My OFCS Awards Ballot (2023)

Last week, I voted on nominations for the 27th OFCS Awards. On 1/17, the OFCS announced the nominees, and I’ve tried to catch up with as many as I could in the days since.

For each category, I rank vote the films I’ve seen in the category. Here’s the ballot I submitted.

The main rule I set for myself was that I adhered to the ranked order of my nomination ballot where applicable so as not to go crazy re-litigating every category.

As with my nomination ballot, I’m not going to provide any rationale or justification for any of these selections, as I’ll have a separate “awards” post closer to the Oscars. (But I do want to specially shout out The Zone of Interest, which is an unusual and challenging work that I finished just a couple hours before the ballot was due, so I didn’t really have time to fully process it, and is subject to swing around some in my estimation.)

Best Picture

1. Asteroid City
2. May December
3. The Holdovers
4. Past Lives
5. The Zone of Interest
6. Oppenheimer
7. Anatomy of a Fall
8. Killers of the Flower Moon
9. Barbie

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Poor Things

Best Animated Feature

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• The Boy and the Heron
• Nimona
• Robot Dreams

Best Director

1. Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
2. Celine Song – Past Lives
3. Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Greta Gerwig – Barbie

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things

Best Actor

1. Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
2. Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
3. Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
• Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Actress

1. Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
2. Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Margot Robbie – Barbie
4. Greta Lee – Past Lives

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Emma Stone – Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor

1. Charles Melton – May December
2. Ryan Gosling – Barbie
3. Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
4. Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress

1. Julianne Moore – May December
2. Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
3. Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
4. Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple

Best Original Screenplay

1. May December
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Past Lives
4. The Holdovers
5. Barbie

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Oppenheimer
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Killers of the Flower Moon

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• American Fiction
• Poor Things

Best Editing

1. Oppenheimer
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Barbie
4. Killers of the Flower Moon

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Poor Things

Best Cinematography

1. Asteroid City
2. Oppenheimer
3. Barbie
4. Killers of the Flower Moon

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Poor Things

Best Original Score

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. The Zone of Interest

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Poor Things

Best Production Design

1. Asteroid City
2. Barbie
3. Oppenheimer
4. Killers of the Flower Moon

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Poor Things

Best Costume Design

1. Barbie
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Asteroid City
4. Oppenheimer

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Poor Things

Best Visual Effects

1. Oppenheimer

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• The Creator
• Godzilla Minus One
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Poor Things

Best Debut Feature

1. Celine Song – Past Lives
2. A.V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One
3. Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou – Talk to Me

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Raven Jackson – All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
• Cord Jefferson – American Fiction

Best Film Not in the English Language

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Anatomy of a Fall

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• Fallen Leaves
• Godzilla Minus One
• Perfect Days

Best Documentary

1. Beyond Utopia
2. Kokomo City
3. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
4. American Symphony

Not seen as of voting deadline:

• 20 Days in Mariupol

Technical Achievement Awards

(The nominee list for this is not public. We were required to select five entries even though I only initially nominated one.)

1. Sound Design – Oppenheimer
2. Sound Design – The Zone of Interest
3. Original Song – “What Was I Made For?” – Barbie
4. Sound Design – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Soundtrack – The Holdovers

 

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