2024 Oscars: Critics awards scorecard dominated by ‘Oppenheimer’
Since the 89th New York Film Critics Circle Awards announcement on November 30, many time-tested regional critics organizations have declared their picks for the best cinematic achievements of 2023. Because of their status as frequently accurate Academy Awards forecasters, we tracked 38 groups’ wins as they were revealed through mid-February. Check below to see how these reviewers have influenced the Oscars race.
The critics associations that qualified for this scorecard each have geographical ties and were established five or more years ago. Most are based in the United States, but a few derive from the United Kingdom or Canada. Almost half of them have been handing out their annual movie honors for at least two full decades, with the NYFCC being the oldest group on our list, followed by two 58-year-old organizations: the Kansas City Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.
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Beginning with the Atlanta Film Critics Circle, 20 groups announced their winners in December, while the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle started things up again in January after the usual holiday break. The final proclamation came from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle on February 12.
Not included in our record are categories that don’t translate to Oscar ones, such as soundtrack ones that don’t specifically pertain to original scores or those that single out debut filmmakers and performers. We have, however, factored in any non-gendered acting awards as well as catch-all Best Screenplay prizes. Any win that cannot lead to an Oscar victory on March 10 due to a film’s exclusion from the corresponding AMPAS lineup will be marked in red.
Below is an alphabetical list of the 38 critics groups we’ve kept track of, followed by a descending numerical breakdown of their wins sorted by film.
Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC)
Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA)
Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC)
Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA)
Columbus Film Critics Association (COFCA)
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association (DFWFCA)
Denver Film Critics Society (DenFCS)
Dublin Film Critics Circle (DFCC)
Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC)
Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA)
Greater Western New York Film Critics Association (GWNYFCA)
Hawaii Film Critics Society (HIFCS)
Houston Film Critics Society (HoFCS)
Indiana Film Journalists Association (IFJA)
Iowa Film Critics Association (IFCA)
Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC)
Las Vegas Film Critics Society (LVFCS)
London Film Critics Circle (LFCC)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA)
Music City Film Critics’ Association (MCFCA)
National Society of Film Critics (NSFC)
Nevada Film Critics Society (NFCS)
New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)
North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA)
North Texas Film Critics Association (NTFCA)
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle (OFCC)
Philadelphia Film Critics Circle (PFCC)
Phoenix Critics Circle (PCC)
Phoenix Film Critics Society (PFCS)
San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS)
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC)
Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS)
Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA)
St. Louis Film Critics Association (STLFCA)
Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA)
Utah Film Critics Association (UFCA)
Vancouver Film Critics Circle (VFCC)
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA)
129 wins
“Oppenheimer”
Best Picture – AFCC, DenFCS, GAFCA, KCFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, NFCS, NTFCA, SEFCA, SFBAFCC, StLFCA
Best Director (Christopher Nolan) – AFCA, AFCC, CFCA, DenFCS, DFWFCA, GAFCA, GWNYFCA, HIFCS, HoFCS, IFCA (tie), KCFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, NFCS, NTFCA, NYFCC, PFCS, SEFCA, StLFCA, VFCC, WAFCA
Best Adapted Screenplay (Nolan) – AFCA, GAFCA, GWNYFCA, HIFCS, NCFCA, NFCS, SEFCA, StLFCA
