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American Fiction Named Best Feature by Washington DC Area Film Critics Association

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction has been named Best Feature at the 2023 WAFCA Awards from the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association. The film also won Best Adapted Screenplay. Elsewhere, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer picked up six awards including Best Director and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy.

Winners in bold below.

Best Feature

American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer
Past Lives

Best Director

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

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Actress

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Viola Davis, Air
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Original Screenplay

Alex Convery, Air
Justin Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Ava DuVernay, Origin
Tony McNamara, Poor Things

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol
American Symphony
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
They Shot the Piano Player

Best International/Foreign Language Film

Anatomy of a Fall (France)
Perfect Days (Japan)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
The Taste of Things (France)
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Best Voice Performance

Jack Black, The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Daniel Kaluuya, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Masaki Suda, The Boy and the Heron

Best Youth Performance

Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Ariana Greenblatt, Barbie
Milo Machado-Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
Iman Vellani, The Marvels

Best Acting Ensemble

American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer

Best Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto, Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things

Best Editing

Nick Houy, Barbie
Nathan Orloff, John Wick: Chapter 4
Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Michelle Tesoro, Maestro
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer

Best Production Design

Asteroid City – Adam Stockhausen (production designer), Kris Moran (set decorator)
Barbie – Sarah Greenwood (production designer), Katie Spencer (set decorator)
Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk (production designer), Adam Willis (set decorator)
Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong (production designer), Claire Kaufman (set decorator)
Poor Things – Shona Heath, James Price (production designer), Zsuzsa Mihalek (set decorator)

Best Original Score

Kris Bowers, The Color Purple
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon

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