St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2023

Best Film

• Oppenheimer
  • Runner-up: Barbie
    • American Fiction
    • Anatomy of a Fall
    • The Holdovers
    • Killers of the Flower Moon
    • Maestro
    • May December
    • Past Lives
    • The Zone of Interest

Best Actor

• Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Runner-up: Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers as Paul Hunham
    • Bradley Cooper – Maestro as Leonard Bernstein
    • Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon as Ernest Burkhart
    • Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction as Thelonious "Monk" Ellison

Best Supporting Actor

• Ryan Gosling – Barbie as Ken
  • Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer as Lewis Strauss (TIE)
  • Runner-up: Charles Melton – May December as Joe Yoo (TIE)
    • Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction as Clifford "Cliff" Ellison
    • Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers as Angus Tully

Best Original Screenplay

• Barbie – Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
  • Runner-up: The Holdovers – David Hemingson
    • Air – Alex Convery
    • Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
    • Past Lives – Celine Song

Best Animated Film

• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  • Runner-up: The Boy and the Heron
    • Elemental
    • Robot Dreams
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Best International Film

• Anatomy of a Fall • France
  • Runner-up: The Zone of Interest • United Kingdom
    • Fallen Leaves • Finland
    • Perfect Days • Japan
    • The Teachers' Lounge • Germany

Best Cinematography

• Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema
  • Runner-up: Asteroid City – Robert Yeoman (TIE)
  • Runner-up: Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto (TIE)
    • Maestro – Matthew Libatique
    • The Zone of Interest – Łukasz Żal

Best Costume Design

• Barbie – Jacqueline Durran
  • Runner-up: Poor Things – Holly Waddington
    • Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West and Julie O'Keefe
    • Oppenheimer – Ellen Mirojnick
    • Priscilla – Stacey Battat

Best Score

• Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson
  • Runner-up: Killers of the Flower Moon – Robbie Robertson (TIE)
  • Runner-up: May December – Marcelo Zarvos (TIE)
    • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Daniel Pemberton
    • The Zone of Interest – Mica Levi

Best Visual Effects

• The Creator – Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Neil Corbould, and Andrew Roberts
  • Runner-up: Oppenheimer – Dave Drzewiecki, Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson, and Giacomo Mineo
    • Godzilla Minus One – Takashi Yamazaki
    • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 – Teho Bialek, Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, and Guy Williams
    • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Simone Coco, Neil Corbould, Jeff Sutherland, and Alex Wuttke

Best Comedy Film

• The Holdovers
  • Runner-up: Barbie
    • American Fiction
    • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    • Bottoms

Best Scene

• Barbie – Gloria's monologue on the impossible standards set for women
  • Runner-up: John Wick: Chapter 4 – Fight on the 222 steps leading up to the Sacré-Cœur Basilica in Paris
    • Killers of the Flower Moon – Radio show finale
    • Maestro – Leonard Bernstein conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 at Ely Cathedral
    • Oppenheimer – Trinity test

Best Director

• Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
  • Runner-up: Greta Gerwig – Barbie
    • Todd Haynes – May December
    • Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
    • Celine Song – Past Lives

Best Actress

• Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon as Mollie Burkhart
  • Runner-up: Margot Robbie – Barbie as Barbie
    • Greta Lee – Past Lives as Nora Moon
    • Natalie Portman – May December as Elizabeth Berry
    • Emma Stone – Poor Things as Bella Baxter

Best Supporting Actress

• Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers as Mary Lamb
  • Runner-up: Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. as Barbara Simon
    • Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer as Kitty Oppenheimer
    • Viola Davis – Air as Deloris Jordan
    • Julianne Moore – May December as Gracie Atherton-Yoo

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan; based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
  • Runner-up: American Fiction – Cord Jefferson; based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett
    • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. – Kelly Fremon Craig; based on the novel by Judy Blume
    • Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese; based on the book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
    • The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer; based on the novel by Martin Amis

Best Documentary Film

• American Symphony (TIE)
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (TIE)
  • Beyond Utopia
  • It Ain't Over
  • Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros

Best Ensemble

• The Holdovers
  • Runner-up: Barbie (TIE)
  • Runner-up: Oppenheimer (TIE)
    • Asteroid City
    • Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Editing

• Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame
  • Runner-up: The Killer – Kirk Baxter
    • The Holdovers – Kevin Tent
    • Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker
    • Maestro – Michelle Tesoro

Best Production Design

• Barbie – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
  • Runner-up: Poor Things – James Price, Shona Heath, and Zsuzsa Mihalek
    • Asteroid City – Adam Stockhausen
    • Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk
    • Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong

Best Soundtrack

• Barbie
  • Runner-up: The Killer
    • Air
    • The Holdovers
    • Maestro

Best Action Film

• John Wick: Chapter 4 (TIE)
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (TIE)
  • Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
  • The Killer
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Horror Film

• Talk to Me
  • Runner-up: Skinamarink
    • Evil Dead Rise
    • Knock at the Cabin
    • M3GAN

Best Stunts

• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One – Wade Eastwood
  • Runner-up: John Wick: Chapter 4 – Scott Rogers and Stephen Dunlevy
    • Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – Mike Massa and Abdelaaziz Attougui
    • The Iron Claw – Chavo Guerrero Jr.
    • The Killer – Dave Macomber

Special Merits

• A24 – For showing solidarity with the actors and writers by securing approval from SAG-AFTRA and WGA to continue filmmaking and publicity.
• The Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America – For fighting for artists' equity and protecting the future of filmmaking by striking against practices that minimize or eliminate protection and living wages for artists.