Paris Film Critics Association Awards

Paris Film Critics Association Awards

Abbreviation	PFCA
Formation	2021
Founder	Sam Bobino
Type	Film criticism
Location	Paris, France
Membership (2023)	80 [1]
Official language	French and English
Website	parisfilmcritics.com

The Paris Film Critics Association (PFCA) is a French film critic organization founded in 2021 by journalist Sam Bobino. ^{[2] [1]} The organization votes on the annual Paris Film Critics Association Awards, honoring French and international films and TV series. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Background

Its membership comprises film critics and journalists based in Paris. ^[1] Each year, the organization votes on the Paris Film Critics Association Awards, honoring members of the French and international film industry who have excelled in their fields over the calendar year. These awards are presented each February at a ceremony held in Paris. The PFCA also honors industry veterans with its annual Lifetime Achievement Award and Honorary Award. ^{[3] [4] [6]}

Awards

2022

The nominees were announced on 12 January 2022. ^[7] The winners were announced on 7 February 2022 at an award ceremony held at the Hotel Le Royal Monceau-Raffles in Paris. ^[8] 50 journalists voted for the awards. ^[9]

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Best Film Lost Illusions – Xavier Giannoli ‡ Annette – Leos Carax Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi Happening – Audrey Diwan Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle – Arthur Harari The Card Counter – Paul Schrader	Best Director Arthur Harari – Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle ‡ Audrey Diwan – Happening Denis Villeneuve – Dune Julia Ducournau – Titane Leos Carax – Annette Xavier Giannoli – Lost Illusions
Best First Film The Father – Florian Zeller ‡ Gagarine – Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh The Swarm – Just Philippot Magnetic Beats – Vincent Maël Cardona Sound of Metal – Darius Marder Pleasure – Ninja Thyberg	Best Documentary The Velvet Queen – Vincent Munier and Marie Amiguet ‡ Delphine and Carole – Callisto McNulty Indes galantes – Philippe Béziat The State of Texas vs. Melissa – Sabrina Van Tassel Their Algeria – Lina Soualem The Beatles: Get Back – Peter Jackson
Best Actor Benoît Magimel – Peaceful ‡ Adam Driver – Annette Anthony Hopkins – The Father Oscar Isaac – The Card Counter Vincent Lindon – Titane Yuya Endo – Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle	Best Actress Anamaria Vartolomei – Happening ‡ Lady Gaga – House of Gucci Marion Cotillard – Annette Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World Valeria Bruni Tedeschi – The Divide Valérie Lemercier – Aline
Best Supporting Actor Vincent Lacoste – Lost Illusions ‡ Adam Driver – The Last Duel Al Pacino – House of Gucci Karim Leklou – BAC Nord Lambert Wilson – Benedetta Willem Dafoe – The Card Counter	Best Supporting Actress Olivia Colman – The Father ‡ Charlotte Rampling – Benedetta Cécile de France – Lost Illusions Jodie Comer – The Last Duel Meryl Streep – Don't Look Up Tōko Miura – Drive My Car
Best Male Revelation Makita Samba  [ fr ] – Paris, 13th District ‡ Abdel Bendaher – Ibrahim Alseni Bathily – Gagarine Filippo Scotti – The Hand of God Sami Outalbali – A Tale of Love and Desire Thimotée Robart – Les Magnétiques	Best Female Revelation Agathe Rousselle – Titane ‡ Aïssatou Diallo Sagna – The Divide Daphné Patakia – Benedetta Lucie Zhang – Paris, 13th District Zbeida Belhajamor  [ fr ] – A Tale of Love and Desire
Best Original Screenplay Don't Look Up – Adam McKay & David Sirota ‡ Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle – Arthur Harari & Vincent Poymiro A Hero – Asghar Farhadi Aline – Brigitte Buc & Valérie Lemercier The Divide – Catherine Corsini Annette – Leos Carax, Ron Mael & Russell Mael	Best Adapted Screenplay Happening – Audrey Diwan & Marcia Romano ‡ The Father – Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller Dune – Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth & Jon Spaihts Paris, 13th District – Jacques Audiard, Céline Sciamma & Léa Mysius Drive My Car – Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe Lost Illusions – Xavier Giannoli & Jacques Fieschi
Best Cinematography Annette – Caroline Champetier ‡ Lost Illusions – Christophe Beaucarne Dune – Greig Fraser West Side Story – Janusz Kamiński Titane – Ruben Impens Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle – Tom Harari	Best Editing BAC Nord – Simon Jacquet ‡ Lost Illusions – Cyril Nakache Titane – Jean-Christophe Bouzy Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle – Laurent Sénéchal Petrov's Flu – Yuri Karikh Annette – Nelly Quettier
Best Original Score Annette – Ron Mael & Russell Mael / Sparks ‡ Parallel Mothers – Alberto Iglesias The French Dispatch – Alexandre Desplat Dune – Hans Zimmer Paris, 13th District – Rone The Velvet Queen – Warren Ellis, Nick Cave	Best Animated Film The Summit of the Gods – Patrick Imbert‡ Encanto – Jared Bush & Byron Howard The Crossing – Florence Miailhe Luca – Enrico Casarosa Where Is Anne Frank – Ari Folman Sing 2 – Garth Jennings & Christophe Lourdelet
Lifetime Achievement Award Claude Lelouch

