20th StLFCA Awards December 17, 2023
Best Film:Oppenheimer
The nominees for the 20th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 10, 2023.
Oppenheimer led the nominations with fourteen, followed by Killers of the Flower Moon with twelve and Barbie with eleven; the category "Best Stunts" was added. Additionally, the StLFCA recognized two groups for special merits involving the industry's labor strikes in 2023.
The winners were announced on December 17, 2023.
Winners and nominees
Best Film Oppenheimer Runner-up: Barbie American Fiction Anatomy of a Fall The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro May December Past Lives The Zone of Interest
Best Actor Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer Runner-up: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers as Paul Hunham Bradley Cooper – Maestro as Leonard Bernstein Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon as Ernest Burkhart Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison
Best Supporting Actor Ryan Gosling – Barbie as Ken Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss (TIE) Runner-up: Charles Melton – May December as Joe Yoo (TIE) Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction as Clifford "Cliff" Ellison Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers as Angus Tully
Best Original Screenplay Barbie – Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach Runner-up: The Holdovers – David Hemingson Air – Alex Convery Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari Past Lives – Celine Song
Best Animated Feature Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Runner-up: The Boy and the Heron Elemental Robot Dreams Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Best International Feature Anatomy of a Fall • France Runner-up: The Zone of Interest • United Kingdom Fallen Leaves • Finland Perfect Days • Japan The Teachers' Lounge • Germany
Best Cinematography Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema Runner-up: Asteroid City – Robert Yeoman (TIE) Runner-up: Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto (TIE) Maestro – Matthew Libatique The Zone of Interest – Łukasz Żal
Best Costume Design Barbie – Jacqueline Durran Runner-up: Poor Things – Holly Waddington Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West and Julie O'Keefe Oppenheimer – Ellen Mirojnick Priscilla – Stacey Battat
Best Score Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson Runner-up: Killers of the Flower Moon – Robbie Robertson (TIE) Runner-up: May December – Marcelo Zarvos (TIE) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton The Zone of Interest – Mica Levi
Best Visual Effects The Creator – Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Neil Corbould, and Andrew Roberts Runner-up: Oppenheimer – Dave Drzewiecki, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson, and Giacomo Mineo Godzilla Minus One – Takashi Yamazaki Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – Theo Bialek, Stéphane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, and Guy Williams Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Simone Coco, Neil Corbould, Jeff Sutherland, and Alex Wuttke
Best Comedy Film The Holdovers Runner-up: Barbie American Fiction Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Bottoms
Best Scene Barbie – Gloria's monologue on the impossible standards set for women Runner-up: John Wick: Chapter 4 – Fight on the 222 steps leading up to the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris Killers of the Flower Moon – Radio show finale Maestro – Leonard Bernstein conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at Ely Cathedral Oppenheimer – Trinity test
Best Director Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Runner-up: Greta Gerwig – Barbie Todd Haynes – May December Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon Celine Song – Past Lives
Best Actress Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon as Mollie Burkhart Runner-up: Margot Robbie – Barbie as Barbie Greta Lee – Past Lives as Nora Moon Natalie Portman – May December as Elizabeth Berry Emma Stone – Poor Things as Bella Baxter
Best Supporting Actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers as Mary Lamb Runner-up: Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. as Barbara Simon Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer as Kitty Oppenheimer Viola Davis – Air as Deloris Jordan Julianne Moore – May December as Gracie Atherton-Yoo
Best Adapted Screenplay Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan; based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Runner-up: American Fiction – Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. – Kelly Fremon Craig; based on the novel by Judy Blume Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese; based on the book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer; based on the novel by Martin Amis
Best Documentary Feature American Symphony (TIE) Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (TIE) Beyond Utopia It Ain't Over Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Best Ensemble The Holdovers Runner-up: Barbie (TIE) Runner-up: Oppenheimer (TIE) Asteroid City Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Editing Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame Runner-up: The Killer – Kirk Baxter The Holdovers – Kevin Tent Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker Maestro – Michelle Tesoro
Best Production Design Barbie – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer Runner-up: Poor Things – James Price, Shona Heath, and Zsuzsa Mihalek Asteroid City – Adam Stockhausen Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong
Best Soundtrack Barbie Runner-up: The Killer Air The Holdovers Maestro
Best Action Film John Wick: Chapter 4 (TIE) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (TIE) Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny The Killer Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Horror Film Talk to Me Runner-up: Skinamarink Evil Dead Rise Knock at the Cabin M3GAN
Best Stunts Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Wade Eastwood Runner-up: John Wick: Chapter 4 – Scott Rogers and Stephen Dunlevy Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – Mike Massa and Abdelaaziz Attougui The Iron Claw – Chavo Guerrero Jr. The Killer – Dave Macomber
Special Merits A24 – For showing solidarity with the actors and screenwriters by securing approval from SAG-AFTRA and WGA to continue filmmaking and publicity. The Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America – For fighting for artists' equity and protecting the future of filmmaking by striking against practices that minimize or eliminate protection and living wages for artists.
References
External links Official website