Killers Of The Flower Moon Wins In Oklahoma

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Yesterday, the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle announced their picks for the best of 2023! And here they are:

Top 10 Films
1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. The Holdovers
3. Oppenheimer
4. Barbie
5. Past Lives
6. The Zone of Interest
7. Poor Things
8. May December
9. The Boy and the Heron
10. American Fiction

Best Actress
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actor
Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Best Director
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Screenplay
David Hemingson – The Holdovers

Best Adapted Screenplay
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Documentary
American Symphony

Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse

Best Foreign Language Film
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom/Poland)

Best Cinematography
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Oppenheimer

Best Score
Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Ensemble
Barbie

Best First Feature
Celine Song – Past Lives

Best Body of Work
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall & The Zone of Interest

Most Disappointing Film
Maestro

Special Citation for Achievement in Oklahoma Independent Filmmaking
Fancy Dance – Directed by Erica Tremblay

Everything Wins In Oklahoma

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle has announced its picks for the best of 2022!

And here they are:

Best Picture
“Everything Everywhere All At Once“

Best Director
Winner: Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – “Everything Everywhere All At Once“
Runner-Up: Steven Spielberg – “The Fabelmans“

Best Actress
Winner: Cate Blanchett – TÁR
Runner-Up: Michelle Yeoh – “Everything Everywhere All At Once“

Best Actor
Winner: Brendan Fraser – “The Whale“
Runner-Up: Colin Farrell – “The Banshees Of Inisherin“

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Jamie Lee Curtis – “Everything Everywhere All At Once“
Runner-Up: Hong Chau – “The Whale“

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Ke Huy Quan – “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
Runner-Up:Paul Dano – “The Fabelmans“

Best Documentary
Winner: “All The Beauty And The Bloodshed“
Runner-Up: “Fire Of Love”

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: “Decision To Leave“
Runner-Up: “RRR“

Best Animated Film
Winner: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio“
Runner-Up: “Marcel The Shell With Shoes On”

Best Score
Winner: “Babylon” – Justin Hurwitz
Runner-Up: “The Batman” – Michael Giacchino

Best Cinematography
Winner: “Top Gun: Maverick” – Claudio Miranda
Runner-Up: “Babylon” – Linus Sandgren

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” – Rian Johnson
Runner-Up: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” – Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: “Everything Everywhere All At Once” – Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Runner-Up: “TÁR” – Todd Field

Best Ensemble
Winner: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery“
Runners-Up: “Babylon“

Best Body of Work
Winner: Colin Farrell (“After Yang,” “The Banshees Of Inisherin,” “The Batman” & “Thirteen Lives“)
Runner-Up: Paul Dano (“The Fabelmans” & “The Batman“)

Best First Feature
Winner: “Aftersun” – Charlotte Wells
Runner-Up: “Emily The Criminal” – John Patron Ford

Most Disappointing Film
Winner: “Don’t Worry Darling”
Runner-Up: “Babylon”

Licorice Pizza Wins In Oklahoma

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle have named Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza the best film of 2021!

Actually, I really like the OFCC’s picks. They spread the wealth pretty evenly between Licorice Pizza and The Power of the Dog and they remembered two of my favorite films of the year, Pig and The Green Knight. They also gave out an award for Most Disappointing Film Of The Year and how can I not cheer their selection of Don’t Look Up?

Here are the winners in Oklahoma!

Best Picture
“Licorice Pizza”

Top 10 Films
1. Licorice Pizza
2. The Power of the Dog
3. West Side Story
4. The Green Knight
5. Summer of Soul
6. The French Dispatch
7. Tick, Tick…Boom!
8. C’mon C’mon
9. Dune
10. Nightmare Alley / Pig / Red Rocket (TIE)

Best Director
Winner: Jane Campion – “The Power of the Dog”
Runner-Up: Paul Thomas Anderson – “Licorice Pizza”

Best Actress
Winner: Alana Haim – “Licorice Pizza”
Runner-Up: Jessica Chastain – “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”

Best Actor
Winner: Benedict Cumberbatch – “The Power of the Dog”
Runner-Up: Andrew Garfield – “Tick, Tick…Boom!”

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Kirsten Dunst – “The Power of the Dog”
Runner-Up: Ariana DeBose – “West Side Story”

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Kodi Smit-McPhee – “The Power of the Dog”
Runner-Up: Ciaran Hinds – “Belfast”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: “The Power of the Dog” – Jane Campion
Runner-Up: “Dune” – Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve & Eric Roth

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: “Licorice Pizza” – Paul Thomas Anderson
Runner-Up: “The French Dispatch” – Wes Anderson

Best Animated Film
Winner: “The Mitchells vs the Machines”
Runner-Up: “Encanto”

Best Documentary
Winner: “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)”
Runner-Up: “The First Wave”

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: “Drive My Car” (Japan)
Runner-Up: “The Worst Person in the World” (Norway)

