Sandra Hüller is a German actress. She has appeared in German, Austrian, American, British and French films. She gained international recognition in 2023 for her starring roles in Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest and Justine Triet's legal drama Anatomy of a Fall. Her performances in them earned her two BAFTA Film Award nominations, while the latter earned her a European Film Award, in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe Award, César Award and an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Kelly Fremon Craig is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for writing and directing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy The Edge of Seventeen and the 2023 adaptation of Judy Blume's classic middle-grade novel, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Killers of the Flower Moon is a 2023 American epic western crime drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese. Eric Roth and Scorsese based their screenplay on the 2017 non-fiction book by David Grann. Set in 1920s Oklahoma, it focuses on a series of murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on tribal land. The tribal members had retained mineral rights on their reservation, but a corrupt local political boss sought to steal the tribal members' wealth.
Charles Michael Melton is an American actor. He is known for his role as Reggie Mantle in the CW series Riverdale (2017–2023) and Joe Yoo in May December (2023). His critically praised performance in the latter earned him nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Critics Choice Award.
The 41st Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2020, were given on December 13, 2020.
The Holdovers is a 2023 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson. Set in December 1970 and January 1971, the film stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on Christmas break. Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa respectively play the school cafeteria manager and one of the students who stays on campus.
The Taste of Things, previously titled The Pot-au-Feu, is a 2023 French historical romantic drama film written and directed by Trần Anh Hùng starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.
May December is a 2023 American drama film directed by Todd Haynes from a screenplay by Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. Loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal, it stars Natalie Portman as an actress who travels to meet and study the life of the controversial woman she is set to play in a film—a woman infamous for the 23-year-long relationship with her husband which began when he was 13 years old.
The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer, loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis. It was a co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland. It stars Christian Friedel as the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss, who strives to build a dream life with his wife, Hedwig, in a new home next to the German Auschwitz concentration camp.
The 89th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2023, were announced on November 30, 2023.
Samy Burch is an American screenwriter. She is known for writing May December (2023), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
The 95th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2023, were announced on December 6, 2023. Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon won Best Film and received the most wins with four, including Best Director and Best Actress.
The 49th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honoured the best in film for 2023. The awards were announced on December 10, 2023. The Zone of Interest received the most awards with four wins, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Lead Performance. The winners were honored at the association's annual banquet, which were dedicated to "beloved friends of film Bérénice Reynaud and Doug Jones", in the Los Angeles Millennium Hotels & Resorts on January 13, 2024.
David Hemingson is an American writer and producer for film and television. He is best known for writing the 2023 film The Holdovers, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
The 58th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 2024, honored the best in film for 2023. American film May December and British historical drama film The Zone of Interest won the most awards with two wins each, while Celine Song's feature directorial debut, Past Lives, won Best Picture.
