28th Critics’ Choice nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ leads with 14, followed by ‘The Fabelmans’
The 28th Critics’ Choice Association (CCA) announced their nominations for the best in film for 2022 and The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once continued its reign with a field-best 14 nods including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and two in Best Supporting Actress.
The A24 sci-fi hit from March grossed over $100M worldwide, making it the biggest hit in A24’s history and has lasted all year to remain a major awards contender.
Next was Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans with 11 nominations, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin with 9 and Damien Chazelle’s Babylon with 8. Two Best Picture nominees tied with 7 apiece, Ba Luhrmann’s Elvis and Todd Field’s TÁR, while four tied with six each: James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick and Sarah Polley’s Women Talking. Rounding out the group’s 11 Best Picture spots was the (big) little Indian film that could, S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR. There are eleven Best Picture nominees this year due to an exact tie, according to the org.
The new, expanded lineup of Best Director to 10 included everyone in BP except Kosinski and Johnson, who was replaced by The Woman King‘s Gina Prince-Bythewood.
Lead actor competitors will be Austin Butler for Elvis, Tom Cruise for Top Gun: Maverick, Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin, Brendan Fraser for The Whale, Paul Mescal for Aftersun and Bill Nighy for Living.
Lead actress is Cate Blanchett for TÁR, Viola Davis for The Woman King, Danielle Deadwyler for Till, Margot Robbie for Babylon, Michelle Williams for The Fabelmans and Michelle Yeoh for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
“We are so proud to be recognizing this incredible group of films and the people who made them possible,” said Critics Choice Association CEO Joey Berlin. “This recognition comes from a diverse group of more than 600 critics and entertainment reporters who share their opinions about film and television with millions of people every day, all year long. Our collective opinion about the year’s finest achievements is truly meaningful to the creative community.”
A few big misses this morning included Hong Chau in supporting actress for The Whale, Dolly De Leon in supporting actress in Triangle of Sadness (the film only got one nod, for comedy film), Diego Calva and Brad Pitt in lead and supporting, respectively, for Babylon and She Said with just a single nomination for adapted screenplay.
As previously announced, Jeff Bridges will receive the Critics Choice Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s ceremony. On the television side, ABC’s Abbott Elementary leads CCA nominations with six nods including best comedy series followed by AMC’s Better Call Saul with five.
Winners will be revealed at the 28th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday, January 15, 2023 live on The CW and hosted by Chelsea Handler. Here is the full list of nominations.
BEST PICTURE
Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios)
Babylon (Paramount Pictures)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures)
Elvis (Warner Bros)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix)
RRR (Variance Films)
TÁR (Focus Features)
Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
Women Talking (UAR/Orion Pictures)
BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water
Damien Chazelle – Babylon
Todd Field – TÁR
Baz Luhrmann – Elvis
The Daniels – Everything Everywhere All At Once
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
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Paul Dano – The Fabelmans
Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inshserin
Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans
Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin
Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once
Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
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 Once
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Frankie Corio – Aftersun
Jalyn Hall – Till
Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans
Bella Ramsey – Catherine Called Birdy
Banks Repeta – Armageddon Time
Sadie Sink – The Whale
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The Woman King
Women Talking
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Todd Field – TÁR
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale
Kazuo Ishiguro – Living
Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
Sarah Polley – Women Talking
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Russell Carpenter – Avatar: The Way of Water
Roger Deakins – Empire of Light
Florian Hoffmeister – TÁR
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 Way of Water
Jason Kisvarday, Kelsi Ephraim – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn – Elvis
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – Babylon
BEST EDITING
Tom Cross – Babylon
Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick
Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water
Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond – Elvis
Monika Willi – TÁR
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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
Babylon
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Elvis
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Whale
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water
The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere All at Once
RRR
Top Gun: Maverick
BEST COMEDY
The Banshees of Inisherin
Bros
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Triangle of Sadness
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red
Wendell & Wild
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Close
Decision to Leave
RRR
BEST SONG
“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
“Naatu Naatu “– RRR
“new body rhumba” – White Noise
BEST SCORE
Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Michael Giacchino – The Batman
Hildur Guðnadóttir – TÁR
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking
Justin Hurwitz – Babylon
John Williams – The Fabelmans
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