Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Named Best Picture by San Diego Film Critics Society

Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. has been named Best Picture by the San Diego Film Critics Society. The film also picked up wins for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Rachel McAdams.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

American Fiction
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer (runner-up)

Best Director

Kelly Freeman Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Greta Gerwig, Barbie (runner-up)
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor

Colman Domingo, Rustin
Zac Efron, The Iron Claw
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (runner-up)
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Actress

Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (runner-up)
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie (runner-up)
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress

Jodie Foster, Nyad
Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Julianne Moore, May December
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (runner-up)

Best Original Screenplay

Samy Burch, May December
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
David Hemingson, The Holdovers (runner-up)
Celine Song, Past Lives
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

Best Adapted Screenplay

Percival Everett and Cord Jefferson, American Fiction (runner-up)
Kelly Freeman Craig and Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, & Martin Sherwin, Oppenheimer
Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Animated Film

The Boy and the Heron
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Nimona
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (runner-up)

Best Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol (runner-up)
American Symphony
Kokomo City
Little Richard: I Am Everything (runner-up)
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Foreign Language Film

Anatomy of a Fall
Fallen Leaves
Godzilla Minus One (runner-up)
Monster
The Zone of Interest (runner-up)

Best Ensemble

Air
Barbie (runner-up)
A Haunting in Venice (runner-up)
The Holdovers
Oppenheimer

Best Comedic Performance

Michael Cera, Barbie
Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Nathan Lane, Dicks: The Musical
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things (runner-up)

Best Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto, Barbie
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer (runner-up)
Dariusz Wolski, Napoleon

Best Editing

Nick Houy, Barbie
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer (runner-up)
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Laurent Sénéchal, Anatomy of a Fall

Best Production Design

Ruth De Jong, Oppenheimer (runner-up)
Jack Fisk, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sarah Greenwood, Barbie
Arthur Max, Napoleon
James Price and Shona Heath, Poor Things

Best Costume Design

David Crossman and Janty Yates, Napoleon
Jacqueline Durran, Charlotte Finlay, & Hope Slepak, Barbie
Ellen Mirojnick, Oppenheimer
Holly Waddington, Vincent Dumas, & Zsuzsa Stenger, Poor Things (runner-up)
Jacqueline West, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Use of Music

Air (runner-up)
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Barbie
The Holdovers
Teacher

Best Sound Design

Godzilla Minus One
Teacher
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer (runner-up)
The Zone of Interest

Best Visual Effects

Godzilla Minus One
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Poor Things (runner-up)

Best Stunt Choreography

John Wick: Chapter 4
The Killer
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (runner-up)
Napoleon
Polite Society

Best First Feature (Director)

Chloe Domont, Fair Play
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, Talk to Me
A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One
Celine Song, Past Lives (runner-up)

Best Youth Performance (for a performer under the age of 18)

Joe Bird, Talk to Me
Christian Convery, Cocaine Bear
Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Jude Hill, A Haunting in Venice
Milo Machado-Graner, Anatomy of a Fall


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.