Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things was voted Best Film of 2023 by the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle at their seventh annual year-end awards. Poor Things also won for Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Script (Tony McNamara), and Best Actress (Emma Stone.)

Oppenheimer won five awards including Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey, Jr.), Best Ensemble, Best Cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema), and Best Soundtrack/Score (Ludwig Göransson).

Other top awards went to The Boy and the Heron, by Hayao Miyazaki winner of both Best Animated Film and Best Foreign Language Film; Best Documentary went to 20 Days in Mariupol; Celine Song, for Past Lives, for Best Directorial Debut; and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, for The Holdovers, for Best Supporting Actress.

In addition, the Circle presented its Elaine May Award, for a deserving person or film that brings awareness to a story from women’s perspective, to Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig

Full list of winners of Philadelphia Film Critics Circle 2023 Awards:

Best Film: Poor Things (Runner-up: Oppenheimer)

Philip’s Steaks Cheesesteak Award: Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part One (Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One)

Best Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things (Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer)

Best Actress: Emma Stone, Poor Things (Runner-up: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Actor: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (Runner-up: Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction)

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Runner-up: Julianne Moore, May December)

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer (Runner-up: Charles Melton, May December)

Best Foreign Film: The Boy and the Heron (Runner-up: Anatomy of a Fall)

Best Animated Film: The Boy and the Heron (Runner-up: Robot Dreams)

Best Documentary: 20 Days in Mariupol (Runner-up: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie)

Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer (Runner-up: Poor Things)

Best Breakthrough Performance: Charles Melton, May December (Runner-up: Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.)

Best Directorial Debut: Celine Song, Past Lives (Runner-up: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction)

Best Script: Tony McNamara, Poor Things (Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer)

Best Score/Soundtrack: Oppenheimer (Runner-up: Poor Things)

Best Ensemble: Oppenheimer (Runner-up: Poor Things)