Imaginary Cinema Awards for 2023

 It's that time of year again! Just ahead of the Oscars, here's my awards for the best in fantasy, horror and sci-fi movies for the year they're already calling 2023.

Best Movie: Godzilla Minus One

Runners-up: Poor Things, Barbie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Boy and the Heron, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, They Cloned Tyrone

Best Screenplay: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Dave Callaham, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)

Best Direction: Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Best Actor: Michael Keaton (The Flash)

Runners-up: Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things), Willem Dafoe (Poor Things), Ryan Gosling (Barbie), Hugh Grant (Dungeons and Dragons), Nicolas Cage (Renfield)

Best Actress: Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Runners-up: Margot Robbie (Barbie), America Ferrera (Barbie), Hailee Steinfeld (Across the Spider-Verse), Michelle Pfeiffer (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Best Music: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Daniel Pemberton)

Runners-up: The Boy and the Heron (Joe Hisaishi), Barbie (various)

Best Sound: The Creator

Runner-up: Godzilla Minus One

Best Visual Effects: Godzilla Minus One

Runner-up: The Creator

Best Production Design: Barbie

Runner-up: Poor Things

Best Cinematography: El Conde

Runner-up: Poor Things

Best Make-up: Poor Things

Best Costumes: Barbie

Runner-up: Poor Things

Best/worst cameo: Nicolas Cage in The Flash. Great that we finally got to see his Superman. Shame it was a CGI mess. 

Disappointment of the Year: Quantumania and Indiana Jones 5 tied for biggest disappointment.

Most pointless sequel/remake: Indy again. They really made him an old man yelling at kids to turn down that Beatles music.

Guilty Pleasure: Five Nights at Freddy’s wasn’t terrible.