Awards Season 2026: Critics' Choice Awards and Golden Globes Winners

I'll be very honest with you all, my loves, I wasn't 100% sure I was going to cover any stuff for the 2026 awards season. The world's a raging dumpster fire of hate, division and general shittiness; personally, the end of last year and the beginning of this one haven't been the best (putting it ever so mildly), and this unashamedly self-indulgent pastime felt more hollow and more farcical than usual in the backdrop of these things. 

And yet... as shallow and as narcissistic as awards season can get, and with what little actual importance can be attached to these baubles, it's still a brief little moment of respite, a place to breathe and pause against the relentless rage-inducing nightmare we're currently going through. I shouldn't deny myself any moment of respite against this hellscape - it's sadly still going to be there when I stop looking at which movies have been awarded stuff. And if I am going to keep on with my Oscar predictions, you should at least see some of the data I'm working with. 

So, I'm not going to go backwards and discuss the nominations for awards which have already been handed out. But I will show you the winners. 

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CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS

The 31st Critics' Choice Awards were handed out on Sunday January 4th 2026 in a ceremony at the Barker Hanger at the Santa Monica Airport. Stand-up comedian Chelsea Handler returned as host for the fourth consecutive year. 

Ryan Coogler's period horror Sinners led the nominations with an amazing 17 nods across all categories, with Paul Thomas Anderson's black comedy action thriller One Battle After Another coming second with 14.

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

Best Picture: One Battle After Another

Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

Best Actress: Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Best Supporting Actor: Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan (Weapons)

Best Casting/Ensemble: Sinners

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Best Original Screenplay: Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another

Best Comedy: The Naked Gun

Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret Agent

Best Animated Feature: KPop Demon Hunters

Best Score: Sinners

Best Song: "Golden" (KPop Demon Hunters)

Best Sound: F1

Best Production Design: Frankenstein

Best Editing: F1

Best Costume Design: Frankenstein

Best Hair & Makeup: Frankenstein

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire And Ash

Best Stunt Design: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Best Cinematography: Train Dreams

Best Young Actor/Actress: Miles Caton (Sinners)

Sinners and Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein share the most awards with both winning four gongs each, One Battle After Another takes three, and animated musical KPop Demon Hunters and sports drama F1 have two apiece.

Quite a bit of comment was given about the winners in the Supporting acting categories, with both Jacob Elordi and Amy Madigan winning gongs for their roles in horror films - Elordi as Frankenstein's Creature and Madigan as the malevolent Aunt Gladys. But as you're about to see, these might be outliers. 

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GOLDEN GLOBES

The 83rd Golden Globe Awards were handed out on Sunday January 11th 2026 at a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. Stand-up comedian Nikki Glaser returned to host for a second year running. 

One Battle After Another led the nominations with nine, whilst Joachim Trier's Norwegian family drama Sentimental Value came second with eight. 

Here is the full list of film winners.

Best Motion Picture (Drama): Hamnet

Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy): One Battle After Another

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Best Actor (Drama): Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

Best Actor (Comedy or Musical): Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

Best Actress (Drama): Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Best Actress (Comedy or Musical): Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You)

Best Supporting Actor: Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

Best Supporting Actress: Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Best Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)

Best Original Song: "Golden" (KPop Demon Hunters)

Best Foreign Language Film: The Secret Agent

Best Animated Feature Film: KPop Demon Hunters

Cinematic And Box Office Achievement: Sinners

Cecil B. DeMille Award: Helen Mirren

One Battle After Another walked away with the most Globes, winning four, whilst Shakespearean drama Hamnet, Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent, KPop Demon Hunters, and Sinners also won two each. 

Quite a few surprises here, namely the wins for Teyana Taylor, Rose Byrne and Wagner Moura. Moura becomes the first Brazilian actor to win a Best Actor award at the Globes, his win an echo of Fernanda Torres' surprise win at last year's Globes for Best Actress (Drama) for I'm Still Here. I'd hazard to guess that the definition of "musical/comedy" was stretched to breaking point to justify Byrne being nominated in that category as the film sounds about as funny as The Martian. Oh wait... But Byrne is a great actress and, even if there has been a bit of category fraud going on, her win is deserved. 

