Critics’ Choice… 2022

 BEST PICTURE


Avatar: The Way of Water

Babylon

The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once WINNER 

The Fabelmans

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

RRR

Tár

Top Gun: Maverick

Women Talking


 BEST COMEDY


The Banshees of Inisherin 

Bros

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery WINNER

Triangle of Sadness

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent


 BEST ACTOR


Austin Butler (Elvis)

Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick)

Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) 

Brendan Fraser (The Whale) WINNER

Paul Mescal (Aftersun) 

Bill Nighy (Living) 


 BEST ACTRESS


Cate Blanchett (Tár) WINNER  

Viola Davis (The Woman King)

Danielle Deadwyler (Till) 

Margot Robbie (Babylon)

Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans)

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR


Paul Dano (The Fabelmans) 

Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) 

Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans) 

Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Ke Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once) WINNER

Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway) 


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 


Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) WINNER

Jessie Buckley (Women Talking)

Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once) 

Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)


 BEST YOUNG PERFORMER


Frankie Corio (Aftersun) 

Jalyn Hall (Till) 

Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans) WINNER 

Bella Ramsey (Catherine Called Birdy)

Banks Repeta (Armageddon Time) 

Sadie Sink (The Whale)


 BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE


The Banshees of Inisherin

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery WINNER

The Woman King

Women Talking 


 BEST DIRECTOR


James Cameron (Avatar: The Way of Water)

Damien Chazelle (Babylon)

Todd Field (Tár) 

Baz Luhrmann (Elvis) 

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once) WINNER

Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Sarah Polley (Women Talking) 

Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King) 

S.S. Rajamouli (RRR)

Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)


 BEST SCREENPLAY  ADAPTED


Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)

Living (Kazuo Ishiguro)

She Said (Rebecca Lenkiewicz)

The Whale (Samuel D. Hunter)

Women Talking (Sarah Polley) WINNER


 BEST SCREENPLAY  ORIGINAL


Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)

The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) WINNER

The Fabelmans (Tony Kushner & Steven Spielberg) 

Tár (Todd Field)


 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY


Avatar: The Way of Water (Russell Carpenter)

Babylon (Linus Sandgren)

Empire of Light (Roger Deakins)

The Fabelmans (Janusz Kaminski) 

Tár (Florian Hoffmeister) 

Top Gun: Maverick (Claudio Miranda) WINNER


 BEST EDITING


Avatar: The Way of Water (David Brenner, James Cameron, John Refoua & Stephen Rivkin) 

Babylon (Tom Cross)

Elvis (Jonathan Redmond & Matt Villa) 

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Paul Rogers) WINNER

Tár (Monika Willi) 

Top Gun: Maverick (Eddie Hamilton) 


 BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN


Avar: The Way of Water (Dylan Cole, Vanessa Cole & Ben Procter) 

Babylon (Anthony Carlino & Florencia Martin) WINNER

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Hannah Beachler & Lisa K. Sessions) 

Elvis (Bev Dunn, Catherine Martin & Karen Murphy)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Kelsi Ephraim & Jason Kisvarday)

The Fabelmans (Rick Carter & Karen O’Hara)


 BEST COSTUME DESIGN


Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ruth E. Carter) WINNER

Babylon (Mary Zophres)

Elvis (Catherine Martin)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (Shirley Kurata)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Jenny Eagan)

The Woman King (Gersha Phillips)


 BEST HAIR & MAKEUP


Babylon 

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Elvis WINNER

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Whale


 BEST VISUAL EFFECTS


Avatar: The Way of Water WINNER

The Batman

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Everything Everywhere All at Once

RRR

Top Gun: Maverick 


 BEST SCORE


Babylon (Justin Hurwitz) 

The Batman (Michael Giacchino)

The Fabelmans (John Williams) 

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Alexandre Desplat)

Tár (Hildur Guðnadóttir) WINNER

Women Talking (Hildur Guðnadóttir) 


 BEST SONG


Black Panther: Wakanda Forever “Lift Me Up”

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio “Ciao Papa”

RRR “Naatu Naatu” WINNER

Top Gun: Maverick “Hold My Hand”

Where the Crawdads Sing “Carolina”

White Noise “New Body Rhumba”


 BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM


All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)

Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Mexico)

Close (Belgium)

Decision to Leave (South Korea) 

RRR (India) WINNER


 BEST ANIMATED FEATURE


Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio WINNER

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Turning Red 

Wendell & Wild 


TELEVISION


 BEST DRAMA SERIES


Andor (Disney+) 

Bad Sisters (Apple TV+) 

Better Call Saul (AMC) WINNER

The Crown (Netflix)

Euphoria (HBO)

The Good Fight (Paramount+) 

House of the Dragon (HBO)

Severance (Apple TV+)

Yellowstone (Paramount Network)


 BEST ACTOR in a DRAMA SERIES


Jeff Bridges (The Old Man)

Sterling K. Brown (This is Us)

Diego Luna (Andor) 

Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) WINNER

Adam Scott (Severance)

