2023 African American Film Critics Winners

Best Film: American Fiction

Best Director: Ava DuVernay, Origin

Best Actor: Colman Domingo: Rustin
Best Actress: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: Origin
Best Supporting Actor: Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Best Supporting Actress (tie): Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple & Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Screenplay: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best Documentary: Stamped from the Beginning
Best International Film: Io Capitano

Best Ensemble: The Color Purple

Emerging Filmmaker: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Breakout Performance: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Music: The Color Purple

Best Drama: Origin
Best Comedy: American Fiction
Best Musical: The Color Purple
Best Independent Feature: A Thousand and One
Best Short Film: The After


Top 10 Films:

1. American Fiction
2. Origin
3. The Color Purple
4. Oppenheimer
5. Past Lives
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. Poor Things
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. Killers of the Flower Moon
10. Barbie