There's a couple of things us prognosticators need to remember though, lest these results cloud things too much: firstly, the Golden Globes split a couple of the acting categories into drama and comedy/musical, and traditionally the Oscars favour drama; secondly, the make-up of the voters for the Golden Globes is a FRACTION of that which vote for the Oscars so we shouldn't necessarily read TOO much into this. 

That said, Jessie Buckley, Timothée Chalamet and Paul Thomas Anderson might be clearing a bit of space on the mantelpiece for the Little Naked Gold Men. 

In the next few days, I'll post about the nominations for the Actor Awards (previously the SAG Awards) and the PGA/DGA nods, as we have over a week until the next major awards season stop... the nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, which will be announced on Thursday 22nd January 2026!

Yes, this year the Oscar nominations are out before the BAFTAs (BAFTAs are out on Tuesday January 27th 2026, although their longlists have already been revealed) so I don't have the usual full set of nominations to work with. But it'll be fine. It's all just a bit of fun. 

Awards Season 2025: Critics Choice Awards Winners

Surprise awards season news! 

This passed me by, until I saw some of the winners announced on social media, but yesterday (Friday 7th February 2025) saw the 30th Critics Choice Awards handed out. 

Hosted by Chelsea Handler for the third year in a row, they honoured the best of film and TV in 2024 across 37 categories. Originally due to be handed out on 14th January, the awards were postponed twice (first to 26th January and then to a TBC date in February) due to the L.A. wildfires. Unsurprisingly, and rightly so, many of the acceptance speeches thanked first responders and emergency service personnel for their hard work. 

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

Best Picture: Anora

Best Actor: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)

Best Actress: Demi Moore (The Substance)

Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)

Best Supporting Actress: Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

Best Acting Ensemble: Conclave

Best Director: Jon M. Chu (Wicked)

Best Original Screenplay: The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay: Conclave

Best Comedy: A Real Pain and Deadpool & Wolverine (tie)

Best Foreign Language Film: Emilia Pérez

Best Animated Feature: The Wild Robot

Best Score: Challengers

Best Song: "El Mal" (Emilia Pérez)

Best Production Design: Wicked

Best Editing: Challengers

Best Costume Design: Wicked

Best Hair & Makeup: The Substance

Best Visual Effects: Dune: Part Two

Best Cinematography: Nosferatu

Best Young Actor/Actress: Maisy Stella (My Old Ass)

Emilia Pérez, The Substance, and Wicked were the big winners of the night, each taking three awards apiece; behind them are A Real Pain, Conclave, and Challengers with two each. 

There's a definite feel of "all shall have prizes" this time round; there's no one film dominating the awards chatter. Well, that's not strictly true, given the damage limitation the Emilia Pérez PR team are having to do at the moment... It's worth pointing out, however, the winners of these awards have been in place since 10th/11th January, before Karla Sofía Gascón's previous social media posts came to light. I personally don't think Zoe Saldaña has much to worry about; she's the definite frontrunner for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. But it will be interesting to see if Gascón's previous inflammatory rhetoric dents the film's chances for other categories, most notably Best International/Foreign Language Film and Best Picture. 

I'm pleased to see Conclave getting the Adapted Screenplay and Acting Ensemble awards (it's a stellar cast in a superbly written script). I'm also happy to see Deadpool & Wolverine get a bit of awards love; it was a supremely silly, profane but enjoyable piece of cinema. Jon M. Chu's Best Director win elicited a lot of cheers and applause; I think a lot of people feel he's been unfairly sidelined in the Best Director conversation (in fact, the Critics Choice Awards are his only Best Director nomination in the major movie awards this season). It may be that that gets rectified next year with the release of this year's Wicked: Part 2 (now retitled Wicked: For Good). 

Congratulations to all winners!

Two of the major guilds give out their awards today (Saturday 8th February 2025), so there'll be a post tomorrow with the results of the Directors Guild Awards (DGA) and Producers Guild Awards (PGA). I'm expecting good news for The Brutalist in both sets of awards. Call it a hunch. 

Awards Season 2025: Critics' Choice Awards Nominations

This afternoon (Thursday 12th December), the film nominations for the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards were announced. 

