San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Award Winners

Best Picture

“Oppenheimer” 

Best Director

Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest”

Best Original Screenplay

Celine Song, “Past Lives”

Best Adapted Screenplay

Cord Jefferson, “American Fiction” 

Best Actor

Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction” 

Best Actress

Emma Stone, “Poor Things” 

Best Supporting Actor

Robert Downey Jr, “Oppenheimer”

Best Supporting Actress

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” 

Best Animated Feature

“The Boy and the Heron”

Best International Feature Film

“The Zone of Interest” 

Best Documentary Feature

“20 Days in Mariupol” 

Best Cinematography

Hoyte van Hoytema, “Oppenheimer”

Best Production Design

Sarah Greenwood, “Barbie”

Best Film Editing

Paul Watts, “The Zone of Interest”

Best Original Score

Robbie Robertson, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

(TIE) “Earth Mama” AND “Fremont”

Marlon Riggs Award

H.P. Mendoza

For being such a Bay Area force and being a beacon of creativity, inspiration and expression. His last film attests to his versatility and his deft comedic hand. t’s been quite a year for the San Francisco native. First, he transformed his 2021 art installation, Attack! Decay! Release!, into a moving, raucous multimedia extravaganza melding a feature film with live performance. Then, he premiered his latest feature, “The Secret Art of Human Flight,” at Tribeca, and toured with it on the festival circuit through the rest of year, collecting awards along the way. His first film not made from his own script, it never the less continues his ongoing exploration of the ties that bind.