• Each year, the St. Louis Film Critics Association bestows awards on those films that exhibit excellence in particular categories. The 2023 nominees and winners are listed below.

  • Eligible films are those that opened in the greater St. Louis area or had an online premiere during the 2023 calendar year – including those film that were given awards-qualifying runs in 2022, but were not available to all StLFCA members until 2023. Films slated for release in early in 2024 are also eligible if a press screening, DVD screener, or screening link was provided to all StLFCA members.

  • Lists of winners from previous years are linked at the bottom of the page.

2023 StLFCA Annual Award Winners

[Winners Were Announced December 17, 2023.]

  • BEST FILM: Oppenheimer

  • BEST DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer

  • BEST ACTOR: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

  • BEST ACTRESS: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

  • BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ryan Gosling - Barbie

  • BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Da’Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

  • BEST ENSEMBLE: The Holdovers

  • BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan; based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

  • BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Barbie - Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach

  • BEST EDITING: Oppenheimer - Jennifer Lame

  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Oppenheimer - Hoyte Van Hoytema

  • BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Barbie - Sarah Greenwood (Production Designer), Katie Spencer (Set Decorator)

  • BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Barbie - Jacqueline Durran

  • BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: The Creator - Jay Cooper, Ian Comley (ILM Visual Effects Supervisors); Andrew Roberts (On Set Visual Effects Supervisor); Neil Corbould (Supervising Special Effects Supervisor)

  • BEST STUNTS: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Wade Eastwood (Stunt Coordinator)

  • BEST SCORE: Oppenheimer - Ludwig Göransson

  • BEST SOUNDTRACK: Barbie

  • BEST ACTION FILM: John Wick: Chapter 4 and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Tie)

  • BEST COMEDY FILM: The Holdovers

  • BEST HORROR FILM: Talk to Me

  • BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  • BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: American Symphony and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Tie)

  • BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE: Anatomy of a Fall

  • BEST SCENE: Barbie - Gloria’s monologue on the impossible standards set for women.

Complete List of Nominations

[Nominees Were Announced December 11, 2023.]

  • BEST FILM

    • American Fiction

    • Anatomy of a Fall

    • Barbie

    • The Holdovers

    • Killers of the Flower Moon

    • Maestro

    • May December

    • Oppenheimer

    • Past Lives

    • The Zone of Interest

  • BEST DIRECTOR

    • Greta Gerwig - Barbie

    • Todd Haynes – May December

    • Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

    • Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

    • Celine Song - Past Lives

  • BEST ACTOR

    • Bradley Cooper – Maestro

    • Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon

    • Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers

    • Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

    • Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

  • BEST ACTRESS

    • Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

    • Greta Lee – Past Lives

    • Natalie Portman – May December

    • 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

    • Viola Davis - Air

    • Rachel McAdams - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

    • Julianne Moore - May December

    • Da’Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

  • BEST ENSEMBLE

    • Asteroid City

    • Barbie

    • The Holdovers

    • Killers of the Flower Moon

    • Oppenheimer

  • BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

    • American Fiction - Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett

    • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. - Kelly Fremon Craig; based on the novel by Judy Blume

    • Killers of the Flower Moon - Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese; based on the book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

    • Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan; based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

    • The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer; based on the novel by Martin Amis

  • BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

    • Air - Alex Convery

    • Anatomy of a Fall - Justine Triet and Arthur Harari

    • Barbie - Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach

    • The Holdovers - David Hemingson

    • Past Lives - Celine Song

  • BEST EDITING

    • The Holdovers - Kevin Tent

    • The Killer - Kirk Baxter

    • Killers of the Flower Moon - Thelma Schoonmaker

    • Maestro - Michelle Tesoro

    • Oppenheimer - Jennifer Lame

    • The Zone of Interest - Paul Watts

  • BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

    • Asteroid City - Robert D. Yeoman

    • Killers of the Flower Moon - Rodrigo Prieto

    • Maestro - Matthew Libatique

    • Oppenheimer - Hoyte Van Hoytema

    • The Zone of Interest - Lukasz Zal

  • BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

    • Asteroid City - Adam Stockhausen

    • Barbie - Sarah Greenwood (Production Designer), Katie Spencer (Set Decorator)

