Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer Lead Austin Film Critics Association Nominations

Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer lead this year’s nominations from the Austin Film Critics Association with 10 nods each including Best Picture. Elsewhere, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things scored nine nominations.

Full list of nominations below. Winners will be announced on January 10.

Best Picture

  • American Fiction
  • Barbie
  • Godzilla Minus One
  • The Holdovers
  • The Iron Claw
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Past Lives
  • Poor Things
  • Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Best Director

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

Best Actress

  • Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
  • Greta Lee, Past Lives
  • Margot Robbie, Barbie
  • Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Actor

  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
  • Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
  • Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
  • Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Supporting Actor

  • Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
  • Ryan Gosling, Barbie
  • Charles Melton, May December
  • Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress

  • Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
  • Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
  • Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
  • Julianne Moore, May December
  • Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Ensemble

  • Asteroid City
  • Barbie
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Poor Things

Best Original Screenplay

  • Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, May December
  • Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
  • David Hemingson, The Holdovers
  • Celine Song, Past Lives
  • Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
  • Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
  • Tony McNamara, Poor Things
  • Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
  • Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Cinematography

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

Best Editing

  • Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
  • Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
  • Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Kevin Tent, The Holdovers
  • Michelle Tesoro, Maestro

Best Original Score

  • Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
  • Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
  • Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie

Best International Film

  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Godzilla Minus One
  • The Taste of Things
  • The Zone of Interest

Best Documentary

  • 20 Days in Mariupol
  • Beyond Utopia
  • Four Daughters
  • Little Richard: I Am Everything
  • Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Animated Film

  • The Boy and the Heron
  • Elemental
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
  • Suzume
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance

  • Bradley Cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • Ayo Edebiri, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem
  • Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Chloë Grace Moretz, Nimona
  • Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Stunt Coordinator

  • Stephen Dunlevy & Scott Rogers, John Wick Chapter 4
  • Wade Eastwood, Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning
  • Chavo Guerrero, Jr., The Iron Claw
  • Crispin Layfield, Polite Society
  • Noon Orsatti, Extraction 2

Best First Film

  • Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane
  • Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
  • Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou, Talk To Me
  • A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand And One
  • Celine Song, Past Lives

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award

  • Ayo Edebiri, Bottoms, Theater Camp, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem
  • Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Unknown Country, Fancy Dance, Quantum Cowboys
  • Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
  • Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
  • Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Austin Film

  • Milli Vanilli (dir. Luke Korem)
  • The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon (dir. Matt Eskey)
  • Sorry About the Demon (dir. Emily Hagins)
  • Thirst (dir. Eric Owen)
  • When You Get to the Forest (dir. Eric Power)


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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.