Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) Name ‘Past Lives’ Best Picture

The Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) announced the winners in 21 categories for the 2023 Seattle Film Critics Society Awards where they named Celine Song’s Past Lives the year’s best picture.

Killers of the Flower Moon was honored with two awards: Martin Scorsese for Best Director and Lily Gladstone as Best Lead Actress. 

Alexander Payne’s nostalgic boarding school dramedy The Holdovers tied for the most awards: with accolades for Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), Ensemble Cast (including a standout Paul Giamatti and breakout debut from Dominic Sessa), and Screenplay (by David Hemingson). Also receiving three awards was Takashi Yamazaki’s surprise late-season hit Godzilla Minus One, which claimed Villain of the Year while destroying fierce competition in the categories of Best International Film and Visual Effects.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Picture: Past Lives

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor: Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Supporting Actor: Charles Melton, May December
Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Screenplay: David Hemingson, The Holdovers

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary: 20 Days in Mariupol
Best International Film: Godzilla Minus One

Best Ensemble Cast: The Holdovers

Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Best Film Editing: Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Best Production Design: Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie
Best Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran, Barbie
Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Best Visual Effects: Godzilla Minus One
Best Action Choreography: John Wick: Chapter 4

Best Youth Performance: Milo Machado Graner, Anatomy of a Fall

Villain of the Year: Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One

Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking: Kelly Reichardt, Showing Up

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