The Best Film Performances of 2023

Margot Robbie, Emma Stone and Michael Fassbender were some of the acting MVPs this year

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Adam Chitwood, TheGrill 2023
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We came to appreciate actors more than ever in 2023. Due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, all movie and TV stars were off screens and on the streets for nearly four months, causing us to question how their absence would affect entertainment well into 2024.

This year’s acting crop was some of the best, in performances both large and small. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling made one of pop culture’s most famous couples, Barbie and Ken, funny as well as painfully relatable in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.”

Coldhearted potential sociopaths like Michael Fassbender’s unnamed killer in David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Barry Keoghan’s Oliver Quick in “Saltburn” had us questioning our society.

Kristen Lopez

Kristen Lopez joined TheWrap as Film Editor in 2022. She has been a pop culture essayist, critic, and editor whose articles have appeared at Variety, MTV, TCM, and Roger Ebert. She was previously the TV Editor for IndieWire where she was nominated for a SoCal Journalism Award and National Journalism Award by the LA Press…
Adam Chitwood, TheGrill 2023

Adam Chitwood

Adam joined TheWrap in 2021 after working for over a decade at Collider, where he spent five years as Managing Editor after previously serving as Deputy Editor at the entertainment website. He helped build and manage the site’s content strategy, streaming recommendations library and even dabbled in awards season coverage while also overseeing day-to-day operations…

Haleigh Foutch

Haleigh has been covering the film, television and entertainment beat for more than a decade. She joined TheWrap in 2022 after nearly a decade at Collider, where she worked in a variety of roles, including Managing Editor and Senior Editor of Analytics and Content Strategy. Haleigh also co-created “The Witching Hour” podcast, lent her horror…

Drew Taylor

Drew Taylor is a reporter at TheWrap. Before joining the organization in 2021, Drew was a freelance film journalist with a keen interest in animation and Disney history. Drew has been covering film, television and theme parks for 15 years. He has written for the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Time Out…

Dessi Gomez

“Dessi has been with TheWrap for over a year, during which she has carved out the niche beat of book-to-screen adaptations and targeting helpful search articles. Whenever she can, she will write about Taylor Swift. Before joining TheWrap in 2021, Dessi interned for the Arts News Desk at the Los Angeles Times. She also completed…

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