IFSCA Awards 2023-2024 | Winners

On March 1st or 2nd depending on your time zone, the International Film Society Critics Association (IFSCA / @IFSCritics on Twitter), of which I am a voting member, announced their full list of winners for their awards, which, in this case, celebrated the best in film for 2023. The most nominated films of the year were indeed the wonderful behemoth duo of Barbie and Oppenheimer, and, indeed, one of these films won the most awards here. However, there was another critical darling that took the top award. Below you can read the full list of winning films, performers, artists, and filmmakers.

BEST FIRST FEATURE
A Thousand and One
American Fiction
How to Have Sex
Talk to Me
Past Lives (WINNER)
Rye Lane

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (WINNER)
Suzume
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
The Boy and the Heron

BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Beyond Utopia
Four Daughters
Kokomo City
Still: A Michael J. Fox Story (WINNER)

BEST ACTION FILM
Godzilla: Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4 (WINNER)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One
Polite Society
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST HORROR / SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Evil Dead Rise
Godzilla: Minus One (WINNER)
Infinity Pool
M3GAN
Talk to Me
The Creator

BEST COMEDY / MUSICAL FEATURE
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Barbie (WINNER)
Bottoms
Poor Things
Rye Lane
The Holdovers

BEST STUNTS / CHOREOGRAPHY
Barbie
John Wick: Chapter 4 (WINNER)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One
Polite Society
The Iron Claw
The Killer

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things (WINNER)
Priscilla

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Asteroid City
Barbie (WINNER)
John Wick: Chapter 4
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Barbie
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things (WINNER)
Priscilla
Society of the Snow

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Godzilla: Minus One (WINNER)
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
The Creator

BEST SOUND DESIGN
Godzilla: Minus One
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One
Oppenheimer
The Killer
The Zone of Interest (WINNER)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Past Lives
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

BEST FILM EDITING
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
John Wick: Chapter 4
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Poor Things

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
John Wick: Chapter 4
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Poor Things
Saltburn
The Zone of Interest

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Am I Dreaming?” – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
“Camp Isn’t Home” – Theater Camp
“Dance The Night” – Barbie
“I’m Just Ken” – Barbie (WINNER)
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” – Killers of the Flower Moon
“What Was I Made For” – Barbie

BEST YOUNG PERFORMANCE
Abby Ryder Forston – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Arianna Greenblatt – Barbie
Calah Lane – Wonka
Milo Machado-Graner – Anatomy of a Fall (WINNER)
Madeleine Yuna Voyles – The Creator
Seung-ah Moon – Past Lives

BODY OF WORK
Ayo Edebiri
Colman Domingo
Jeffrey Wright
Lily Gladstone
Sandra Hüller (WINNER)
Willem Dafoe

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Poor Things
The Holdovers
The Iron Claw

EXCEEDING (ONE-INCH) BARRIERS
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
Godzilla: Minus One
Past Lives (WINNER)
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
All Of Us Strangers
American Fiction
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
May December
Past Lives (WINNER)
The Holdovers
The Iron Claw

BEST DIRECTOR
Celine Song – Past Lives
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Charles Melton – May December
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Jamie Bell –  All Of Us Strangers
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Ryan Gosling – Barbie

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Claire Foy – All Of Us Strangers
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (WINNER)
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Julianne Moore – May December
Rachel McAdams –  Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Andrew Scott – All Of Us Strangers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer (WINNER)
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Teo Yoo – Past Lives
Zac Efron – The Iron Claw

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon (WINNER)
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall

BEST PICTURE
All Of Us Strangers
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Past Lives (WINNER)
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Holdovers
The Zone of Interest

For detailed statistics, including the various runners-up, click here to read the critics group’s official release, which was written by Matthew Simpson.

If you are interested in which films I prefer from last year, then look out for my personal awards, which will be announced in the next week. Then you’ll be able to make an educated guess on which films I fought for in the voting process for the IFSCA Awards.

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– Article Written by Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen.