2023 Team Experience Awards - WINNERS

by Christopher James

Poor Things won the hearts of The Film Experience team, but it wasn't the only film the team loved this year.

The Film Experience team has spoken. Our nomination leader - Poor Things - won Best Picture from the group. However, it was not a sweep for Yorgos Lanthimos' ambitious film. The only other category Poor Things won was Best Costume Design. Instead, the team decided to spread the wealth across all categories, rewarding a total of 16 films. The most wins racked up by any film this year was three, which both Anatomy of a Fall and Barbie achieved. 

See what won each of the categories after the jump...

BEST PICTURE

• Alcarrás
• All of Us Strangers
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• May December
• Past Lives
• Poor Things - WINNER
• The Zone of Interest

BEST DIRECTOR

• Greta Gerwig - Barbie - WINNER
• Andrew Haigh - All of Us Strangers
• Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
• Alexander Payne - The Holdovers
• Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall
 

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

• Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
• Perfect Days
• Society of the Snow
• The Taste of Things
• The Zone of Interest

In a close battle, Lily Gladstone prevailed for the Film Experience team. 

BEST ACTRESS

• Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon - WINNER
• Sandra Hüller - Anatomy of a Fall
• Natalie Portman - May December
• Margot Robbie - Barbie
• Emma Stone - Poor Things

BEST ACTOR

• Bradley Cooper - Maestro
• Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
• Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
• Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
• Teo Yoo - Past Lives - WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Hong Chau - Showing Up
• Claire Foy - All of Us Strangers
• Rachel McAdams - Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. - WINNER (TIE)
• Rosamund Pike - Saltburn - WINNER (TIE)
• Da'Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
• Ryan Gosling - Barbie - WINNER
• Milo Machado-Graner - Anatomy of a Fall
• Charles Melton - May December
• Mark Ruffalo - Poor Things

 Anatomy of a Fall won three awards from the Film Experience Team - Origianl Screenplay, Film Not In The English Language and Editing.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
• The Holdovers
• May December
• Monster
• Past Lives

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• All of Us Strangers
• American Fiction
• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. - WINNER
• Barbie
• Poor Things

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Poor Things - WINNER
• Priscilla

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• Every Body
• Four Daughters - WINNER (TIE)
• The Mother of All Lies
• Our Body - WINNER (TIE)
• Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• The Boy and The Heron - WINNER
• Nimona
• Robot Dreams
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Suzume

 The expert quartet of All of Us Strangers - Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy - prevailed over larger ensembles.

BEST ENSEMBLE

• All of Us Strangers - WINNER
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Tótem

BEST EDITING

• Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• New Religion
• The Zone of Interest

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Asteroid City
• Barbie - WINNER
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

Not only do all of the remaining categories go to a new film, many of them come from films completely shut out at the Oscars - Godland, Priscilla and Blue Giant. 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Godland - WINNER
• Maestro
• Poor Things
• Saltburn
• The Zone of Interest

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

• Barbie
• Maestro
• Priscilla - WINNER
• Poor Things
• Society of the Snow

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL OR PRE-EXISTING)

• Barbie
• Blue Giant - WINNER
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Poor Things
• The Zone of Interest

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Godzilla Minus One - WINNER
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Society of the Snow

BEST SOUND

• Ferrari
• The Kings of the World
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• The Zone of Interest - WINNER

What do you think of The Film Experience's winners? Let us know in the comments below.

Comments

[Davus]

Sorry but can anyone take seriously any awards where Gerwig is named best director? It's almost a blasphemy against the church of cinema: "Barbie" is one of the worst movies ever made.
But at least your choice in "best picture" category is quite good.

[Mike in Canada]

Remarkably well considered winners, as always.
In acting, particularly Yoo, Gladstone, Pike, Gosling = perfect.
(Never got around to AYTGIMM)

[Wes]

And here is where we must differ. I found Barbie and Poor Things to be two of the worst films this year, and sure enough they have been wildly over-praised from nearly every corner. Would that such pretentious and frankly ugly films did not catch the fancy of so many. But them’s the breaks in this modern age.

To each their own, of course, but with those films particularly, I just don’t see it.

[whunk (he/him)]

Gladstone's performance may actually be more overrated than Randolph's, and that's saying something.

[Mr Ripley79]

Interesting picks and i'm glad other people saw Teo Yoo's brilliance but i'll admit I am surprised he was the winner.

I would nominate Barbie for it's most innovative element it's production design and costuming,nothing for it's ok acting and certainly no noms for the bland songs.

I enjoyed Poor Things but I wouldn't nominate it as Best Picture,I found it hard to enjoy a lot of the time,I detested Ruffalo,where did his subtlety go,Emma was great as was Dafoe and I enjoyed the smaller female roles of Hunter and Hannah.

Pike and McAdams are inspired choices.

Are You There God is a real gem from this year and should have had more love from Oscar.

Nice call on All of us Strangers ensemble,they all worked beuatifully together.

My own Best Film winner for this year is Anatomy of a Fall with Triet as Best Director.

Acting wins are Scott,Huller,Melton and Pike.

[DK]

Lol Gerwig, you guys…

I feel like the conversation around Barbie is broken. I highly respect and admire Barbie for being exactly what it was—a culture-dominating, epic, billion dollar movie led by women.

But be serious, that’s the BIG reward. It’s big enough that I don’t feel the need to twist myself into knots pretending it was exquisitely written or America Ferrara is this year’s Beatrice Straight (pummeling her audience with a BIG SCENE), the discourse is ludicrous.

It actually takes the fun out of Barbie to watch people take it so stone cold seriously as cinema, lol.

[Ryan T.]

Not enough wins for ALL OF US STRANGERS, but its ensemble award is inspired. Great job.

And thanks for giving Gerwig that Best Director win. I don't get some people's comments here. This was an enormous and risky undertaking and she did it so exquisitely.

[par]

having just last night sat through the five hours or however long poor things dragged on this is a fresh disappointment. at least you didn't reward emma's amateurish turn or ruffy's one note one, and thank goodness you passed on the nauseating production design

[i'm still surprised by how much i disliked it]

[Ad_Mil]

Look at THOSE Director and Actress choices...

[Fabio Dantas Flappers]

Davus,
Completely agree. I can't take serious any vote for That Gerwig Woman.

Nice choices: McAdams/Pike, Gosling, "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" in Adapted Screenplay.

The rest... no!
The rest is silence.
Literally, considering there's no Original Song.