Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2023

American Fiction

• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives

Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

• Greta Gerwig – Barbie
• Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
• Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
• Celine Song – Past Lives

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Bradley Cooper – Maestro as Leonard Bernstein
• Colman Domingo – Rustin as Bayard Rustin
• Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers as Paul Hunham
• Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon as Mollie Burkhart

• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Origin as Isabel Wilkerson
• Greta Lee – Past Lives as Nora Moon
• Margot Robbie – Barbie as Barbie
• Emma Stone – Poor Things as Bella Baxter

Charles Melton – May December as Joe Yoo

• Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction as Clifford "Cliff" Ellison
• Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss
• Ryan Gosling – Barbie as Ken
• Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers as Angus Tully

Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers as Mary Lamb

• Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer as Kitty Oppenheimer
• Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple as Sofia
• Viola Davis – Air as Deloris Jordan
• Jodie Foster – Nyad as Bonnie Stoll

Past Lives – Celine Song

• Air – Alex Convery
• Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
• Barbie – Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
• The Holdovers – David Hemingson

American Fiction – Cord Jefferson

• Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese
• Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan
• Origin – Ava DuVernay
• Poor Things – Tony McNamara

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

• The Boy and the Heron
• Elemental
• Nimona
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

American Symphony

• 20 Days in Mariupol
• Little Richard: I Am Everything
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
• They Shot the Piano Player

Anatomy of a Fall

• Fallen Leaves
• Perfect Days
• Society of the Snow
• The Taste of Things
• The Teachers' Lounge
• The Zone of Interest

Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema

• Barbie – Rodrigo Prieto
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto
• Maestro – Matthew Libatique
• Poor Things – Robbie Ryan

Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame

• Barbie – Nick Houy
• John Wick: Chapter 4 – Nathan Orloff
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker
• Maestro – Michelle Tesoro

Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson

• The Color Purple – Kris Bowers
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Robbie Robertson
• Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton

Barbie – Sarah Greenwood (production designer); Katie Spencer (set decorator)

• Asteroid City – Adam Stockhausen (production designer); Kris Moran (set decorator)
• Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk (production designer); Adam Willis (set decorator)
• Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong (production designer); Claire Kaufman (set decorator)
• Poor Things – Shona Heath and James Price (production designers); Zsuzsa Mihalek (set decorator)

Oppenheimer

• American Fiction
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon

Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers as Angus Tully

• Joe Bird – Talk to Me as Riley
• Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. as Margaret Simon
• Milo Machado-Graner – Anatomy of a Fall as Daniel Maleski
• Ariana Greenblatt – Barbie as Sasha
• Iman Vellani – The Marvels as Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel

Shameik Moore – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Miles Morales / Spider-Man

• Jack Black as Bowser – The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Daniel Kaluuya – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Hobie Brown / Spider-Punk
• Hailee Steinfeld – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Gwen Stacy / Spider-Gwen
• Masaki Suda – The Boy and the Heron as The Grey Heron