The Boston Society of Film Critics have announced their picks for the best of 2023. I believe this is the first best picture award to be picked up by The Holdovers.
Best Picture
Winner: The Holdovers
Runners Up: The Zone Of Interest & May December
Best Foreign-Language Film
Winner: The Zone Of Interest
Best Director
Winner: Jonathan Glazer – The Zone Of Interest
Runners Up: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer & Todd Haynes – May December
Best Ensemble
Winner: Oppenheimer
Runners Up: Asteroid City, The Iron Claw & Killers Of The Flower Moon
Best Actor
Winner: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Runners Up: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer & Kōji Yakusho – Perfect Days
Best Actress
Winner: Lily Gladstone – Killers Of The Flower Moon
Runners Up: Emma Stone – Poor Things, Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall & Natalie Portman – May December
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Runners Up: Charles Melton – May December, Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things & Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: The Zone Of Interest
Runners Up: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. & Killers Of The Flower Moon
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: The Holdovers
Runners Up: May December & You Hurt My Feelings
Best New Filmmaker
Winner: Celine Song – Past Lives
Runners Up: Cord Jefferson – American Fiction & A.V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One
Best Documentary
Winner: Geographies of Solitude
Runners Up: 20 Days in Mariupol, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Kokomo City & Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros
Best Animated Feature
Winner: The Boy And The Heron
Runners Up: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Robot Dreams & The Peasants
Best Cinematography
Winner: The Taste Of Things
Runners Up: Poor Things & Asteroid City
Best Editing
Winner: Killers Of The Flower Moon
Runner Up: Oppenheimer
Best Score
Winner: Killers Of The Flower Moon
Runner Up: The Zone Of Interest
Through the Shattered Lens 