Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) Awards: ‘Past Lives’ Named Best Picture, Andrew Scott Wins Best Actor

The Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA) has chosen the best in film for 2023, selecting Celine Song’s Past Lives as Best Picture, Best Director and Original Screenplay.

In the acting categories, Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers) won Best Actor, Emma Stone (Poor Things) was named Best Actress and the supporting awards went to Dominic Sessa and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, both of The Holdovers.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.

Best Picture
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Past Lives (WINNER)
Poor Things (RUNNER-UP)

Best Achievement in Directing
Celine Song – Past Lives (WINNER)
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things (RUNNER-UP)

Best Lead Performance, Male
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers (WINNER)
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction (RUNNER-UP)
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Best Lead Performance, Female
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Emma Stone – Poor Things (WINNER)
Greta Lee – Past Lives (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Natalie Portman – May December

Best Supporting Performance, Male
Charles Melton – May December (RUNNER-UP)
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers (WINNER)
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Best Supporting Performance, Female
America Ferrera – Barbie
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (WINNER)
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest (RUNNER-UP)

Best Ensemble Cast
Air
Barbie
The Holdovers (RUNNER-UP)
The Iron Claw (WINNER)
Oppenheimer

Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Science-Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Film
Bradley Cooper – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Chris Pine – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Iman Vellani – The Marvels (WINNER)
Nicolas Cage – Renfield (RUNNER-UP)

Best Original Screenplay
Celine Song – Past Lives (WINNER)
David Hemingson – The Holdovers
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach – Barbie (RUNNER-UP)
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall
Samy Burch – May December

Best Adapted Screenplay
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Kelly Fremon Craig – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (WINNER)
Tony McNamara – Poor Things

Best Cinematography
Barbie – Rodrigo Prieto
Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto
Maestro – Matthew Libatique
Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema (RUNNER-UP)
Poor Things – Robbie Ryan (WINNER)

Best Original Score
Killers of the Flower Moon (WINNER)
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things (RUNNER-UP)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Film Editing
Barbie
The Holdovers (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (WINNER)

Best Visual Effects
The Creator (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Godzilla Minus One (WINNER)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Poor Things (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary Feature
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
The Mission (RUNNER-UP)
Still: The Michael J. Fox Story (WINNER)

Best Animated Feature
The Boy and the Heron
Nimona
Robot Dreams (RUNNER-UP)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (WINNER)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Non-English Feature
Anatomy of a Fall
Godzilla Minus One (RUNNER-UP)
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest (WINNER)

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