The 28th annual Critics Choice Awards took place on Sunday. The event, which was held in Los Angeles, was hosted by Chelsea Handler for the CW broadcast. In particular, it was a big day for India as RRR won the awards for Best Foreign Language Film and once again bagged the Best Song for Naatu Naatu. This comes as the second International award for RRR after Naatu Naatu won an award for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes last week.
On that note, from Everything Everywhere All at Once winning Best Picture; Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, to RRR bagging Best Foreign Language Film and Best Song, here is the list of winners:
Best Picture
Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Other nominees: Avatar: The Way of Water, Babylon, The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, The Fabelmans, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, RRR, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick, Women Talking
Best Actor
Winner: Brendan Fraser for The Whale
Other Nominees: Austin Butler (Elvis), Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick), Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin), Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Bill Nighy (Living)
Best Actress
Winner: Cate Blanchett for Tár
Other Nominees: 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
Winner: Ke Huy Quan for Everything Everywhere All at Once
Other Nominees: Paul Dano (The Fabelmans), Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin), Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans), Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin), Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway)
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Angela Bassett for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Other Nominees: Jessie Buckley (Women Talking), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin), Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Best Young Actor/Actress
Winner:Gabriel LaBelle for The Fabelmans
Other Nominees: Frankie Corio (Aftersun), Jalyn Hall (Till), Bella Ramsey (Catherine Called Birdy), Banks Repeta (Armageddon Time), Sadie Sink (The Whale)
Best Acting Ensemble
Winner: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Other nominees: The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, The Woman King, Women Talking
Best Director
Winner: Daniel Kwan, and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once
Other nominees: James Cameron (Avatar: The Way of Water), Damien Chazelle (Babylon), Todd Field (Tár), 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 Original Screenplay
Winner: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once
Other nominees: Todd Field (Tár), Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin), Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner (The Fabelmans), Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Sarah Polley for Women Talking
Other nominees: Samuel D. Hunter (The Whale), Kazuo Ishiguro (Living), Rian Johnson (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Rebecca Lenkiewicz (She Said)
Best Cinematography
Winner: Claudio Miranda for Top Gun: Maverick
Other nominees: Russell Carpenter (Avatar: The Way of Water), Roger Deakins (Empire of Light), Florian Hoffmeister (Tár), Janusz Kaminski (The Fabelmans), Linus Sandgren (Babylon)
Best Production Design
Winner: Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino for Babylon
Other nominees: Hannah Beachler, Lisa K. Sessions (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Rick Carter, Karen O’Hara (The Fabelmans), Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, Vanessa Cole (Avatar: The Way of Water), Jason Kisvarday, Kelsi Ephraim (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn (Elvis)
Best Editing
Winner: Paul Rogers for Everything Everywhere All at Once
Other nominees: Tom Cross (Babylon), Eddie Hamilton (Top Gun: Maverick), Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron (Avatar: The Way of Water), Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond (Elvis), Monika Willi (Tár)
Best Costume Design
Winner: Ruth E. Carter for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Other nominees: Jenny Eagan (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Shirley Kurata (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Catherine Martin (Elvis), Gersha Phillips (The Woman King), Mary Zophres (Babylon)
Best Hair and Makeup
Winner: Elvis
Other nominees: Babylon, The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Whale
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Avatar: The Way of Water
Other nominees: The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Everything Everywhere All at Once, RRR, Top Gun: Maverick
Best Comedy
Winner: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Other nominees: The Banshees of Inisherin, Bros, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Triangle of Sadness, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Best Animated Feature
Winner: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Other nominees: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Turning Red, Wendell & Wild
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: RRR
Other nominees: All Quiet on the Western Front, Argentina 1985
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Close, Decision to Leave
Best Song
Winner: Naatu Naatu from RRR
Other nominees: Carolina (Where the Crawdads Sing), Ciao Papa (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Hold My Hand (Top Gun: Maverick), Lift Me Up (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), New Body Rhumba (White Noise)
Best Score
Winner: Hildur Guðnadóttir for Tár
Other nominees: Alexandre Desplat (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Michael Giacchino (The Batman), Hildur Guðnadóttir (Women Talking), Justin Hurwitz (Babylon), John Williams (The Fabelmans)
