John Krasinski has gone from being the cute smirky guy on The Office to an action hero to a legitimately good horror director. Next year, the Krasinski saga will continue with IF, a comedy that he has written and directed about a father, his daughter, and a host of “imaginary friends.”
The trailer dropped today and it’s cute enough to be interesting. A bearded Ryan Reynolds plays the father and it appears that a host of familiar names will be voicing the IFs.
The Las Vegas Film Critics Society announced their picks for the best of 2023! The winners are listed in bold.
Best Picture
Barbie
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Best Actor
Nicolas Cage – Dream Scenario
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Best Actress
Annette Bening – Nyad
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Natalie Portman – May December
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry
Charles Melton – May December
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Best Supporting Actress
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Julianne Moore – May December
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Best Director
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Celine Song – Past Lives
Best Original Screenplay
Air
Barbie
Maestro
May December
Past Lives
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Cinematography
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Saltburn
Best Film Editing
Air
Barbie
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Score
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Best Song
I’m Just Ken – Barbie
What Was I Made For? – Barbie
Road to Freedom – Rustin
Peaches – The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Better Place – Trolls Band Together
Best Documentary
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Kokomo City
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Best Animated Film
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Best International Movie
Anatomy of a Fall
Godzilla Minus One
Society of the Snow
When Evil Lurks
The Zone of Interest
Best Costumes
Barbie
The Color Purple
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Art Direction
Asteroid City
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Best Visual Effects
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Godzilla Minus One
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Best Action Movie
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Best Comedy
American Fiction
Barbie
Dumb Money
Joy Ride
No Hard Feelings
Best Horror/Sci-FI Movie
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Talk To Me
Thanksgiving
When Evil Lurks
Best Family Film
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Barbie
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Best Ensemble
Barbie
The Color Purple
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Saltburn
Breakout Filmmaker
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Adele Lim – Joy Ride
Celine Song – Past Lives
Nida Manzoor – Polite Society
Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman – Theater Camp
Best Stunts
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Killer
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Polite Society
Silent Night
Youth In Film (Male)
Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of a Fall
Jake Ryan – Asteroid City
Christian Convery – Cocaine Bear
Jude Hill – A Haunting in Venice
Chase Dillion – Haunted Mansion
Youth in Film (Female)
Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Elle Graham – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Ariana Greenblatt – Barbie
Iman Vellani – The Marvels
Violet McGraw – M3GAN
The William Holden Lifetime Achievement Award
Nicolas Cage
Paul Giamatti
Hayao Miyazaki
Julianne Moore
Rodrigo Prieto
The Florida Film Critics Circle have announced their nominations for the best of 2023! Probably the biggest “surprise” here is the nomination of The Boy and the Heron for not just Best Animated Feature but also for Best Picture as well!
As well, Florida nominated John Wick 4′s Donnie Yen for Best Supporting Actor, The Master Gardener‘s Sigourney Weaver for Best Supporting Actress, and Treyana Taylor for Best Actress! Way to keep things interesting, Florida!
The winners will be announced on December 21st.
BEST PICTURE
The Boy and the Heron
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Franz Rogowski – Passages
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
BEST ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Natalie Portman – May December
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Teyana Taylor – A Thousand and One
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Charles Melton – May December
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Donnie Yen – John Wick: Chapter 4
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Julianne Moore – May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Sigourney Weaver – Master Gardener
BEST ENSEMBLE
Asteroid City
Barbie
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
BEST DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson – Asteroid City
Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest
Todd Haynes – May December
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Celine Song – Past Lives
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson – Asteroid City
Samy Burch – May December
David Hemingson – The Holdovers
Celine Song – Past Lives
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Kelly Fremon Craig – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Tony McNamara – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dan Laustsen – John Wick: Chapter 4
Rodrigo Prieto – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan – Poor Things
Hoyte van Hoytema – Oppenheimer
Lukasz Zal – The Zone of Interest
VISUAL EFFECTS
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
Asteroid City
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
BEST SCORE
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
Gary Gunn – A Thousand and One
Joe Hisaishi – The Boy and the Heron
Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Eternal Memory
Kokomo City
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Menus-Plaisir – Les Troisgros
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
ANIMATED FEATURE
The Boy and the Heron
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
BEST FIRST FILM AWARD
Raven Jackson – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Georgia Oakley – Blue Jean
A.V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One
Celine Song – Past Lives
BREAKOUT AWARD
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Charles Melton – May December
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Celine Song – Past Lives
Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla
GOLDEN ORANGE
Eric Bendick – Path of the Panther
Alex Mechanik – May December
D Smith – Kokomo City
The 2023 Critics Choice Award nominations were announced today, because this is the season when everyone is announcing nominations!
