Oppenheimer Named Best Film by St Louis Film Critics Association

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has been named Best Film by the St. Louis Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Music Score.

Winners in bold below.

BEST FILM

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Barbie (runner-up)

Oppenheimer

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

May December

Past Lives

The Zone of Interest

BEST DIRECTOR

Greta Gerwig – Barbie (runner-up)

Todd Haynes – May December

Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Celine Song – Past Lives

BEST ACTOR

Bradley Cooper – Maestro

Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers (runner-up)

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

BEST ACTRESS

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

Greta Lee – Past Lives

Natalie Portman – May December

Margot Robbie – Barbie (runner-up)

Emma Stone – Poor Things

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer (runner-up)

Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Glenn Howerton – BlackBerry

Charles Melton – May December (runner-up)

Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer

Viola Davis – Air

Rachel McAdams – 
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret (runner-up)

Julianne Moore – May December

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

BEST ENSEMBLE

Asteroid City

Barbie (runner-up)

The Holdovers

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer (runner-up)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

American Fiction (runner-up)

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

The Zone of Interest

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Air

Barbie

Anatomy of a Fall

The Holdovers (runner-up)

Past Lives

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Asteroid City (runner-up)

Killers of the Flower Moon (runner-up)

Maestro

Oppenheimer

The Zone of Interest (runner-up)

BEST EDITING

The Holdovers

The Killer (runner-up)

Killers of the Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

The Zone of Interest

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Asteroid City

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Poor Things (runner-up)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Barbie

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Poor Things (runner-up)

Priscilla

BEST MUSIC SCORE

Killers of the Flower Moon (runner-up)

May December (runner-up)

Oppenheimer

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

The Zone of Interest

BEST MUSIC SOUNDTRACK

Air

Barbie

The Holdovers

The Killer (runner-up)

Maestro

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

The Creator

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Godzilla Minus One

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Oppenheimer (runner-up)

BEST STUNTS

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

The Iron Claw

John Wick: Chapter 4 (runner-up)

The Killer

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Anatomy of a Fall

Fallen Leaves

Perfect Days

The Teachers’ Lounge

The Zone of Interest (runner-up)

BEST ACTION MOVIE (tie)

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny

John Wick: Chapter 4

The Killer

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Boy and the Heron (runner-up)

Elemental

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Robot Dreams

Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

BEST COMEDY

American Fiction

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret

Barbie (runner-up)

Bottoms

The Holdovers

BEST DOCUMENTARY (tie)

American Symphony

Beyond Utopia

It Ain’t Over

Menus Plaisirs Les Troisgros

Still A Michael J. Fox Movie

BEST HORROR

Evil Dead Rise

Knock at the Cabin

M3GAN

Talk to Me

Skinamarink (runner-up)

BEST SCENE

Barbie – Gloria (America Ferrara)’s monologue on impossible standards for women

John Wick: Chapter 4 – Staircase Fight (runner-up)

Killers of the Flower Moon – The radio show finale

Maestro – Leonard Bernstein conducting London Symphony in Mahler’s Second Symphony in Ely Cathedral

Oppenheimer – Trinity Test


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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.