The 27th annual Critics Choice Awards returned to an in-person ceremony Sunday, with Netflix’s The Power of the Dog taking home top prizes for best picture and best director for Jane Campion. Will Smith, Jessica Chastain, Troy Kotsur and Ariana DeBose were among the other big winners in the film categories. Television stars Jason Sudeikis, Jean Smart, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Coolidge, Murray Bartlett, Melanie Lynskey and Lee Jung-jae also won awards.
Nailed It! host and Grand Crew star Nicole Byer was joined by All American‘s Taye Diggs to emcee the event, simulcast on The CW and TBS.
Originally planned to take place Jan. 9, the show was rescheduled due the omicron variant surge in the United States. To accommodate nominees who also attended Sunday’s BAFTA film awards ceremony in London (which was held earlier at the Royal Albert Hall), the Critics Choice Awards took place at both Los Angeles’ Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel and London’s Savoy Hotel.
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CODA‘s Kotsur, who attended the London event and earlier earned a BAFTA Award for his role, picked up his first Critics Choice win for best supporting actor. West Side Story‘s DeBose, who also took home a BAFTA Award, won for best supporting actress and thanked the critics for embracing Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 movie musical. She then offered an inspiring message for “all the young people” watching at home: “It doesn’t matter how you identify who you are, you are unique, you are talented, you are seeing your value, you are loved and you matter. Please don’t ever forget that.”
Minari‘s Alan Kim, who charmed audiences last year when he won best young actor and tearfully accepted his award during the virtual ceremony, walked on stage Sunday to great applause from the audience. “Wow, it’s crazy to look at a video of a younger me,” joked the 9-year-old. “I’ve gotta tell ya, growing up in this business is no picnic.” Kim presented the best young actor award to Belfast‘s breakout star Jude Hill.
Belfast also won the best ensemble award, which star Jamie Dornan accepted on his cast-mates’ behalf. “Critics are usually not very nice to me,” Dornan said of his surprise that the film won.
Following Maria Bakalova, who showed her support for Ukraine ahead of presenting the best supporting actor award, Dornan also vocalized his support for the country and drew parallels to Belfast. “I cannot emphasize enough the importance of telling a story about a place that people don’t really have a vague idea about, and telling you about the real people from that place not seen through a politicized or paramilitary lens, which is often the case in Belfast, [but] seeing it through the eyes of family, something we can all relate to. We need to relate to the people and the families through [this] hardship.”
Last year’s best actress winner Carey Mulligan returned to present the award for best actor. “In recognizing the incredible, complex and staggering performances by our best actor nominees tonight, we for the most part, continue an age-old Hollywood tradition of rewarding men for acting like complete and utter bastards,” she quipped. “I can tell you that, however, having auditioned over the years to play nearly all of their wives and girlfriends — and incidentally, Andrew Garfield’s mother once —they’re all truly, actually very lovely people and fairly normal, which makes their performances this year even more impressive.”
Smith won the award for his role in King Richard, and noted that Venus and Serena Williams had joined him, alongside their sister Isha Price. “Thank you for entrusting me with your story,” Smith said to the sisters. “What you were able to do, and what your family was able to do, inspired everyone in this room, everyone in this country and everyone around the world. You all define the American dream.”
“I’ve played real life characters a couple times,” Smith told members of the press following his win. “It holds an extra burden because when I play someone everyone is going to assume that that’s the real story and that’s how it was. There’s an awful couple of weeks when the movie’s finished and you know the family is going to start to see it. There’s an emotional release when people feel honored when you tell a true story.”
Succession’s Culkin, who won best supporting actor in a drama series, admitted he did not have a speech prepared, using his time at the mic to call out colleagues Sarah Snook and J. Smith Cameron, in order, as his favorite performers to work with. His costar Snook also won the award for best supporting actress in a drama series. (Culkin revealed to members of the press following Succession‘s win for best drama series that Snook was unable to attend because she tested positive for COVID-19.)
Insecure’s Issa Rae was on hand to present the SeeHer Award to Halle Berry. “SeeHer and its partners are committed to creating content free of gender bias,” Rae said. “This award goes to women who embody the movement and inspire all women and girls to see themselves and all the possibilities because we cannot underestimate the power of what it feels like to be seen in the content you consume.”
Upon accepting the award, Berry recalled first reading the script for Bruised, which marked her directorial debut last year: “I realized that it wasn’t written for someone that looked like me. So I went to the producers and I said, ‘Why not me? Why can’t it be a Black woman?’ They said, ‘Why not?’ Later on, they told me, ‘Now, go find a director.’ And then finally, I summoned the courage to say, ‘Why not me?’
