Black Film Critics Circle Awards (BCC): ‘American Fiction’ Wins Best Film, Director, Best Actor, Supporting Actor, Ensemble

The Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) has named Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction the best film of 2023, also awarding the satire Best Director, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), Best Ensemble and Best Adapted Screenplay in a tie with Oppenheimer.

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor was named Best Actress for Origin and Danielle Brooks earned the group’s Supporting Actress award for The Color Purple.

Here is the complete list of winners and ranked top 10 films.

Best Film: American Fiction

Best Director: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Best Actor: Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Best Actress: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin
Best Supporting Actor: Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Best Supporting Actress: Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple

Best Original Screenplay: Celine Song, Past Lives
Best Adapted Screenplay (tie): Cord Jefferson, American Fiction & Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Animated: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary: American Symphony

Best Ensemble: American Fiction

Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan, Poor Things

BFCC Signature Awards

Pioneer: Lisa Cortés, Little Richard: I Am Everything (director)
Rising Star / Best Newcomer (tie): A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One (director) & Tia Nomore, Earth Mama (actress)
Special Mention: Colman Domingo for The Color Purple and Rustin

Top 10 Films

1. American Fiction
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Color Purple
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Origin
6. Past Lives
7. Poor Things
8. Barbie
9. Maestro
10. Anatomy of a Fall

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