Past Lives directed by Celine Song
Past Lives directed by Celine Song (A24)

Celine Song’s Past Lives was awarded the honor of Best Film of 2023 by the Online Association of Female Film Critics. The film also won award honors for Best Original Screenplay and Breakthrough Filmmaker for Song.

Top film honors went to Anatomy of a Fall for Best International Feature, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie for Best Documentary.

Performing honors went to Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon” for Best Female Lead, Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers” for Best Male Lead, Charles Melton, “May December” for Best Supporting Male, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” for Best Supporting Female.

Complete list of winners of Online Association of Female Film Critics 2023 Awards

Best Film: “Past Lives”
Runner-Up: “Oppenheimer”

Best Director: Greta Gerwig, “Barbie”
Runner-Up: Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”

Best Female Lead: Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Runner-Up: Emma Stone, “Poor Things”

Best Male Lead: Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”
Runner-Up: Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”

Best Supporting Male: Charles Melton, “May December”
Runner-Up: Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”

Best Supporting Female: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Runner-Up: Danielle Brooks, “The Color Purple”

Best Acting Ensemble: “Barbie”
Runner-Up: “The Holdovers”

Best Original Screenplay: Celine Song, “Past Lives”
Runner-Up: Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, “May December”

Best Adapted Screenplay: Cord Jefferson, “American Fiction”
Runner-Up: Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Best Documentary: “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”
Runner-Up: “Kokomo City”

Best Animated Feature: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Runner-Up: “The Boy and the Heron”

Best Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: Robbie Ryan, “Poor Things”

Best Editing: Jennifer Lame, “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: Thelma Schoonmaker, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Best Stunts: “John Wick: Chapter 4”
Runner-Up: “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”

Best Visual Effects (TIE): “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”

Best Visual Effects (TIE): “Oppenheimer”

Best Costume Design : Jacqueline Durran, “Barbie”
Runner-Up: Holly Waddington, “Poor Things”

Best International Feature: “Anatomy of a Fall”
Runner-Up: “The Zone of Interest”

Breakthrough Filmmaker: Celine Song, “Past Lives”
Runner-Up: A.V. Rockwell, “A Thousand and One”

Breakthrough Performance (TIE): Charles Melton, “May December”

Breakthrough Performance (TIE): Dominic Sessa, “The Holdovers”

The “Rosie” Award: “Barbie”

The Rosie award (named for the iconic Rosie the Riveter) celebrates the film that best promotes women, their voices, and the female experience through cinema. We are pleased to announce that “Barbie” has taken this year’s honor.

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