<div style="float: right; font-size: smaller; background-color:#E6E6FA; padding: 12px; margin-left: 5em; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 180px" align="center"> <big>22nd SFBAFCC Awards</big><br/> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 9, 2024 </div>
Best Picture:<br> <big>Oppenheimer</big>
Best Animated Feature:<br> <big>The Boy and the Heron</big>
Best Documentary Feature:<br> <big>20 Days in Mariupol</big>
Best International Feature Film:<br> <big>The Zone of Interest</big> </div>
The 22nd San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2023, were given on January 9, 2024. The nominations were announced on January 5, 2024, with Oppenheimer leading the nominations with ten. The film also received the most awards with three wins, including Best Picture; The Zone of Interest also won three awards, including Best Director (Jonathan Glazer) and Best International Feature Film.
These are the nominees for the 22nd SFFCC Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list:
<blockquote>"For being such a Bay Area force and being a beacon of creativity, inspiration and expression. His last film attests to his versatility and his deft comedic hand. It's been quite a year for the San Francisco native. First, he transformed his 2021 art installation, Attack! Decay! Release!, into a moving, raucous multimedia extravaganza melding a feature film with live performance. Then, he premiered his latest feature, The Secret Art of Human Flight, at Tribeca, and toured with it on the festival circuit through the rest of year, collecting awards along the way. His first film not made from his own script, it never the less continues his ongoing exploration of the ties that bind."</blockquote>