Critics Choice Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Wins Best Picture - Hollywood Reporter

The 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards were handed retired connected Sunday night, with A24’s Everything Everywhere All astatine Once winning champion representation — 1 of its 4 prizes of the evening.

Filmmaking duo Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) besides won champion archetypal screenplay and champion director(s) for Everything Everywhere All astatine Once. Accepting the grant for the second category, successful which they bushed veterans similar James Cameron, Baz Luhrmann and Steven Spielberg. Kwan held up the envelope to amusement their names to the assemblage arsenic Scheinert said, “It’s not a mistake!”

Addressing their chap nominees, Scheinert added, “Thank you to each the storytellers and filmmakers that inspired maine to go a filmmaker — you’re successful the aforesaid class arsenic me. That’s disgusting! Hello?! But you inspired me, and that means a lot. And your movies person changed my life.” Kwan thanked his mother, who helium counts arsenic the inspiration for Evelyn Wang, played successful the movie by Michelle Yeoh. “She was the archetypal idiosyncratic to works the effect successful my caput that I could beryllium a director,” said Kwan. “She [is] possibly the archetypal Asian-American migrant parent to ever archer their lad to spell to movie school.”

Brendan Fraser won champion actor for his relation successful A24’s The Whale. “The Whale is astir love. It’s astir redemption. It’s astir uncovering the airy successful a acheronian place,” said a visibly affectional Fraser. After thanking co-stars Hong Chau, Sadie Sink and Ty Simpkins, Fraser thanked manager Darren Aronofsky. “I was successful the wilderness, and I astir apt should person near a way of breadcrumbs. But you recovered maine and, similar each the champion directors, you simply conscionable showed maine wherever to spell to get to wherever I needed to be.”

Best histrion went to Tár‘s Cate Blanchett. “Best histrion … I mean, it is highly arbitrary considering however galore bonzer performances determination person been by women, not lone successful this room,” said Blanchett, name-dropping Decision to Leave and To Leslie stars Tang Wei and Andrea Riseborough, respectively, neither of whom were nominated for their pb roles. “You don’t basal present unless … [a] manager asks you to bash thing that you deliberation is impossible, and you’re terrified to do,” she added portion thanking Todd Field, who wrote and directed the Focus Features drama.

Last year’s champion supporting histrion victor Troy Kotsur, the archetypal deaf histrion to triumph the prize for his show successful CODA, presented champion supporting histrion to Black Panther: Wakanda Forever prima Angela Bassett. “I’m arrogant of the enactment that we did with Black Panther and present with Wakanda Forever, said Bassett. “We amusement the satellite that we could make and pb a billion-dollar box-office success. And my supplication is that that doorway remains open, and the sky’s the bounds for different Black creators and storytellers astir the satellite to articulation us.”

Ke Huy Quan picked up champion supporting histrion for his relation successful Everything Everywhere All astatine Once, and thanked his “entire EEAAO family” including those who championed the movie and “helped audiences retrieve who I am.”

Kicking disconnected the show, host Chelsea Handler said, “It is an grant to beryllium present hosting contiguous aft everything that we’ve each been done unneurotic implicit the past fewer years. Between COVID, Monkeypox, the Don’t Worry Darling property tour, it’s been a lot. I’m conscionable blessed to beryllium present contiguous supporting the critics’ close to choose.”

She past made quips astir the fig of LGBTQ films nominated astatine the ceremony, including “Bros, Fire Island and Top Gun: Maverick.” She besides added a notation to the extremity of Ellen DeGeneres’ long-running amusement erstwhile joking astir Focus Features’ Tár: “In the movie, Cate [Blanchett] portrayed an iconic lesbian whose vocation is upended by her toxic behaviour — and she didn’t adjacent person to big her ain daytime speech show.”

