The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) is pleased to announce its winners for the 12th annual awards for achievements in film with a record-breaking year. Four films were recognized in multiple categories; Oppenheimer was honored with 10 awards, Barbie earned five honors, and The Holdovers and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse each gained two wins from the NCFCA.
Oppenheimer garnered accolades for narrative film, director, cinematography, actor, supporting actor, acting ensemble, adapted screenplay, editing, score, and sound design. Ten wins is the most for any film in the history of the North Carolina Film Critics Association Best of Cinema annual honors, preceded only by last year’s Everything Everywhere All at Once earning nine.
The cultural phenomenon and box-office champ of 2023 (with $1.4 billion worldwide) Barbie received awards in original screenplay, costume design, production design, hair and makeup, and original song.
The NCFCA consists of 72 film critics living and/or working in North Carolina.
The full list of winners is below in the following categories:
BEST NARRATIVE FILM
Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (winner)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (winner)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Anatomy of a Fall (winner)
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Hoyte Van Hoytema – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST ACTOR
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST ACTRESS
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon (winner)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (winner)
BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATION OR MIXED MEDIA
Daniel Kaluuya – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (winner)
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach – Barbie (winner)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST EDITING
Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Kiyoko Shibuya – Godzilla Minus One (winner)
BEST STUNT COORDINATION
Scott Rogers and Stephen Dunlevy, stunt coordinators – John Wick: Chapter 4 (winner)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran – Barbie (winner)
BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP
Ivana Primorac – Barbie (winner)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Sarah Greenwood – Barbie (winner)
BEST SCORE
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt – “I’m Just Ken” – Barbie (winner)
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Richard King, Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor – Oppenheimer (winner)
BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Celine Song – Past Lives (winner)
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers (winner)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Make-Up Artist
Rick Baker (winner)
KEN HANKE MEMORIAL TAR HEEL AWARD
Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple (winner)
Films with Multiple Wins:
Oppenheimer – 10
Barbie – 5
The Holdovers – 2
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – 2
Films with Multiple Nominations:
Oppenheimer – 15
Barbie -14
Killers of the Flower Moon – 11
Poor Things – 11
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – 9
Past Lives – 7
The Holdovers – 6
American Fiction – 4
Anatomy of a Fall – 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 – 4
May December – 4
Godzilla Minus One – 3
The Color Purple – 3
The Zone of Interest – 3
All of Us Strangers – 2
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – 2
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – 2
Asteroid City – 2
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – 2
The Killer – 2
May the Lord Watch:The Little Brother Story – 2
Nimona – 2