Best Drama Series
Winner: Better Call Saul (AMC)
Other nominees: Andor (Disney+), Bad Sisters (Apple TV+), The Crown (Netflix), Euphoria (HBO), The Good Fight (Paramount+), House of the Dragon (HBO), Severance (Apple TV+), Yellowstone (Paramount Network)
Best Actor in a Drama Series
Winner: Bob Odenkirk for Better Call Saul
Other nominees: Jeff Bridges (The Old Man), Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us), Diego Luna (Andor), Adam Scott (Severance), Antony Starr (The Boys)
Best Actress in a Drama Series
Winner: Zendaya for Euphoria
Other nominees: Christine Baranski (The Good Fight), Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters), Laura Linney (Laura Linney), Mandy Moore (This Is Us), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone)
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Winner: Giancarlo Esposito for Better Call Saul
Other nominees: Andre Braugher (The Good Fight), Ismael Cruz Córdova (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Michael Emerson (Evil), John Lithgow (The Old Man), Matt Smith (House of the Dragon)
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Winner: Jennifer Coolidge for The White Lotus
Other nominees: Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon), Carol Burnett (Better Call Saul), Julia Garner (Ozark), Audra McDonald (The Good Fight), Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)
Best Comedy Series
Winner: Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Other nominees: Barry (HBO), The Bear (FX), Better Things (FX),Ghosts (CBS), Hacks (HBO Max), Reboot (Hulu), Reservation Dogs (FX)
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Winner: Jeremy Allen White for The Bear
Other nominees: Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), Bill Hader (Barry), Keegan-Michael Key (Reboot), Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building), D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs)
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Winner: Jean Smart for Hacks
Other nominees: Christina Applegate (Dead to Me), Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary),
Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Girls5eva), Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs)
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Winner: Henry Winkler for Barry
Other nominees: Brandon Scott Jones (Ghosts0, Leslie Jordan (Call Me Kat), James Marsden (Dead to Me), Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary), Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Winner: Sheryl Lee Ralph for Abbott Elementary
Other nominees: Paulina Alexis (Reservation Dogs), Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Marcia Gay Harden (Uncoupled), Janelle James (Abbott Elementary), Annie Potts (Young Sheldon)
Best Limited Series
Winner: The Dropout (Hulu)
Other nominees: Gaslit (Starz), The Girl from Plainville (Hulu), The Offer (Paramount+), Pam & Tommy (Hulu), Station Eleven (HBO Max), This Is Going to Hurt (AMC+), Under the Banner of Heaven (FX)
Best Movie made for Television
Winner: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)
Other nominees: Fresh (Hulu), Prey (Hulu), Ray Donovan: The Movie (Showtime), The Survivor (HBO), Three Months (Paramount+)
Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie made for Television
Winner: Daniel Radcliffe for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Other nominees: Ben Foster (The Survivor), Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven),
Samuel L. Jackson (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey), Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy), Ben Whishaw (This is Going to Hurt)
Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie made for Television
Winner: Amanda Seyfried for The Dropout
Other nominees: Julia Garner (Inventing Anna), Lily James (Pam & Tommy), Amber Midthunder (Prey), Julia Roberts (Gaslit), Michelle Pfeiffer (The First Lady)
Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie made for Television
Winner: Paul Walter Hauser for Black Bird
Other nominees: Murray Bartlett (Welcome to Chippendales), Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient), Matthew Goode (The Offer), Ray Liotta (Black Bird), Shea Whigham (Gaslit)
Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie made for Television
Winner: Niecy Nash-Betts – Dahmer for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Other nominees: Claire Danes (Fleishman Is in Trouble), Dominique Fishback (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey), Betty Gilpin (Gaslit), Melanie Lynskey (Candy), Juno Temple (The Offer)
Best Foreign Language Series
Winner: Pachinko (Apple TV+)
Other nominees: 1899 (Netflix), Borgen (Netflix), Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Netflix), Garcia! (HBO Max), The Kingdom Exodus (MUBI), Kleo (Netflix), My Brilliant Friend (HBO), Tehran (Apple TV+)
Best Animated Series
Winner: Harley Quinn (HBO Max)
Other nominees: Bluey (Disney+), Bob’s Burgers (Fox), Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal (Adult Swim), Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+), Undone (Prime Video)
Best Talk Show
Winner: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Other nominees: The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock), Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS), The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC), Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC), Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo)
Best Comedy Special
Winner: Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (Netflix)
Other nominees: Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune (Netflix), Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (HBO), Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual (Netflix), Nikki Glaser: Good Clean Filth (HBO), Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant & John Early (Peacock)