Here are the film nominations. They also nominated a lot of TV shows but who cares about those? This is Oscar season, baby! As for the nominations below, the Critics Choice pretty much nominated the same things that everyone else is nominating. The Color Purple and Saltburn, both of which could use the boost, picked up Best Picture nominations
The winners will be announced on January 14th, 2024.
Best Picture
American Fiction
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Saltburn
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Best Actress
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Charles Melton – May December
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
America Ferrera – Barbie
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Julianne Moore – May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Young Actor or Actress
Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Ariana Greenblatt – Barbie
Calah Lane – Wonka
Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of a Fall
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Madeleine Yuna Voyles – The Creator
Best Acting Ensemble
Air
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Best Director
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne – The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Adapted Screenplay
Kelly Fremon Craig – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Tony McNamara – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Original Screenplay
Samy Burch – May December
Alex Convery – Air
Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer – Maestro
Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach – Barbie
David Hemingson – The Holdovers
Celine Song – Past Lives
Best Cinematography
Matthew Libatique – Maestro
Rodrigo Prieto – Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan – Poor Things
Linus Sandgren – Saltburn
Hoyte van Hoytema – Oppenheimer
Best Production Design
Suzie Davies, Charlotte Dirickx – Saltburn
Ruth De Jong, Claire Kaufman – Oppenheimer
Jack Fisk, Adam Willis – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer – Barbie
James Price, Shona Heath, Szusza Mihalek – Poor Things
Adam Stockhausen, Kris Moran – Asteroid City
Best Editing
William Goldenberg – Air
Nick Houy – Barbie
Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer
Yorgos Mavropsaridis – Poor Things
Thelma Schoonmaker – Killers of the Flower Moon
Michelle Tesoro – Maestro
Best Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran – Barbie
Lindy Hemming – Wonka
Francine Jamison-Tanchuck – The Color Purple
Holly Waddington – Poor Things
Jacqueline West – Killers of the Flower Moon
Janty Yates, David Crossman – Napoleon
Best Hair and Makeup
Barbie
The Color Purple
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Priscilla
Best Visual Effects
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Comedy
American Fiction
Barbie
Bottoms
The Holdovers
No Hard Feelings
Poor Things
Best Animated Film
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wish
Best Foreign Language Film
Anatomy of a Fall
Godzilla Minus One
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest
Best Song
“Dance the Night” – Barbie
“I’m Just Ken” – Barbie
“Peaches” – The Super Mario Bros. Movie
“Road to Freedom” – Rustin
“This Wish” – Wish
“What Was I Made For” – Barbie
Best Score
Jerskin Fendrix – Poor Things
Michael Giacchino – Society of the Snow
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt – Barbie
Assassin tells the story of Alexa (Nomzamo Mbatha), a soldier whose husband (Mustafa Shakir) was a member of secret government program in which people would allow their minds to be transferred into the bodies of strangers so that those strangers could then be used to assassinate America’s enemies. When Alexa’s husband ends up in a coma as a result of trying to assassinate Adrian (Dominic Purcell), Alexa is forcefully recruited into the program and is sent to complete her husband’s mission.
That may sound like it would make for an intriguing film but Assassin is pretty dull. Neither Nomzamo Mbatha nor Dominic Purcell give particularly interesting performances and the film’s plot and themes were far better explored in Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor. Watching the film, I found it impossible to have much sympathy for Alexa because she was not only murdering people but she was also ruining the lives of the innocent people who she ended up possessing. The fact that her husband was in a coma didn’t excuse any of that. If anything it made Alexa even less sympathetic. After seeing what being an assassin did to her husband, why would Alexa want any of that?
Towards the end of the film, one of Alexa’s targets realizes that Alexa is possessing someone else’s body. Alexa’s handler announces that she’s going to pull Alexa out of the body and then “get the wet team to take this guy out.” If you have a team that can do it, why are you wasting time with possessing other people’s bodies? Why would you decide to use the most complicated plan available when you could just simply send in a team and or have a drone blow up the guy’s house? It’s almost as if the program is designed to be too complex to work. As I watched the film, I suddenly started to understand why the CIA was never able to take out Castro. Sometimes, people just make things complicated for no reason.
Sadly, Assassin is also the final film of Bruce Willis. Willis plays Valmora, the guy who is in charge of the Assassin program. As was typical of Willis’s final films, he only gets a few minutes of screen time and he spends most of that time either sitting down or standing in a corner. Willis, even though he obviously wasn’t in the best of health when he shot this film, still projects enough natural authority to be believable as Valmora. Even though it’s obvious that he’s repeating lines that were fed to him just a few minutes before shooting, Willis still gives the most (and perhaps only) credible performance in the film.