Here are a selection of their nominees:

Best Picture

A Complete Unknown 

Anora 

The Brutalist 

Conclave 

Dune: Part Two 

Emilia Pérez 

Nickel Boys 

Sing Sing 

The Substance 

Wicked

Best Director

Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)

Sean Baker (Anora)

Edward Berger (Conclave)

Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)

Jon M. Chu (Wicked)

Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two)

Best Actor

Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)

Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)

Daniel Craig (Queer)

Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)

Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)

Hugh Grant (Heretic) 

Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)

Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)

Angelina Jolie (Maria)

Mikey Madison (Anora)

Demi Moore (The Substance)

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov (Anora)

Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)

Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin (Sing Sing) 

Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown)

Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)

Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)

Best Supporting Actress

Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys)

Ariana Grande-Butera (Wicked)

Margaret Qualley (The Substance)

Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)

Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

A full list of nominees can be found here. 

Conclave and Wicked lead the pack with 11 nominations apiece; Emilia Pérez and Dune: Part Two have 10, whilst The Brutalist gets nine. 

As is usual, there's a lot of the same names coming up in the various awards bodies. Of course, nothing's ever certain until the nominations are announced but you can definitely see the way the wind is blowing for this awards season. Still time for some interesting curveballs though before we get to the Oscar nominations. 

The 30th Critics' Choice Awards will be handed out on Sunday 12th January 2025. Broadcast on The CW, Chelsea Handler will return for hosting duties for the third year running. 

Congratulations to all nominees!

Awards nonsense pauses over the next couple of weeks so everyone can enjoy the holidays. We'll be getting back on the awards trail in early January, with the Golden Globes being handed out on 5th January 2025. 

Awards Season 2024: Critics Choice Awards Winners

 

Yesterday (14th January 2024) saw the 29th Critics Choice Awards. Hosted by Chelsea Handler for the second year in a row, 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: Oppenheimer

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)

Best Actress: Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best Acting Ensemble: Oppenheimer

Best Director: Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Best Original Screenplay: Barbie

Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction

Best Comedy: Barbie

Best Foreign Language Film: Anatomy Of A Fall

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse

Best Score: Oppenheimer

Best Song: "I'm Just Ken" (Barbie)

Best Production Design: Barbie

Best Editing: Oppenheimer

Best Costume Design: Barbie

Best Hair & Makeup: Barbie

Best Visual Effects: Oppenheimer

Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer

Best Young Actor/Actress: Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers)

Oppenheimer took away eight awards, whilst Barbie took home six. The "Barbenheimer" juggernaut continues...

Congratulations to all winners!

Up next this awards season are the BAFTA Film Award nominations, which will be announced on Thursday (18th January 2024).

Awards Season 2024: Critics' Choice Awards Nominations

This afternoon (Wednesday 13th December), the film nominations for the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards were announced. 

Here are a selection of their nominees:

Best Picture

American Fiction

Barbie

The Color Purple

The Holdovers

Killers Of The Flower Moon

Maestro

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Saltburn

Best Director

Bradley Cooper (Maestro)

Greta Gerwig (Barbie)

Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)

Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Alexander Payne (The Holdovers)

Martin Scorsese (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Best Actor

Bradley Cooper (Maestro)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Colman Domingo (Rustin)

Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)

Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Best Actress

Lily Gladstone (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Sandra Hüller (Anatomy Of A Fall)

Greta Lee (Past Lives)

Carey Mulligan (Maestro)

Margot Robbie (Barbie)

Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)

Robert De Niro (Killers Of The Flower Moon)

Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Ryan Gosling (Barbie)

Charles Melton (May December)

Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)

Best Supporting Actress

Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)

Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple)

America Ferrera (Barbie)

Jodie Foster (Nyad)

Julianne Moore (May December)

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

A full list of nominees can be found here. 

Barbie leads the field with a record-breaking 18 nominations (surpassing last year's record-breaking haul of 14 by Everything Everywhere All At Once; Barbie received nominations in 16 of the 21 film categories and- as with the Golden Globes- snagged three Best Original Song nods). Oppenheimer and Poor Things are second, with 13 nods apiece, and Killers Of The Flower Moon in third with 12 nominations. 

