North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins 10

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The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) has announced its winners for the 12th annual awards for achievements in film. Four films were recognized in multiple categories; Oppenheimer was honored with 10 awards, Barbie earned five honors, and The Holdovers and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse each gained two wins from the NCFCA.

The NCFCA consists of 72 film critics living and/or working in North Carolina.

See full list of winners below.

BEST NARRATIVE FILM

Oppenheimer (winner)

American Fiction

Barbie

Godzilla Minus One

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Past Lives

Poor ThingsSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The Zone of Interest

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (winner)

American Symphony

May the Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story

The Missio

Silver Dollar Road

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (winner)

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Nimona

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Anatomy of a Fall (winner)

Godzilla Minus One

Past Live

Perfect Days

The Zone of Interest

BEST DIRECTOR


Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (winner)

Celine Song – Past Lives

Greta Gerwig – Barbie

Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Hoyte Van Hoytema – Oppenheimer (winner)

Barbie

John Wick: Chapter 4

Killers of the Flower Moon

Poor Things

BEST ACTOR


Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer (winner)

Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers

Colman Domingo – Rustin

Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR


Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer (winner)

Charles Melton – May December

Mark Ruffalo – Poor Thing

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Ryan Gosling – Barbie

BEST ACTRESS


Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon (winner)

Emma Stone – Poor Things

Greta Lee – Past Lives

Margot Robbie – Barbie

Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS


Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (winner)

America Ferrera – Barbie

Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Julianne Moore – May December

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA

Daniel Kaluuya – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (winner)

Bradley Cooper – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3Chloë

Grace Moretz – Nimona

Hailee Steinfeld – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Shameik Moore – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Oppenheimer (winner)

Asteroid City

Barbie

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach – Barbie (winner)

Anatomy of a Fall

The Holdovers

May December

Past Lives

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (winner)

All of Us Strangers

American Fiction

Killers of the Flower Moon

Poor Things

BEST EDITING

Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer (winner)

Barbie

John Wick: Chapter 4

Killers of the Flower Moon

Poor Things

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Kiyoko Shibuya – Godzilla Minus One (winner)

The Creator

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Oppenheimer

BEST STUNT COORDINATION

Scott Rogers and Stephen Dunlevy, stunt coordinators – John Wick: Chapter 4 (winner)

Extraction II

The Iron Claw

Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One

Sisu

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Jacqueline Durran – Barbie (winner)

The Color Purple

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP

Ivana Primorac – Barbie (winner)

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

Priscilla

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Sarah Greenwood – Barbie (winner)

Asteroid City

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

BEST SCORE

Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer (winner)

The Killer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Poor Things

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST ORIGINAL SONG


Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt – “I’m Just Ken” – Barbie (winner)


Am I Dreaming – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Can’t Catch Me Now – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Peaches – The Super Mario Brothers Movie

What Was I Made For – Barbie

BEST SOUND DESIGN

Richard King, Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor – Oppenheimer (winner)

John Wick: Chapter 4

The Killer

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The Zone of Interest

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUTCeline Song – Past Lives (winner)

Cord Jefferson – American Fiction

Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou – Talk to Me

Mel Eslyn – Biosphere

Michael B. Jordan – Creed III

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE


Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers (winner)

Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret

Charles Melton – May December

Greta Lee – Past Lives

Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of A Fall

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Make-Up Artist

Rick Baker (winner)

Greg Cannom

Stan Winston

Tom Savini

Ve Neill

KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD


Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple (winner)


Hunter Schafer – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Julianne Moore – May December

May the Lord Watch: The Little Brother Story

Silver Dollar Road

Films with Multiple Wins:

Oppenheimer – 10


Barbie – 5


The Holdovers – 2


Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – 2

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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