6th Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) Film Awards nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere All At One,’ ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ lead

The Hollywood Critics Association have announced the nominees for their 2023 Film Awards, where A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, written and directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, led the way with a total of nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, and dual Best Supporting Actress nominations for Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis. Searchlight Pictures’ The Banshees of Inisherin received seven nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor for Colin Farrell, Best Supporting Actress for Kerry Condon, and Best Director for Martin McDonagh.

2022 HCA Film Awards Newcomer honoree and Belfast star Jude Hill, Till star Jalyn Hall, and The Black Phone star Madeleine McGraw announced the nominations for the 2023 HCA Film Awards on the HCA YouTube channel.

Focus Features’ TÁR, Sony/Tri-Star Pictures’ The Woman King, and UA Releasing’s Woman Talking earned five 2023 HCA Film Awards nominations with each film being nominated for Best Picture. Variance Films’ RRR and Universal Pictures’ The Fabelmans received four 2023 HCA Film Awards nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Other films nominated for top HCA Film Awards include Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick, 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: The Way of Water, Warner Brothers’ Elvis, A24’s Aftersun and Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

The Best Director lineup of 10 are: James Cameron for Avatar: The Way of Water, Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of Inisherin, Park Chan-wook for Decision to Leave, Baz Luhrmann for Elvis, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All At Once, Steven Spielberg for The Fabelmans, S.S. Rajamouli for RRR, Todd Field for TÁR, Gina Prince-Bythewood for The Woman King and Sarah Polley for Women Talking.

Best Actor nominees were Austin Butler – Elvis, Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick, Brendan Fraser – The Whale, Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin and Paul Mescal – Aftersun. Best Actress was comprised of nominees Cate Blanchett – TÁR, Viola Davis – The Woman King, Danielle Deadwyler – Till, Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans and Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Last week, the HCA revealed their 2023 Creative Arts Awards nominations (see below), where Everything Everywhere All At Once also led, along with Top Gun: Maverick. Also revealed last week, the Hollywood Critics Association announced three of their 2023 HCA Film Awards honorary award recipients: Angela Bassett will receive the HCA Acting Achievement Award, Rian Johnson will receive the HCA Filmmaking Achievement Award, and the Cast/Crew of RRR is receiving the HCA Spotlight Award. 

Overall, Everything Everywhere All At Once is the total nomination leader with 16 nominations from the creative arts and main film awards categories, followed by Top Gun: Maverick with 10. The Banshees of Inisherin, Elvis, RRR and The Woman King were next with 8 apiece and Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Women Talking earned seven nominations each. See full list film nomination totals below.

The 2023 HCA Creative Arts ceremony will be held on February 17, 2023 and the 6th annual Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards will be one week later, on February 24, 2023 at the historic Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles, CA and live-streamed on the official HCA YouTube channel and HCA App. The ceremony will be produced by DIGA Studios and Content.23 Media.

Comedian, Actor, Writer Tig Notaro will host the 2023 HCA Film Awards ceremony. Named by Rolling Stone as one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, Tig can currently be seen in Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount+ and next year on AppleTV+’s The Morning Show. Last year, Tig starred in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, and prior to that was seen in the heartwarming Paramount film, Instant Family. Tig also previously wrote, produced and starred in the semi-autobiographical Amazon series, One Mississippi, for which she also directed an episode. Tig’s most recent and fully animated standup special, Drawn, was nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association Award earlier this year. Tig and her wife, Stephanie Allynne, co-directed the feature film, AM I OK?, starring Dakota Johnson and Sinoya Mizuno, which premiered at Sundance this year and will be available on HBO Max in 2023.

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 (tie)

• 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
• 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

Best Costume Design

• Babylon – Mary Zophres
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter
• 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
• 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

Best Marketing Campaign

• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Nope
• Smile
• 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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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

TOTAL NOMINATIONS (HCA Film Awards and HCA Creative Arts Awards combined, alphabetically): 

Aftersun – 3

All the Beauty and The Bloodshed – 1

All Too Well: The Short Film – 1

Avatar: The Way of Water – 7

Babylon – 4

Barbarian – 1

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – 7

Bones and All – 1

Bros – 1

Causeway – 2

Cha Cha Real Smooth – 1

Decision to Leave – 3

Elvis – 8 

Emily The Criminal – 1 

Everything Everywhere All At Once – 16

Fire of Love – 1

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – 5

Good Night Oppy – 1

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – 5

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – 3

Moonage Daydream – 1

Moshari – 1

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – 1

Nope – 4

North Star – 1

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – 2

Regret to Inform You – 1

RRR – 8

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me – 1

She Said – 1

Smile – 1

TÁR – 5

The Bad Guys – 1

The Banshees of Inisherin – 8 

The Batman – 7 

The Black Phone – 1

The Fabelmans – 5

The Inspection – 1

The Menu – 3

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent – 1

The Whale – 4

The Woman King – 8 

Till – 1

Top Gun: Maverick – 10

Triangle of Sadness – 1

Triggered – 1

Turning Red – 4

Women Talking – 7 

X – 1