The 29th Critics' Choice Awards will be handed out on Sunday 14th January 2024. Broadcast on The CW, Chelsea Handler will return for hosting duties for the second year running. 

Congratulations to all nominees!

Awards season takes a brief pause over the Christmas period, with the Golden Globes ceremony our next stop, on 7th January 2024.

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: 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 2022: Directors' Guild Awards (DGA) Winners, BAFTA Film Awards Winners, and Critics Choice Awards Winners

 

Amazing, isn't it? You wait a week for some awards news and then- like buses- three lots turn up at once! Our awards cup metaphorically (and potentially physically) runneth over...

Yep, lots of awards goodness for y'all today, so let's jump in!

DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS

On Saturday (12th March), the Directors' Guild Awards (DGA) were handed out. The film winners are:

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Films: Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Miniseries: Barry Jenkins (The Underground Railroad)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary: Stanley Nelson (Attica)

Campion becomes the third female director to win the DGA, and is surely odds-on favourite to win the Oscar. [Spoiler alert: this isn't Campion's first Best Director win of the weekend.] This year also marks the first time that female directors have won both the Feature Film and First-Time Feature Film awards. 

BAFTA FILM AWARDS

Yesterday evening (13th March 2022), at the Royal Albert Hall, the 75th British Academy Film Awards were given out in a star-studded ceremony, hosted for the first time by Rebel Wilson. 

Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Stephen Graham, Troy Kotsur, Ariana DeBose, Joanna Scanlan, Caitriona Balfe, Sebastian Stan, Florence Pugh, Rachel Zegler, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lashana Lynch, Tom Hiddleston, and Kodi Smith-McPhee were among some of the stars in attendance to celebrate the best in film in a very different ceremony to the two-day, socially-distanced, and Zoom-heavy event held in 2021.

Here's a full list of BAFTA winners.

Best Film: The Power of the Dog

Outstanding British Film: Belfast

Leading Actor: Will Smith (King Richard)

Leading Actress: Joanna Scanlan (After Love)

Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur (CODA)

Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Director: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Original Screenplay: Licorice Pizza

Adapted Screenplay: CODA

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer: Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) (The Harder They Fall) 

Animated Film: Encanto

Documentary: Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Film Not In The English Language: Drive My Car

Cinematography: Dune

Costume Design: Cruella

Editing: No Time To Die

Make Up And Hair: The Eyes Of Tammy Faye

Original Music: Dune

Production Design: Dune

Sound: Dune

Special Visual Effects: Dune

Casting: West Side Story

Short Animation: Do Not Feed The Pigeons

Short Film: The Black Cop

Rising Star: Lashana Lynch

Dune was the big winner of the night, taking home five Baftas. West Side Story, CODA, and The Power Of The Dog all took home two apiece. 

Despite multiple nominations, there was no love for Passing, House Of Gucci, Don't Look Up, Cyrano, or The French Dispatch. 

A couple of surprises in the BAFTA results: one bloody lovely one with Joanna Scanlan taking home Best Actress (and, yes, whilst the BAFTAs do tend to skew towards British talent, it's still a remarkable achievement). By that same token, I was surprised that Will Smith won Best Actor, as I was expecting it to go to Benedict Cumberbatch. Dune's dominance in the craft awards wasn't so much of a surprise, and it's something I would think will carry through to the Oscars. 

CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS

Also yesterday (13th March 2022), the 27th Critics Choice Awards were handed out. Taye Diggs returned for a fourth consecutive time as host, joined by Nicole Byer (Nailed It!, Brooklyn Nine-Nine). 

These were originally due to be given out at the start of January but the ceremony was delayed due to COVID-related concerns. It just so happened that the new date coincided with the BAFTAs. Awkward...

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

Best Picture: The Power Of The Dog

Best Actor: Will Smith (King Richard)

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes Of Tammy Faye)

Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur (CODA)

Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Best Acting Ensemble: Belfast

Best Director: Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog)

Best Original Screenplay: Belfast

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Power Of The Dog

Best Comedy: Licorice Pizza

Best Foreign Language Film: Drive My Car

Best Animated Feature: The Mitchells Vs. The Machines

Best Score: Dune

Best Song: "No Time To Die" (No Time To Die)

Best Production Design: Dune

Best Editing: West Side Story

Best Costume Design: Cruella

Best Hair & Makeup: The Eyes Of Tammy Faye

Best Visual Effects: Dune

Best Cinematography: The Power Of The Dog

Best Young Actor/Actress: Jude Hill (Belfast)

The Power Of The Dog was the big winner, with four awards. Belfast and Dune have three apiece. 

So where does all of this leave the Oscars race? Honestly, anything can happen and it's not a done deal until you hear "And the Oscar goes to..." (although even then it's not always guaranteed; hi, La La Land). That said, I would say Will Smith, Troy Kotsur, Ariana DeBose, and Jane Campion wouldn't be overly presumptuous to clear some space on the mantelpiece for a certain statuette. The big variable is Best Actress; unlike the other acting categories, there hasn't been a runaway winner (although Chastain's win here, coupled with the SAG Award, potentially boosts her chances). As it stands, I've only seen two of the five Best Actress nominees so I can't really judge at the moment. Definitely have a bit of catching up to do...

Congratulations to all winners!

We are getting to the sharp end of the 2022 awards season, with just two weeks until the 94th Academy Awards. But before we get there, next weekend (19th/20th March) will see the other major guilds- the Producers' Guild and the Writers' Guild- announce the winners of their respective awards. 

You can rest assured the update about those will be a damn sight shorter than this one!

Awards Season 2022: Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Awards, and Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

 

Well, this was a surprise. Awards season 2022 has properly snuck up on me. I didn't even have a chance to do my usual "For Your Consideration" post. Ah well, no matter. What's important is that we're here. 

Over the last two days, we've had three sets of awards nominations. So here we go!

GOLDEN GLOBES NOMINATIONS

Yesterday (Monday 13th December 2021) saw the announcement of the nominees for the 79th Golden Globe Awards, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). HFPA president Helen Hoehne and Snoop Dogg announced the nominees. 

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

Belfast

CODA

Dune

King Richard

The Power Of The Dog

Best Picture - Musical or Comedy

Cyrano

Don't Look Up

Licorice Pizza

tick, tick… Boom!

West Side Story

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog)

Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)

Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

Best Actor - Drama

Mahershala Ali (Swan Song)

Javier Bardem (Being The Ricardos)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power Of The Dog)

Will Smith (King Richard)

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy Of Macbeth)

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Leonardo DiCaprio (Don't Look Up)

Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)

Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… Boom!)

Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza)

Anthony Ramos (In The Heights)

Best Actress - Drama

Jessica Chastain (The Eyes Of Tammy Faye)

Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)

Nicole Kidman (Being The Ricardos)

Lady Gaga (House Of Gucci)

Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Marion Cotillard (Annette)

Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)

Jennifer Lawrence (Don't Look Up)

Emma Stone (Cruella)

Rachel Zegler (West Side Story)

Best Supporting Actor

Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar)

Jamie Dornan (Belfast)

Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)

Troy Kotsur (CODA)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power Of The Dog)

Best Supporting Actress

Caitriona Balfe (Belfast)

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power Of The Dog)

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Ruth Negga (Passing)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

The Power Of The Dog leads the pack with seven nods, whilst Belfast is one behind on six. King Richard, Don't Look Up, Licorice Pizza, and West Side Story have four apiece. 

It has been something of a torrid year for the HFPA, with reports of its lack of membership diversity and issues over transparency (amongst others) leading to various boycotts and NBC announcing they would not broadcast the 2021 Golden Globes. It was telling that many TV stations didn't send a camera crew to the announcement, although it was available to be streamed online (and there's still the matter of COVID to deal with). Nonetheless, the HFPA will still hand the Golden Globes out on Sunday 9th January 2022. But they won't be the only awards body to do so...

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CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS

As if the Golden Globes weren't excitement enough, yesterday also saw the announcement of the movie nominations for the 27th Annual Critics' Choice Awards.

Here are a selection of their nominees:

Best Picture

Belfast

CODA

Don't Look Up

Dune

King Richard

Licorice Pizza

Nightmare Alley

The Power Of The Dog

tick, tick… Boom!

