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The Holdovers Named Best Film by Iowa Film Critics Association

   January 17, 2024

Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers has been named Best Film by the Iowa Film Critics Association. The film also picked up wins for Best Actor for Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress to Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Best Director for Payne in a tie with Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer.

Winners and runners-up below.

Best Film
The Holdovers
Runner-up: Oppenheimer

Best Director (tie)
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers

Best Actor
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Runner-up: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Best Actress (tie)
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Best Supporting Actress
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Song
“I’m Just Ken” from Barbie
Runners-up: “Road to Freedom” from Rustin and “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie

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.