2023: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives
May December (dir: Todd Haynes)
The Taste of Things (dir: Tran Anh Hung)
Oppenheimer (dir: Christopher Nolan)
Anatomy of a Fall (dir: Justine Triet)
Poor Things (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
Return to Seoul (dir: Davy Chou; US Release Date)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir: Daniel Goldhaber; US Release Date)
The Holdovers (dir: Alexander Payne)
Killers of the Flower Moon (dir: Martin Scorsese)
Ferrari (dir: Michael Mann),
Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Air (dir: Ben Affleck), Asteroid City (dir: Wes Anderson), Barbie (dir: Greta Gerwig), Bottoms (dir: Emma Seligman), The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (dir: William Friedkin), The Creator (dir: Gareth Edwards), Fallen Leaves (dir: Aki Kaurismäki), Godzilla Minus One (dir: Takashi Yamazaki), Kokomo City (dir: D. Smith), Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (dir: Christpher McQuarrie), Monster (dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda), Passages (dir: Ira Sachs), Priscilla (dir: Sofia Coppola), The Promised Land (dir: Nikolaj Arcel), The Royal Hotel (dir: Kitty Green), Showing Up (dir: Kelly Reichardt; US Release Date), Sick of Myself (dir: Kristoffer Borgli; US Release Date), Society of the Snow (dir: J.A. Boyana), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (dir: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson), The Starling Girl (dir: Laurel Parmet), Woman of the Hour (dir: Anna Kendrick) and The Zone of Interest (dir: Jonathan Glazer)
Best Film of the Year: May December
Director: Todd Haynes Producers: Natalie Portman, Sophie Mas, Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Will Ferrell, Jessica Elbaum, Grant S. Johnson and Tyler W. Konney
US Distributor: Netflix
Best Director:
Todd Haynes, May December
2. Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
3. Tran Anh Hung, The Taste of Things
4. Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
5. Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
Category changes:
Taking a cue from the LAFCA, from this year forward, the Fritz Goldens will designate two lead and supporting acting wins, regardless of gender.
Best Lead Performance:
Emma Stone, Poor Things
Natalie Portman, May December
3. Park Ji-Min, Return to Seoul
4. Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
5. Jamie Foxx, The Burial
6. Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
7. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, You Hurt My Feelings
8. Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla
9. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
10. Franz Rogowski, Passages
Best Supporting Performance:
Charles Melton, May December
Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things
3. Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
4. Ryan Gosling, Barbie
5. Julianne Moore, May December
6. Milo Machado-Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
7. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
8. Wrenn Schmidt, The Starling Girl
9. Penélope Cruz, Ferrari
10. Paterson Joseph, Wonka
Best Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
2. May December — Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik
3. The Holdovers — David Hemingson
4. Return to Seoul – Davy Chou
5. Bottoms — Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott
Best Adapted Screenplay:
How to Blow Up a Pipeline — Daniel Goldhaber, Ariela Barer, and Jordan Sjol
2. The Taste of Things — Tran Anh Hung
3. Poor Things — Tony McNamara
4. Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan
5. Society of the Snow — J.A. Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques-Olarreaga, and Nicolás Casariego
Best Cinematography
Asteroid City — Robert D. Yeoman
2. Poor Things — Robbie Ryan
3. Oppenheimer — Hoyte van Hoytema
4. The Taste of Things —Jonathan Ricquebourg
5. Eileen — Ari Wagner
Best Original Score
Oppenheimer — Ludwig Göransson
2. Killers of the Flower Moon — Robbie Robertson
3. How to Blow Up a Pipeline — Gavin Brivik
4. The Zone of Interest — Mica Levi
5. Eileen — Richard Reed Parry
Best Film Editing
Oppenheimer — Jennifer Lame
2. How to Blow Up a Pipeline — Daniel Garber
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Michael Andrews
4. Killers of the Flower Moon — Thelma Schoonmaker
5. May December — Affonso Gonçalves
Best Production Design
Beau Is Afraid — Fiona Crombie, Frédéric Amblard, and Simon Théberge
2. Barbie — Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
3. Poor Things — Shona Heath, James Price, Budai Csaba, and Anna Döbrössy
4. Asteroid City — Adam Stockhausen and Kris Moran
5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — Raymond Chan, Naomi Moore, and Cosmo Sarson
Best Costume Design
Poor Things — Holly Waddington
2. Barbie — Jacqueline Durran
3. Priscilla — Stacey Battat
4. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — Amanda Monk
5. Passages — Khadija Zeggaï
Best Visual Effects
The Creator
2. Oppenheimer
3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
4. Godzilla Minus One
5. M3GAN
Best Sound
The Zone of Interest
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Taste of Things
4. The Creator
5. Ferrari
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Priscilla
2. Society of the Snow
3. Poor Things
4. Woman of the Hour
5. Barbie
Best Documentary Feature
Kokomo City — D. Smith
2. Beyond Utopia — Madeleine Gavin
3. The Deepest Breath — Laura McGann
Best Animated Feature
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem — Jeff Rowe
3. The Boy and the Heron — Hayao Miyazaki
Best Limited Series
Trenque Lauquen — Laura Citarella
2. Mrs. Davis
3. Daisy Jones & the Six
Best Documentary Series
The History of the Minnesota Vikings — Jon Bois
2. Bill Russell: Legend — Sam Pollard
3. Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God — Hannah Olson
Best First Feature:
Anna Kendrick, Woman of the Hour
Best Ensemble Cast:
Anatomy of a Fall
Best First Feature: Anna Kendrick and Daniel Zovatto (pictured) in Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour
Best Ensemble: Anatomy of a Fall (dir: Justine Triet), Swann Arlaud, Jehnny Beth, Sandra Hüller (pictured), Milo Machado-Graner (pictured), Antoine Reinartz, and Samuel Theis
RECAP
W I N S :
May December 3, Oppenheimer — 3,
Anatomy of a Fall — 2, Poor Things — 2, Asteroid City — 1, Beau Is Afraid — 1, The Creator — 1, The History of the Minnesota Vikings — 1, How to Blow Up a Pipeline — 1, Kokomo City — 1, Priscilla — 1, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — 1, Trenque Lauquen — 1, Woman of the Hour — 1, The Zone of Interest — 1
M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :
Poor Things — 10,
Oppenheimer — 8, May December — 7, Anatomy of a Fall — 6, The Taste of Things — 6, Barbie — 4, The Holdovers – 4, How to Blow Up a Pipeline — 4, Killers of the Flower Moon — 4, Ferrari — 3, Return to Seoul – 3, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — 3, Priscilla — 3, Asteroid City — 2, The Creator — 2, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — 2, Eileen — 2, Passages — 2, Society of the Snow — 2, Woman of the Hour — 2, The Zone of Interest — 2
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