Oppenheimer Named Best Picture by Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Christoper Nolan’s Oppenheimer has been named Best Film by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle. The film picked up six wins in total including Best Director, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy in a tie with Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers), Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., and Best Cinematography.

Winners and runners-up below.

Best Film

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner up: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Director

Winner: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Runner up: Greta Gerwig – Barbie

Best Actor (tie)

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Best Actress

Winner: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Runner up: Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Runner up: Ryan Gosling – Barbie

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Runner up: Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Best Original Screenplay

Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay

Winner: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Runner up: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Cinematography

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner up: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Original Score

Winner: Oppenheimer
Runner up: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Animated Feature

Winner: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Runner up: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Foreign Language Film

Winner: Anatomy of a Fall
Runner up: The Zone of Interest

Best Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

The Vince Hoehler Award for Best Sci-Fi Horror

Winner: Godzilla Minus One
Runner up: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The Tom Poe Award for Best LGBTQ Film

Winner: All of Us Strangers
Runner up: Maestro


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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.