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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