2023 Awards

Winners and Nominees for the Seattle Film Critics Society 2023 Awards

BEST PICTURE

Past Lives
Celine Song

NOMINEES:

  • American Fiction – Cord Jefferson
  • Barbie – Greta Gerwig
  • The Holdovers – Alexander Payne
  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese
  • May December – Todd Haynes
  • Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan
  • Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
  • The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer

BEST DIRECTOR

Martin Scorsese
Killers of the Flower Moon

NOMINEES:

  •  Barbie – Greta Gerwig
  • Poor Things – Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan
  • Past Lives – Celine Song

BEST LEAD ACTOR

Jeffrey Wright
American Fiction

NOMINEES:

  • Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
  • Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
  • Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
  • Kôji Yakusho – Perfect Days

BEST LEAD ACTRESS

Lily Gladstone
Killers of the Flower Moon

NOMINEES:

  • Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
  • Greta Lee – Past Lives
  • Margot Robbie – Barbie
  • Emma Stone – Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Charles Melton
May December

NOMINEES:

  • Sterling K Brown – American Fiction
  • Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Ryan Gosling – Barbie
  • Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Da’Vine Joy Randolph
The Holdovers

NOMINEES:

  • Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
  • Penélope Cruz – Ferrari
  • Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest
  • Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE

Milo Machado Graner
Anatomy of a Fall

NOMINEES:

  • Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  • Ariana Greenblatt – Barbie
  • Amie Donald – M3GAN
  • Sōya Kurokawa – Monster

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
The Holdovers
Susan Shopmaker

NOMINEES:

  • Asteroid City – Douglas Aibel
  • Barbie – Lucy Bevan, Allison Jones, & Oscar Koç
  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Ellen Lewis, Rene Haynes, Kate Sprance, & Elise Buedel
  • Oppenheimer – John Papsidera

BEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST FILM

Showing Up
– Kelly Reichardt

NOMINEES:

  • Dreamin’ Wild – Bill Pohlad
  • Even Hell Has Its Heroes – Clyde Petersen
  • Fantasy A Gets A Mattress – David Norman Lewis, Noah Zoltan Sofian
  • Richland – Irene Lusztig

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Spider-Man:
Across the Spider-Verse
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson

NOMINEES:

  • The Boy and the Heron – Hayao Miyazaki
  • Nimona – Nick Bruno & Troy Quane
  • Suzume – Makoto Shinkai
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem – Jeff Rowe

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov

NOMINEES:

  • Beyond Utopia – Madeleine Gavin
  • Even Hell Has Its Heroes – Clyde Petersen
  • Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros – Frederick Wiseman
  • Still: a Michael J. Fox Movie – Davis Guggenheim

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

Godzilla Minus One
Takashi Yamazaki

NOMINEES:

  • Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet
  • The Boy and the Heron – Hayao Miyazaki
  • Monster – Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Poor Things
– Robbie Ryan

NOMINEES:

  • The Creator – Greig Fraser & Oren Soffer
  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto
  • Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema
  • The Zone of Interest – Łukasz Żal

BEST FILM EDITING

Oppenheimer
Jennifer Lame

NOMINEES:

  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker
  • Past Lives – Keith Fraase
  • Poor Things – Yorgos Mavropsaridis
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Michael Andrews

BEST SCREENPLAY

The Holdovers
– David Hemingson

NOMINEES:

  • American Fiction – Cord Jefferson
  • The Holdovers – David Hemingson
  • May December – Samy Burch
  • Past Lives – Celine Song
  • Poor Things – Tony McNamara

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Barbie
– Sarah Greenwood (Production Design) | Katie Spencer (Set Decorator)

NOMINEES:

  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk
  • Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong (production designer); Claire Kaufman (set decorator)
  • Poor Things – Shona Heath & James Price
  • Wonka – Nathan Crowley (production designer); Harry Bielanski (set designer)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Barbie
– Jacqueline Durran

NOMINEES:

  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West
  • Napoleon – Janty Yates, David Crossman
  • Poor Things – Holly Waddington
  • Priscilla – Stacey Battat

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Oppenheimer
Ludwig Göransson

NOMINEES:

  • Killers of the Flower Moon – Robbie Robertson
  • Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton
  • The Zone of Interest – Mica Levi

BEST ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY

John Wick: Chapter 4
Scott Rogers,
Stephen Dunlevy, Laurent Demianoff, Ralf Haeger, James M. Halty

NOMINEES:

  • Godzilla Minus One – Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya
  • The Iron Claw – Hiro Koda
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Wade Eastwood (Stunt Coordinator); Rudolf Vrba (Fight Coordinator)
  • Sisu – Oula Kitti (fight coordinator)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Godzilla Minus One
Takashi Yamazaki

NOMINEES:

  • The Creator – Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts, Neil Corbould
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams, Theo Bialek
  • Oppenheimer – Andrew Jackson, Giacomo Mineo, Scott Fisher, Dave Drzewiecki
  • Poor Things – Simon Hughes

VILLAIN OF THE YEAR

Godzilla
Godzilla Minus One

NOMINEES:

  • The Patriarchy (as represented by Kens) – Barbie
  • Gabi Bauer – Infinity Pool
  • William “King” Hale – Killers of the Flower Moon
  • M3GAN – M3GAN