CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S OPPENHEIMER LEADS ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 2023 AWARDS
Organization also honors Ben Model and Fran Drescher with Special Achievement Awards, five Industry Icons with Lifetime Achievement Award
(January 22, 2024) — The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) today announces winners of their top film honors of 2023, as well as technical awards, Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement honors for industry leaders and icons, and the organization’s top 10 non-US released films of the year. Leading with a total of eight wins is OPPENHEIMER; Greta Gerwig’s BARBIE earns four awards, including double recognition for technical achievement with two original songs (“What What I Made For?” and “I’m Just Ken”). A complete list of winners and special awards is below.
Comprised of nearly 300 voting members from around the world who represent outlets including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Slant, Paste Magazine, AARP, Sight & Sound, Screen Anarchy, Collider, The Film Stage and many more, the Online Film Critics Society annually presents traditional awards including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Actress, among others. Founded in 1997, members of the OFCS explore the nature of film from historical, sociological, political, emotional, technical, and other perspectives, appreciating film as a medium for art and a mode of entertainment.
The 2023 Online Film Critics Society awards honor a broad list of films and creators, including a number of box office blockbusters and independent gems alike. With eight wins, OPPENHEIMER tops the organization’s awards this year, earning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey, Jr.), Best Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography, Score and Visual Effects. In addition to two original song honors, BARBIE is named Best Production Design and Best Costumes; THE HOLDOVERS is recognized as Best Original Screenplay, as well as Best Actor (Paul Giamatti) and Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
In addition to the 2023 top film honors, the Online Film Critics Society recognizes the work and contributions of several professionals and organizations with their annual Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement Awards. OFCS members are invited to nominate recipients of both awards, for achievements they deem worthy of these recognitions.
Receiving this year’s Special Achievement Award re: Ben Model, for his work in restoring and releasing silent film classics; Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild, for her diligent negotiation on behalf of working actors in the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike; and Members of and President Meredith Stiehm of the Writers Guild of America, for persisting in their strike to ensure that the rapidly-changing American film industry will remain a viable source of livelihood for artists.
Earning Lifetime Achievement Award recognition are industry titans Jodie Foster (actor), Gene Hackman (actor); Gale Anne Hurd (producer); Hayao Miyazaki (animator/writer/director); Thelma Schoonmaker (editor). Finally, the OFCS recognizes a slate of ten international films as the best releases outside the U.S. in 2023.
The complete list of 2023 Online Film Critics Association awards winners is as follows:
Best Picture: Oppenheimer
Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Director: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Best Actor: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Best Actress: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Original Screenplay: The Holdovers
Best Adapted Screenplay: Oppenheimer
Best Film Editing: Oppenheimer
Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer
Best Original Score: Oppenheimer
Best Production Design: Barbie
Best Costume Design: Barbie
Best Visual Effects: Oppenheimer
Best Debut Feature: Celine Song – Past Lives
Best Film Not in the English Language: Anatomy of a Fall
Best Documentary Feature: 20 Days in Mariupol
Technical Achievements:
Culinary Direction – The Taste of Things
Original Song (“I’m Just Ken”) – Barbie
Original Song (“What Was I Made For?”) – Barbie
Stunt Coordination – John Wick: Chapter 4
Stunt Coordination – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Jodie Foster (actor)
Gene Hackman (actor)
Gale Anne Hurd (producer)
Hayao Miyazaki (animator/writer/director)
Thelma Schoonmaker (editor)
Special Achievement Awards
Ben Model, for his work in restoring and releasing silent film classics.
Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild, for her diligent negotiation on behalf of working actors in the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.
Members of and President Meredith Stiehm of the Writers Guild of America for persisting in their strike to ensure that the rapidly-changing American film industry will remain a viable source of livelihood for artists
Best Non-US Releases
Bad Living (João Canijo, Portugal)
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice, Spain)
Dear Jassi (Tarsem Singh Dhandwar, India)
Explanation for Everything (Gábor Reisz, Hungary)
The Girls Are Alright (Itsaso Arana, Spain)
I Love You, Beksman (Perci M. Intalan, Philippines)
The New Boy (Warwick Thornton, Australia)
Samsara (Lois Patino, Spain)
Sorcery (Christopher Murray, Chile)
About the Online Film Critics Society
Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is a professional association for online film journalists, historians, and scholars with a mission to further the growth of an informed film audience, to promote awareness of the Internet as a source of news and commentary, to provide a forum for the OFCS members to communicate and discuss ideas about journalism and cinema, and to encourage a high standard of journalism across the online media. The OFCS consists of nearly 300 members around the world; nearly one third of the organization’s membership are based outside of the United States. The Online Film Critics Society explores the nature of film from historical, sociological, political, emotional, technical, and other perspectives and appreciates film as a medium for art and a mode of entertainment. Learn more at www.ofcs.org.
