American film critics named the best film of 2023 – the trailer

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““Killers of Flower Full” is a stunning masterpiece from one of our greatest directors, Martin Scorsese. We are proud to honor this complex, important and deeply resonant epic with Best Picture and Scorsese as Best Director“, said the president of the board Annie Schulhoff.

American film critics named him the best actor Paul Giamatti for a role in a comedy drama “Abandoned”. The same tape won the award for Best Screenplay to David Hemingson.

It became the best animated feature film “Spider-Man: Across the Universe”.

The best international film – “Anatomy of a Fall” Justin Trier.

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Also Bradley Cooper, who co-wrote and directed the Leonard Bernstein biopic this year “Maestro”was awarded the NBR Icon award.

Cinematographer “Killers of the flower full” and “Barbie” Rodrigo Prieto will be awarded for outstanding achievements in cinematography.

In addition, the list of the best feature films of 2023, according to the version of the National Council of Film Critics of the USA, included: Barbie, The Leftovers, Oppenheimer, The Maestro, The Boy and the Heron, Ferrari, Past Lives, Poor Man and Iron Claw.

American critics also praised Mstislav Chernov’s film “20 days in Mariupol”. The documentary that Ukraine nominated for Oscar 2024 was included in the list of the five best documentaries of the year.

The award ceremony of the National Council of Film Critics of the USA will be held in New York on January 11, 2024.

Most often, the choice of the National Board of Film Critics coincides with the opinion of the American Film Academy, so the films awarded by it become contenders for the most prestigious film award in the world.

The best film according to the National Council of Film Critics of the USA in 2022 was the film “Top Gun: Maverick”, in 2021 – “Licorice Pizza”, in 2020 – “Five of the same blood”, in 2019 – “The Irishman”, in 2018 – “Green Book”.

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