Martin Scorsese’s shot-in-Oklahoma film “Killers of the Flower Moon” was voted the year’s best film Thursday by the New York Film Critics Circle. Lily Gladstone, who played Mollie Burkhart in the film, was voted best actress.
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest critics group in the United States.
Christopher Nolan (“Oppenheimer”) was voted best director. Franz Rogowski (“Ira Sachs’ Passages”) was voted best actor, Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”) was voted best supporting actress, and Charles Melton (“May December”) was voted best supporting actor.
Days before NYFCC victors were announced, Gladstone was named best actress at the 2023 Gotham Awards for her work in a film (“The Unknown Country”) other than “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Recognition from the New York Film Critics Circle does not always mirror Academy Awards success. On 31 occasions since 1937, a movie voted best film by the NYFCC also was named best picture at the Oscars, but the 2011 film “The Artist” was the last to accomplish the feat.