These Are The Winners For The 2023 Critics Choice Awards

TV & Film

Jan 17

It hadn’t even been a week since the Golden Globes were held, and already there was another awards ceremony. This time, it was the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night, hosted by Chelsea Handler. Sure, there were some of the same winners, like Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio for Best Animated Feature, Angela Bassett for Best Supporting Actress for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Zendaya for Best Actress in a Drama Series for Euphoria, and “Naatu Naatu” from RRR for Best Song, but there were plenty of differences beyond categories that don’t overlap.

Everything Everywhere All At Once went into the night with their film-leading and record-tying 14 nominations, a record shared with three other films from past years. They went home with five awards. They were Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Ke Huy Quan received Best Supporting Actor here as well, and Best Editing for Paul Rogers. While Everything did defeat films such as Glass Onion and Avatar: The Way of Water for the big prize, it was defeated by them for Best Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Visual Effects respectively. It lost Best Production design to Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino for Babylon, and Best Costume Design to Ruth E. Carter for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which she won for the first film as well. Elvis defeated it for Best Hair and Makeup.

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The lead acting categories went to Cate Blanchett for Tár and yes, Brendan Fraser for The Whale. His speech was great, jokingly asked in exasperation where his recognition for Furry Vengeance was. Gabriel LaBelle won Best Young Actor as Sammy Fabelman in The Fabelmans. Best Adapted Screenplay went to Sarah Polley for Women Talking. Top Gun: Maverick’s Claudio Miranda nabbed Best Cinematography. Hildur Guðnadóttir received Best Score, for Tár and RRR was named Best Foreign Language Film, each differing from the Globes equivalent. The special non-competitive awards were a Lifetime Achievement award for Jeff Bridges and a #SeeHer Award for Janelle Monae.

On the TV side, Abbott Elementary did not fare as well as they did at the Globes, however, the show still won Best Comedy Series and Sheryl Lee Ralph won Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Quinta Brunson was defeated by Hacks’s Jean Smart for Best Actress in a Comedy Series, while Henry Winkler won Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on Barry in a field that included Tyler James Williams and the late Leslie Jordan. On the drama side, Better Call Saul had the best night in the field, with three wins: Best Drama Series, defeating a field including House of the Dragon and Andor, Best Actor in a Drama Series for Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman, and Best Supporting Actor Giancarlo Esposito as Gus Fring. It was also a pretty great night for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, winning Best Movie Made for Television, in which Prey was a competitor believe it or not, and Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for Daniel Radcliffe as Al. Hulu’s The Dropout also won two awards, Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes.

Jennifer Coolidge did win Best Supporting Actress again, but the Critics did recognize that The White Lotus was no longer a Limited Series but a full-blown Drama Series as it was for the second season. Jeremy Allen White won Best Actor in a Comedy Series for The Bear and Paul Walter Hauser won Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for Black Bird like they had at the Globes. Niecy Nash-Betts won Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for Dahmer. Harley Quinn won Best Animated Series, Pachinko won Best Foreign Language Series, Last Week Tonight won Best Talk Show, and the late Norm Macdonald won Best Comedy Special for Nothing Special.

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