The Holdovers Declared Best Film by Boston Society of Film Critics

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers been named Best Film by the Boston Society of Film Critics. The film also picked up wins for Best Actor for Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Rudolph, and Best Original Screenplay. Full list of winners below.

Best Film

The Holdovers
Runners-up: The Zone of Interest, May December

Best Director

Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest

Runners-up: Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer, Todd Haynes – May December

Best Ensemble

Oppenheimer
Runners-up: Asteroid City, The Iron Claw, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor

Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Runners-up: Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer, Kōji Yakusho – Perfect Days

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Runners-up: Emma Stone – Poor Things, Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall, Natalie Portman – May December

Best Supporting Actor

Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Runners-up: Charles Melton – May December, Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things, Robert Downey Jr. –Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers

Best Original Screenplay

David Hemingson – The Holdovers
Runners-up: Samy Burch – May December, Nicole Holofcener – You Hurt My Feelings

Best Adapted Screenplay

Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest
Runners-up: Kelly Fremon Craig – Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best New Filmmaker

Celine Song – Past Lives
Runners-up: Cord Jefferson – American Fiction, A.V. Rockwell – A Thousand and One

Best Documentary

Geographies of Solitude
Runners-up: 20 Days in Mariupol, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Kokomo City, Menus-Plaisirs les Troisgros

Best Animated Film

The Boy and the Heron
Runners-up: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Robot Dreams, The Peasants

Best Cinematography

Jonathan Ricquebourg – The Taste of Things
Runners-up: Robbie Ryan – Poor Things, Robert Yeoman – Asteroid City

Best Editing (tie)

Thelma Schoonmaker – Killers of the Flower Moon
Runner-up: Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer

Best Score

Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon
Runner-up: Mica Levi – The Zone of Interest


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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.