“I’ve been in the business for 30 years, and I used to think that if I could play the part of a white man, that I was winning,” Berry continued. “But you know what? I want to know why that didn’t work. Because if you didn’t know, I’m not a white man. For those roles to work, they would have to be substantially changed. It would have to be written with the reality of my journey, in all of its beauty and all of its pain. This is why I am so grateful to be standing and living in this moment where women are standing up and we are telling our own stories.”
Smart won best actress in a comedy series (Hacks), and announced she was throwing out her acceptance speech to congratulate co-showrunners and creators Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs, who welcomed their first child together over the weekend. Smart noted that Aniello was receiving video feed from the Hacks set on Friday while in labor, “directing in between contractions” before giving birth to their son — and on Saturday, also earning a DGA Award for directing the series.
Ted Lasso continued its streak, winning best comedy series, best actor for Sudeikis, best supporting actor Brett Goldstein and best supporting actress Hannah Waddingham (the second year in a row the Apple TV+ show won in all categories for which it was nominated). Accepting for best comedy series, Waddingham shifted gears to show her support for Ukraine. “At the moment there are beautiful brothers and sisters, and for me more importantly, the babies in the Ukraine that are being utterly decimated at the moment from this putrid, putrid torrent of abuse,” she tearfully said. “Please think of them as much as you can and give as much as you can.”
Lifetime achievement honoree Billy Crystal also brought up his personal connection to Ukraine. “My grandmothers were from Odessa and Kiev,” he said, remembering that his first audience was his own family. They came to America “where they could live free from tyranny. Their laughter was the first laughs I ever got in my life, is the fuel that my engine is still burning today.”
Crystal also noted that Monday is his birthday, and he is currently in rehearsals for his upcoming Broadway musical, Mr. Saturday Night. “I can’t remember when I worked harder and had more fun on a project — and I’m serious,” he said. “I’ll be 74 tomorrow — I actually just can’t remember!”
Michael Keaton delivered one of the night’s most stirring speeches when accepting the award for best actor in a limited series for Hulu’s Dopesick, which offered a broad look at the opioid crisis affecting millions of Americans. “One thing I’m proud about regarding this series is I think we really treated all those folks down there [in Appalachia] and in the world with real dignity,” Keaton said, recalling a waitress he met while filming who was taking care of her grandchild because the parents were incapacitated because of addiction. “I think of all those women like my mom and my sisters. They’re tough. It seems to always fall onto them, those grandmothers who are raising babies” because their children can’t.
Keaton also expressed support for “fellow actor” Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, telling him to “keep up the fight.” Closing his speech, Keaton added, “There’s only one way to change things environmentally, socially and for some sort of racial justice and social justice. Two words: voting rights.”
Read the full list of winners here.
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Who has won Critics Choice Awards so far? ›
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- BARRY (HBO Max) – 1. Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Henry Winkler.
- THE BEAR (FX) – 1. ...
- BETTER CALL SAUL (AMC) – 3. ...
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- DAHMER – MONSTER: THE JEFFREY DAHMER STORY (Netflix) – 1. ...
- THE DROPOUT (Hulu) – 2. ...
- EUPHORIA (HBO Max) – 1.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” wins the top prize, while Brendan Fraser takes best actor for “The Whale” and Cate Blanchett triumphs for “Tár.”
What did Austin Butler win at the Critics Choice Awards 2023? ›Austin Butler Wins “Most Selfie Request.” Runner-up: Jennifer Coolidge. Austin Butler, Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin missed the show's opening minutes, arriving at their table during the first commercial break. While Butler didn't win for “Elvis,” he took home the honor for most selfie requests.
What is the most prestigious award to win as an actor? ›The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role in a film released that year.
Who has won the best actor award at the most prestigious? ›Daniel Day Lewis, who has won the most, three Oscars for Best Actor, for My Left Foot (1987), There Will Be Blood (2007), and Lincoln (2012).
Who is the only actor to have won the Best Actor award successfully for three years? ›Superlatives. Dilip Kumar also holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award for three years in a row from 1956 to 1958.
Who is the oldest actor to win an Academy Award for best actor? ›...
Oldest winners.
| Age | 62 years, 302 days |
|---|---|
| Name | Clint Eastwood |
| Film | Unforgiven |
| Year in Film | 1992 |
| Date of Birth | May 31, 1930 |
While there is no restriction on a performer winning the Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards in the same year for two roles in two movies, this has yet to happen—although there have been occasions where performers have been nominated for both in the same year.
Who has been selected as the Best Actor at the 94th Academy Awards? ›About forty minutes later, Smith won the award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Richard Williams in King Richard. He focused his speech on his need to protect those around him and apologized to the Academy and to the other nominees, but not to Rock; he received a standing ovation.
