Saturday 16 December 2023

For your consideration: my Critics' Circle votes 2023

 

Director of the Year
1. Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall
3. Mani Ratnam, Ponniyin Selvan - Part 2
4. Hlynur Pálmason, Godland
5. Aki Kaurismäki, Fallen Leaves

(Honourable mentions: Robert Machoian, The Integrity of Joseph Chambers; Albert Serra, Pacifiction; Saim Sadiq, Joyland; Todd Haynes, May December; Kitty Green, The Royal Hotel; Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer; Karan Johar, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani.)



Screenwriter of the Year
1. Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
2. Mani Ratnam, Kumaravel and Jayamohan, Ponniyin Selvan - Part 2
3. Nicole Holofcener, You Hurt My Feelings
4. Shashank Khaitan, Ishita Moitra and Sumit Roy, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani
5. Samy Burch, May December

(Honourable mentions: Martin Scorsese and Eric Roth, Killers of the Flower Moon; Mia Hansen-Løve, One Fine Morning; Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer.)



Actress of the Year
1. Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
2. Natalie Portman, May December
3. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Mia Goth, Pearl
5. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, You Hurt My Feelings

(Honourable mentions: Alina Khan, Joyland; Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ponniyin Selvan - Part 2; Alia Bhatt, Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani; Lea Seydoux, One Fine Morning; Margot Robbie, Barbie; Shahana Goswami, Zwigato; Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall.)



Actor of the Year
1. Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
4. Benoît Magimel, Pacifiction
5. Bradley Cooper, Maestro 

(Honourable mentions: Jamie Foxx, The Burial; Leonardo Di Caprio, Killers of the Flower Moon; Joaquin Phoenix, Beau is Afraid; Vikram, Ponniyin Selvan - Part 2.)



Supporting Actress of the Year
2. Sigourney Weaver, Master Gardener
4. Tilda Swinton, The Killer
5. Parker Posey, Beau is Afraid

(Honourable mentions: Clare Perkins, Medusa Deluxe; Julianne Moore, May December; Eva Green, The Three Musketeers Part 1: D'Artagnan.)



Supporting Actor of the Year
1. Charles Melton, May December
2. Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
3. Ryan Gosling, Barbie
4. Hugo Weaving, The Royal Hotel
5. Messi the dog, Anatomy of a Fall

(Honourable mentions: Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon; Pascal Greggory, One Fine Morning; Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer; Tommy Lee Jones, The Burial; David Dastmalchian, The Boogeyman; Matt Damon, Oppenheimer; David Krumholtz, Oppenheimer; Bouli Lanners, The Night of the 12th; Hugh Grant, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and Wonka.)



Breakthrough Performance of the Year
1. Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
2. Alina Khan, Joyland
3. Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex
4. Charles Melton, May December
5. Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane

(Honourable mentions: Priya Kansara, Polite Society; Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Park Ji-min, Return to Seoul; Bastien Bouillon, The Night of the 12th.)



Breakthrough British Writer/Director/Producer
1. Molly Manning Walker, writer-director, How to Have Sex
2. Raine Allen-Miller, director, Rye Lane
3. Nida Manzoor, writer-director, Polite Society
4. Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping, writer-directors, Femme
5. Thomas Hardiman, writer-director, Medusa Deluxe

(Honourable mention: Charlotte Regan, writer-director, Scrapper.)



British/Irish Performer of the Year
1. Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
2. Tilda Swinton, The Eternal Daughter and The Killer
3. Mia Goth, Pearl and Infinity Pool
4. Carey Mulligan, Maestro
5. Mia McKenna-Bruce, How to Have Sex

(Honourable mentions: Vivian Oparah, Rye Lane; Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay, Femme; Priya Kansara, Polite Society; Hugh Grant, Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and Wonka; Clare Perkins, Medusa Deluxe.)



Young British/Irish Performer of the Year
1. Orén Kinlan, Flora and Son
2. Samuel Bottomley, How to Have Sex
3. Lola Campbell, Scrapper
4. Alin Uzun, Scrapper
5. Calah Lane, Wonka


Nominations for the 44th London Critics' Circle Film Awards will be announced this Wednesday, with the awards following on February 4, 2024; my top 20 films of the year will run on this site at the end of the month.

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