By Daniel Barnes

My submitted ballot for the 2023 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle awards:

BEST PICTURE

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Monster
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. All of Us Strangers
5. The Boy and the Heron

BEST DIRECTOR

1. Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest
3. Hayao Mayazaki, The Boy and the Heron
4. Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers
5. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster

BEST ACTRESS

1. Emma Stone, Poor Things
2. Michelle Williams, Showing Up
3. Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
4. Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Juliette Binoche, The Taste of Things

BEST ACTOR

1. Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
2. Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
3. Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
4. Willem Dafoe, Inside
5. Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

1. Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
2. Julianne Moore, May December
3. Sandra Hüller, The Zone of Interest
4. Hong Chau, Showing Up
5. Tilda Swinton, The Killer

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

1. Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
2. Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
3. Charles Melton, May December
4. Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
5. Ben Whishaw, Passages

BEST SCREENPLAY, Original

1. Monster
2. Asteroid City
3. The Holdovers
4. The Boy and the Heron
5. Of an Age

BEST SCREENPLAY, Adapted

1. All of Us Strangers
2. Poor Things
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. The Zone of Interest
5. BlackBerry

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Poor Things
4. Oppenheimer
5. The Taste of Things

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

1. The Boy and the Heron
2. The Pigeon Tunnel
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Poor Things
5. A Thousand and One

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. The Zone of Interest
3. Poor Things
4. Asteroid City
5. Oppenheimer

BEST EDITING

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. All of Us Strangers
4. Poor Things
5. John Wick: Chapter 4

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

1. The Boy and the Heron
2. Suzume
3. Robot Dreams
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

1. The Zone of Interest
2. Monster
3. The Teachers’ Lounge
4. Afire
5. The Taste of Things

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