Who won best director at the 28th Critics Choice Awards? ›The 28th annual Critics Choice Awards were handed out Sunday night. Everything Everywhere All at Once was named best picture; best director and best original screenplay for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert; best editing for Paul Rogers; and best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan.
Who is the youngest ever winner of the Academy Award for best actor in a leading role? ›
Adrien Brody holds the title of youngest winner of Best Actor for his performance in 'The Pianist', winning the accolade in 2002 at age 29.
Which actor has won an Academy Award for Best Actor Harrison Ford? ›However, like many action stars, Harrison Ford does not have an Oscar win to his name. Although he hasn't won an Academy Award, the actor does have four Golden Globes to his credit.
Did Elvis win the Critics Choice Awards? ›Avatar: The Way of Water won best visual effects, while Elvis won for best hair and makeup.
Who is the greatest actor of all time? ›- 8 James Cagney.
- 7 Clark Gable.
- 6 Henry Fonda.
- 5 Fred Astaire.
- 4 Marlon Brando.
- 3 James Stewart.
- 2 Cary Grant.
- 1 Humphrey Bogart.
Living winners of the Triple Crown of Acting are Rita Moreno, Jeremy Irons, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Al Pacino, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Geoffrey Rush, Ellen Burstyn, Glenda Jackson and Viola Davis.
Who is best actor in the world? ›- Al Pacino.
- Tom Hanks.
- Tom Cruise.
- Gary Oldman.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Joaquin Phoenix.
- Tom Hardy.
Day-Lewis remains the only actor in history to have earned three Best Actor Academy Awards. There has been a numberof actos who havepicked up two awards in the past. Jack Nicholson has earned 12 nominations in total and has three wins, though not all for Best Actor.
Who is the most awarded actress of all time? ›Katharine Hepburn holds the records for most wins with 12 nominations and 4 wins for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981).
Who was the second male actor to refuse a Best Actor Oscar? ›In the history of the Oscars, however, there have only been three people who refused their awards: actors George C. Scott and Marlon Brando, and screenwriter Dudley Nichols.
Has anyone ever won Best Actor 2 years in a row? ›Best Actor
Two actors have won two consecutive awards: Spencer Tracy – Captains Courageous (1937) and Boys Town (1938) Tom Hanks – Philadelphia (1993) and Forrest Gump (1994)
Which actor holds the record for receiving the longest ovation ever at Oscar? ›
Oscar-winning actor Charlie Chaplin, widely regarded as one of the greatest actors and filmmakers, received a 12-minute long standing ovation at the 44th Academy Awards ceremony, where the veteran actor received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his iconic career. It still remains the longest-standing ovation ever.
What iconic actor has never won an Academy? ›Major actors and actresses who have not won an Oscars
Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, Michelle Pfeiffer and Sigourney Weaver have all been nominated three times but have never received a golden statuette.
Adrien Brody holds the title of youngest winner of Best Actor for his performance in 'The Pianist', winning the accolade in 2002 at age 29.
Who has refused an Oscar? ›Brando was the second performer to turn down a Best Actor Oscar; the first was George C. Scott, who politely declined to accept his award for Patton in 1971 and reportedly said of the Academy Awards hoopla: “I don't want any part of it.”
Who is the youngest person to win two Oscars? ›The record is currently held by Luise Rainer, who was the first actress to win consecutive times, for “The Great Ziegfeld” (1937) and “The Good Earth” (1938) when she was 27 and 28 years old.
Has anyone won two Oscars in one year? ›This is a list of people have won multiple Academy Awards in a single year in the standard competitive categories. To date, a total of 86 individuals have achieved this feat on 99 distinct occasions with the multiple winners having won more than one awards that year.
Has anyone won two Oscars? ›Jack Nicholson
He got his first Best Actor for 1975's “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” and won a second for “As Good as It Gets”at the 1998 awards ceremony. In between he won a Best Supporting Actor.
Snub: James Cameron While the successful “Avatar: The Way of Water” landed a spot in the best-picture race, Mr. Cameron did not receive a nomination for his direction of the film. Snub: Tom Cruise Mr. Cruise didn't receive an acting nomination for his appearance in the box-office smash “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Has anyone taken away Oscar? ›In fact, though there are those who have rejected their Oscars (Marlon Brando, Dudley Nichols), only one award has ever been revoked in Academy history — the 1969 prize for Best Documentary, which was given to Young Americans before it was determined that the film was released in 1967 and therefore ineligible.
Who was snubbed for Best Actress Oscar? ›Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler were snubbed in Best Actress.