Best Screenplay – AFCC
Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) – AFCA, AFCC, DenFCS, DFCC, DFWFCA, GAFCA, HIFCS, KCFCC (tie), NCFCA, PCC, PFCC, PFCS, SEFCA, StLFCA, WAFCA
Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.) – AFCA, AFCC (tie), DFWFCA, GAFCA, IFCA, KCFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, NFCS, NTFCA (tie), PCC, PFCC, SDFCS, SEFCA, SFBAFCC, VFCC
Best Cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema) – AFCA, AFCC, CFCA, DFWFCA, GAFCA, GWNYFCA, HoFCS, IFJA, KCFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, NFCS, NTFCA, NYFCC, OFCC, PCC, PFCC, PFCS, SEFCA, SFBAFCC, StLFCA, WAFCA
Best Film Editing (Jennifer Lame) – AFCA, CFCA, GWNYFCA, HIFCS, IFJA, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, PFCS, SFCS, StLFCA, WAFCA
Best Score (Ludwig Göransson) – AFCA, AFCC, DenFCS, GAFCA, HIFCS, IFJA, KCFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, PCC, PFCC, PFCS, SEFCA, SFCS, StLFCA, WAFCA
Best Sound (Richard King) – MCFCA, NCFCA
60 wins
“The Holdovers”
Best Picture – BSFC, DFWFCA, IFCA
Best Director (Alexander Payne) – IFCA (tie)
Best Original Screenplay (David Hemingson) – BSFC, COFCA, GAFCA, IFJA, NFCS, OFCC, PFCS, SEFCA
Best Screenplay – DFWFCA, MCFCA, NTFCA, PCC, SFCS
Best Actor (Paul Giamatti) – BSFC, CFCA, GWNYFCA, HoFCS, IFCA, KCFCC (tie), MCFCA, NTFCA, OFCC, VFCC
Best Supporting Actor (Dominic Sessa) – UFCA
Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) – AFCA, AFCC, BSFC, CFCA, DenFCS, DFWFCA, GAFCA, GWNYFCA, HIFCS, HoFCS, IFCA, KCFCC, LFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, NSFC, NTFCA, NYFCC, OFCC, PCC, PFCC, PFCS, SEFCA, SFBAFCC, SFCS, StLFCA, UFCA, VFCC, WAFCA
Best Supporting Performance (Randolph) – LAFCA, TFCA
48 wins
“Killers of the Flower Moon”
Best Picture – AFCA, CFCA, COFCA, NYFCC, OFCC, PFCS
Best Director (Martin Scorsese) – COFCA, OFCC, SDFCS, SFCS
Best Adapted Screenplay (Scorsese & Eric Roth) – CFCA, OFCC, PFCS, TFCA
Best Actress (Lily Gladstone) – AFCA, AFCC, BSFC, DFCC, DFWFCA, FFCC, GAFCA, GWNYFCA, IFCA (tie), KCFCC, NCFCA, NTFCA, NYFCC, OFCC, SDFCS, SEFCA, SFCS, StLFCA, WAFCA
Best Lead Performance (Gladstone) – TFCA
Best Cinematography (Rodrigo Prieto) – DFCC, NSFC, SDFCS
Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker) – BSFC, COFCA
Best Score (Robbie Robertson) – BSFC, CFCA, COFCA, DFWFCA, GWNYFCA, HoFCS, OFCC, SFBAFCC, UFCA
46 wins
“Barbie”
Best Picture – HIFCS
Best Original Screenplay (Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach) – DenFCS, NCFCA, SDFCS, StLFCA, TFCA (classified as adapted by AMPAS)
Best Screenplay – VFCC
Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling) – AFCC (tie), BSFC, DenFCS, HIFCS, HoFCS, OFCC, PFCS, StLFCA
Best Supporting Performance (Gosling) – TFCA
Best Costume Design (Jacqueline Durran) – NCFCA, PFCS, SDFCS, SFCS, StLFCA
Best Makeup & Hairstyling (Ivana Primorac) – NCFCA
Best Production Design (Sarah Greenwood) – CFCA, GAFCA, HIFCS, LAFCA, LVFCS, MCFCA (tie), NCFCA, NFCS, PFCS, SDFCS, SFBAFCC, SFCS, StLFCA, WAFCA
Best Song (“I’m Just Ken”) – HoFCS, IFCA, LVFCS, MCFCA (tie), NCFCA, PFCS
Best Song (“What Was I Made For?”) – DenFCS, GAFCA, HIFCS, MCFCA (tie)
37 wins
“Poor Things”
Best Picture – HoFCS, IFJA, PFCC
Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos) – IFJA, PCC, PFCC
Best Adapted Screenplay (Tony McNamara) – DenFCS, FFCC, IFJA
Best Screenplay – PFCC
Best Actress (Emma Stone) – CFCA, DenFCS, HoFCS, IFCA (tie), LFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NFCS, PCC, PFCC, PFCS, SFBAFCC, UFCA
Best Lead Performance (Stone) – COFCA, IFJA, LAFCA
Best Supporting Performance (Mark Ruffalo) – IFJA
Best Cinematography (Robbie Ryan) – COFCA, LAFCA, SFCS, UFCA
Best Costume Design (Holly Waddington) – CFCA, HIFCS, LVFCS
Best Makeup & Hairstyling (Nadia Stacey) – HIFCS
Best Production Design (James Price & Shona Heath) – MCFCA (tie)
Best Visual Effects – HoFCS
26 wins
“The Zone of Interest”
Best Picture – LAFCA, LFCC, TFCA
Best Director (Jonathan Glazer) – BSFC, LAFCA, LFCC, NSFC, SFBAFCC, TFCA
Best Adapted Screenplay (Glazer) – BSFC
Best Actress (Sandra Hüller) – NSFC
Best Lead Performance (Hüller) – LAFCA
