‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Big Winner at Critics Choice Awards

Of course, award ceremonies aren’t always predictable, but the Critics Choice Awards are known as the most predictable of the bunch. Also, this year’s winner is not a big surprise: Everything Everywhere All at Once takes down a spectacular number of statues, namely five.

The awards are for Best Director (The Daniels), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and, of course, Best Picture. Great competitor for the Oscar The Fabelmans only manages to win one statuette, namely the one for best young actor (Gabriel LaBelle).

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The biggest surprise of the night is perhaps the winner of the best actor category: Brendan Fraser is voted best actor for his role in The Whale, ahead of previous winners Colin Farrell and Austin Butler. In his speech he remembers the deep valley in which he has been and the return that he is grateful for. The whale and made other movies: “Get up and go towards the light. Then good things will happen”.

Brendan Fraser’s emotional acceptance speech at the #CriticsChoiceAwards

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— Movie Discussion (@Movie Discussion) January 16, 2023

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The winner of the best actress category is Cate Blanchett for Tár. This makes the race even more interesting: will she definitely win against Michelle Yeoh? By the way, she won Deposit another prize: the one for ‘best score’, which is right in front of [film=]Babylon[/film] happens

Full list of winners
Best film
Avatar: The Path of Water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything everywhere at once
The Fabelmans
Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
RRR
Deposit
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 – After the Sun
Bill Nighy – Life

Best actress
Cate Blanchett – Library
Viola Davis – The King Woman
Danielle Deadwyler – Up
Margot Robbie – Babylon
Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere At Once

Best Actor – Supporting Role
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 Actress – Supporting Role
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 Once
Janelle Monáe – Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

best young actor
Frankie Corio – After the Sun
Jalyn Hall – Up
Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans
Bella Ramsey – Catherine called Birdy
Repeta Banks – Armageddon Time
Sadie Sink – The Whale

better together
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
Damien Chazelle – Babylon
Todd Field – Library
Baz Luhrman-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 – Library
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 – Life
Rian Johnson – Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
Sarah Polley – Women Talking

Best Photography
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
Florence Martin, Anthony Carlino – Babylon

best mount
Tom Cross – Babylon
Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick
Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron – Avatar: The Waterway
Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere At Once
Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond-Elvis
Monika Willi – Library

best costumes
Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jenny Eagan – Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Shirley Kurata – Everything Everywhere At Once
Catalina Martin – Elvis
Gersha Phillips – The King Woman
Maria Zofres – Babylon

Best hairstyle and makeup
Babylon
the batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything everywhere at once
The whale

better 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
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 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 Locusts Sing
“Hello Papa” – Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
“Take My Hand” – Top Gun: Maverick
“Lift Me Up” – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
“Naatu Naatu” – RRR
“New Body Rhumba” – White Noise

best score
Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Michael Giacchino – The Batman
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Tears
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking
Justin Hurwitz – Babylon
John Williams – The Fabelmans