2023

The nominees were announced on 19 January 2023. ^[10] The winners were announced on 5 February 2023 at an award ceremony held at the theater Silencio des Prés in Paris. ^{[1] [11]} 80 journalists voted for the awards. ^[1]

Best Film The Night of the 12th – Dominik Moll ‡ The Beasts – Rodrigo Sorogoyen Armageddon Time – James Gray Avatar: The Way of Water – James Cameron Decision to Leave – Park Chan-wook Pacifiction – Albert Serra Saint Omer – Alice Diop	Best Director James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water ‡ Albert Serra – Pacifiction Dominik Moll – The Night of the 12th Gaspar Noé – Vortex Jean-Jacques Annaud – Notre-Dame on Fire Jerzy Skolimowski – EO Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza Valeria Bruni Tedeschi – Forever Young
Best First Film Falcon Lake – Charlotte Le Bon ‡ Bruno Reidal – Vincent Le Port  [ fr ] Joyland – Saim Sadiq The Worst Ones – Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret The Sixth Child – Léopold Legrand  [ fr ] Rodeo – Lola Quivoron  [ fr ]	Best Documentary The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert – Peter Jackson ‡ Rookies – Thierry Demaizière and Alban Teurlai Ennio – Giuseppe Tornatore Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By – André Bonzel The Super 8 Years – Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot Michael Cimino, God Bless America – Jean-Baptiste Thoret Patrick Dewaere, My Hero – Alexandre Moix
Best Actor Benoît Magimel – Pacifiction ‡ Austin Butler – Elvis Bastien Bouillon – The Night of the 12th Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin Denis Ménochet – The Beasts Gérard Depardieu – Maigret Louis Garrel – The Innocent	Best Actress Virginie Efira – Paris Memories ‡ Virginie Efira – Other People's Children Adèle Exarchopoulos – Zero Fucks Given Ana de Armas – Blonde Guslagie Malanda – Saint Omer Laure Calamy – Full Time Noémie Merlant – The Innocent
Best Supporting Actor Roschdy Zem – The Innocent ‡ Anthony Hopkins – Armageddon Time Bradley Cooper – Licorice Pizza Bouli Lanners – The Night of the 12th Finnegan Oldfield – Final Cut Louis Garrel – Forever Young Tom Hanks – Elvis	Best Supporting Actress Anouk Grinberg – The Innocent & The Night of the 12th ‡ Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Carey Mulligan – She Said Dominique Blanc – The Origin of Evil Isabelle Adjani – Masquerade Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once Sara Giraudeau – The Sixth Child
Best Male Revelation Stefan Crepon  [ fr ] – Peter von Kant ‡ Adam Bessa – Harka Alyosha Reinert – Softie Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza Dimitri Doré  [ fr ] – Bruno Reidal Eden Dambrine – Close Paul Kircher – Winter Boy	Best Female Revelation Nadia Tereszkiewicz – Forever Young ‡ Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza Guslagie Malanda – Saint Omer Kayije Kagame – Saint Omer Mallory Wanecque – The Worst Ones Marion Barbeau – Rise Rebecca Marder – A Radiant Girl
Best Original Screenplay Boy from Heaven – Tarik Saleh ‡ Armageddon Time – James Gray The Beasts – Rodrigo Sorogoyen & Isabel Peña The Banshees of Inisherin – Martin McDonagh Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson The Innocent – Louis Garrel & Tanguy Viel Saint Omer – Amrita David, Alice Diop & Marie NDiaye	Best Adapted Screenplay The Night of the 12th – Dominik Moll & Gilles Marchand ‡ Farewell, Mr. Haffmann – Fred Cavayé & Sarah Kaminsky The Colors of Fire – Pierre Lemaitre Undercover – Thierry de Peretti & Jeanne Aptekman The Sixth Child – Léopold Legrand & Catherine Paillé Between Two Worlds – Emmanuel Carrère & Hélène Devynck White Noise – Noah Baumbach
Best Cinematography Pacifiction – Artur Tort ‡ Armageddon Time – Darius Khondji Avatar: The Way of Water – Russell Carpenter Elvis – Mandy Walker Licorice Pizza – Paul Thomas Anderson Nightmare Alley – Dan Laustsen Vortex – Benoit Debie	Best Editing Decision to Leave – Kim Sang-bum ‡ Athena – Benjamin Weill Avatar: The Way of Water – David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua & Stephen E. Rivkin Bullet Train – Elisabet Ronaldsdottir Elvis – Matt Villa & Jonathan Redmond Everything Everywhere All at Once – Paul Rogers Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton
Best Original Score Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat ‡ Full Time – Irene Drésel EO – Paweł Mykietyn A Tale of Love and Desire – Benjamin Biolay The Night of the 12th – Olivier Marguerit Nope – Michael Abels The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell	Best Production Design Pacifiction – Sebastian Vogler ‡ Avatar: The Way of Water – Dylan Cole & Ben Procter Elvis – Catherine Martin & Karen Murphy Licorice Pizza – Florencia Martin Nightmare Alley – Tamara Deverell Notre-Dame on Fire – Jean Rabasse Nope – Ruth De Jong
Best Animated Film Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be – Amandine Fredon & Benjamin Massoubre ‡ Turning Red – Domee Shi Ernest & Celestine – Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar & Benjamin Renner The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess – Michel Ocelot My Father's Secrets – Véra Belmont My Afghan Family – Michaela Pavlatova Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio – Guillermo del Toro	Best TV Series (or Mini-Series) The White Lotus ‡ House of the Dragon Irma Vep Reign Supreme Black Butterflies Severance Tokyo Vice
Honorary Award Jean-Jacques Annaud
Lifetime Achievement Award Roger Corman