Best International Feature – BSFC, CFCA, DenFCS, GWNYFCA, HoFCS, IFJA, OFCC, PCC, SFBAFCC, UFCA, VFCC
Best Film Editing (Paul Watts) – SFBAFCC
Best Score (Mica Levi) – LAFCA
Best Sound – SDFCS
24 wins
“Anatomy of a Fall”
Best Picture – VFCC
Best Original Screenplay (Justine Triet & Arthur Harari) – KCFCC (tie)
Best Screenplay – DFCC, LFCC
Best Actress (Sandra Hüller) – NSFC, VFCC
Best Lead Performance (Hüller) – LAFCA, TFCA
Best International Feature – AFCC, DFWFCA, FFCC, HIFCS, KCFCC, LAFCA, NCFCA, NTFCA, NYFCC, PFCS, SDFCS, SEFCA, StLFCA, WAFCA
Best Film Editing (Laurent Sénéchal) – LAFCA, SDFCS
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Best Animated Feature – AFCA, AFCC, DenFCS, GAFCA, HIFCS, HoFCS, IFJA, KCFCC, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, NTFCA, OFCC, PCC, PFCS, SEFCA, SFCS, StLFCA, UFCA, WAFCA
Best Film Editing – UFCA
17 wins
“Past Lives”
Best Picture – DFCC, GWNYFCA, NSFC, PCC, SFCS, UFCA
Best Director (Celine Song) – DFCC, UFCA
Best Original Screenplay (Song) – AFCA, FFCC, GWNYFCA, KCFCC (tie), SFBAFCC, UFCA, WAFCA
Best Actress (Greta Lee) – HIFCS
Best International Feature – LFCC
“Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie”
Best Documentary Feature – AFCA, AFCC, DenFCS, GAFCA, GWNYFCA, HIFCS, HoFCS, LVFCS, MCFCA, NCFCA, NTFCA, PCC, PFCS, SDFCS, SEFCA, StLFCA (tie), UFCA
14 wins
“The Boy and the Heron”
Best Picture – FFCC
Best Animated Feature – BSFC, CFCA, DFWFCA, FFCC, GWNYFCA, LAFCA, LFCC, NYFCC, PFCC, SDFCS, SFBAFCC
Best International Feature – PFCC
Best Score (Joe Hisaishi) – FFCC
13 wins
“May December”
Best Director (Todd Haynes) – FFCC
Best Original Screenplay (Samy Burch) – CFCA
Best Screenplay – NSFC, NYFCC
Best Supporting Actor (Charles Melton) – CFCA, FFCC, GWNYFCA, LFCC, NSFC, NYFCC, SFCS, WAFCA
Best Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore) – NFCS
11 wins
“Godzilla Minus One”
Best International Feature – AFCA, GAFCA, LVFCS, MCFCA, SFCS
Best Visual Effects – CFCA, FFCC, NCFCA, SDFCS, SFCS, UFCA
8 wins
“American Fiction”
Best Picture – WAFCA
Best Adapted Screenplay (Cord Jefferson) – LVFCS, SFBAFCC, WAFCA
Best Screenplay – HoFCS
Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright) – SDFCS, SFBAFCC, SFCS
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.”
Best Picture – SDFCS
Best Adapted Screenplay (Kelly Fremon Craig) – COFCA, KCFCC, SDFCS, UFCA
Best Supporting Actress (Rachel McAdams) – FFCC, SDFCS
Best Supporting Performance (McAdams) – LAFCA
7 wins
“20 Days in Mariupol”
Best Documentary Feature – KCFCC (tie), LFCC, NFCS, PFCC, SFBAFCC, SFCS, TFCA
6 wins
“The Creator”
Best Visual Effects – DenFCS (tie), HIFCS, LVFCS, NFCS, PFCS, StLFCA
4 wins
“All of Us Strangers”
Best Screenplay (Andrew Haigh) – LAFCA
Best Actor (Andrew Scott) – LFCC, NSFC, UFCA
“American Symphony”
Best Documentary Feature – DFWFCA, OFCC, StLFCA (tie), WAFCA
“Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros”
Best Documentary Feature – FFCC, LAFCA, NSFC, NYFCC
3 wins
“Kokomo City”
Best Documentary Feature – CFCA, COFCA (tie), IFJA
“Maestro”
Best Original Screenplay (Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer) – LVFCS
Best Actor (Cooper) – LVFCS, NFCS
2 wins
“Fallen Leaves”
Best International Feature – NSFC, TFCA
“Ferrari”
Best Cinematography – HIFCS
Best Sound – HIFCS
“Passages”
Best Actor (Franz Rogowski) – FFCC, NYFCC
“Robot Dreams”
Best Animated Feature – NFCS, TFCA
1 win
“Afire”
Best International Feature – COFCA
“Anselm”
Best Documentary Feature – COFCA (tie)
“Asteroid City”
Best Production Design – FFCC
“BlackBerry”
Best Supporting Actor (Glenn Howerton) – NTFCA (tie)
“The Deepest Breath”
Best Documentary Feature – DFCC
“Geographies of Solitude”
Best Documentary Feature – BSFC
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3”
Best Visual Effects – DenFCS (tie)
“John Wick: Chapter 4”
Best Cinematography (Dan Laustsen) – FFCC
“Nimona”
Best Animated Feature – COFCA
“Nyad”
Best Supporting Performance (Jodie Foster) – COFCA
“The Taste of Things”
Best Cinematography (Jonathan Ricquebourg) – BSFC
“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour”
Best Documentary Feature – KCFCC (tie)
“To Kill a Tiger”
Best Documentary Feature – VFCC
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