6th Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) awards: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ emerges victorious

The 6th Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) creative arts and film awards were held this evening, where RRR won Best International Film and Best Action Film, Aftersun took home the award for Best First Feature, and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio won the award for Animated Film. The night concluded with Best Picture going to Everything Everywhere All at Once, which also took home six other awards across the evening (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cast Ensemble and Best Editing).

There was lots of love to give out tonight at the HCA Awards. Earlier, at the HCA Creative Arts Awards, Babylon took home awards for Best Score and Best Production Design. Top Gun: Maverick pulled out a win for Best Sound at the HCA Creative Arts Awards. Later in the evening at the HCA Film Awards, Sarah Polley won against some serious contenders in the Adapted Screenplay category. In the Documentary Film category, Good Night Oppy emerged victorious. Critics have been going wild for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On since it premiered last year, so it’s no surprise that the film took home the awards for Best Indie Film and Best Voice or Motion Capture Performance for its star, Jenny Slate. RRR not only took home the aforementioned awards for International Film and Action Film, but also managed to snag victories in the Best Stunts and Best Song (for the beloved “Naatu Naatu”). The Hollywood Critics Association also honored All Too Well: The Short Film with Best Short film. The HCA awarded Best Actor to Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Best Actress to Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as they got closer to closing the night.

The event, hosted by comedian Tig Notaro, was held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and was live-streamed on the official HCA YouTube channel and HCA App. The ceremony was produced by DIGA Studios and Content.23 Media.

Among the handful of special awards and honorees for the evening were Angela Bassett, receiveing the HCA Acting Achievement Award, Rian Johnson with the HCA Filmmaking Achievement Award, and the cast and crew of RRR was presented with the HCA Spotlight Award. Gabriel LaBelle received the HCA Star on the Rise Award while The Fabelmans production designer Rick Carter earned the HCA Artisan Achievement Award.

Presenters included Ariana Greenblatt (65), Brandon Perea (Nope), Brittany Snow (X), Christa Miller (Shrinking), David Dastmalchian (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania), Emily Hampshire (The Rig), Eugenio Derbez (Radical), Harvey Guillén (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Poker Face), Lena Waithe (A Thousand and One), Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking), Madeleine McGraw (The Black Phone), Madelyn Cline (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery), Mckenna Grace (A Friend of The Family), Pom Klementieff (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Ram Charan (RRR), Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets), Terry Crews (America’s Got Talent: All-Stars), Theo Rossi (Emily the Criminal), Trinity Jo-Li Bliss (Avatar: The Way of Water), and Violet McGraw (M3GAN).

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Picture

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• RRR
• TÁR
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• The Fabelmans
• The Woman King
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Women Talking

Best Director

• James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water
• Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave
• Baz Luhrmann – Elvis
• Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
• S.S. Rajamouli – RRR
• Todd Field – TÁR
• Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
• Sarah Polley – Women Talking

Best Actor

• Austin Butler – Elvis
• Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
• Brendan Fraser – The Whale
• Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Paul Mescal – Aftersun

Best Actress

• Cate Blanchett – TÁR
• Viola Davis – The Woman King
• Danielle Deadwyler – Till
• Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
• Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Supporting Actor

• Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Barry Keoghan- The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
• Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Ben Whishaw – Women Talking

Best Supporting Actress

• Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Hong Chau – The Whale
• Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Keke Palmer – Nope

Best Cast Ensemble

• Babylon
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• The Woman King
• Women Talking

Best Voice or Motion-Capture Performance

• Antonio Banderas in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Rosalie Chiang in Turning Red
• Ewan McGregor in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Zoe Saldaña in Avatar: The Way of Water
• Jenny Slate in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
• Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale
• Sarah Polley – Women Talking

Best Original Screenplay

• Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
• Seth Reiss & Will Tracy – The Menu
• Todd Field – TÁR

Best Action Film 

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• The Batman
• RRR
• The Woman King
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Animated Film

• The Bad Guys
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Turning Red

Best Comedy 

• Bros
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• The Menu
• Triangle of Sadness
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

Best Documentary Film

• All the Beauty and The Bloodshed
• Fire of Love
• Good Night Oppy
• Moonage Daydream
• Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

Best First Feature

• Aftersun
• Causeway
• Emily the Criminal
• The Inspection
• Turning Red

Best Horror Film

• Barbarian
• The Black Phone
• Bones and All
• Nope
• X

Best Indie Film

• Aftersun
• Cha Cha Real Smooth
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• TÁR

Best International Film

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Argentina, 1985
• Close
• Decision to Leave
• RRR

Best Short Film

• All Too Well: The Short Film
• Moshari
• North Star
• Regret to Inform You
• Triggered

Best Casting Director 

• Everything Everywhere All At Once – Sarah Finn
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe – WINNER
• The Menu – Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe
• The Woman King – Aisha Coley
• Women Talking – John Buchan and Jason Knight

Best Cinematography

• Avatar: The Way of Water – Russell Carpenter
• Everything Everywhere All At Once – Larkin Seiple
• The Batman – Greig Fraser
• The Fabelmans – Janusz Kamiński
• Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda – WINNER

Best Costume Design

• Babylon – Mary Zophres
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter – WINNER
• Elvis – Catherine Martin
• Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris – Jenny Beavan
• The Woman King – Gersha Phillips

Best Editing

• Decision to Leave – Kim Sang-bum
• Everything Everywhere All At Once – Paul Rogers – WINNER
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bob Ducsay
• RRR – A. Sreekar Prasad
• Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
• Elvis – Shane Thomas, Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, and Louise Coulston
• Everything Everywhere All At Once – Michelle Chung and Anissa Salazar
• The Batman – Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, and Zoe Tahir
• The Whale – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley – WINNER

Best Marketing Campaign

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Nope
• Smile – WINNER
• Top Gun: Maverick

Best Original Song

• “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – performed by Rihanna
• “Vegas” from Elvis – performed by Doja Cat
• “Naatu Naatu” from RRR – performed by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava
• “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick – performed by Lady Gaga
• “Nobody Like U” from Turning Red – performed by 4Town

Best Production Design

• Avatar: The Way of Water – Dylan Cole, Ben Procter and Vanessa Cole
• Babylon – Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino – WINNER
• The Batman – James Chinlund and Lee Sandales
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Hannah Beachler and Lisa K. Sessions
• Elvis – Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, and Bev Dunn

Best Score

• Babylon – Justin Hurwitz – WINNER
• The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
• The Batman – Michael Giacchino
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat
• Women Talking – Hildur Guðnadóttir

Best Sound

• Avatar: The Way of Water – Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Gary Summers, Michael Hedges, and Julian Howarth
• The Batman – Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray, and Andy Nelson
• Elvis – David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson, and Michael Keller
• Nope – Johnnie Burn and Jose Antonio Garcia
• Top Gun: Maverick – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor – WINNER

Best Stunts

• The Batman
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• RRR
• Top Gun: Maverick
• The Woman King

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett – WINNER
• Everything Everywhere All At Once – Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer and Jeff Desom
• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Aaron Weintraub, Brian Leif Hansen, Georgina Hayns and Ian Mackinnon
• RRR – V. Srinivas Mohan
• Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill and Bryan Litson