29th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards

Following on from last weeks Golden Globes, the first televised award ceremony of the season, we have now had the Critics’ Choice Awards. Award season is well and truly underway with two of the major precursors

The Critics’ Choice give paint a much clearer picture of how many nominations we can expect for a film at the Academy Awards, as they celebrate the below the line categories, including: Production Design, Editing, Cinematography etc. categories which are not awarded at the Golden Globes.

The spotlight was immediately on “Barbie” going into the ceremony having racked up a record breaking 18 nominations last month. While Barbie did pick up six awards at last nights ceremony, it mostly dominated in the below the line categories, picking up tech awards including: production design, hair & makeup, costume design, original song and comedy film. The only above the line category win was for original screenplay, a category in which Barbie will not be competing at the Academy Awards in March having been placed in Adapted.

The big winner of the night, taking home the most awards with eight as well as the coveted Best Picture, was of course “Oppenheimer”. Christopher Nolan’s 3-hour biopic shows no signs of slowing down as it continues to dominate award season and may very well be on its way to an Oscar win for Best Picture as well as a long awaited Director win for Nolan himself.

There were other wins in the acting categories for: Emma Stone “Poor Things” and all three members of the primary cast of Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers” did not come away empty handed. “American Fiction” firmly cemented itself as a frontrunner in the adapted screenplay category with a win here and question marks still surround international film, which was once again awarded to “Anatomy of a Fall”, which is ineligibly at the Academy Awards in March having not been submitted by France.

Full list of winners:

Best Picture

• American Fiction
• Barbie
• The Colour Purple
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things
• Saltburn

Best Director

• Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
• Greta Gerwig (Barbie)
• Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things)
• Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)
• Alexander Payne (The Holdovers)
• Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Actor

• Bradley Cooper (Maestro)
• Leonardo DiCaprio (Killers of the Flower Moon)
• Colman Domingo (Rustin)
• Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)
• Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)
• Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction)

Best Actress

• Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
• Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall)
• Greta Lee (Past Lives)
• Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
• Margot Robbie (Barbie)
• Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Supporting Actor

• Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction)
• Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon)
• Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)
• Ryan Gosling (Barbie)
• Charles Melton (May December)
• Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)

Best Supporting Actress

• Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)
• Danielle Brooks (The Colour Purple)
• America Ferrera (Barbie)
• Jodie Foster (Nyad)
• Julianne Moore (May December)
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best Young Actor/Actress

• Abby Ryder Fortson (Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret)
• Ariana Greenblatt (Barbie)
• Calah Lane (Wonka)
• Milo Machado-Graner (Anatomy of a Fall)
• Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers)
• Madeleine Yuna Voyles (The Creator)

Best Acting Ensemble

• Air
• Barbie
• The Colour Purple
• The Holdovers
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer

Best Original Screenplay

• Air
• Barbie
• The Holdovers
• Maestro
• May December
• Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
• All of Us Strangers
• American Fiction
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best Cinematography

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Saltburn

Best Editing

• Air
• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

Best Costume Design

• Barbie
• The Colour Purple
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Napoleon
• Poor Things
• Wonka

Best Production Design

• Asteroid City
• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Saltburn

Best Score

• Barbie
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Society of the Snow
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Song

• “Dance the Night” by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)
• “I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt (Barbie)
• “What Was I Made For” by Billie Eilish and Finneas (Barbie)
• “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz (Rustin)
• “Peaches” by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, John Spiker (The Super Mario Bros. Movie)
• “This Wish” by Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice (Wish)

Best Hair and Makeup

• Barbie
• The Colour Purple
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Priscilla

Best Visual Effects

• The Creator
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Animated Feature

• The Boy and the Heron
• Elemental
• Nimona
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Wish

Best Comedy

• American Fiction
• Barbie
• Bottoms
• The Holdovers
• No Hard Feelings
• Poor Things

Best Foreign Language Film

• Anatomy of a Fall (France)
• Godzilla Minus One (Japan)
• Perfect Days (Japan)
• Society of the Snow (Spain)
• The Taste of Things (France)
• The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Films with the most wins:

• Oppenheimer – 8
• Barbie – 6
• The Holdovers – 3
• American Fiction – 1
• Anatomy of a Fall – 1
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – 1
• Poor Things – 1