Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ Takes 8
The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) today announced winners their top film honors of 2023, as well as technical awards, Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement honors for industry leaders and icons, and the organization’s top 10 non-US released films of the year.
Leading with a total of eight wins is Oppenheimer including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr.. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie earned four awards, including double recognition for technical achievement with two original songs (“What What I Made For?” and “I’m Just Ken”). The Holdovers won three, Best Actor for Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Best Original Screenplay.
The complete list of 2023 Online Film Critics Association awards winners is as follows:
Best Picture: Oppenheimer
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Director: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Best Actor: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Original Screenplay: The Holdovers
Best Adapted Screenplay: Oppenheimer
Best Film Editing: Oppenheimer
Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer
Best Original Score: Oppenheimer
Best Production Design: Barbie
Best Costume Design: Barbie
Best Visual Effects: Oppenheimer
Best Debut Feature: Celine Song – Past Lives
Best Film Not in the English Language: Anatomy of a Fall
Best Documentary Feature: 20 Days in Mariupol
Technical Achievements
Culinary Direction – The Taste of Things
Original Song (“I’m Just Ken”) – Barbie
Original Song (“What Was I Made For?”) – Barbie
Stunt Coordination – John Wick: Chapter 4
Stunt Coordination – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Jodie Foster (actor)
Gene Hackman (actor)
Gale Anne Hurd (producer)
Hayao Miyazaki (animator/writer/director)
Thelma Schoonmaker (editor)
Special Achievement Awards
Ben Model, for his work in restoring and releasing silent film classics.
Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild, for her diligent negotiation on behalf of working actors in the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.
Members of and President Meredith Stiehm of the Writers Guild of America for persisting in their strike to ensure that the rapidly-changing American film industry will remain a viable source of livelihood for artists.
Best Non-US Releases
Bad Living (João Canijo, Portugal)
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice, Spain)
Dear Jassi (Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, India)
Explanation for Everything (Gábor Reisz, Hungary)
The Girls Are Alright (Itsaso Arana, Spain)
I Love You, Beksman (Perci M. Intalan, Philippines)
The New Boy (Warwick Thornton, Australia)
Samsara (Lois Patino, Spain)
Sorcery (Christopher Murray, Chile)
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