Antony Starr (The Boys)


 BEST ACTRESS in a DRAMA SERIES


Christine Baranski (The Good Fight)

Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters)

Laura Linney (Ozark)

Mandy Moore (This is Us)

Kelly Reilley (Yellowstone)

Zendaya (Euphoria) WINNER


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in a DRAMA SERIES


Andre Braugher (The Good Fight)

Ismael Cruz Córdova (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) 

Michael Emerson (Evil)

Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul) WINNER

John Lithgow (The Old Man)

Matt Smith (House of the Dragon) 


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS in a DRAMA SERIES


Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) 

Carol Burnett (Better Call Saul)

Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) WINNER

Julia Garner (Ozark)

Audra McDonald (The Good Fight)

Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)


 BEST COMEDY SERIES


Abbott Elementary (ABC) WINNER

Barry (HBO) 

The Bear (FX)

Better Things (FX)

Ghosts (CBS) 

Hacks (HBO Max)

Reboot (Hulu) 

Reservation Dogs (FX)


 BEST ACTOR in a COMEDY SERIES


Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows)

Bill Hader (Barry) 

Keegan-Michael Key (Reboot)

Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building) 

Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) WINNER

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Reservation Dogs)


 BEST ACTRESS in a COMEDY SERIES


Christina Applegate (Dead to Me)

Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)

Kaley Cuoco (The Flight Attendant) 

Renée Elise Goldsberry (Girls5eva)

Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs) 

Jean Smart (Hacks) WINNER


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in a COMEDY SERIES


Brandon Scott Jones (Ghosts)

Leslie Jordan (Call Me Kat)

James Marsden (Dead to Me) 

Chris Perfetti (Abbott Elementary)

Tyler James Williams (Abbott Elementary)

Henry Winkler (Barry) WINNER 


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS in a COMEDY SERIES


Paulina Alexis (Reservation Dogs) 

Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)

Marcia Gay Harden (Uncoupled)

Janelle James (Abbott Elementary)

Annie Potts (Young Sheldon)

Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary) WINNER


 BEST LIMITED SERIES


The Dropout (Hulu) WINNER

Gaslit (Starz) 

The Girl from Plainville (Hulu)

The Offer (Paramount+)

Pam & Tommy (Hulu)

Station Eleven (HBO Max) 

This is Going to Hurt (AMC+)

Under the Banner of Heaven (FX)


 BEST MOVIE made for TV


Fresh (Hulu)

Prey (Hulu) 

Ray Donovan: The Movie (Showtime) 

The Survivor (HBO)

Three Months (Paramount+) 

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel) WINNER


 BEST ACTOR in a MOVIE made for TELEVISION or LIMITED SERIES


Ben Foster (The Survivor) 

Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven) 

Samuel L. Jackson (The Last Days of Ptolemy)

Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story) WINNER

Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy)

Ben Whishaw (This is Going to Hurt)


 BEST ACTRESS in a MOVIE made for TELEVISION or LIMITED SERIES


Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) 

Lily James (Pam & Tommy) 

Amber Midthunder (Prey)

Julia Roberts (Gaslit)

Michelle Pfeiffer (the First Lady) 

Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) WINNER


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in a MOVIE made for TELEVISION or LIMITED SERIES


Murray Bartlett (Welcome to the Chippendales)

Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient)

Matthew Goode (The Offer)

Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird) WINNER 

Ray Liotta (Black Bird)

Shea Whigham (Gaslit)


 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS in a MOVIE made for TELEVISION or LIMITED SERIES


Claire Danes (Fleishman Is in Trouble)

Dominique Fishback (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey) 

Betty Gilpin (Gaslit)

Melanie Lynskey (Candy)

Niecy Nash-Betts (DahmerWINNER

Juno Temple (The Offer)


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES


1899 (Netflix)

Borgen (Netflix) 

Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Netflix)

Garcia! (HBO Max) 

The Kingdom Exodus (MUBI)

Kleo (Netflix)

My Brilliant Friend (HBO) 

Pachinko (Apple TV+) WINNER

Tehran (Apple TV+)


 BEST ANIMATED SERIES


Bluey (Disney+)

Bob’s Burgers (Fox) 

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal (Adult Swim)

Harley Quinn (HBO Max) WINNER

Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+)

Undone (Prime Video)


 BEST TALK SHOW


The Amber Ruffin Show (Peacock)

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)

The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) WINNER

Late Night with Seth Myers (NBC) 

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo) 


 BEST COMEDY SPECIAL


Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune (Netflix) 

Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (HBO)

Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual (Netflix) 

Nikki Glaser: Good Clean Filth (HBO) 

Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (Netflix) WINNER

Would It Kill You to Laugh? Starring Kate Berlant & John Early (Peacock)


 LIFETIME ACHEIVEMENT AWARD


Jeff Bridges


 SEE HER AWARD


Janelle Monáe


The 28th annual Critics Choice Awards were held Sunday, January 15, 2023 and aired on the CW beginning at 7 pm EST.

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