“Killers of the Flower Moon” Best Film of 2023

The New York Film Critics Circle is the North American critics’ guild that inaugurates the official season of awards granted by the different associations of chroniclers and reporters specialized in cinema. Awards have been awarded since 1935; this year, they have reached their 89th edition. The most anticipated award, best film, has gone to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the thriller denouncing the massacre suffered by the Indians of the Osage Nation in the 1920s and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and  Lily Gladstone (from First Cow ).

Scorsese’s Apple Studios production, in our cinemas since last October 20, has been honored with two awards and Best Film for its actress Lily Gladstone. The same two awards that last year’s winner, Tar by Todd Fied, with Cate Blanchet as the protagonist, won.

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Another of the big winners was Christopher Nolan for his work on Oppenheimer. This film also won the award for best photography.

With two awards, Best Script and Best Supporting Actor for Charles Melton, Secrets of a Scandal by Todd Haynes, starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, has also been considered.

And without further ado, let’s go with the complete list of the best of 2023, according to the New York Film Critics Circle.

Best film:  ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ by Martin Scorsese

Best Director: Christopher Nolan for ‘Oppenheimer’

Best Actress: Lily Gladstone for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

Best Actor:  Franz Rogowski for ‘Passages’

Best Supporting Actress:  Da’Vine Joy Randolph for ‘The Holdovers’

Best Supporting Actor: Charles Melton for ‘Secrets of a Scandal’

Best Screenplay: ‘Secrets of a Scandal’

Best Cinematography: ‘Oppenheimer’

Best First Feature: ‘Past Lives’ by Celine Song

Best International Film: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ by Justine Triet

Best Animated Film: ‘The Boy and the Heron’ by Hayao Miyazaki

Best Non-Fiction Film: ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros’ by Frederick Wiseman.

Special award: for Karen Cooper for her five decades as director at the head of Film Forum (a non-profit cinema in Manhattan).

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