'Everything Everywhere All at Once' Wins Critics Choice Best Picture
by EG
The annual Critics Choice ceremony took place this weekend, and there were not many surprises among the honorees. Award winners included the indie fantasy action comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once and the Breaking Bad prequel series Better Call Saul, which ended its run on AMC in 2022. Other winners included buzzy indie movie The Whale and Marvel blockbuster Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Read on for details.
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A24’s Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards, which were handed out tonight in Los Angeles. Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for A24’s The Whale, and Cate Blanchett took Best Actress for Focus Features’ Tár.
Everything Everywhere came into the ceremony at the Fairmont Century Plaza with a leading 14 nominations and left leading all pics and TV shows with five trophies, including Best Director for Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert.
The screenplay awards went to Kwan & Scheinert for Everything Everywhere (Original) and Sarah Polley for MGM/United Artists Releasing’s Women Talking (Adapted).
Ke Huy Quan continued his awards-season dominance with a Supporting Actor win for Everything Everywhere, and Angela Bassett took the Supporting Actress prize for Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio from Netflix took Best Animated Feature.
On the TV side, FX’s Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul won Best Drama Series for its sixth and final season, and its star Bob Odenkirk won Best Actor in a Drama.
Zendaya took picked up more Best Actress hardware for HBO’s Euphoria.
ABC’s Abbott Elementary followed its Golden Globe win with the Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Series. Jeremy Allen White won Best Actor in a Comedy Series for FX’s The Bear, and Jean Smart — who missed the ceremony because of Covid — was named Best Actress for HBO Max’s Hacks.
Jennifer Coolidge and Giancarlo Esposito took Supporting Actress and Actor in a Drama Series for HBO’s The White Lotus and AMC’s wrapped Better Call Saul, respectively. As did Coolidge, Amanda Seyfried repeated her Emmy and Golden Globe wins for Hulu’s The Dropout — which also won Best Limited Series.
Niecy Nash Betts and Paul Walter Hauser won Supporting Actress and Actor in a Limited Series for Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Apple TV+’s Black Bird, respectively. Sheryl Lee Ralph and Henry Winkler took the Comedy prizes for Abbott Elementary and HBO’s Barry.
Roku Channel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic story walked off with the Best TV Movie award, and its star Daniel Radcliffe also won, making that pic, The Dropout and Abbott Elementary the only other multiple TV winners — Better Call Saul took three.
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