“Everything Everywhere All at Once” led all films in nominations for the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards, the Critics Choice Association announced Wednesday.
The lighthearted multiverse comedy from directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert earned 14 nominations across 21 film categories, followed by Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” with 11 and Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” and Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin.” with nine.
Those four films were nominated in the Best Picture category along with “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Elvis,” “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” “Tár,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Women Talking and, in the biggest surprise of the nominations, the thunderous Indian epic musical “RRR”.
That last film was nominated for five awards in all, with additional nominations for director SS Rajamouli and for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Visual Effects and Best Song.
In recent years, the Critics Choice Awards have increased the number of nominees in most of its top categories, making it more likely to please as many studios as possible, but less reliable as an Oscar predictor. This year, the Best Picture category had 11 nominees instead of 10 due to what the CEC said was “an exact tie.”
The Best Director category, which recently has been six or seven most years, was expanded to 10. The CEC did not give a reason for that expansion, potentially preventing the all-male directing category from repeating itself in the Golden Globes. The Critics Choice directing category included “Women Talking” director Sarah Polley, as well as “The Woman King” director Gina Prince-Bythewood, whose film was not nominated for Best Picture.
With picture and director expanded and all acting categories with six nominees, the results included nearly all of this season’s presumed top contenders. Notable films missing from the best picture category aside from “The Woman King” included “She Said” and “The Whale,” while actors left out of the nominations included Olivia Colman for “Empire of Light”, Jennifer Lawrence for ” Causeway”, Hugh Jackman for “The Son” and Claire Foy and Ben Whishaw for “Women Talking”.
The Critics Choice Association consists of more than 580 broadcast, radio and online critics and entertainment journalists, making it the largest critics group in the US and Canada. (I am a voting member.)
The Critics Choice Awards will take place on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Television nominations were previously announced, as was the selection of Jeff Bridges to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony.
The complete list of films nominated:
BEST PICTURE
Avatar: The Path of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything everywhere at once
The Fabelmans
Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
RRR
Tar
Top Gun: Maverick
women talking
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-Tar
Viola Davis – The King Woman
Danielle Deadwyler – Until
Margot Robbie – Babylon
Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere At The Same Time
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Dano – The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything everywhere at the same time
Brian Tyree Henry – Driveway
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jessie Buckley – Women Talking
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere At The Same Time
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere At The Same Time
Janelle Monáe – Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Frankie Corio – After the Sun
Jalyn Hall – Up
Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans
Bella Ramsey – Catherine called Birdy
Banks Repeata – Armageddon Time
Sadie Sink – The Whale
BEST PERFORMING ENSEMBLE
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything everywhere at once
The Fabelmans
Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
the king woman
women talking
BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron – Avatar: The Waterway
Damian Chazelle – Babylon
Todd Field–Tar
Baz Luhrmann-Elvis
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything everywhere at the same time
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
SS Rajamouli–RRR
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Todd Field–Tar
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything everywhere at the same time
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
Charlotte Wells – After the Sun
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale
Kazuo Ishiguro – Live
Rian Johnson – Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Russell Carpenter – Avatar: The Waterway
Roger Deakins – Empire of Light
Florian Hoffmeister–Tar
Janusz Kaminski – The Fabelmans
Claudio Miranda – Top Gun: Maverick
Linus Sandgren – Babylon
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Hannah Beachler, Lisa K. Sessions – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Rick Carter, Karen O’Hara – The Fabelmans
Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, Vanessa Cole – Avatar: The Waterway
Jason Kisvarday, Kelsi Ephraim – Everything everywhere at the same time
Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn – Elvis
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – Babylon
BEST EDITION
Tom Cross-Babylo
Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick
Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron – Avatar: The Waterway
Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere At The Same Time
Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond – Elvis
Monika Willi–Tar
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jenny Eagan – Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Shirley Kurata – Everything everywhere at the same time
Catalina Martin – Elvis
Gersha Phillips – The King Woman
Maria Zofres – Babylon
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Babylon
the batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything everywhere at once
The whale
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Path of Water
the batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything everywhere at once
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick
BEST COMEDY
The Banshees of Inisherin
brothers
Everything everywhere at once
Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
triangle of sadness
The unbearable weight of massive talent
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Marcel the shell with his shoes on
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
turning red
wendell and savage
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All calm on the west front
Argentina, 1985
Bardo, false chronicle of a handful of truths
Close
decision to leave
RRR
BEST SONG
Carolina – Where the lobsters sing
Ciao Papa – Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Hold My Hand – Top Gun: Maverick
Pick Me Up – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Naatu Naatu – RRR
New Body Rhumba – White Noise
BEST SCORE
Alexandre Desplat – Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Michael Giacchino-Batman
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Tár
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking
Justin Hurwitz – Babylon
John Williams – The Fabelmans