RRR was the archetypal astonishment of the evening, taking location the grant for champion planetary film. The Indian blockbuster is ineligible for this class astatine the Oscars, arsenic its location state submitted Last Film Show (which besides made the Academy’s shortlist up of the Jan. 24 Oscar nominations). It is simply a contender successful different categories, however, including champion archetypal opus “Naatu Naatu,” which besides took location that prize astatine the Critics Choice Awards. Director S.S. Rajamouli thanked “the women successful my life” portion accepting the grant for planetary film, opening with his mother. “She thought schoolhouse acquisition was overrated and she encouraged maine to work comics and storybooks, and she encouraged my creativity,” said Rajamouli, who besides thanked his wife, costume decorator Rama Rajamouli. “More than that, she’s the decorator of my life”

Guillermo del Toro won champion animated diagnostic for his stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio for Netflix. “Animation is not a genre for kids,” said del Toro, who dedicated his grant to manager James Cameron. “It’s a mean to tackle bigger themes.”

Other wins see Women Talking writer-director Sarah Polley for champion adapted screenplay, Top Gun: Maverick DP Claudio Miranda for champion cinematography, Ruth E. Carter for champion costume plan for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Women Talking composer Hildur Gudnadóttir for champion archetypal score. Best editing went to Everything Everywhere All astatine Once‘s Paul Rodgers and champion accumulation plan to Babylon‘s Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino. Avatar: The Way of Water won champion ocular effects, portion Elvis won for champion hairsbreadth and makeup. Netflix’s Glass Onion won champion drama movie and champion acting ensemble, and Gabriel LaBelle won champion young histrion for Universal’s The Fabelmans.

Kate Hudson presented the SeeHer Award to her Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery co-star Janelle Monáe. “There are truthful galore ways to picture Janelle: visionary artist, superb musician, inspirational, one-of-a-kind quality being,” said Hudson. “I retrieve the infinitesimal we met on Glass Onion. Janelle walked down the staircase successful this agleam yellowish dress, conscionable exuding goddess, regal energy. It was similar the seas parted. Everyone’s jaws dropped and the country instantly fell successful love. It’s hard not to, but to cognize her, to spot the attraction and dedication she nurtures successful her relationships and successful her art, is to truly autumn successful emotion with her.”

Accepting the honor, Monáe announced that her pronouns are “she, her, they, them” arsenic she precocious came retired arsenic non-binary. After reflecting connected the characters she has played successful Glass Onion, Moonlight and Hidden Figures, Monáe said, “I’ve tried to marque an effort successful my work, whether it’s storytelling done music, done film, done TV, done fashion, done literature, to item the ones who person been pushed to the margins of nine who’ve been outcast oregon relegated to the other.

“I americium non-binary, I americium queer, and my individuality influences my decisions successful my work,” Monáe continued. “I’ve ever believed that done storytelling, we are capable to shed airy connected a quality experience, an acquisition that astir radical astir this satellite won’t get an accidental to see. And I support this glimmer of anticipation successful my bosom that erstwhile idiosyncratic meets a character, similar the ones I’ve had an accidental to play, you’d beryllium much empathetic to their acquisition … You privation to beryllium much similar them. You privation to beryllium much kind, little judgmental, and much anxious to advocator for them.”

Jeff Bridges received the beingness accomplishment award, presented by his The Big Lebowski co-star John Goodman. (Michelle Pfeiffer was initially scheduled to contiguous the honor, but bowed retired of the ceremony owed to COVID.) Accepting the award, Bridges noted that contiguous is his begetter Lloyd Bridges’ birthday. “He’s the crushed I’m up here,” said Bridges. “He loved showbiz and acting truthful much, and arsenic a kid I said, ‘Dad, I’m not definite I privation to beryllium an actor. I privation to bash painting, possibly music.’ He said, ‘Don’t beryllium ridiculous. Being an actor, they’re going to telephone connected you to bash each of those things you’re funny in. And too that, you get to archer each these fantastic stories and from each these antithetic perspectives. … This is simply a fantastic profession.’ And helium was truthful right. I’m truthful gladsome I listened to the aged man.”

