The Ninth Annual Miles Awards for Achievement in Film

Awards season is starting to wind down, but it won't be over until the biggest awards of every year. Oscars Schmoscars, I'm talking about the Miles Awards! This is the only awards ceremony that gets it right every year...although I may only be saying that because I exclusively pick all of the nominees and winners. Some of these won't be too surprising if you've already read my list of Best Films of 2023, or Best Performances of 2023, but with 13 categories there is a lot of individual achievement that I'm excited to single out. And now, here are all the nominees and winners at the 9th Annual Miles Awards!

BEST PICTURE:

WINNER: The Boy and the Heron

NOMINEES:  

Kokomo City

Our Father, The Devil

Medusa Deluxe

Past Lives

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

American Fiction

The Beasts

LOLA

Viking

 

BEST DIRECTOR:

WINNER: Teemu Nikki—The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

NOMINEES:  

Thomas Hardiman—Medusa Deluxe

Ellie Foumbi—Our Father, The Devil

Rodrigo Sorogoyen—The Beasts

D. Smith—Kokomo City

Jonathan Glazer—The Zone of Interest

Celine Song—Past Lives

Andrew Legge—LOLA

Greta Gerwig—Barbie

Roger Ross Williams—Cassandro

 

BEST LEADING ACTOR:

WINNER: Petri Poikolainen as Jaako Järvinen—The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

NOMINEES:

Babetida Sadjo as Marie Cisse—Our Father, The Devil

Gael García Bernal as Saúl Armendáriz/Cassandro—Cassandro

Denis Ménochet as Antoine—The Beasts

Greta Lee as Nora Moon—Past Lives

Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry—May December

Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama—Perfect Days

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter—Poor Things

Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison—American Fiction

Vivian Oparah as Yas—Rye Lane

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

WINNER: Clare Perkins as Cleve—Medusa Deluxe

Catalina Saavedra as Vero—Rotting in the Sun

Souleymane Sy Savane as Father Patrick—Our Father, The Devil

Rossy de Palma as Masilda—Carmen

Rasti Farooq as Mumtaz—Joyland

Ryan Gosling as Ken—Barbie

Marisa Tomei as Katrina Trento—She Came to Me

Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez as Martín—I Have Electric Dreams

Marina Foïs as Olga—The Beasts

Charles Melton as Joe Yoo—May December

 

BEST CHILD ACTOR:

WINNER: Milo Machado-Graner as Daniel Maleski—Anatomy of a Fall

Dohyun Noel Hwang as Dong-Hyun—Riceboy Sleeps

Joe Bird as Riley—Talk to Me

Ladainian Crazy Thunder as Matho—War Pony

Sally Dramé as Vicky Soler—The Five Devils

Haven Lee Harris as Emma—Moon Garden

 

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE:

WINNER: Medusa Deluxe (Kae Alexander, Heider Ali, Darrell D’Silva, Nicholas Karimi, Lilit Lesser, Kayla Meikle, Luke Pasqualino, Clare Perkins, Debris Stevenson, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Harriet Webb)

 

NOMINEES:

She Came to Me (Peter Dinklage, Evan Ellison, Chris Gethard, Anne Hathaway, Brian d’Arcy James, Harlow Jane, Joanna Kulig, Marisa Tomei)

 

Past Lives (Greta Lee, John Magaro, Seung Ah Moon, Seung Min Yim, Teo Yoo)

 

How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck, Sasha Lane, Jayme Lawson, Marcus Scribner, Jake Weary)

 

Bottoms (Summer Joy Campbell, Ruby Cruz, Ayo Edebiri, Miles Fowler, Nicholas Galitzine, Kaia Gerber, Punkie Johnson, Havana Rose Liu, Marshawn Lynch, Rachel Sennott, Virginia Tucker, Zamani Wilder)

 

You Hurt My Feelings (Jeannie Berlin, Zach Cherry, David Cross, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Arian Moayed, Amber Tamblyn, Owen Teague, Michaela Watkins)

 

Monster (Sakura Andō, Hinata Hiiragi, Sōya Kurokawa, Eita Nagayama, Shidō Nakamura, Mitsuki Takahata, Yūko Tanaka)

 

May December (Gabriel Chung, Piper Curda, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Cory Michael Smith, Elizabeth Yu)

 

Viking (Fabiola N. Aladin, Marie Brassard, Larissa Corriveau, Hamza Haq, Denis Houle, Steve Laplante, Martin-David Peters)

 

All of Us Strangers (Jamie Bell, Claire Foy, Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott)

 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

WINNER: Celine Song—Past Lives

NOMINEES:

Ellie Foumbi—Our Father, The Devil

Hayao Miyazaki—The Boy and the Heron

Nicole Holofcener—You Hurt My Feelings

Samy Burch—May December

Stéphane Lafleur and Éric K. Boulianne—Viking

 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

WINNER: Cord Jefferson—American Fiction

NOMINEES:

Tina Satter and James Paul Dallas—Reality

Jonathan Glazer—The Zone of Interest

Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Dave Callaham—Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Tony McNamara—Poor Things

Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, and Michael Gilio—Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

WINNER: Sari Aaltonen—The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

NOMINEES:

Maria von Hausswolff—Godland

D. Smith—Kokomo City

Robbie Ryan—Medusa Deluxe

Robbie Ryan—Poor Things

Cai Tao—Hidden Blade

Oona Menges—LOLA

Robrecht Heyvaert—Rebel

Cheng Siu-keung—Limbo

Lílis Soares—Mami Wata

 

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:

WINNER: Barbie

NOMINEES:

Poor Things

Moon Garden

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Asteroid City

The Zone of Interest

 

BEST SOUND:

WINNER: The Zone of Interest

NOMINEES:

32 Sounds

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Moon Garden

Barbie

LOLA

 

BEST SCORE:

WINNER: Joe Hisaishi—The Boy and the Heron 

NOMINEES:

Daniel Pemberton—Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Philip Glass and Paul Leonard-Morgan—The Pigeon Tunnel

Laura Karpman—American Fiction

L.U.C.—The Peasants 

Branford Marsalis—Rustin

Olivier Arson—The Beasts 

Jerskin Fendrix—Poor Things

Pierre Földes—Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Marcelo Zarvos—Cassandro

 

BEST SCENE:

WINNER: Talk to Me (Mia’s first possession)

NOMINEES:

Rebel (“Gas Attack”)

May December (“Who was in charge?”)

The Beasts (Antoine in the woods)

The Zone of Interest (Hedwig eats breakfast)

She Came to Me (The Story of the Kreplach)

Perfect Days (Feeling Good)

Barbie (Ruth Handler)

All of Us Strangers (The Diner)

Rotting in the Sun (Moving the couch)

 

Congratulations to all winners and nominees!

 

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic 3 wins, 4 nominations

Medusa Deluxe 2 wins, 5 nominations

The Boy and the Heron 2 wins, 3 nominations

Our Father, The Devil 1 win, 5 nominations

Past Lives 1 win, 5 nominations

The Zone of Interest 1 win, 5 nominations

Barbie 1 win, 5 nominations

American Fiction 1 win, 4 nominations

Talk to Me 1 win, 2 nominations

Anatomy of a Fall 1 win, 1 nomination

The Beasts 6 nominations

May December 5 nominations

Poor Things 5 nominations

LOLA 4 nominations

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 4 nominations

Kokomo City 3 nominations

Viking 3 nominations

Cassandro 3 nominations

She Came to Me 3 nominations

Moon Garden 3 nominations

You Hurt My Feelings 2 nominations

Perfect Days 2 nominations

Rotting in the Sun 2 nominations

All of Us Strangers 2 nominations

Rebel 2 nominations

Rye Lane 1 nomination

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman 1 nomination

Joyland 1 nomination

The Five Devils 1 nomination

Reality 1 nomination

Monster 1 nomination

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 1 nomination

I Have Electric Dreams 1 nomination

Godland 1 nomination

How to Blow Up a Pipeline 1 nomination

Riceboy Sleeps 1 nomination

Asteroid City 1 nomination

Bottoms 1 nomination

Rustin 1 nomination

Mami Wata 1 nomination

32 Sounds 1 nomination

The Pigeon Tunnel 1 nomination

Hidden Blade 1 nomination

Limbo 1 nomination

Carmen 1 nomination

The Peasants 1 nomination

War Pony 1 nomination