2024

The nominees were announced on 9 January 2024. ^[3] The winners were announced on 4 February 2024. ^{[12] [13]}

Best Film Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet ‡ Babylon – Damien Chazelle All Your Faces – Jeanne Herry Killers of the Flower Moon – Martin Scorsese Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan Kidnapped – Marco Bellocchio The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg	Best Director Damien Chazelle – Babylon ‡ Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans Thomas Cailley – The Animal Kingdom Marco Bellocchio – Kidnapped Jeanne Herry – All Your Faces
Best First Film Junkyard Dog – Jean-Baptiste Durand ‡ Aftersun – Charlotte Wells Bernadette – Léa Domenach How to Have Sex – Molly Manning Walker The Rapture – Iris Kaltenback All to Play For – Delphine Deloget Vincent Must Die – Stéphan Castang	Best Documentary Four Daughters – Kaouther Ben Hania ‡ La Rivière – Dominique Marchais Little Girl Blue – Mona Achache Our Body – Claire Simon On the Adamant – Nicolas Philibert All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – Laura Poitras Antarctica Calling – Luc Jacquet
Best Actor Arieh Worthalter – The Goldman Case ‡ Benjamin Lavernhe – Abbé Pierre – A Century of Devotion Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer Koji Yakusho – Perfect Days Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers Raphaël Quenard – Yannick Vincent Lacoste – Along Came Love	Best Actress Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall ‡ Cate Blanchett – Tár Catherine Deneuve – Bernadette Hafsia Herzi – The Rapture Léa Drucker – Last Summer Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon Marion Cotillard – Little Girl Blue
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt – Babylon ‡ Louis Garrel – The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan Raphaël Quenard – Junkyard Dog Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer Romain Duris – The Animal Kingdom Ryan Gosling – Barbie	Best Supporting Actress Adèle Exarchopoulos – All Your Faces ‡ Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer Blanche Gardin – The Book of Solutions Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers India Hair – All to Play For Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans Noémie Merlant – Tár
Best Male Revelation Raphaël Quenard – Junkyard Dog ‡ Arthur Harari – The Goldman Case Diego Calva – Babylon Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans Milo Machado-Graner – Anatomy of a Fall Paul Kircher – The Animal Kingdom Samuel Kircher – Last Summer	Best Female Revelation Ella Rumpf – Marguerite's Theorem ‡ Carrie Crowley – The Quiet Girl Kim Higelin – Consent Magalie Lépine-Blondeau – The Nature of Love Mia McKenna-Bruce – How to Have Sex Stéphane Caillard – Flo Suzy Bemba – Homecoming
