The Michigan Movie Critics Guild announced its 2023 winners awarding Barbie the honors of best picture, best director and best supporting actor for Ryan Gosling.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Holdovers, Emma Stone won Best Actress for her performance in Poor Things, and a tie for best actor between Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers and Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction. 

Other honors went to Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie for Best Documentary, American Fiction director Cord Jefferson won breakthrough of the year for his directorial debut, and Comedian Keegan-Michael Key, a Detroit native, received the group’s MMCG Award for Film Excellence. 

This year’s full list of winners and nominees is (winners in bold): 

Michigan Movie Critics Guild 2023 Winners

Best Picture

American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Past Lives
Poor Things

Best Director

Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Emma Stone – Poor Things

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Zac Efron – The Iron Claw
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers (tie)
Cillian Murphy –  Oppenheimer 
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction (tie)

Best Supporting Actress

America Ferrera – Barbie
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Julianne Moore – May December
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction
Robert DeNiro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer 
Ryan Gosling – Barbie 
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things 

Best Animated Film

The Boy and The Heron
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best Documentary

Beyond Utopia
Sly
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Ensemble

Air
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer

Best Screenplay (Adapted or Original)

American Fiction 
Anatomy of a Fall 
Barbie 
The Holdovers 
Past Lives 

Breakthrough Award

Sandra Hüller – Actress, Anatomy of a Fall
Cord Jefferson – Director, American Fiction
Greta Lee – Actress, Past Lives
Dominic Sessa – Actor, The Holdovers
Celine Song – Director/Writer Past Lives

Stunts

John Wick: Chapter 4 (tie)
The Killer
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (tie) 
Polite Society
Silent Night

The MMCG Award for Film Excellence

(presented to a filmmaker, writer, actor, crew member etc. who has Michigan ties or to a film made or set in Michigan)

Keegan-Michael Key – Actor Wonka/The Super Mario Bros. Movie /Migration 
Ashley Park – Actress, Joy Ride
Paul Schrader –  Director, Master Gardener
Lily Tomlin – Actress, 80 For Brady
J.K. Simmons – Actor, Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 
Bruce Campbell – Producer, Evil Dead Rise