Speaking backstage successful the property room, Bridges reflecting connected his instrumentality to acting successful FX’s play bid The Old Man aft being diagnosed with lymphoma successful 2020. “What I wanted to accidental up determination — I was sick for 2 years with crab [during the pandemic]. And erstwhile I talked astir my family, [my wife] Susan and my daughters, I wanted to speech astir their enactment during that time. I didn’t deliberation I was gonna marque it astatine all, fto unsocial going backmost to work. But due to the fact that they supported maine truthful beautifully, I was capable to spell backmost and decorativeness The Old Man. We stopped successful the mediate of the season. It was precise surreal, it was similar we had a two-year agelong weekend, past we came backmost to work. … Doing that amusement was truthful terrific, and I’m truthful blessed that we’re doing different seasons.”

In the tv categories, ABC’s Abbott Elementary won champion drama series. Jeremy Allen White won champion histrion successful a drama bid for FX’s The Bear, portion Hacks‘ Jean Smart won her 2nd consecutive triumph for champion histrion successful the HBO Max comedy.

AMC’s Better Call Saul won champion play series, with showrunner Peter Gould joking, “I can’t judge we won. We ne'er win.” (The play has been nominated for 48 Emmys passim its six-season run, and has won none.) Better Call Saul prima Bob Odenkirk won champion histrion successful a play series, portion Zendaya won champion histrion successful a play bid for HBO’s Euphoria.

Hulu’s The Dropout won champion constricted series. “Thank you, Mike White, for not being nominated successful this category,” joked showrunner and creator Elizabeth Meriwether. (Season 2 of anthology bid The White Lotus was classified arsenic a play this twelvemonth by the Critics Choice Association.) Amanda Seyfried won champion histrion successful a constricted bid oregon tv movie for her portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes successful The Dropout, a show for which she besides won a Primetime Emmy successful September 2022. She was notably absent astatine the Golden Globes on Tuesday, for which she besides won for The Dropout, as she was successful improvement of a caller philharmonic mentation of Thelma & Louise. Daniel Radcliffe, who did not be the ceremony, won champion histrion successful a constricted bid oregon tv movie for his portrayal of “Weird Al” Yankovic successful The Roku Channel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

Niecy Nash-Betts won champion supporting histrion successful a constricted bid for Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. In an affectional speech, Nash-Betts expressed her agelong tendency to beryllium recognized for her melodramatic chops. “When I decided to go an actor, I saw myself doing drama. And the manufacture was kind, but they said, ‘Stay successful your drama lane,’” said Nash-Betts. “Sometimes radical privation to permission you erstwhile they conscionable you. I cried to my parent and I said, ‘Mama, don’t you deliberation I’m a bully melodramatic actress?’ And she said, ‘Girl, I don’t. But you tin be.’” Nash-Betts ended her code with a enactment that caused the assemblage to erupt successful cheers: “To everybody who doubted this Black pistillate and told maine what I couldn’t do? I privation to beauteous and humbly say: In your face!”

Paul Walter Hauser won champion supporting histrion successful a constricted bid for his relation successful Apple TV+’s Black Bird, for which helium besides won a Golden Globe connected Tuesday. Henry Winkler and Sheryl Lee Ralph won supporting histrion and histrion successful a drama series, respectively, for HBO’s Barry and ABC’s Abbott Elementary.

Jennifer Coolidge continued her winning streak, taking the grant for champion histrion successful a play for HBO’s The White Lotus. “I cognize you’ve heard a batch from maine successful the past period oregon two, but I conscionable privation to accidental this is specified an honor,” she said. In the antheral companion category, Giancarlo Esposito won for his relation successful AMC’s Better Call Saul.

Other TV winners see Roku’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (best made for tv movie), HBO Max’s Harley Quinn (best animated series), Apple TV+’s Pachinko (best overseas connection series), Netflix’s Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (best drama special), and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (best speech show).

Read the afloat database of winners here and spot the night’s best-dressed stars here.