Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) Awards: ‘Poor Things’ Wins Best Picture

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The Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) have revealed their winners for the best in film for 2023, selecting Poor Things for Best Picture, Emma Stone for Best Actress as well as Visual Effects.

Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon were double winners, as were Barbie and The Holdovers.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture: Poor Things

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Best Actress: Emma Stone, Poor Things
Best Supporting Actor: Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Screenplay: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary Feature: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Best Foreign Language Feature: The Zone of Interest

Best Ensemble Cast: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Best Original Score: Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Original Song: “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
Best Visual Effects: Poor Things
Best Stunts: John Wick: Chapter 4

Texas Independent Film Award: Chocolate Lizards

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), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) 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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