Poor Things Named Best Film by Philadelphia Film Critics Circle

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things has been named Best Film by the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle. The film also won Best Director, Best Actress for Emma Stone, and Best Screenplay.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Film

Winner: Poor Things

Runner-Up: Oppenheimer

Best Director

Winner: Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things

Runner-Up: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

Best Actress

Winner: Emma Stone – Poor Things

Runner-Up: Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon

​Best Actor

Winner: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer

Runner-Up: Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

​Runner-Up: Julianne Moore – May December

​Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer

Runner-Up: Charles Melton – May December

Best Animated Film

Winner: The Boy And The Heron

Runner-Up: Robot Dreams

​Best Foreign Film

Winner: The Boy And The Heron

Runner-Up: Anatomy Of A Fall

Best Documentary

Winner: 20 Days In Mariupol

Runner-Up: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Cinematography

Winner: Oppenheimer

Runner-Up: Poor Things

Best Breakthrough Performance

Winner: Charles Melton – May December

Runner-Up: Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret

Best Directorial Debut

Winner: Celine Song – Past Lives

Runner-Up: Cord Jefferson – American Fiction

Best Screenplay

Winner: Poor Things

Runner-Up: Oppenheimer

Best Score/Soundtrack

Winner: Oppenheimer

Runner-Up: Poor Things

Best Ensemble

Winner: Oppenheimer

Runner-Up: Poor Things

Cheesesteak Award – for a film meant to recognize a blockbuster that’s hard to ignore

Winner: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Runner-Up: Godzilla Minus One


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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.