Oppenheimer Named Best Picture by Georgia Film Critics Association

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has been named Best Picture by the Georgia Film Critics Association. The film won seven awards in total, including Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., and Best Ensemble.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

American Fiction
Barbie
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives (runner-up)
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Director

Greta Gerwig, Barbie (runner-up)
Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon (runner-up)
Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction (runner-up)

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Emma Stone, Poor Things (runner-up)

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Glenn Howerton, BlackBerry
Charles Melton, May December (runner-up)

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer (runner-up)
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Penélope Cruz, Ferrari
Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Original Screenplay

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Kristoffer Borgli, Dream Scenario
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Samy Burch, May December
Celine Song, Past Lives (runner-up)

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Animated Film

The Boy and the Heron (runner-up)
Elemental
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Documentary

Beyond Utopia (runner-up)
Four Daughters
The Mission
The Pigeon Tunnel
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best International Film

Anatomy of a Fall (runner-up)
The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One
Perfect Days
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest

Best Ensemble

American Fiction
Asteroid City
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers (runner-up)
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer

Breakthrough Award

Ayo Edebiri (runner-up)
Abby Ryder Fortson
Charles Melton (runner-up)
Dominic Sessa
Celine Song

Best Cinematography

Jomo Fray, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon (runner-up)
Matthew Libatique, Maestro
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things

Best Production Design

Adam Stockhausen and Kris Moran, Asteroid City
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie
James Clyne, Chris DiPaola, Matt Sims, & Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat, The Creator
Jack Fisk and Adam Willis, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruth De Jong and Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer
James Price, Shona Heath, & Szusza Mihalek, Poor Things (runner-up)

Best Original Score

Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (runner-up)
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest

Best Original Song

“Am I Dreaming” from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
“I’m Just Ken” from Barbie (runner-up)
“Peaches” from The Super Mario Bros. Movie
“Quiet Eyes” from Past Lives
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie

Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema

Blue Beetle
Chipper (short)
The Color Purple
Creed III
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
May December
Origin (runner-up)
She Watches Blindly
They Cloned Tyrone
This World Is Not My Own

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.