Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2023

The 36th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, presented to recognize the best in film of 2023, were announced on December 12, 2023.^[1][2][3]

36th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 12, 2023
Site	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Highlights
Best Picture	Killers of the Flower Moon
Most awards	Killers of the Flower Moon / May December / Oppenheimer (3)
Most nominations	Killers of the Flower Moon / Oppenheimer / Poor Things (10)
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The nominations were announced on December 8, 2023. For the first time in the awards' history, three films shared the position of most nominated—Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, and Poor Things—all receiving ten nominations each. In terms of nominations, they were followed by Barbie with nine and May December with seven.^[4][5][6]

Winners and nominees

The winners and nominees for the 36th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:

Christopher Nolan, Best Director winner

Paul Giamatti, Best Actor winner

Emma Stone, Best Actress winner

Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Best Supporting Actress winner

Martin Scorsese, Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner

Celine Song, Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker winner

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
Killers of the Flower Moon Barbie May December Oppenheimer Poor Things	Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Greta Gerwig – Barbie Todd Haynes – May December Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Actor	Best Actress
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers as Paul Hunham Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon as Ernest Burkhart Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers as Adam Teo Yoo – Past Lives as Hae Sung	Emma Stone – Poor Things as Bella Baxter Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon as Mollie Burkhart Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall as Sandra Voyter Natalie Portman – May December as Elizabeth Berry Margot Robbie – Barbie as Barbie
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Charles Melton – May December as Joe Yoo Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss Ryan Gosling – Barbie as Ken Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry as Jim Balsillie Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things as Duncan Wedderburn	Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers as Mary Lamb Jodie Foster – Nyad as Bonnie Stoll Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest as Hedwig Höss Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. as Barbara Simon Julianne Moore – May December as Gracie Atherton-Yoo
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
May December – Samy Burch Anatomy of a Fall – Arthur Harari and Justine Triet Barbie – Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach The Holdovers – David Hemingson Past Lives – Celine Song	Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. – Kelly Fremon Craig Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan Poor Things – Tony McNamara The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer
Best Animated Film	Best Foreign Language Film
The Boy and the Heron Leo Robot Dreams Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem	The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) Anatomy of a Fall (France) The Boy and the Heron (Japan) Godzilla Minus One (Japan) The Teachers' Lounge (Germany)
Best Documentary Film	Best Original Score
Kokomo City 20 Days in Mariupol Beyond Utopia Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie	Killers of the Flower Moon – Robbie Robertson (posthumous) Barbie – Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson Poor Things – Jerskin Fendrix The Zone of Interest – Mica Levi
Best Art Direction / Production Design	Best Costume Design
Barbie Asteroid City Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer Poor Things	Poor Things – Holly Waddington Asteroid City – Milena Canonero Barbie – Jacqueline Durran Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West Priscilla – Stacey Battat
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – Lee Chatametikool John Wick: Chapter 4 – Nathan Orloff Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Eddie Hamilton	Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema Asteroid City – Robert D. Yeoman Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto Poor Things – Robbie Ryan The Zone of Interest – Łukasz Żal
Best Use of Visual Effects	Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker
Godzilla Minus One Barbie Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Oppenheimer Poor Things	Celine Song – Past Lives Kyle Edward Ball – Skinamarink Raven Jackson – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Cord Jefferson – American Fiction A. V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One
Most Promising Performer
Charles Melton – May December as Joe Yoo Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. as Margaret Simon Milo Machado-Graner – Anatomy of a Fall as Daniel Maleski Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers as Angus Tully Teo Yoo – Past Lives as Hae Sung

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations: Nominations Film 10 Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer Poor Things 9 Barbie 7 May December 5 The Zone of Interest 4 Anatomy of a Fall The Holdovers Past Lives 3 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Asteroid City 2 All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt The Boy and the Heron Godzilla Minus One Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

The following films received multiple wins: Wins Film 3 Killers of the Flower Moon May December Oppenheimer 2 The Holdovers Poor Things