# San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2023

22nd SFBAFCC Awards
January 9, 2024
Best Picture: Oppenheimer
Best Animated Feature: The Boy and the Heron
Best Documentary Feature: 20 Days in Mariupol
Best International Feature Film: The Zone of Interest
The 22nd San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2023, were given on January 9, 2024. The nominations were announced on January 5, 2024, with Oppenheimer leading the nominations with ten. The film also received the most awards with three wins, including Best Picture; The Zone of Interest also won three awards, including Best Director (Jonathan Glazer) and Best International Feature Film.

## Winners and nominees

These are the nominees for the 22nd SFFCC Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list:
| Best Picture | Best Director |
| Oppenheimer Killers of the Flower Moon Past Lives Poor Things The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest Greta Gerwig – Barbie Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon Celine Song – Past Lives |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison Bradley Cooper – Maestro as Leonard Bernstein Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers as Paul Hunham Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers as Paul | Emma Stone – Poor Things as Bella Baxter Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon as Mollie Burkhart Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall as Sandra Voyter Greta Lee – Past Lives as Nora Moon Margot Robbie – Barbie as Barbie |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction as Clifford "Cliff" Ellison Ryan Gosling – Barbie as Ken Charles Melton – May December as Joe Yoo Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things as Duncan Wedderburn | Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers as Mary Lamb Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer as Kitty Oppenheimer Jodie Foster – Nyad as Bonnie Stoll Sandra Hüller – The Zone of Interest as Hedwig Höss Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. as Barbara Simon |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Original Screenplay |
| Cord Jefferson – American Fiction Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Tony McNamara – Poor Things | Celine Song – Past Lives Samy Burch – May December Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach – Barbie David Hemingson – The Holdovers Justine Triet and Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall |
| Best Animated Feature | Best Documentary Feature |
| The Boy and the Heron Elemental Nimona Robot Dreams Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | 20 Days in Mariupol American Symphony Beyond Utopia Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie |
| Best International Feature Film | Best Cinematography |
| The Zone of Interest Anatomy of a Fall Fallen Leaves Perfect Days The Taste of Things | Hoyte van Hoytema – Oppenheimer Rodrigo Prieto – Barbie Rodrigo Prieto – Killers of the Flower Moon Robbie Ryan – Poor Things Łukasz Żal – The Zone of Interest |
| Best Film Editing | Best Original Score |
| Paul Watts – The Zone of Interest Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer Yorgos Mavropsaridis – Poor Things Thelma Schoonmaker – Killers of the Flower Moon Laurent Sénéchal – Anatomy of a Fall | Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon Jerskin Fendrix – Poor Things Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer Mica Levi – The Zone of Interest Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse |
| Best Production Design ||
| Sarah Greenwood – Barbie Ruth De Jong – Oppenheimer Jack Fisk – Killers of the Flower Moon James Price, Shona Heath, and Zsuzsa Mihalek – Poor Things Adam Stockhausen – Asteroid City ||

## Special awards
### Special Citation for Independent Cinema

* Earth Mama / Fremont (TIE)
** The Blue Caftan

### Marlon Riggs Award

* H.P. Mendoza
   "For being such a Bay Area force and being a beacon of creativity, inspiration and expression. His last film attests to his versatility and his deft comedic hand. It's been quite a year for the San Francisco native. First, he transformed his 2021 art installation, Attack! Decay! Release!, into a moving, raucous multimedia extravaganza melding a feature film with live performance. Then, he premiered his latest feature, The Secret Art of Human Flight, at Tribeca, and toured with it on the festival circuit through the rest of year, collecting awards along the way. His first film not made from his own script, it never the less continues his ongoing exploration of the ties that bind."