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The Bloomies for 2023

English Language Films
Foreign Language Films

Killers of the Flower Moon (M. Scorsese)
Oppenheimer (C. Nolan)
*Little Bird (Z. Hopkins and E.-M. Tailfeathers)
Poor Things (Y. Lanthimos)
The Holdovers (A. Payne)
American Fiction (C. Jefferson)
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (K.F. Craig)
The Lost King (S. Frears)
Saltburn (E. Fennell)
The Son (F. Zeller)
May December (T. Haynes)
Maestro (B. Cooper)
Rustin (G.C. Wolfe)
Emily (F. O'Connor)
Golda (G. Nattiv)
The Color Purple (B. Bazawule)
Plan A (D. and Y. Paz)
The Operative (Y. Adler)
Ferrari (M. Mann)
No One Will Save You (B. Duffield)
Emancipation (A. Fuqua)
Leave the World Behind (S. Esmail)
Big George Foreman (G. Tillman Jr.)
The Inspection (E. Bratton)
Nyad (J. Chin and E.C. Vasarhelyi)

*TV miniseries in which all episodes have the same director and writer. Equivalent to a long movie.

The Zone of Interest (J. Glazer)
Anatomy of a Fall (J. Triet)
Lost Illusions (X. Giannoli)
Revoir Paris (A. Winocour)
Full Time (E. Gravel)
Past Lives (C. Song)
The Auschwitz Report (P. Bebjak)
Society of the Snow (J.A. Bayona)
Betrayed (E. Svensson)
Between Two Worlds (E. Carrère)
The Man Who Sold His Skin (K. Ben Hania)
Return to Seoul (D. Chou)
La Civil (T.A. Mihai)
Black Box (Y. Gozlan)

Best

English Language Film – Killers of the Flower Moon

Foreign Language Film – The Zone of Interest

Director – Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Original Screenplay – (1) Hannah Moscovitch, Zoe Hopkins, Shannon Masters and Darrell Dennis (*Little Bird); (2) Justine Triet and Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall)

Screenplay Adaptation – (1) Cord Jefferson (American Fiction); (2) Tony McNamara (Poor Things)

Cinematography – Rodrigo Prieto (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Film Editing – Killers of the Flower Moon

Original Music Score – Robbie Robertson (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Actor – Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)

Others  –  Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer); Bradley Cooper (Maestro); Colman Domingo (Rustin); Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction); Barry Keoghan (Saltburn); Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon); Benjamin Voisin (Lost Illusions); Hugh Jackman (The Son); Robert Downey, Jr. (Oppenheimer); Adam Driver (Ferrari); Gilles Lellouche (Kompromat); Zen McGrath (The Son); Charles Melton (May December); Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)

Actress – (1) Darla Contois (*Little Bird); (2) Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Others  – Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall); Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon); Virginie Efira (Revoir Paris); Helen Mirren (Golda); Juliette Binoche (Between Two Worlds); Laura Dern (The Son); Annette Bening, Jodie Foster (Nyad); Emma Mackey (Emily); Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore (May December); Laure Calamy (Full Time); Sally Hawkins (The Lost King); Carey Mulligan (Maestro); Diane Kruger (Operative); Da'vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers); Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer); Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie); Arcelia Ramirez (La Civil); Léa Seydoux (One Fine Morning); Gabrielle Union (The Inspection); Park Ji-Min (Return to Seoul); Eliza Scanlen (The Starling Girl)

Special Note - "The Crown" joins The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, and A French Village as one of the all-time great dramatic TV series. Great credit goes to Peter Morgan who wrote every episode of the six-year series.

 
 
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