21st Columbus Critics Nominations

There are four films that seem to be dominating this season and all are in the most-nominated bracket from 11 to 9 nominations here. Nothing surprising other than the group’s inability to limit itself to 5 or 10 nominees in every category.

Nominations Tallies

(11) Killers of the Flower Moon
(10) Oppenheimer, Poor Things
(9) Barbie
(7) American Fiction, The Holdovers
(5) Asteroid City, May December, Past Lives
(3) Anatomy of a Fall, The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla Minus One, The Iron Claw, Maestro, Rustin, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Zone of Interest
(2) BlackBerry, The Color Purple, You Hurt My Feelings
(1) 20 Days in Mariupol, 32 Sounds, Afire, Air, All of Us Strangers, American Symphony, Anselm, Bottoms, Elemental, Ferrari, Inside, The Killer, Kokomo City, Nimona, No Hard Feelings, Nyad, Perfect Days, Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken, Rye Lane, Showing Up, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Theater Camp, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

The Nominations

Best Film

American Fiction
Barbie
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers
The Iron Claw
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

Best Animated Film

The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Director

Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song – Past Lives

Best Lead Performance

Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Zac Efron – The Iron Claw
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Supporting Performance

Penélope Cruz – Ferrari
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry
Charles Melton – May December
Julianne Moore – May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

Best Original Screenplay

Anatomy of a Fall
Asteroid City
Barbie
The Holdovers
The Iron Claw
May December
Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay

American Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Score

American Fiction
Godzilla Minus One
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Film Editing

Barbie
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Cinematography

Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Foreign Language Film

Afire
Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One
Perfect Days
The Zone of Interest

Best Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol
32 Sounds
American Symphony
Anselm
Kokomo City
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Breakthrough Film Artist

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Charles Melton – May December
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Celine Song – Past Lives

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

.Willem Dafoe – Asteroid City, The Boy and the Heron, Inside, Poor Things
.Matt Damon – Air, Oppenheimer
.Colman Domingo – The Color Purple: Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken, Rustin, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
.Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest
.Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction, Asteroid City, Rustin