The Hollywood Critics Association has announced today the 2023 HCA Midseason Movie Awards nominees where Amazon Studios’ Air and A24’s Past Lives led the field.
Ben Affleck’s Air received seven nominations include Best Picture, Best Actor for Matt Damon, dual Best Supporting Actor nominations for Chris Messina and Ben Affleck, Best Supporting Actress for Viola Davis, Best Screenplay, and Best Director. Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives tied with Air for the most nominations, earning nods for Best Picture, Best Actress (Greta Lee), Best Actor (Teo Yoo), Best Supporting Actor for (John Magaro), Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Indie Film.
Lionsgate’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, adapted from Judy Blume’s beloved book of the same name, received a total of six nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for newcomer Abby Ryder Fortson. Another Lionsgate film that also did well at the HCA Midseason Movie Awards was John Wick: Chapter 4, with a total of three nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Stunts.
Other films with multiple nominations include Sony Pictures’ box office hit Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse and Paramount Pictures’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, plus the Michael B. Jordan-directed Creed III, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Matthew Johnson’s BlackBerry, Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool, Louis Leterrier’s Fast X, Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings, A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One, and Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid.
Films with single nominations include Netflix’s Extraction 2, Apple TV+’s Tetris, Focus Features’ Polite Society, Searchlight’s Rye Lane, Warner Bros’ Evil Dead Rise, Paramount Pictures Scream VI, and two Universal Horror titles M3GAN and Knock at the Cabin.
For a film to be eligible, a film must have been released between January 1, 2023 and June 30, 2023. Nomination ballots for the HCA Midseason Awards were sent out via email to all 178 members of the Hollywood Critics Association on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, with a deadline of Sunday, June 25, 2023, at 6pm PT.
Final voting for the 2023 HCA Midseason Movie Awards is currently underway with final votes due by midnight on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The winners of the Midseason Awards will be announced on Friday, June 30, 2023.
Here is the complete list of nominations.
Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Director
Best Stunts
Best Screenplay
Best Horror Film
Best Indie Film
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