Who is the most nominated actor in Academy history? ›
Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actor of all with twenty one nominations. Jack Nicholson has received the most Academy Award nominations for any male actor with twelve nominations.
Who has won two Oscars for Best Actor? ›Only 23 individuals so far have won two leading actor/actress trophies; that includes Day-Lewis and Katharine Hepburn, who lead the pack with three and four, respectively, while Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman and Meryl Streep have each won two leads and one supporting.
Who is the only actor to win an Oscar for best actor for portraying a president of the United States? ›At the 85th Academy Awards, Day-Lewis became the first three-time recipient of the Best Actor Oscar for his role in Lincoln.
Which director has won 3 Oscars? ›Frank Capra won three awards in this category, for It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, and You Can't Take It with You. John Ford has the most Best Director wins with four, winning in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952.
Has a female director won an Oscar? ›Jane Campion has won this year's best director Oscar for helming the Western drama The Power of the Dog. She is now the third director who is a woman to win an Oscar, following Kathryn Bigelow (in 2010 for The Hurt Locker) and Chloé Zhao (in 2021 for Nomadland).
Who is the most awarded director of all time? ›With four Oscars, John Ford is the most acclaimed director in the history of the awards. The films that won him these awards were The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Quiet Man (1952).
Who is the youngest actress to win Best Actress? ›Marlee Matlin – Children of a Lesser God, 1986 (age 21)
Matlin made history as both the youngest winner in the Best Actress category as well as the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award, period.
7. Youngest Oscar Winner. The youngest ever Oscar winner is actress Tatum O'Neal who was only 10 years old when she won Best Supporting Actress for the film 'Paper Moon'.
Who is the oldest person to win Best Director Oscar? ›As of April 2022, the oldest directing Academy Award winner was Clint Eastwood. He won two Oscar trophies for Directing. The first one at the age of 62, with the western film "Unforgiven" (1992), and the second one at the age of 74, with the sports drama "Million Dollar Baby" (2004).
Who is the most awarded actor in Hollywood? ›As of 2022, Katharine Hepburn maintained her lead as the actor with the most Oscar wins of all time. While the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" star scored four acting accolades during her career, six fellow actors tied for the second spot with three wins each.
Did Harrison Ford want to be an actor? ›
“I could afford to hold out until something better came along. But I never gave up my ambition to be an actor. I was frustrated but never felt defeated by my frustration.” Ford's acting career, however, saw a small upturn in the 1970s.
How many Oscars does Denzel Washington have for Best Actor? ›All forms are disabled. Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington has established himself as a popular leading man in everything from powerful dramas to high-octane action thrillers.
Who won best actor at Critics Choice Awards 2023? ›“Everything Everywhere All at Once” wins the top prize, while Brendan Fraser takes best actor for “The Whale” and Cate Blanchett triumphs for “Tár.”
Who was Elvis Presley Favourite hero? ›Elvis' favorite was Captain Marvel Jr., who looks, in fact, exactly like Elvis made himself look.
Who won the 2023 Critics Choice Awards? ›Better Call Saul dominated the television awards, winning Best Drama Series, Best Actor in a Drama Series (for Bob Odenkirk), and Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (for Giancarlo Esposito).
Who won Best Actress in a comedy series at the Critics Choice Awards? ›| Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Critics Choice Association |
| First awarded | 2011 |
| Currently held by | Jean Smart – Hacks (2023) |
| Website | criticschoice.com |
Much like her 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' character, Michelle Yeoh has become an unstoppable force. LOS ANGELES -- Michelle Yeoh won the Oscar for best actress Sunday night and made history all at once.
Who won critics award Best Actress? ›Cate Blanchett won at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, where she took the Best Actress trophy for her role in Tár.
Has anyone ever won Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the same year? ›While there is no restriction on a performer winning the Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress awards in the same year for two roles in two movies, this has yet to happen—although there have been occasions where performers have been nominated for both in the same year.
Who are the only two actresses to win the Best Actress Oscar two years consecutively? ›...
| Academy Award for Best Actress | |
|---|---|
| Website | oscars.org |
What won movie of the year 2023? ›
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” was named best picture at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, capping off an improbable awards season run by winning the movie business's highest honor.
Has anyone ever won best actress two years in a row? ›Two actresses have won two consecutive awards: Luise Rainer – The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Good Earth (1937) Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and The Lion in Winter (1968)
Who is the oldest person to win a best actress Oscar? ›...
Oldest living Academy Award winners as of March 2022, by age (in years)
| Characteristic | Age in years |
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| - | - |
| - | - |
Barbra Streisand | Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Who won best supporting actor in a drama series critics choice? ›...
| Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series | |
|---|---|
| Currently held by | Giancarlo Esposito – Better Call Saul (2023) |