Phoenix Critics Circle Awards

Best Director

Year Winner Recipients
2024 The Brutalist Brady Corbet
2023 Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
2021 The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
2020 Nomadland Chloé Zhao
2019 Parasite Bong Joon-ho
2018 Roma Alfonso Cuarón
2017 Dunkirk Christopher Nolan
2016 La La Land Damien Chazelle

Best Actor

Year Winner Recipients
2024 The Brutalist Adrien Brody
2023 Oppenheimer Cillian Murphy
2022 The Whale Brendan Fraser
2021 The Power of the Dog Benedict Cumberbatch
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Chadwick Boseman
2019 Marriage Story Adam Driver
2018 First Reformed Ethan Hawke
2017 Call Me by Your Name Timothée Chalamet
2016 Manchester by the Sea Casey Affleck

Best Actress

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Anora Mikey Madison
2023 Poor Things Emma Stone
2022 TÁR Cate Blanchett
2021 Spencer Kristen Stewart
2020 Promising Young Woman Carey Mulligan
2019 Us Lupita Nyong'o
2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy
2017 The Shape of Water Sally Hawkins
2016 Jackie Natalie Portman

Best Supporting Actor

Year Winner Recipients
2024 A Real Pain Kieran Culkin
2023 Oppenheimer Robert Downey Jr.
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Ke Huy Quan
2021 West Side Story Mike Faist
2020 Judas and the Black Messiah Daniel Kaluuya
2019 Parasite Song Kang-ho
2018 Can You Ever Forgive Me? Richard E. Grant
2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Sam Rockwell
2016 Moonlight Mahershala Ali

Best Supporting Actress

Year Winner Recipients
2024 The Substance Margaret Qualley
2023 The Holdovers Da'Vine Joy Randolph
2022 Nope Keke Palmer
2021 The Power of the Dog Kirsten Dunst
2020 Minari Youn Yuh-jung
2019 Jojo Rabbit Thomasin McKenzie
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk Regina King
2017 Lady Bird Laurie Metcalf
2016 Fences Viola Davis

Best Screenplay

Year Winner Recipients
2024 A Real Pain Jesse Eisenberg
2023 The Holdovers David Hemingson
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
2021 Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
2020 One Night in Miami... Kemp Powers
2019 Knives Out Rian Johnson
2018 The Favourite Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
2017 Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
2016 The Lobster Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos

Best Animated Feature

Year Winner Recipients
2024 The Wild Robot
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2022 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2021 The Mitchells vs. the Machines
2020 Soul
2019 Toy Story 4
2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2017 Coco
2016 Kubo and the Two Strings

Best International Film

Year Winner Recipients
2024 All We Imagine as Light
2023 The Zone of Interest
2022 RRR
2021 Drive My Car
2020 Minari
2019 Parasite
2018 Roma
2017 Raw
2016 The Handmaiden

Best Documentary

Year Winner Recipients
2023 Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie