2023 Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC): ‘The Holdovers’ Wins Best Film, Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenplay
The Holdovers has been named the Best Film of 2023 by the Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC).
Da’Vine Joy Randolph continued her dominance, winning Best Supporting Actress here for The Holdovers and on a single ballot with no runners-up. Her co-star Paul Giamatti was named Best Actor and the film also secured an Original Screenplay win.
Other acting prizes went to Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) in Best Actress and Ryan Gosling (Barbie) in Supporting Actor.
Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up (where applicable) for the 2023 Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) awards.
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
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