Best Picture
Winner: Poor Things
Runner-up: Oppenheimer
Top Ten Films of the Year
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Barbie
The Holdovers
John Wick: Chapter 4
Killers of the Flower Moon
May December
Past Lives
Poor Things
Robot Dreams
Best Animated Film
Winner: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Runner-up: Robot Dreams
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: The Zone of Interest
Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One
Best Documentary Film
Winner: Kokomo City
Runner-up: 20 Days in Mariupol
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: David Hemingson, The Holdovers
Runner-up: Samy Burch (screenplay/story) and Alex Mechanik (story), May December
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Tony McNamara, Poor Things
Runner-up: Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Barbie
Best Director
Winner: Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Best Lead Performance
Winner: Emma Stone, Poor Things
Runner-up: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Performance
Winner: Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Runner-up: Robert Downey, Jr., Oppenheimer
Best Vocal/Motion Capture Performance
Winner: Hailee Steinfeld, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Runner-up: Shameik Moore, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Ensemble Acting
Winner: Poor Things
Runner-up: Oppenheimer
Best Musical Score
Winner: Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
Breakout of the Year
Winner: Celine Song, Past Lives
Runner-up: Charles Melton, May December
Best Cinematography
Winner: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Dan Laustsen, John Wick: Chapter 4
Best Editing
Winner: Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer
Runner-up: Thelma Schoonmaker, Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Stunt/Movement Choreography
Winner: Jeremy Marinas (fight coordinator), Scott Rogers (stunt coordinator) and Stephen Levy (stunt choreographer), John Wick: Chapter 4
Runner-up: Jennifer White (choreographer) and Lisa Welham (associate choreographer), Barbie
Original Vision Award
Winner: Poor Things
Runner-up: Barbie
The Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award*
Winner: Director Sam Mirpoorian, Greener Pastures
*As a special honor, no runner-up is named for the Hoosier Award. It is named after founding IFJA member and longtime NUVO Newsweekly critic Edward Johnson-Ott.
About IFJA: The Indiana Film Journalists Association was established in 2009 to celebrate cinema and promote quality film criticism in the Hoosier State. To be eligible for our awards, a film must have had a general release on any platform during the current calendar year, screened to IFJA critics in advance of a following year release date, or play in a major Indiana film festival.
