Awards Season 2023: Critics Choice Awards Winners

Yesterday (15th January 2023) saw the 28th Critics Choice Awards. Hosted by Chelsea Handler, they honoured the best of film and TV in 2022 across 37 categories. 

Here are a full list of the Critics' Choice Awards movie winners: 

Best Picture: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actor: Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Best Actress: Cate Blanchett (Tár)

Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Supporting Actress: Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Best Acting Ensemble: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Original Screenplay: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Adapted Screenplay: Women Talking

Best Comedy: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Foreign Language Film: RRR

Best Animated Feature: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Best Score: Tár

Best Song: "Naatu Naatu" (RRR)

Best Production Design: Babylon

Best Editing: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Costume Design: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Hair & Makeup: Elvis

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: The Way Of Water

Best Cinematography: Top Gun: Maverick

Best Young Actor/Actress: Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans)

Everything Everywhere All At Once was the runaway winner of the evening, with five awards. Tár, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, and RRR were the next big winners with each film taking home two awards apiece. 

Congratulations to all winners!

There's a few days off from awards stuff, with the BAFTA Film Awards nominations our next event, coming on Thursday (19th January).

Awards Season 2023: Producers Guild Awards (PGA) Nominations

Just a quick one today (as the actress said to the bishop) as the nominations for the 34th Producers Guild of America (PGA) Awards were announced earlier.

Here they are:

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Banshees of Inisherin

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

The Whale

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Minions: The Rise of Gru

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Turning Red

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures 

(previously announced)

All That Breathes

Descendant

Fire Of Love

Navalny

Nothing Compares

Retrograde

The Territory

A couple of interesting additions for Best Picture: I'm pleased to see both Glass Onion and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever mentioned, with The Whale also a surprise nominee. I think a lot of people were surprised by the omission of Women Talking and Babylon. Whether the Academy will follow suit, who knows? That's all part of the fun.

When the Documentary nominees were announced just before Christmas, there was some surprise that two highly-regarded documentaries, both hyped up for Oscar nominations, were not on the list: they are Moonage Daydream (about David Bowie) and All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (about photographer Nan Goldin and her fight to hold a major pharmaceuticals company accountable for the opioid epidemic). It has, however, been noted that the PGA is not always the best prognosticator of the Documentary Feature category at the Oscars, so both may still get a nod come 24th January. 

The PGAs will be given out on Saturday 25th February 2023

Congratulations to all nominees!

Next stop on the awards season hype-train is the Critics Choice Awards, which will be handed out on Sunday (15th January). 

Awards Season 2023: Critics' Choice Awards Nominations

Yesterday (Wednesday 14th December), the film nominations for the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards were announced. 

Here are a selection of their nominees:

Best Picture

Avatar: The Way Of Water

Babylon

The Banshees Of Inisherin

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All At Once

The Fabelmans

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

RRR

Top Gun: Maverick

Tár

Women Talking

Best Director

James Cameron (Avatar: The Way Of Water)

Damien Chazelle (Babylon)

Todd Field (Tár)

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Baz Luhrmann (Elvis)

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Sarah Polley (Women Talking)

Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King)

S.S. Rajamouli (RRR)

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Best Actor

Austin Butler (Elvis)

Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)

Colin Farrell (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Paul Mescal (Aftersun)

Bill Nighy (Living)

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett (Tár)

Viola Davis (The Woman King)

Danielle Deadwyler (Till)

Margot Robbie (Babylon)

Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Dano (The Fabelmans)

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)

Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans)

Barry Keoghan (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Jessie Buckley (Women Talking)

Kerry Condon (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At One)

Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)

A full list of nominees can be found here. 

Everything Everywhere All At Once garners the most nominations, with a whopping 14 nods. Spielberg's semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans gets 11, whilst The Banshees Of Inisherin and Babylon tie for third with nine apiece. 

The 28th Critics' Choice Awards will be handed out on Sunday 15th January 2023. Broadcast on The CW, Chelsea Handler takes hosting duties for the first time. 

Congratulations to all nominees!

Awards season takes a brief pause over the Christmas period, with the Golden Globes ceremony our next stop, on 10th January 2023.

Awards Season 2023: Golden Globes Nominations

Today (Monday 12th December 2022) saw the announcement of the nominees for the 80th Golden Globe Awards, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Actresses Mayan Lopez (Lopez Vs. Lopez) and Selenis Leyva (Orange Is The New Black, Spider-Man: Homecoming) made the announcement.  

As longtime readers of the blog will be aware, the HFPA split their awards, giving certain categories for both Drama and Musical or Comedy, rather than just going for the out-and-out drama as most awards tend to do.

Below is a selection of the film nominees: 

Best Picture - Drama

Avatar: The Way Of Water

Elvis

The Fabelmans

Tár

Top Gun Maverick

Best Picture - Musical or Comedy

Babylon

The Banshees Of Inisherin

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Triangle Of Sadness

Best Director

James Cameron (Avatar: The Way Of Water)

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Baz Luhrmann (Elvis)

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

Best Actor - Drama

Austin Butler (Elvis)

Brendan Fraser (The Whale)

Hugh Jackman (The Son)

Bill Nighy (Living)

Jeremy Pope (The Inspection)

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Diego Calva (Babylon)

Daniel Craig (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)

Adam Driver (White Noise)

Colin Farrell (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Ralph Fiennes (The Menu)

Best Actress - Drama

Cate Blanchett (Tár)

Olivia Colman (Empire Of Light)

Viola Davis (The Woman King)

Ana de Armas (Blonde)

Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris)

Margot Robbie (Babylon)

Anya Taylor-Joy (The Menu)

Emma Thompson (Good Luck To You, Leo Grande)

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Barry Keoghan (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Brad Pitt (Babylon)

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Eddie Redmayne (The Good Nurse)

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Kerry Condon (The Banshees Of Inisherin)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Dolly de Leon (Triangle Of Sadness)

Carey Mulligan (She Said)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

The Banshees Of Inisherin gets the most film nominations, with eight total. Everything Everywhere All At Once comes in second with six, and Babylon has five. 

I'm pleased to see The Banshees Of Inisherin doing so well, as it was a thoroughly enjoyable dark comedy. I'm also glad to see Angela Bassett's nod for her stoic and dignified performance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. 

The Golden Globes will be handed out in a ceremony on Tuesday 10th January 2023. After a year away from being broadcast (due to the myriad issues the HFPA were going through), it'll be back on screens (shown on NBC), with stand-up comedian Jerrod Carmichael hosting. 

Congratulations to all nominees!

On Wednesday (14th December), the Critics' Choice Award nominees will be announced.