Members of the Minnesota Film Critics Alliance have spoken! Every January, ahead of the Academy Awards, MNFCA members get to select nominees for the MNFCA Awards. The historical fiction Oppenheimer by director Christopher Nolan has been nominated in 13 categories, the most by any film in MNFCA history. Also with a strong showing in this year’s awards was Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which earned three wins, including Best Ensemble. So Barbenheimer is still alive and well with MNFCA voters!!

This weekend, the winners have just been announced and Oppenheimer was the big winner of this year’s MNFCA Awards, earning seven victories in total, including Best Picture.

The full list of winners is listed below:

Best Picture

• “Barbie”
• “The Holdovers”
• “Maestro”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Past Lives”

Winner: “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: “Barbie”

Best Director

• Greta Gerwig, “Barbie”
• Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things”
• Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
• Celine Song, “Past Lives”
• Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall”

Winner: Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: Greta Gerwig, “Barbie”

Best Actor

• Bradley Cooper, “Maestro”
• Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers”
• Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
• Andrew Scott, “All of Us Strangers”
• Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”

Winner: Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction”

Best Actress

• Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
• Greta Lee, “Past Lives”
• Carey Mulligan, “Maestro”
• Margot Robbie, “Barbie”
• Emma Stone, “Poor Things”

Winner: Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Runners-Up: Emma Stone, “Poor Things” and Greta Lee, “Past Lives”

Best Supporting Actor

• Ryan Gosling, “Barbie”
• Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”
• Charles Melton, “May December”
• Mark Ruffalo, “Poor Things”
• Dominic Sessa, “The Holdovers”

Winner: Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: Charles Melton, “May December”

Best Supporting Actress

• Emily Blunt, “Oppenheimer”
• Claire Foy, “All of Us Strangers”
• Rachel McAdams, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”
• Julianne Moore, “May December”
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”

Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”
Runner-Up: Rachel McAdams, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”

Best Ensemble

• “Asteroid City”
• “Barbie”
• “The Iron Claw”
• “Killers of the Flower Moon”
• “Oppenheimer”

Winner: “Barbie”
Runners-Up: “The Iron Claw” and “Oppenheimer”

Best Screenplay

• “American Fiction”
• “Anatomy of a Fall”
• “The Holdovers”
• “Past Lives”
• “Poor Things”

Winner: “Past Lives”
Runners-Up: “The Holdovers” and “American Fiction”

Best Editing

• “Barbie”
• “Killers of the Flower Moon”
• “Maestro”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Poor Things”

Winner: “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: “Poor Things”

Best Cinematography

• “Barbie”
• “Maestro”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Poor Things”
• “The Zone of Interest”

Winner: “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: “Poor Things”

Best Music

• “Barbie”
• “Killers of the Flower Moon”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Poor things”
• “Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse”

Winner: “Barbie”
Runner-Up: “Oppenheimer”

Best Costume/Make-up

• “Barbie”
• “Killers of the Flower Moon”
• “Maestro”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Poor Things”

Winner: “Poor Things”
Runner-Up: “Barbie”

Best Production Design

• “Barbie”
• “Killers of the Flower Moon”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Poor Things”
• “Wonka”

Winner: “Barbie”
Runner-Up: “Poor Things”

Best Sound Work

• “Ferrari”
• “Maestro”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Poor Things”
• “The Zone of Interest”

Winner: “Oppenheimer”
Runner-Up: “The Zone of Interest”

Best Special Effects

• “The Creator”
• “The Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3”
• “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1”
• “Oppenheimer”
• “Poor Things”

Winner: “The Creator”
Runner-Up: “Poor Things”

Best Animated Feature

• “The Boy and the Heron”
• “Elemental”
• “Nimona”
• “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
• “TMNT: Mutant Mayhem”

Winner: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
Runner-Up: “The Boy and the Heron”

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So cool to see both Celine Song and Greta Gerwig nominated for Best Director, woo hoo!! Seeing Andrew Scott nominated for Best Actor in All of Us Strangers, Greta Lee for Best Actress in Past Lives, and Charles Melton for Best Supporting Actor in May December makes me happy!!

Source: MNFCA Official Website – thank you, Matthew Liedke!

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