Past Lives Named Best Picture by Seattle Film Critics Society

Celine Song’s Past Lives has been named Best Picture by the Seattle Film Critics Society. Elsewhere, Martin Scorsese was named Best Director for Killers of the Flower Moon and The Holdovers scored Best Ensemble Cast, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

Best Director

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

Best Actor

Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Kôji Yakusho, Perfect Days

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 Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress

Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Penélope Cruz, Ferrari
Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Screenplay

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Samy Burch, May December
Celine Song, Past Lives
Tony McNamara, Poor Things

Best Animated Feature

The Boy and the Heron
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Documentary

20 Days in Mariupol
Beyond Utopia
Even Hell Has Its Heroes
Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best International Film

Anatomy of a Fall
The Boy and the Heron
Godzilla Minus One
Monster
The Zone of Interest

Best Ensemble Cast

Asteroid City
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer

Best Cinematography

Greig Fraser and Oren Soffer, The Creator
Rodrigo Prieto, Killers of the Flower Moon
Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Robbie Ryan, Poor Things
Łukasz Żal, The Zone of Interest

Best Film Editing

Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Keith Fraase, Past Lives
Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Poor Things
Michael Andrews, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie
Jack Fisk, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruth De Jong and Claire Kaufman, Oppenheimer
Shona Heath and James Price, Poor Things
Nathan Crowley and Harry Bielanski, Wonka

Best Costume Design

Jacqueline Durran, Barbie
Jacqueline West, Killers of the Flower Moon
Janty Yates and David Crossman, Napoleon
Holly Waddington, Poor Things
Stacey Battat, Priscilla

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
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest

Best Visual Effects

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Action Choreography

Godzilla Minus One
The Iron Claw
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Sisu

Best Youth Performance

Amie Donald, M3gan
Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Milo Machado Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
Ariana Greenblatt, Barbie
Sōya Kurokawa, Monster

Villain of the Year

Gabi Bauer, Infinity Pool (Mia Goth)
Godzilla, Godzilla Minus One
the Patriarchy, Barbie
M3gan, M3gan (Jenna Davis and Amie Donal)
William “King” Hale, Killers of the Flower Moon (Robert De Niro)

Achievement in Pacific Northwest Filmmaking

Bill Pohlad, Dreamin’ Wild
Clyde Petersen, Even Hell Has Its Heroes
David Norman Lewis and Noah Zoltan Sofian, Fantasy A Gets a Mattress
Irene Lusztig, Richland
Kelly Reichardt, Showing Up


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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.