The New York Film Critics Circle voted today at Film at Lincoln Center for their 2023 awards winners. The awards will be handed out during their annual ceremony on Wednesday, January 3, 2023 at Tao Downtown.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” was awarded Best Film, the third film directed by Martin Scorsese to receive this award. Christopher Nolan was named Best Director for “Oppenheimer,” Lily Gladstone was selected as Best Actress for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and Franz Rogowski was chosen as Best Actor for Passages. “The Boy and the Heron” was selected as Best Animated Film, marking the fourth time a Studio Ghibli film directed by Hayao Miyazaki has won the award. A Special Award was given to Karen Cooper for her five decades of creative leadership as director of Film Forum. Mick Gaw and Katherine Prior were awarded the student scholarships. Full list of winners below.
“As always, the members of the NYFCC have chosen an outstanding, exciting slate of winners. I can’t wait to honor them all at our annual dinner in January,” said NYFCC Chair Matt Singer of ScreenCrush.
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest critics group in the country, and among the most prestigious. The NYFCC’s membership includes critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the web’s most respected online publications.
Every year the organization meets to vote on awards for the calendar year’s films, among the first of the major groups to pronounce its winners. Oftentimes the NYFCC’s selections pave a path for Awards Season, while other times their picks stand proudly independent from other organizations. The group’s awards dinner in early January is also considered a kick-off to a new year of glamorous events in New York City.
Best Film: Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Best Screenplay: Samy Burch, May December
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Actor: Franz Rogowski, Passages
Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Best Supporting Actor: Charles Melton, May December
Best Foreign Language Film: Anatomy of a Fall
Best Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Best Nonfiction Film: Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
Best First Film: Past Lives
Best Animated Film:The Boy and the Heron
Special Awards: Karen Cooper for her five decades of creative leadership as director of Film Forum
Student Scholarships:Undergraduate, Mick Gaw (NYU) Graduate, Katherine Prior (Brooklyn College)
A FULL LIST OF CURRENT NYFCC MEMBERS INCLUDE:
Matt Singer (CHAIR)
ScreenCrush
David Sims (VICE CHAIR)
The Atlantic
Stephen Garrett (GENERAL MANAGER)
Freelance
Sam Adams
Slate
Siddhant Adlakha
Freelance
Melissa Anderson
4Columns
Michael Atkinson
Freelance
Jason Bailey
The Playlist
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
Dwight Brown
NNPA Syndication
Kameron Austin Collins
Rolling Stone
Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine
David Ehrlich
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
IndieWire
David Fear
Rolling Stone
Graham Fuller
Freelance
Owen Gleiberman
Variety
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
Leah Greenblatt
Freelance
Steven D. Greydanus
The National Catholic Register
Rafer Guzman
Newsday
Lovia Gyarkye
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Hoffman
The Messenger
Caryn James
BBC
Tomris Laffly
Freelance
Richard Lawson
Vanity Fair
Violet Lucca
Freelance
Soraya Nadia McDonald
Andscape
Farran Nehme
Freelance
Sheila O’Malley
Rogerebert.com
Rex Reed
New York Observer
David Rooney
The Hollywood Reporter
Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
Kyle Smith
The Wall Street Journal
Dana Stevens
Slate
Amy Taubin
Freelance
Peter Travers
ABC
Keith Uhlich
Freelance
Elizabeth Weitzman
Freelance
Stephen Whitty
Freelance
Alissa Wilkinson
Vox
Alison Willmore
New York Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Time Magazine
Esther Zuckerman
Freelance