My OFCS Nominating Ballot (2023)

As part of my OFCS selection, I get to submit both nominations and voting ballots for their annual awards.

For nominations I get to rank order five selections in every category, except Best Picture, where I get to select ten.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of well-reviewed films I haven’t had a chance to see yet. Some of them I just haven’t found time for, but several are not yet on streaming, a few never even playing in a theater near me. I’m not going to name drop every one I haven’t seen yet that I suspect would contend for a spot in one of these nominations (but feel free to ask or check out my Letterboxd). So it should go without saying that these are my picks of what I’ve seen, and I’ll try to see every actual nominee once those are announced by OFCS on 1/17.

I’ll expand, update, and justify these picks when I do my annual edition of The B.A.D.S. around Oscar time.

(Note: For movie-wide awards, I required that the film get at least a “Good” from me to be included, and if I didn’t have enough qualified films to fill a category, I left the remaining spaces open. As you’ll see, this left a couple embarrassingly barren. Awards for specific achievement within a film did not require a minimum rating.)

Best Picture

1. Asteroid City
2. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
3. May December
4. Falcon Lake
5. The Holdovers
6. Past Lives
7. Oppenheimer
8. Saltburn
9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
10. Prom Pact

Best Animated Feature

1. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
3. Trolls Band Together

Best Director

1. Wes Anderson – Asteroid City
2. Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
3. Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake
4. Todd Haynes – May December
5. Ira Sachs – Passages

Best Lead Actor

1. Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
2. Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
3. Michael Cera – The Adults
4. Tee Yeo – Past Lives
5. Jay Baruchel – BlackBerry

Best Lead Actress

1. Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla
2. Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
3. Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Julianne Moore – When You Finish Saving the World
5. Margot Robbie – Barbie

Best Supporting Actor

1. Charles Melton – May December
2. John Magaro – Past Lives
3. Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
4. Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry
5. Jimmy Tatro – Theater Camp

Best Supporting Actress

1. Mia Goth – Infinity Pool
2. Julianne Moore – May December
3. Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
4. Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
5. Adèle Exarchopoulos – Passages

Best Original Screenplay

Note: I missed including The Holdovers on this list. It would have been #5.

1. May December
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Past Lives
4. Asteroid City
5. Saltburn

Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
2. Oppenheimer
3. BlackBerry
4. Priscilla
5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Best Editing

1. Oppenheimer
2. May December
3. Asteroid City
4. Infinity Pool
5. The Slumber Party

Best Cinematography

1. Asteroid City
2. Oppenheimer
3. Saltburn
4. The Holdovers
5. Priscilla

Best Original Score

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Past Lives
4. Asteroid City
5. The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Best Production Design

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

Best Costume Design

1. Barbie
2. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
3. Priscilla
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Maestro

Best Visual Effects

1. Oppenheimer
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
4. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
5. Beau is Afraid

Best Debut Feature

(Achievement in Writing and/or Direction)

1. Charlotte Le Bon – Falcon Lake
2. Celine Song – Past Lives
3. Samy Burch – May December
4. Jesse Eisenberg – When You Finish Saving the World
5. Tina Satter – Reality

Best Film Not in the English Language

(Less than 25% English)

1. Falcon Lake

Best Documentary

1. Wham!

Other Technical Achievement

• Oppenheimer – Sound Design

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