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Greater Western New York Film Critics Association’s 2023 Film Awards WINNERS

Buffalo, NY (January 6, 2024) – The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA), a collective of WNY film critics from in and around the Buffalo and Rochester metropolitan areas, has just announced its sixth annual film awards winners for 2023. Eight different titles have received notice above their peers during our roundtable event at the Dryden Theatre.

Our members consist of critics in traditional print media (newspapers and magazines) and online media (websites and podcasts). In an era of aggregate sites, we aspire to give our region a voice within the ever-changing international cinematic landscape.

Please see below (the attached press release and our website) for a full account of this year’s winners. Leading the way are OPPENHEIMER (4 wins) and PAST LIVES (3 wins, including Best Picture).

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The 2023 GWNYFCA Film Awards Winners:

Best Picture:
• All of Us Strangers
• Asteroid City
• Barbie
• The Holdovers

• Killers of the Flower Moon
• May December

• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives – WINNER
• Poor Things
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Foreign Language Film:
• Anatomy of a Fall (French)
• The Boy and the Heron (Japanese)
• Godzilla Minus One (Japanese)
• Perfect Days (Japanese)
• The Zone of Interest (German) – WINNER

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

Best Documentary:
• Four Daughters
• Kokomo City
• Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie – WINNER
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Best Director:
• Greta Gerwig, Barbie
• Todd Haynes, May December
• Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – WINNER
• Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
• Celine Song, Past Lives

Lead Actor:
• Bradley Cooper, Maestro
• Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers – WINNER
• Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
• Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
• Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Lead Actress:
• Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER
• Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
• Greta Lee, Past Lives
• Natalie Portman, May December
• Emma Stone, Poor Things

Supporting Actor:
• Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
• Ryan Gosling, Barbie
• Charles Melton, May December – WINNER
• Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
• Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Supporting Actress:
• Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
• America Ferrera, Barbie
• Anne Hathaway, Eileen
• Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers – WINNER

Original Screenplay:
• Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
• Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach, Barbie
• David Hemingson, The Holdovers
• Samy Burch (story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik), May December
• Celine Song, Past Lives – WINNER

Adapted Screenplay:
• Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
• Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
• Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer – WINNER
• Tony McNamara, Poor Things

Best Cinematography:
• Mátyás Erdély, The Iron Claw
• Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
• Matthew Libatique, Maestro
• Hoyte Van Hoytema, Oppenheimer – WINNER
• Robbie Ryan, Poor Things

Best Editing:
• Nick Houy, Barbie
• Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
• Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer – WINNER
• Keith Fraase, Past Lives
• Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things

Best Original Score:
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, The Killer
• Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon – WINNER
• Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
• Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
• Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Breakthrough Performance:
• Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
• Charles Melton, May December – WINNER
• Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
• Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla
• Teo Yoo, Past Lives

Breakthrough Director:
• Daniel Goldhaber, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
• Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
• Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
• A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
• Celine Song, Past Lives – WINNER

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Written by Steven Prusakowski

Steven Prusakowski has been a cinephile as far back as he can remember, literally. At the age of ten, while other kids his age were sleeping, he was up into the late hours of the night watching the Oscars. Since then, his passion for film, television, and awards has only grown. For over a decade he has reviewed and written about entertainment through publications including Awards Circuit and Screen Radar. He has conducted interviews with some of the best in the business - learning more about them, their projects and their crafts. He is a graduate of the RIT film program. You can find him on Twitter and Letterboxd as @FilmSnork – we don’t know why the name, but he seems to be sticking to it.
Email: filmsnork@gmail.com

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