Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) Awards: ‘Poor Things’ Wins Best Film, Director, plus Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo’s Performances

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The Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA) went in for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, rewarding it Best Film, Director, Lead Performance (Emma Stone), Supporting Performance (Mark Ruffalo), Adapted Screenplay and Ensemble, as well as the group’s ‘Original Vision’ award, for their year end prizes.

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer was a runner-up in all five of those six categories, save adapted screenplay, which went to Barbie, but won for editing, cinematography and score.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Film: Poor Things (RU: Oppenheimer)

The rest of the IFJA top 10:

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Barbie
The Holdovers
John Wick: Chapter 4
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Past Lives
Robot Dreams

Best Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things (RU: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer)

Best Lead Performance: Emma Stone, Poor Things (RU: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer)
Best Supporting Performance: Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things (RU: Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer)

Best Original Screenplay: David Hemingson, The Holdovers (RU: Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, May December)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony McNamara, Poor Things (RU: Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie)

Best Animated Film: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (RU: Robot Dreams)
Best Documentary: Kokomo City (RU: 20 Days in Mariupol)
Best Foreign Language Film: The Zone of Interest (RU: Godzilla Minus One)

Best Ensemble Acting: Poor Things (RU: Oppenheimer)

Best Vocal / Motion-Capture Performance: Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (RU: Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Best Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer (RU: Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 4)
Best Editing: Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer (RU: Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon)
Best Musical Score: Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer (RU: Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon)
Best Stunt / Movement Choreography:  Jeremy Marinas (fight coordinator), Scott Rogers (stunt coordinator) and Stephen Levy (stunt choreographer), John Wick: Chapter 4 (RU: Jennifer White and Lisa Welham, Barbie)

Breakout of the Year: Celine Song (writer-director), Past Lives (RU: Charles Melton, May December)

Original Vision: Poor Things (RU: Barbie)

The Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award: Sam Mirpoorian (director), Greener Pastures

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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