Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) Awards: ‘Sinners’ Leads with Five Wins

Sinners has topped the Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC) film polls in five categories: Best Film, Best Director, best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

A handful of Oscar winners and contenders from last year, like The Brutalist, show up here due to the Irish theatrical release window of those films, while titles like Hamnet and Marty Supreme have yet to be released in Ireland.

Emma Stone was named Best Actress for Bugonia while Eva Victor earned the International Breakthrough award for writing, directing and starring in Sorry, Baby.

The circle, whose president is Tara Brady of The Irish Times, gathers votes from the capital’s professional film critics once a year. Winners of best film in previous years have included An Cailín Ciúin, The Power of the Dog, Brokeback Mountain and The Zone of Interest.

Here is the complete list of winners and ranked nominees.

Best Film

1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. Train Dreams
4. The Brutalist
5. It Was Just an Accident
6. Sentimental Value
7. Flow
8. I Swear
9. Weapons
10. Vermiglio

Best Director

1. Ryan Coogler, Sinners
2. Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
3. Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
4. Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
5. Dea Kulumbegashvili, April

Best Actor

1. Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
2. Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
3. Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams
4. Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
5. Robert Aramayo, I Swear

Best Actress

1. Emma Stone, Bugonia
2. Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
3. Jennifer Lawrence, Die, My Love
4. Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
5. Leonie Benesch, Late Shift

Best Screenplay

1. Ryan Coogler, Sinners
2. Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
3. Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
4. Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
5. Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist

Best Irish Film

1. Christy
2. Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
3. Frewaka
4. Beat the Lotto
5. Testimony

Best Documentary

1. Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
2. Testimony
3. Sanatorium
4. A Want in Her
5. The Perfect Neighbour

Best Cinematography

1. Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
2. Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
3. Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams
4. Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
5. Claudio Miranda, F1 – Arseni Khachaturan, April (tie)

International Breakthrough

Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby

Irish Breakthrough

Brendan Canty for Christy

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