Everything Everywhere All at Once was the big feature film winner at this evening’s (1/15) Critics Choice Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, earning Best Picture distinction as well as Best Director (for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, aka Daniels), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Original Screenplay (Kwan and Scheinert) and Best Editing (Paul Rogers).
Cate Blanchett was named Best Actress for Tรกr while Brendan Fraser took the Best Actor honor for The Whale. Angela Bassett won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Women Talking earned Best Original Screenplay for Sarah Polley. Claudio Miranda, ASC won for his cinematography on Top Gun: Maverick, Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino for production design on Babylon, Ruth E. Carter for costume design on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and composer Hildur Guรฐnadรณttir for her Tรกr score. Avatar: The Way of Water topped the visual effects category.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was named Best Animated Feature and RRR took the mantle of Best Foreign Language Film.
On the television front Better Call Saul was the Critics Choice for Best Drama Series, Abbott Elementary was deemed Best Comedy Series, The Dropout topped the Best Limited Series category while Weird: The Al Yankovic Story garnered the honor of Best Movie Made For Television, and Pachinko was dubbed Best Foreign Language Series.
Here’s a full category-by-category rundown of the evening’s winners.
Feature Films
BEST PICTURE
Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ACTOR
Brendan Fraser – The Whale
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Tรกr
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
BEST DIRECTOR
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Claudio Miranda – Top Gun: Maverick
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – Babylon
BEST EDITING
Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Elvis
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water
BEST COMEDY
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
RRR
BEST SONG
“Naatu Naatu” – RRR
BEST SCORE
Hildur Guรฐnadรณttir – Tรกr
Television
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Better Call Saul (AMC)
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul (AMC)
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Zendaya – Euphoria (HBO)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Giancarlo Esposito – Better Call Saul (AMC)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus (HBO)
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear (FX)
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Henry Winkler – Barry (HBO)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
BEST LIMITED SERIES
The Dropout (Hulu)
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)
BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Daniel Radcliffe – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout (Hulu)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Paul Walter Hauser – Black Bird (Apple TV+)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Niecy Nash-Betts – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
Pachinko (Apple TV+)
BEST ANIMATED SERIES
Harley Quinn (HBO Max)
BEST TALK SHOW
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
BEST COMEDY SPECIAL
Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (Netflix)
Special Awards
#SEEHER AWARD
Janelle Monรกe
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Jeff Bridges
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