2023 National Society of Film Critics Award Winners

Best Picture: PAST LIVES (51 points)

Runners-up: THE ZONE OF INTEREST (49 points) OPPENHEIMER (44 points)

Best Director: Jonathan Glazer, THE ZONE OF INTEREST (65 points)

Runners-up: Todd Haynes, MAY DECEMBER (42 points) Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER (41 points)

Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL and THE ZONE OF INTEREST (61 points)

Runners-up: Emma Stone, POOR THINGS (56 points) Lily Gladstone, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (44 points)

Best Actor: Andrew Scott, ALL OF US STRANGERS (52 points)

Runners-up: Jeffrey Wright, AMERICAN FICTION (39 points) Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER (29 points)

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS (58 points)

Runners-up: Penélope Cruz, FERRARI (32 points) Rachel McAdams, ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. (23 points)

Best Supporting Actor: Charles Melton, MAY DECEMBER (51 points)

Runners-up: Robert Downey, Jr., OPPENHEIMER, and Ryan Gosling, BARBIE (31 points, tie)

Best Screenplay: Samy Burch, MAY DECEMBER (53 points)

Runners-up: Celine Song, PAST LIVES (50 points) David Hemingson, THE HOLDOVERS (36 points)

Best Film Not in the English Language: FALLEN LEAVES (65 points)

Runners-up: THE ZONE OF INTEREST (51 points) ANATOMY OF A FALL (44 points)

Best Nonfiction Film: MENUS-PLAISIRS — LES TROISGROS (64 points)

Runners-up: 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (25 points) KOKOMO CITY (19 points)

Best Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (55 points)

Runners-up: Łukasz Żal, THE ZONE OF INTEREST (45 points) Hoyte van Hoytema, OPPENHEIMER (44 points)

Best Experimental Film: Jean Luc-Godard’s TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: Víctor Erice’s CLOSE YOUR EYES

Film Heritage Award: Criterion Channel, for an adventurous, wide-ranging, finely curated selection of films, ranging from American independents to world cinema to short films to classic Hollywood, making readily available the kind of repertory cinema that every city should have.

Film Heritage Award: Facets, Kim’s Video, Scarecrow Video and Vidiots, for maintaining wide-reaching libraries of films on disc and tape and making those libraries available to the general public.