U.K. Film Critics Association (UKFCA) Awards: ‘Oppenheimer,’ Rachel McAdams Prevail

Oppenheimer led the U.K. Film Critics Association (UKFCA) winners announcement this morning with three awards: Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor, Cillian Murphy. The atomic bomb biopic led with six nominations.

Lily Gladstone was named Best Actress for Killers of the Flower Moon, Ryan Gosling Best Supporting Actor for Barbie and Rachel McAdams Best Supporting Actress for Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Celine Song’s Past Lives was named Best Screenplay.

Winners will be announced on December 31. Here are the nominees.

Best Film
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer – WINNER
Past Lives
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Director
Celine Song – Past Lives
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer – WINNER
Emerald Fennell – Saltburn
Jonathan Glazar – The Zone of Interest
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor
Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer – WINNER
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Best Actress
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy Of A Fall
Margot Robbie – Barbie

Best Supporting Actor
Charles Melton – May December
Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie – WINNER

Best Supporting Actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Julianne Moore – May December
Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. – WINNER
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn

Best Screenplay
Anatomy Of A Fall
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Past Lives – WINNER

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