West Side Story

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)

Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)

Jane Campion (The Power Of The Dog)

Guillermo del Toro (Nightmare Alley)

Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

Denis Villeneuve (Dune)

Best Actor

Nicolas Cage (Pig)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power Of The Dog)

Peter Dinklage (Cyrano)

Andrew Garfield (tick, tick… Boom!)

Will Smith (King Richard)

Denzel Washington (The Tragedy Of Macbeth)

Best Actress

Jessica Chastain (The Eyes Of Tammy Faye)

Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)

Alana Haim (Licorice Pizza)

Nicole Kidman (Being The Ricardos)

Lady Gaga (House Of Gucci)

Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Best Supporting Actor

Jamie Dornan (Belfast)

Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)

Troy Kotsur (CODA)

Jared Leto (House Of Gucci)

J.K. Simmons (Being The Ricardos)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power Of The Dog)

Best Supporting Actress

Caitriona Balfe (Belfast)

Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Ann Dowd (Mass)

Kirsten Dunst (The Power Of The Dog)

Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Rita Moreno (West Side Story)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

Belfast and West Side Story both have 11 nominations, whilst The Power Of The Dog and Dune have 10 apiece.

On a personal note, I'm over the moon to see Rita Moreno get a nod for her role in the new version of West Side Story (she plays Valentina, the owner of the drugstore that Tony works at). Here's hoping she gets an Oscar nod as well. 

The 27th Critics' Choice Awards will be handed out on Sunday 9th January 2022, in a ceremony co-hosted by Taye Diggs (returning to hosting duties for the fourth time) and Nicole Byer. The Critics' Choice Awards will be broadcast on The CW and TBS. 

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FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS NOMINATIONS

If yesterday's double whammy wasn't enough awards news, today (Tuesday 14th December) saw the announcement of the nominees for the 37th Film Independent Spirit Awards, announced by Beanie Feldstein, Regina Hall, and Naomi Watts. Truly our cup runneth over. 

As you're probably aware by now, these awards recognise films made wholly or partly outside the traditional studio system. The budget for eligible films is $22.5 million (meaning films like The Power Of The Dog, Don't Look Up, tick, tick... Boom!, Belfast, and The Harder They Fall would be ineligible for Independent Spirit consideration). 

Below is a selection of nominations:

Best Feature

A Chiara

C'mon C'mon

The Lost Daughter

The Novice

Zola

Best Director

Janicza Bravo (Zola)

Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)

Lauren Hadaway (The Novice)

Mike Mills (C'mon C'mon)

Ninja Thyberg (Pleasure)

Best Male Lead

Clifton Collins, Jr. (Jockey)

Frankie Faison (The Killing Of Kenneth Chamberlain)

Michael Greyeyes (Wild Indian)

Udo Kier (Swan Song)

Simon Rex (Red Rocket)

Best Female Lead

Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice)

Brittany S. Hall (Test Pattern)

Patti Harrison (Together Together)

Taylour Paige (Zola)

Taylor Reece (Catch The Fair One)

Best Supporting Male

Colman Domingo (Zola)

Meeko Gattuso (Queen Of Glory)

Troy Kotsur (CODA)

Will Patton (Sweet Thing)

Chaske Spencer (Wild Indian)

Best Supporting Female

Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)

Amy Forsyth (The Novice)

Ruth Negga (Passing)

Revika Anne Reustle (Pleasure)

Suzanna Son (Red Rocket)

A full list of nominees can be found here.

Zola leads the nominations with seven, The Novice has five, whilst The Lost Daughter and Wild Indian each have four. 

Also, for anyone who cares, the Swan Song that Udo Kier has received a Best Actor nod for is not the same as the Swan Song that Mahershala Ali got a Golden Globe Best Actor nom for- Kier plays an ageing hairdresser who escapes his nursing home to do a former client's hair one last time, whilst Ali plays a terminally ill man who clones himself in order to save his wife and son from grief (he also plays the clone). 

Changing things up a little, the Film Independent Spirit Awards will be given out in a ceremony on the Santa Monica beachfront on Saturday 6th March 2022.  

Congratulations to all nominees!

So, we are off again on the awards trail. Luckily the next stop isn't until January (when the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice Awards will be handed out).