Past Lives Named Best Picture by Utah Film Critics Association

Celine Song’s Past Lives has been named Best Picture by the Utah Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture

  • The Holdovers
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Past Lives
  • Poor Things (runner-up)

Best Achievement in Directing

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

Best Lead Performance, Male

  • Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
  • Bradley Cooper, Maestro
  • Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
  • Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction (runner-up)
  • Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Best Lead Performance, Female

  • Carey Mulligan, Maestro
  • Emma Stone, Poor Things
  • Greta Lee, Past Lives (runner-up)
  • Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (runner-up)
  • Natalie Portman, May December

Best Supporting Performance, Male

  • Charles Melton, May December (runner-up)
  • Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
  • Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
  • Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
  • Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Best Supporting Performance, Female

  • America Ferrera, Barbie
  • Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
  • Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
  • Rachel McAdams, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  • Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest (runner-up)

Best Overall Performance

Emma Stone, Poor Things
Runner-up: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Ensemble Cast

  • Air
  • Barbie
  • The Holdovers (runner-up)
  • The Iron Claw
  • Oppenheimer

Vice/Martin Award for Performance in a Science-Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Film

  • Bradley Cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • Chris Pine, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  • Emma Stone, Poor Things
  • Iman Vellani, The Marvels
  • Nicolas Cage, Renfield (runner-up)

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Cinematography

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

Best Original Score

  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Past Lives
  • Poor Things (runner-up)
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse

Best Film Editing

  • Barbie
  • The Holdovers (runner-up)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer (runner-up)
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse

Best Visual Effects

  • The Creator (runner-up)
  • Godzilla Minus One
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
  • Poor Things (runner-up)
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse

Best Documentary Feature

  • 20 Days in Mariupul
  • American Symphony
  • Beyond Utopia
  • The Mission (runner-up)
  • Still: The Michael J. Fox Story

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Non-English Feature

  • Anatomy of a Fall
  • Godzilla Minus One (runner-up)
  • Society of the Snow
  • The Taste of Things
  • The Zone of Interest

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.