Assassin is a sad note for Bruce Willis to go out on. Of Willis’s final batch of films, the best were Gasoline Alley, Corrective Measures, and Wire Room. Assassin, however, is just dull and anyone tempted to watch it just because of Willis’s presence would be better served to go rewatch Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, 12 Monkeys, or …. well, really, any other movie that Bruce Willis ever appeared in. Bruce Willis was one of our greatest movie stars and nothing, not even films like Assassin, can change that.
I don’t know much about American Star, other than it stars Ian McShane.
From the trailer, it appears to be yet another film about an over-the-hill hitman having to do one last job. That’s hardly inspiring but some of the visuals in the trailer are intriguing, especially the scenes with the boat. McShane is 81 and perhaps a little bit old for this type of film but, in this trailer, he doesn’t look a day over 70. If anything, he still looks like he could give Liam Neeson a run for his money.
Here’s the trailer!
Alex Garland has got a new film coming out in April of 2024. It’s entitled Civil War and it imagines a near future in which America slips into …. well, civil war. There’s a lot of talented people in the cast, like Kirsten Dusnt and Jesse Plemons.
That said, the trailer dropped today and it almost feels like a parody of these type of films. I almost laughed out loud when I heard the newscaster say “three-term president” because it just felt like such an awkward piece of exposition.
Anyway, I could be wrong and there are a lot of talented people involved with this film. So, here’s the trailer:
Finally, in today’s final awards season development, the Phoenix Critics Circles have announced their nominees for the best of 2023! On December 15th, we will learn which films will rise from the ashes in Phoenix and be declared the winners!
BEST PICTURE
THE HOLDOVERS
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
OPPENHEIMER
PAST LIVES
POOR THINGS
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
BEST COMEDY FILM
AMERICAN FICTION
ASTEROID CITY
BARBIE
BOTTOMS
THE HOLDOVERS
BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM
ASTEROID CITY
THE CREATOR
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
INFINITY POOL
THEY CLONED TYRONE
BEST HORROR FILM
EVIL DEAD RISE
NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU
TALK TO ME
THANKSGIVING
WHEN EVIL LURKS
BEST ANIMATED FILM
THE BOY AND THE HERON
ELEMENTAL
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
WISH
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
ANATOMY OF A FALL
FALLEN LEAVES
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
PERFECT DAYS
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
AMERICAN SYMPHONY
BEYOND UTOPIA
THE MISSION
STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE
BEST ACTOR
BRADLEY COOPER – MAESTRO
LEONARDO DICAPRIO – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
PAUL GIAMATTI – THE HOLDOVERS
BARRY KEOGHAN – SALTBURN
CILLIAN MURPHY – OPPENHEIMER
JEFFREY WRIGHT – AMERICAN FICTION
BEST ACTRESS
LILY GLADSTONE – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
SANDRA HÜLLER – ANATOMY OF A FALL
GRETA LEE – PAST LIVES
NATALIE PORTMAN – MAY DECEMBER
MARGOT ROBBIE – BARBIE
EMMA STONE – POOR THINGS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WILLEM DAFOE – POOR THINGS
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. – OPPENHEIMER
RYAN GOSLING – BARBIE
MARK RUFFALO – POOR THINGS
DOMINIC SESSA – THE HOLDOVERS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
EMILY BLUNT – OPPENHEIMER
PENELOPE CRUZ – FERRARI
RACHEL MCADAMS – ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET.
JULIANNE MOORE – MAY DECEMBER
ROSAMUND PIKE – SALTBURN
DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH – THE HOLDOVERS
BEST DIRECTOR
GRETA GERWIG – BARBIE
JONATHAN GLAZER – THE ZONE OF INTEREST
YORGOS LANTHIMOS – POOR THINGS
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN – OPPENHEIMER
MARTIN SCORSESE – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
CELINE SONG – PAST LIVES
BEST SCREENPLAY
GRETA GERWIG AND NOAH BAUMBACH – BARBIE
DAVID HEMINGSON – THE HOLDOVERS
CORD JEFFERSON AND PERCIVAL EVERETT – AMERICAN FICTION
TONY MCNAMARA AND ALASDAIR GRAY – POOR THINGS
CELINE SONG – PAST LIVES
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
HOYTE VAN HOYTEMA – OPPENHEIMER
MATTHEW LIBATIQUE – MAESTRO
RODRIGO PRIETO – BARBIE
RODRIGO PRIETO – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
ROBBIE RYAN – POOR THINGS
LUKASZ ZAL – THE ZONE OF INTEREST
BEST SCORE
JERSKIN FENDRIX – POOR THINGS
LUDWIG GÖRANSSON – OPPENHEIMER
MICA LEVI – THE ZONE OF INTEREST
DANIEL PEMBERTON – SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
ROBBIE ROBERTSON – KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Here are the 2023 nominations of the North Texas Film Critics Association! This group, of which I’m still not a member, will be announcing their winners on December 14th.
