Washington DC Critics Awards

[Mister Tee]

Winners

Best Feature: American Fiction (MGM)
Best Director: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Best Actor: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Supporting Actor: Charles Melton – May December
Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction – Cord Jefferson (based on “Erasure” by Percival Everett)
Best Original Screenplay: Past Lives – Celine Song
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary: American Symphony
Best International/Foreign Language Film: Anatomy of a Fall (France) – dir. Justine Triet
Best Youth Performance: Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Best Acting Ensemble: Oppenheimer
Best Production Design: Barbie
Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema
Best Editing:Oppenheimer
Best Original Score:Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer

[Mister Tee]

For whatever reason -- typo yesterday, or updated tabulation -- the group announced we should add Killers to best feature, and The Teachers' Lounge/Fallen Leaves to International.

[Big Magilla]

Interesting.

Either they didn't see Maestro or they didn't like it.

Feature/Director lines up three out of five for Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Past Lives, substituting Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things for American Fiction and Past Lives.

Killers of the Flower Moon is shut out of Best Feature, Actor, and Supporting Actor but is included in Acting Ensemble with four of the five nominees for Best Feature, replacing Past Lives.

Supporting Actor includes all three of the "possible" younger contenders (Sterling K. Brown, Charles Melton, and Dominic Sessa) upsetting Robert De Niro, Mark Ruffalo, and Willen Dafoe, allowing only Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan Gosling from the most twitter predicted nominees. Is this a one-off or the start of a new direction for the category?

[Mister Tee]

They insist on releasing nominations. But, if you can wait about 24 hours, they'll be announcing winners sometime tomorrow.

Best Feature
American Fiction (MGM)
Barbie (Warner Bros.)
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Past Lives (A24)
The Holdovers (Focus Features)

Best Director
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Martin Scorcese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song – Past Lives

Best Actor
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Actress
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Origin
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Emma Stone – Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor
Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Charles Melton – May December
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actress
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Viola Davis – Air
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Best Adapted Screenplay
American Fiction – Cord Jefferson (based on “Erasure” by Percival Everett)
Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese (based on the book by David Grann)
Oppenheimer– Christopher Nolan (based on the book by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin)
Origin – Ava DuVernay (based on the book by Isabel Wilkerson
Poor Things – Tony McNamara (based on the book by Alasdair Gray)

Best Original Screenplay
Air – Alex Convery
Anatomy of a Fall – Justin Triet, Arthur Harari
Barbie – Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
Past Lives – Celine Song
The Holdovers – David Hemingson

Best Animated Feature
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Boy and the Heron

Best Documentary
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
They Shot the Piano Player

Best International/Foreign Language Film
Anatomy of a Fall (France) – dir. Justine Triet
Fallen Leaves
Perfect Days (Japan) – dir. Wim Wenders
Society of the Snow (Spain) – dir. J.A. Bayona
The Taste of Things (France) – dir. Trần Anh Hùng
The Teachers' Lounge
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) – dir. Jonathan Glazer

Best Youth Performance
Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of a Fall
Ariana Greenblatt – Barbie
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Iman Vellani – The Marvels

Best Acting Ensemble
American Fiction
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
The Holdovers

Best Production Design
Asteroid City
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Cinematography
Barbie – Rodrigo Prieto
Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto
Maestro – Matthew Libatique
Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema
Poor Things – Robbie Ryan

Best Editing
Barbie
John Wick: Chapter 4
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer

Best Original Score
Kris Bowers – The Color Purple
Jerskin Fendrix – Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon