The St. Louis Film Critics Association picked Oppenheimer as the Best Film of 2023, and also honored the film with Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy; Best Adapted Screenplay for Christopher Nolan; Best Cinematography for Hoyte Van Hoytema; and Best Score for Ludwig Göransson.

Other honors went to The Holdovers for Best Comedy Film along with Best Supporting Actress for Da’vine Joy Randolph and Best Ensemble.

Talk to Me won Best Horror Film, American Symphony and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (Tie) for Best Documentary Feature and Anatomy of a Fall won Best Foreign Language Feature.

Complete list of winners of 2023 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

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.