AFI Awards 2023 Film Top 10 includes ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ ‘Maestro,’ ‘Barbie,’ ‘Poor Things,’ ‘Oppenheimer’

The AFI Awards has made its selection of the top 10 films of 2023, a list that includes the summer bl9ckbusters “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie” along with director Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the Netflix drama “May December,” the Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “”Poor Things,” Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,” “American Fiction,” “Past Lives” and the animated “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”

Over the past two decades, the AFI list is a pretty accurate indicator of how the Academy Awards category for Best Picture will look. Last year, only three movies not included in the AFI top 10 – “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Triangle of Sadness” and “The Banshees of Inisherin”- made that Oscar group.

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Among the acclaimed films that were passed over are “The Color Purple,” “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Air” and “The Zone of Interest.”

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“As our nation and our world continue to navigate difficult times, AFI is honored to shine a proper light upon these works of art that lift us up and, ultimately, lead us to empathy,” said AFI President and CEO Bob Gazzale. “That we do so without competition is AFI’s hallmark, and we are proud to gather this community of artists together – as one – to celebrate their extraordinary contributions to our time.”

The winners were selected through a jury including critics, filmmakers, artists, scholars and AFI trustees, including Gina Prince-Blythewood, Paris Barclay, Mark Harris, Leonard Maltin, Ann Hornaday, Mary McNamara, Janet Maslin and Peter Travers. The awards will be distributed during the private AFI Awards luncheon on January 12 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.

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