BEST PICTURE
American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
BEST ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla
Emma Stone – Poor Things
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe – Poor Things
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Glenn Howerton – Blackberry
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
America Ferrera – Barbie
Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
BEST DIRECTOR
Emerald Fennell – Saltburn
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne – The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy of a Fall
Godland
Perfect Days
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
A Disturbance in the Force
Judy Blume Forever
Little Richard: I Am Everything
The Mission
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wish
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Robert Yeoman – Asteroid City
Rodrigo Prieto – Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto – Killers of the Flower Moon
Dariusz Wolski – Napoleon
Hoyte van Hoytema – Oppenheimer
Robbie Ryan – Poor Things
Linus Sandgren – Saltburn
BEST NEWCOMER
Halle Bailey – The Little Mermaid/The Color Purple
Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Charles Melton – May December
Allison Oliver – Saltburn
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
BEST SCREENPLAY
Alex Convery – Air
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
David Hemingson – The Holdovers
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Celine Song – Past Lives
GARY MURRAY AWARD (BEST ENSEMBLE)
Air
Asteroid City
The Holdovers
The Iron Claw
Oppenheimer
Saltburn
The Indiana Film Journalists Association announced their nominations for the best of 2023 today. The winners will be announced on December 18th.
I like the IFJA nominations because they nominate every single movie that they like, without limiting themselves. This may be the only critics group to nominate Godzilla Minus One for Best Picture.
BEST FILM
American Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
Barbie
Beau is Afraid
BlackBerry
Dream Scenario
Fair Play
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
A Thousand and One
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Boy and the Heron
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One
Monster (2023)
Past Lives
Pathaan
The Promised Land (2023)
Suzume
When Evil Lurks
The Zone of Interest
BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Greener Pastures
Kokomo City
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson (screenplay / story) and Roman Coppola (story), Asteroid City
Kristoffer Borgli, Dream Scenario
Samy Burch (screenplay / story) and Alex Mechanik (story), May December
Chloe Domont, Fair Play
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott, Bottoms
Celine Song, Past Lives
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Ari Aster, Beau is Afraid
Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer and Jordan Sjol, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and David Callaham, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond & Michael Sherman, Knock at the Cabin
BEST DIRECTOR
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
David Fincher, The Killer (2023)
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Todd Haynes, May December
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives
Chad Stahelski, John Wick: Chapter 4
BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Phoebe Dynevor, Fair Play
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau is Afraid
Natalie Portman, May December
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Viola Davis, Air
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Charles Melton, May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
BEST VOCAL / MOTION-CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Jack Black, The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Oscar Isaac, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Chloë Grace Moretz, Nimona
Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Air
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Asteroid City
Barbie
Beau is Afraid
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
A Thousand and One
BEST EDITING
Michael Andrews, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kirk Baxter, The Killer
Daniel Garber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Curt Lobb, BlackBerry
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
Nathan Orloff, John Wick: Chapter 4
Franklin Peterson, Fair Play
Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Michelle Tesoro, Maestro
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 4
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Erik Messerschmidt, The Killer
Pawel Pogorzelski, Beau is Afraid
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Linus Sandgren, Saltburn
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Robert Yeoman, Asteroid City
Łukasz Żal, The Zone of Interest
BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Gavin Brivik, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Alexandre Desplat, Asteroid City
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Killer
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Naoki Satō, Godzilla Minus One
Marcelo Zarvos, May December
BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Laurent Demianoff (fight / stunt coordinator), John Wick: Chapter 4
Wade Eastwood (stunt coordinator) and Wolfgang Stegemann (fight coordinator), Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One
Deven MacNair (stunt coordinator), Bottoms
Constanza Macras (choreographer), Poor Things
Noon Orsatti, Shane Habberstad, Leoš Stránský, Stanimir Stamatov and Thayr Harris (stunt coordinators) and Travis Gomez (fight choreographer) & Sunny Sun (fight coordinator), Extraction 2
Marcus Shakesheff (stunt coordinator) and Alison Faulk & Luke Broadlick (choreographers), Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Jennifer White (choreographer) and Lisa Welham (associate choreographer), Barbie
BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Josiah Cross (performer), A Thousand and One
Chloe Domont (writer-director), Fair Play
Daniel Goldhaber (director / co-writer), How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Cord Jefferson (writer-director), American Fiction
Marshawn Lynch (performer), Bottoms
Charles Melton (performer, May December
Dominic Sessa (performer), The Holdovers
Celine Song (writer-director), Past Lives
Iman Vellani (performer), The Marvels
ORIGINAL VISION
Barbie
Beau is Afraid
Dream Scenario
Enys Men
Infinity Pool
Poor Things
Robot Dreams
Smoking Causes Coughing
Through the Shattered Lens 