    • Killers of the Flower Moon - Jack Fisk

    • Oppenheimer - Ruth De Jong (Production Designer)

    • Poor Things - James Price (Production Designer), Shona Heath (Production Designer), Szusza Mihalek (Set Decorator)

  • BEST COSTUME DESIGN

    • Barbie - Jacqueline Durran

    • Killers of the Flower Moon - Jacqueline West (Costume Design), Julie O’Keefe (Head Osage Wardrobe Consultant)

    • Oppenheimer - Ellen Mirojnick

    • Poor Things - Holly Waddington

    • Priscilla - Stacey Battat

  • BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

    • The Creator - Jay Cooper, Ian Comley (ILM Visual Effects Supervisors); Andrew Roberts (On Set Visual Effects Supervisor); Neil Corbould (Supervising Special Effects Supervisor)

    • Godzilla Minus One - Takashi Yamazaki (Visual Effects Supervisor)

    • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Stephane Ceretti (Visual Effects Supervisor), Alexis Wajsbrot (Visual Effects Supervisor), Guy Williams (Visual Effects Supervisor), Teho Bialek (Visual Effects Supervisor)

    • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Alex Wuttke (Visual Effects Supervisor), Simone Coco (Visual Effects Supervisor), Jeff Sutherland (Visual Effects Supervisor), Neil Corbould (Special Effects Supervisor)

    • Oppenheimer - Andrew Jackson (Production Visual Effects Supervisor), Giacomo Mineo (Visual Effects Supervisor), Scott Fisher (Special Effects Supervisor), Dave Drzewiecki (Visual Effects Director of Photography)

  • BEST STUNTS

    • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - Mike Massa (Stunt Coordinator / Double), Abdelaaziz Attougui (Stunt Performer)

    • The Iron Claw - Chavo Guerrero Jr. (Stunt Performer and Stunt Wrestling Coordinator)

    • John Wick: Chapter 4 - Scott Rogers (Stunt Coordinator), Stephen Dunlevy (Stunt Coordinator)

    • The Killer - Dave Macomber (Fight / Stunt Coordinator)

    • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Wade Eastwood (Stunt Coordinator)

  • BEST SCORE

    • Killers of the Flower Moon - Robbie Robertson

    • May December - Marcelo Zavros

    • Oppenheimer - Ludwig Göransson

    • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Daniel Pemberton

    • The Zone of Interest - Mica Levi

  • BEST SOUNDTRACK

    • Air

    • Barbie

    • The Holdovers

    • The Killer

    • Maestro

  • BEST ACTION FILM

    • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    • Indiana Jones and Dial of Destiny

    • John Wick: Chapter 4

    • The Killer

    • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

    • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  • BEST COMEDY FILM

    • American Fiction

    • Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

    • Barbie

    • Bottoms

    • The Holdovers

  • BEST HORROR FILM

    • Evil Dead rise

    • Knock at the Cabin

    • M3GAN

    • Skinamarink

    • Talk to Me

  • BEST ANIMATED FILM

    • The Boy and the Heron

    • Elemental

    • Robot Dreams

    • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

  • BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

    • American Symphony

    • Beyond Utopia

    • It Ain’t Over

    • Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgros

    • Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

  • BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

    • Anatomy of a Fall

    • Fallen Leaves

    • Perfect Days

    • The Teachers’ Lounge

    • The Zone of Interest

  • BEST SCENE

    • Barbie - Gloria’s monologue on the impossible standards set for women.

    • John Wick: Chapter 4 - Fight on the 222 steps leading up to the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris.

    • Killers of the Flower Moon - Radio show finale.

    • Maestro - Leonard Bernstein conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at Ely Cathedral.

    • Oppenheimer - Trinity test.

Past StLFCA Annual Award Winners