Music City Film Critics’ Association (MCFCA) Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins 7

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The Music City Film Critics’ Association has announced its winners for the MCFCA 2023 Film Awards where Oppenheimer came out on top with seven awards, including Best Picture, Best Director – Christopher Nolan, Best Supporting Actor – Robert Downey Jr., Best Score, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing.

The film with the second-most awards for this year’s MCFCA awards is The Holdovers, coming away with four awards, including Best Actor – Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress – Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Best Young Actor – Dominic Sessa, and Best Screenplay.

There were three sets of ties, in Original Song where Barbie‘s “I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For?” won, in Production Design where both Barbie and Poor Things won and in Action Film where Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning: Part One were the winners.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture: Oppenheimer

Best Director: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

Best Actress: Emma Stone – Poor Things

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer

Best Young Actress: Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Best Young Actor: Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Best Acting Ensemble: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Music Film: Maestro

Best Animated Film: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best International Film: Godzilla Minus One

Best Screenplay: The Holdovers

Best Original Song (TIE): “I’m Just Ken” – Barbie and “What Was I Made For?” – Barbie

Best Score: Oppenheimer

Best Sound: Oppenheimer

Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer

Best Production Design (TIE): Barbie and Poor Things

Best Editing: Oppenheimer

Best Comedy Film: Barbie

Best Horror Film: Talk to Me

Best Action Film (TIE): Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning: Part One

Best Stunt Work: John Wick: Chapter 4

The Jim Ridley Award: Poor Things

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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