On January 6th, the Utah Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2023!

And here they are:

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)