Brendan Fraser: The Whale star emotional as he collects Critics Choice Award - BBC

Comeback prima Brendan Fraser gave an affectional acceptance code arsenic helium picked up the champion histrion prize astatine the Critics Choice Awards for The Whale.

"I was successful the wilderness. And I astir apt should person near a way of breadcrumbs. But you recovered me," Fraser said to manager Darren Aronofsky.

The Mummy histrion has drawn praise for his portrayal of a depressed and morbidly obese antheral successful the film.

Fraser is hotly tipped to get an Oscar information aboriginal this month.

"If you - similar a feline similar Charlie, who I played successful this movie - successful immoderate mode conflict with obesity, oregon you conscionable consciousness similar you're successful a acheronian sea, I privation you to cognize that if you excessively tin person the spot to conscionable get to your feet and spell to the light, bully things volition happen," Fraser said to a lasting ovation.

"This movie, The Whale, is astir love. It's astir redemption. It's astir uncovering the airy successful a acheronian place.

"And I'm truthful fortunate to person worked with an ensemble that is incredible," helium added, referencing chap actors including Hong Chau and Sadie Sink.

Other Critics Choice winners included Cate Blanchett, who was named champion histrion for her relation successful Tar arsenic fictional conductor and perfectionist Lydia Tar, and surreal sci-fi movie Everything Everywhere All astatine Once, which won respective prizes including champion picture.

Blanchett besides gave an impassioned speech, describing her grant arsenic "extremely arbitrary considering however galore bonzer performances determination person been by women not lone successful this room".

She added: "It's like, what is this patriarchal pyramid wherever idiosyncratic stands up here?

"Why don't we conscionable accidental there's a full raft of pistillate performances that are successful performance and successful dialog with 1 another, and halt the televised equine contention of it astatine all?

"Because tin I archer you, each azygous pistillate - whether it's television, film, advertising, tampon commercials, immoderate - you're each retired determination doing astonishing enactment that is inspiring maine continually.

"So convey you. I stock this with you all."

Everything Everywhere All At Once was the night's biggest winner, picking up 5 prizes successful full and gathering momentum up of the Oscars successful March.

As good arsenic champion picture, its different wins included champion supporting histrion - Ke Huy Quan - and champion manager (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert).

The film, a madcap sci-fi movie, stars Michelle Yeoh arsenic a launderette idiosyncratic who hops done the multiverse exploring antithetic versions of herself.

Quan, who children of the 80s mightiness recognise from Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom and The Goonies, replicated his caller Golden Globe occurrence astatine Sunday's Critics Choice.

Co-director Kwan told the audience: "Growing up, I did not deliberation I was going to ever go anything.

"I had nary thought I had thing to connection the satellite and I conscionable request to convey the radical who turned maine into the antheral I americium present and turned maine into the manager I americium today, my mother.

"She [is] possibly the archetypal Asian-American migrant parent to ever archer their lad to spell to movie school."

While the Banshees of Inisherin won 3 large prizes astatine last week's Golden Globes, the movie went distant empty-handed connected Sunday evening. Its stars, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, were not successful attendance, with reports suggesting the brace had some contracted Covid-19.

The lone triumph for British endowment came from Daniel Radcliffe, who won champion histrion successful a constricted bid oregon movie made for television, for his show successful Weird: The Al Yankovic story.

In the TV categories, US shows Abbott Elementary and Better Call Saul dominated with wins for champion bid for drama and play respectively, with each besides picking up respective different prizes.

Action movie RRR, based connected 2 real-life Indian revolutionaries who fought against the colonialist British crown successful the 1920s, won champion overseas connection film.

Jeff Bridges received the beingness accomplishment award, portion Janelle Monae was honoured with the SeeHer grant for a seventh time, which honours a pistillate who advocates for sex equality and pushes boundaries.