On Saturday, January 27th, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle held their 58th annual James Loutzenhiser Awards. Oppenheimer was the big winner this year taking home 6 awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. Other winners included The Holdovers snagging awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, and Anatomy of a Fall winning Best Foreign Film and splitting the vote with Past Lives in a tie for Best Original Screenplay.
Best Film
Robert Altman Award for Best Director
- Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Best Actor (TIE)
- Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
- Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Best Actress
- Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Supporting Actor
- Robert Downey, Jr. – Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Actress
- Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Original Screenplay (TIE)
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Past Lives
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Original Score
Best Animated Feature
Best Foreign Language Film
- Anatomy of a Fall
Best Documentary (TIE)
- 20 Days in Mariupol
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Film
- Godzilla Minus One
Tom Poe Award for Best LGBTQ Film
About the KCFCC
Our organization was founded by Dr. James Loutzenhiser in 1966 as the Kansas City Film Circle Awards, and is the second oldest professional film critics’ association in the United States, after the New York Film Critics Circle. The KCFCC has active members representing print, radio, television and online media outlets.
After Dr. Loutzenhiser’s death in 2001, the membership voted unanimously to rename its annual awards in his honor. In 2005, a new award was established in memory of longtime KCFCC member Vince Koehler, honoring outstanding science fiction, fantasy and horror films. In 2006, the group voted to honor Kansas City native Robert Altman by renaming its Best Director award after him and organizing a film festival in April 2007. The Tom Poe Award for Best LGBT Film was added in 2016 after a beloved associate professor of film and media arts in the Department of Communications Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.