Best Original Screenplay Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet & Arthur Harari ‡ Babylon – Damien Chazelle All Your Faces – Jeanne Herry The Goldman Case – Cédric Kahn & Nathalie Herzberg The Animal Kingdom – Thomas Cailley & Pauline Munier Monster – Yuji Sakamoto The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner	Best Adapted Screenplay Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese ‡ Consent – Vanessa Filho, Vanessa Springora, François Pirot Green Tide – Pierre Jolivet, Inès Léraud The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan – Alexandre de La Patellière & Mathieu Delaporte The Crime Is Mine – François Ozon Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan The Son – Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller
Best Cinematography Oppenheimer – Hoyte van Hoytema ‡ Anatomy of a Fall – Simon Beaufils Babylon – Linus Sandgren Killers of the Flower Moon – Rodrigo Prieto Tchaikovsky's Wife – Vladislav Opelyants The Animal Kingdom – David Cailley The Fabelmans – Janusz Kamiński	Best Editing Anatomy of a Fall – Laurent Sénéchal ‡ Babylon – Tom Cross Killers of the Flower Moon – Thelma Schoonmaker The Animal Kingdom – Lilian Corbeille The Book of Solutions – Élise Fievet Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame Tár – Monika Willi
Best Original Score Babylon – Justin Hurwitz ‡ Disco Boy – Vitalic The Boy and the Heron – Joe Hisaishi The Animal Kingdom – Andrea Laszlo De Simone Chicken for Linda! – Clément Ducol Oppenheimer – Ludwig Göransson The Fabelmans – John Williams	Best Production Design Babylon – Florencia Martin‡ Barbie – Sarah Greenwood Killers of the Flower Moon – Jack Fisk The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan – Stéphane Taillasson The Crime Is Mine – Jean Rabasse Oppenheimer – Ruth De Jong The Fabelmans – Rick Carter
Best Costume Design The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan – Thierry Delettre‡ Babylon – Mary Zophres Barbie – Jacqueline Durran Killers of the Flower Moon – Jacqueline West Tchaikovsky's Wife – Dimitri Andreïev Kidnapped – Sergio Ballo & Daria Calvelli Napoleon – David Crossman & Janty Yates	Best Animated Film Mars Express – Jérémie Périn‡ No Dogs or Italians Allowed – Alain Ughetto The Boy and the Heron – Hayao Miyazaki Chicken for Linda! – Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach Robot Dreams – Pablo Berger Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson Suzume – Makoto Shinkai
Best TV Series (or Mini-Series) Of Money and Blood – Xavier Giannoli ‡ The Night Logan Woke Up – Xavier Dolan Polar Park  [ fr ] – Gérald Hustache–Mathieu Sambre  [ fr ] – Alice Géraud & Marc Herpou Succession – Jesse Armstrong Class Act – Tristan Séguéla & Olivier Demangel Tout va bien  [ fr ] – Camille de Castelnau
Honorary Award Vincent Lindon
Lifetime Achievement Award Jerry Schatzberg
Outstanding Contribution to Cinema Award Michel Ciment
Best Contribution to the Art of Cinema Award Warner Bros.

Categories

• Best Animated Film
• Best Film
• Best First Film
• Best Director
• Best Documentary
• Best Cinematography
• Best Editing
• Best Original Screenplay
• Best Adapted Screenplay
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Best Male Revelation
• Best Female Revelation
• Best Original Score
• Best Production Design
• Best Costume Design
• Best TV Series (or Mini-Series)
• Lifetime Achievement Award
• Honorary Award
• Outstanding Contribution to Cinema
• Best Contribution to the Art of Cinema

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