2023: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. May December (dir: Todd Haynes)

2. Oppenheimer (dir: Christopher Nolan)

3. Poor Things (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)

4. The Taste of Things (dir: Tran Anh Hung)

5. Return to Seoul (dir: Davy Chou; US Release Date)

6. Anatomy of a Fall (dir: Justine Triet)

7. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (dir: Daniel Goldhaber; US Release Date)

8. The Holdovers (dir: Alexander Payne)

9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (dir: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson)

10. Killers of the Flower Moon (dir: Martin Scorsese)

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), Ferrari (dir: Michael Mann), 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), The Starling Girl (dir: Laurel Parmet), 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:
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
2. Todd Haynes, May December
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. Poor Things — Shona Heath, James Price, Budai Csaba, and Anna Döbrössy
3. Barbie — Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
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. Bottoms
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:
Laurel Parmet, The Starling Girl

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Anatomy of a Fall

Best First Feature: Eliza Scanlen (pictured) in Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl

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, The Starling Girl — 1, Trenque Lauquen — 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, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — 4, Priscilla — 3, Return to Seoul – 3, Asteroid City — 2, Bottoms — 2, The Creator — 2, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves — 2, Eileen — 2, Ferrari — 2, Passages — 2, Society of the Snow — 2, The Starling Girl — 2, The Zone of Interest — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s