Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Awards: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Named Best Picture

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The Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) have named Killers of the Flower Moon the best picture of 2023, also awarding the film their best actress prize for Lily Gladstone.

Oppenheimer was the overall winner with eight awards including best director, best actor, best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay. Past Lives was a double winner with original screenplay and best first film for Celine Song.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Original Screenplay: Celine Song, Past Lives
Best Adapted Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Animated Film: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Best International Film: Godzilla Minus One

Best Ensemble: Oppenheimer

Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance: Bradley Cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Best Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Best Editing: Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Best Stunt Coordinator: Stephen Dunlevy and Scott Rogers, John Wick: Chapter 4

Best First Film: Celine Song, Past Lives

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award: Lily Gladstone for Killers of the Flower Moon, The Unknown Country, Fancy Dance, and Quantum Cowboys

Best Austin Film Award: Milli Vanilli (dir. Luke Korem)

Special Award: In memoriam of the life and works of Lee Sun-kyun – Parasite, Sleep, and Project Silence

Top 10 Films:

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Oppenheimer
3. Poor Things
4. Past Lives
5. The Holdovers
6. Godzilla Minus One
7. The Iron Claw
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
9. Barbie
10. American Fiction

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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