musical based on the still-running Broadway hit about the early days of the witches of Oz also won Best Picture from the National Board of Review and is a front-runner for the upcoming Oscar noms. Mikey Madison of Anora was named Best Actress. She also won top honors from the LA and Boston critics. Coleman Domingo of Sing Sing, who already won at the Gotham Awards, took Best Actor. Best Supporting Actor Kieran Culkin of A Real Pain continued his winning ways, having previous taken the NBR, NY Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics. Danielle Deadwyler of The Piano Lesson was voted Best Supporting Actress. 

A complete list of winners and nominees follows:

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.