Everything Everywhere dominates the Critics Choice awards, even as Michelle Yeoh comes up short in Best Actress
The BFCA picked its winners tonight and went hard for Everything, giving it Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing and Supporting Actor. All except Best Actress really, which went to Cate Blanchett. Even though this would be her third Oscar I’m thinking that performance she gave in Tar is just too big for the actors to ignore, similar to Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood or Lincoln. Brendan Fraser won Best Actor though, which shows he’s still in the running for that and it may well be a three person race there with him, Austin Butler and Colin Farrell. All three of their movies may land Best Picture nominations in a week or so, as the PGA’s surprise nomination for The Whale showed that the industry does like the movie as a whole, not just him in it. That puts Fraser right in there. As for supporting actress I’m kind of amazed that Angela Bassett may win for a Marvel movie, but I guess it would be a career award there.
2023 BFCA WINNERS
Best Picture: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best Director: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best Actor: Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, “Tár”
Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best Supporting Actress: Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Best Young Actor or Actress: Gabriel LaBelle, “The Fabelmans”
Best Acting Ensemble: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
Best Original Screenplay: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best Adapted Screenplay: “Women Talking”
Best Cinematography: “Top Gun: Maverick”
Best Production Design: “Babylon”
Best Editing: “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Best Costume Design: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
Best Hair and Makeup: “Elvis”
Best Visual Effects: “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Best Comedy: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
Best Animated Feature: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
Best Foreign Language Film: “RRR”
Best Song: “Naatu Naatu,” “RRR”
Best Score: “Tár”
