Oppenheimer, 'The Holdovers' and 'Poor Things' Win Top Music City Film Critics’ Association 2023 Honors

The Holdovers (Seacia Pavao / Focus Features)

Oppenheimer won a record-breaking seven awards, including the top honors of Best Picture and Best Director at the Nashville-based Music City Film Critics’ Association sixth annual awards honoring the best in film for 2023.

The Holdovers received the second-most wins with four, including Best Actor for Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Best Young Actor for Dominic Sessa and the Best Screenplay award.

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things followed with three including Best Actress for Emma Stone, Poor Things and the Jim Ridley Award, named after late Scene editor-in-chief and film critic Jim Ridley. The winner was chosen from a group of six nominees by a panel of five MCFCA members who knew and worked with Ridley.

“Jim had a great affection for films with a reach that spanned tradition and invention, taking classical pathways but finding a new route through them,” Jim Ridley Award jury member and Scene critic Jason Shawhan says. “And Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things blazes its trails while making sure its ornate shoulders hold the doors open for all. Raucous, randy and resplendent in glitter and gore, Poor Things is one of the many films we wish Jim had lived to see.”

Complete list of winners of Music City Film Critics’ Association 2023 winners

Best Picture: Oppenheimer

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Actress: Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Young Actor: Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Best Young Actress: Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Best Acting Ensemble: Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Music Film: Maestro

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse