Killers of the Flower Moon – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

AWFJ EDA Awards 2023 — and the winners are… – Jennifer Merin reports

January 3, 2024 Jennifer Merin American Fiction, Barbie, celine song, EDA Awards 2023, greta gerwig, justine triet, Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone, The Zone of Interest

In 2023, The Zone of Interest picked up awards for both Best Film and Best International Film, Barbie captured four awards, including Best Director for Greta Gerwig, who also shared Best Original Screenplay Award with Noah Baumbach, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Ensemble Cast/Casting Director (tie). Among other awards Killers of the Flower Moon won awards for Best Actress (Lily Gladstone), Best Cinematography (Rodrigo Prieto), Best Editor (Thelma Schoonmaker) and Best Women’s Breakthrough Performance (Lily Gladstone). American Fiction also won multiple awards.

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AWARDS INTELLIGENCER: Oscar Best Picture Noms Are a Muddle – Thelma Adams reports

December 14, 2023February 1, 2026 Thelma Adams All of Us Strangers, American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, awards intelligencer, barbenheimer, Barbie, best picture, fallen leaves, ferrari, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, oscars, past lives, Poor Things, the color purple, The Holdovers, the promised land, The Taste of Things, The Teachers’ Lounge, TÓTEM

The Golden Globe nominations are in, along with those of the National Board of Review winners and a host of critics’ groups – Why is Oscar’s Best Picture still in such a muddle? It seems to me that the potential winners have been split into distinct categories, like potential Jeopardy questions: Barbenheimer; All the Big Dudes; The Cool Kids; The Internationals; and Outlier Odds and Ends.

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AWARDS INTELLIGENCER: The Gotham Awards 2023 – Thelma Adams reports

November 30, 2023December 6, 2023 Thelma Adams A Thousand and One, A.V. Rockwell, Anatomy of a Fall, awards intelligencer, celine song, Charles Menton, Cipriani Downtown, gotham awards 2023, justine triet, Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone, May December, past lives, Sandra Hüller

The Gothams get out in front of the awards season as actors return to the red carpet, and stylists heave sighs of relief. On Monday night, November 27, while I was chugging Nyquil, the Gotham Awards unfolded at Cipriani’s Downtown in Manhattan. First awarded 32 years ago in 1991, the baby sister to the West Coast Film Independent Spirit Awards launched in 1984, the event’s original mission prioritized recognizing indies as opposed to Oscars. It’s since sacrificed some of its indie street cred with a slew of special awards to attract the big-name stars (Leo! Bobby! Penelope! Greta! Bradley! Margot!), exploiting the night’s current position as the first awards ceremony out of the gate.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Susan Granger

October 27, 2023September 28, 2025 Susan Granger Apple TV+, David Grann, eric roth, jesse plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage Nation, robert deniro, tantoo cardinal

Master storyteller Martin Scorsese’s harrowing epic Killers of the Flower Moon relates an American true-crime drama, set in the 1920s. Adapted from David Grann’s nonfiction 2017 best seller, the ambitious, solidly structured screenplay by Eric Roth and Scorsese focuses on the ruthless murders of members of the Osage Nation whom the U.S. government forced out of Kansas to relocate on 2,300 acres if barren land in what is now Oklahoma.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 Valerie Kalfrin David Grann, eric roth, jesse plemons, Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage Nation, Robbie Robertson, robert de niro, Rodrigo Prieto, tantoo cardinal

To the Osage, the flower moon occurs when tiny flowers sprout over the hills in waves of color. Then taller plants pop up among them, stealing their water and sunshine, eventually killing them—the forces that doom them lying among them all along. The film Killers of the Flower Moon doesn’t hammer home the metaphor that author David Grann introduced in his best-selling 2017 book of the same name. But this intricate crime drama about the real-life slayings on the Osage Nation over the inheritance of oil rights gives director Martin Scorsese other allegories. The evil of White supremacy. The poison of greed. The betrayal of native people overall.

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review by Susan Kamyab

October 16, 2023October 19, 2023 Susan Kamyab Killers of the Flower Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, martin scorsese, Osage, robert de niro, truth-based

No surprise, Martin Scorsese hands us another triumph. Though the story of bad people murdering innocent ones and later getting caught is a familiar theme for the director, he revives the formula by telling an infuriating piece of non-fiction which reminds us of a heartbreaking American injustice that deserves to be remembered. It’s an important part of history told masterfully through a slightly comedic tone that makes the horrifying truths easier to digest.