Best First Feature
Winner: “The Lost Daughter” – Maggie Gyllenhaal
Runner-Up: “Tick, Tick…Boom!” – Lin-Manuel Miranda

Best Ensemble
Winner: “The French Dispatch”
Runners-Up: “Licorice Pizza” & “The Power of the Dog” (TIE)

Best Cinematography
Winner: “Dune” – Greig Fraser
Runner-Up: “The Power of the Dog” – Ari Wegner

Best Score
Winner: “The Power of the Dog” – Jonny Greenwood
Runner-Up: “Dune” – Hans Zimmer

Best Body of Work
Winner: Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Tick, Tick…Boom!,” “Encanto,” “In the Heights” & “Vivo”)
Runner-Up: Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick…Boom!,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” & “Spider-Man: No Way Home”)

Most Disappointing Film
Winner: “Don’t Look Up”
Runners-Up: “Halloween Kills” & “Spencer” (TIE)

The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Honors Minari!

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Lisa Marie Bowman

The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle met up earlier today and announced their picks for the best of 2020! Unlike most of the other regional critics groups that have so far voted, the OFCC named Minari — and not Nomadland — as best picture. However, Nomadland still picked up awards for Best Director and Screenplay and Best Actress and it was named as one of the top ten films of the year. In fact, Nomadland picked up even more awards than Minari did, even if Minari picked up the big prize. Still, it’s always nice to see the love get spread around a little.

Personally, I can’t say that I’m terribly surprised that Minari picked up best picture from the Oklahoma critics. Minari is set in Arkansas but it was filmed in Tulsa, Oklahoma so it was a bit of the favorite son candidate in this race. I’m just curious to see if the North Texas critics are going to follow Oklahoma’s lead and give their top award to Minari as well. Seriously, we don’t get many Oscar contenders shot around here so, when it happens, the natural tendency is to do a little bragging.

Speaking of Texas, I’m glad to see the Texas-shot The Vast of Night included in the OFCC’s top ten. (The Vast of Night also picked up the award for Best First Feature.) It’s also nice to see Palm Springs listed in the top 10, as it’s a film that is true a dark horse as far as Oscar recognition is concerned. Every awards season, it’s fun to speculate about which film might surprise everyone by picking up a nomination or two. This awards seasons, it very well could be Palm Springs.

Among the other results, Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci picked up even more honors for their performances in The Sound of Metal. And Minari’s Yuh-jung Youn was named Best Supporting Actress. Trent Renzor and Atticus Ross picked up two awards, for best score and best body of work for their work on Soul and Mank. (Mank was also named one of the top ten films of the year. It’s still a definite Oscar contender but it still hadn’t quite emerged as the awards season powerhouse that a lot of us were expecting it to be.)

Okay, that’s enough of an intro from me. I’ve rambled on a bit, I know. That’s what awards season does to me. Here are the OFCC winners!

Best Picture
Minari

Top 10 Films
Da 5 Bloods
Mank
Minari
Nomadland
Palm Springs
Promising Young Woman
Soul
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Vast of Night

Best Director
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Actor
Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

Best Actress
Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci – Sound of Metal

Best Supporting Actress
Yuh-Jung Youn – Minari

Best Original Screenplay
Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

Best Adapted Screenplay
Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Animated Film
Soul

Best Documentary
Boys State

Best Foreign Language Film
Martin Eden

Best First Feature
The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson)

Best Ensemble
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Cinematography
Erik Messerschmidt – Mank

Best Score
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Soul

Best Body of Work
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Mank and Soul

The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Name Once Upon A Time In Hollywood as the best of 2019!

Posted on December 15, 2019 by Lisa Marie Bowman

Here’s a full list of winners from Oklahoma!

Best Picture: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
Runner-up: Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best First Feature: Joe Talbot, The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Runner-up: Olivia Wilde, Booksmart

Best Actor: Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
Runner-up: Adam Driver, Marriage Story

Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, Us
Runner-up: Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers
Runner-up: Laura Dern, Marriage Story

Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Runner-up: Willem Dafoe, The Lighthouse

Best Ensemble: Knives Out
Runner-up: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Body of Work: Adam Driver, The Report and Marriage Story
Runners-up: Scarlett Johansson, Avengers: Endgame and Marriage Story; Brad Pitt, Ad Astra and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Original Screenplay: Knives Out
Runner-up: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Irishman
Runner-up: Jojo Rabbit

Best Cinematography: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Runner-up: 1917

Best Score: Uncut Gems
Runner-up: Joker

Best Animated Film: Toy Story 4
Runner-up: I Lost My Body

Best Documentary: American Factory
Runner-up: Apollo 11

Best Foreign Language Film: Parasite
Runner-up: The Farewell

Top 10 Films
1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
2. Knives Out
3. The Irishman
4. Parasite
5. Uncut Gems
6. Jojo Rabbit
7. Marriage Story
8. Little Women
9. Avengers: Endgame
10. Midsommar