Barbie Declared Best Picture by Hawaii Film Critics Society

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie has been declared Best Picture by the Hawaii Film Critics Society. The film also picked up wins for Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, Best Art Direction, and Best Song for “What Was I Made For?”

Winners in bold below.

BEST PICTURE

American Fiction

Barbie

Ferrari

Poor Things

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST DIRECTOR

Bradley Cooper, Maestro

Greta Gerwig, Barbie

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things

Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

BEST ACTOR

Bradley Cooper, Maestro

Adam Driver, Ferrari

Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

BEST ACTRESS

Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Greta Lee, Past Lives

Carey Mulligan, Maestro

Margot Robbie, Barbie

Emma Stone, Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Robert DeNiro, Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr. Oppenheimer

Ryan Gosling, Barbie

John Magaro, Past Lives

Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Penelope Cruz, Ferrari

Viola Davis, Air

Jodie Foster, Nyad

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Barbie

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

Maestro

Past Lives

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

American Fiction

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Ferrari

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

BEST ART DIRECTION

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Napoleon

Poor Things

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Barbie

Ferrari

Killers of the Flower Moon

Napoleon

Poor Things

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Barbie

Ferrari

Maestro

Poor Things

Oppenheimer

BEST EDITING

Barbie

Ferrari

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

BEST ANIMATED FILM

The Boy and the Heron

Elemental

Robot Dreams

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Albert Brooks: Defending Your Life

American Symphony

Four Daughters

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

BEST MAKE-UP

Ferrari

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Poor Things

BEST SOUND

Ferrari

Maestro

Napoleon

Oppenheimer

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

American Fiction

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST SONG

“Dance the Night” (Barbie)

“I’m Just Ken” (Barbie)

“What Was I Made For?” (Barbie)

“Road to Freedom” (Rustin)

“Peaches” (The Super Mario Bros. Movie)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Creator

Godzilla Minus One

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Poor Things

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST STUNT WORK

Extraction 2

The Iron Claw

John Wick: Chapter 4

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Silent Night

BEST NEW FILMMAKER

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Adele Lim, Joy Ride

Danny & Michael Philippou, Talk to Me

A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One

Celine Song, Past Lives

BEST FIRST FILM

American Fiction

Joy Ride

Past Lives

Talk to Me

A Thousand and One

BEST OVERLOOKED FILM

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

A Thousand and One

Joy Ride

Shortcomings

They Cloned Tyrone

BEST VOCAL/MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE

Jack Black, The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Bradley Cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

Kumail Nanjiani, Migration

Robert Pattinson, The Boy and the Heron

Jason Schwartzman, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

BEST HORROR FILM

Evil Dead Rise

Godzilla Minus One

M3GAN

Talk to Me

Totally Killer

BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

The Marvels

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

BEST SCI-FI FILM

The Creator

Godzilla Minus One

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

The Marvels

Robot Dreams

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Anatomy of a Fall (France)

Godzilla Minus One (Japan)

The Taste of Things (France)

The Three Musketeers:- Part I: D’Artagnan (France)

The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

BEST HAWAIIAN FILM

Decade of the Dead, dir. Adam Deyoe, Fairai Richmond

Hokulea: Finding the Language of the Navigator, dir. Ty Sanga

Growing Up Local, dir. James Sereno

My Partner, dir. Keli’I Grace

Uncle Bully’s Surf School, dir. Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday

WORST FILM OF 2023

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80 for Brady

Ant-Man and the Wasp in Quantum Mania

The Flash

Meg 2: The Trench

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.