The Critics Choice Association (CCA) has announced the film category nominees for the 28^th Annual Critics Choice Awards and genre films are heavily represented.

Everything Everywhere All at Once leads this year’s film contenders, earning fourteen nominations overall. In addition to Best Picture and Best Comedy nods, the film racked up several acting nominations including Best Actress for Michelle Yeoh and Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan. Both Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu are up for Best Supporting Actress, and the cast garnered a Best Acting Ensemble nomination. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert earned nods in both the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories, while Jason Kisvarday and Kelsi Ephraim were nominated for Best Production Design, along with Paul Rogers for Best Editing, and Shirley Kurata for Best Costume Design. The film was also nominated for Best Hair and Makeup and Best Visual Effects.

Other films of genre interest receiving multiple nominations are Avatar: The Way of Water (6), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (6), The Batman (3), and Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (3).

There are eleven Best Picture nominees this year due to an exact tie. Additionally, the CCA expanded the Best Director category to include ten nominees. The winners will be revealed on Sunday, January 15, 2023.

FILM NOMINATIONS FOR THE 28^TH ANNUAL CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS

BEST PICTURE

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• Babylon
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• RRR
• Tár
• Top Gun: Maverick
• Women Talking

BEST ACTOR

• Austin Butler – Elvis
• Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
• Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Brendan Fraser – The Whale
• Paul Mescal – Aftersun
• Bill Nighy – Living

BEST ACTRESS

• Cate Blanchett – Tár
• 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
• Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• 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 ACTOR/ACTRESS

• Frankie Corio – Aftersun
• Jalyn Hall – Till
• Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans
• 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
• 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
• 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 ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Todd Field – Tár
• Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
• Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
• Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale
• Kazuo Ishiguro – Living
• Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
• Sarah Polley – Women Talking

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Russell Carpenter – Avatar: The Way of Water
• Roger Deakins – Empire of Light
• Florian Hoffmeister – Tár
• Janusz Kaminski – The Fabelmans
• Claudio Miranda – Top Gun: Maverick
• Linus Sandgren – Babylon

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Hannah Beachler, Lisa K. Sessions – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Rick Carter, Karen O’Hara – The Fabelmans
• Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, Vanessa Cole – Avatar: The Way of Water
• Jason Kisvarday, Kelsi Ephraim – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn – Elvis
• Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – Babylon

BEST EDITING

• Tom Cross – Babylon
• Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick
• Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water
• Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond – Elvis
• Monika Willi – Tár

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Jenny Eagan – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Shirley Kurata – Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Catherine Martin – Elvis
• Gersha Phillips – The Woman King
• Mary Zophres – Babylon

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

• Babylon
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Elvis
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Whale

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Batman
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• RRR
• Top Gun: Maverick

BEST COMEDY

• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Bros
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Triangle of Sadness
• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
• Turning Red
• Wendell & Wild

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Argentina, 1985
• Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
• Close
• Decision to Leave
• RRR

BEST SONG

• Carolina – Where the Crawdads Sing
• Ciao Papa – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Hold My Hand – Top Gun: Maverick
• Lift Me Up – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Naatu Naatu – RRR
• New Body Rhumba – White Noise

BEST SCORE

• Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
• Michael Giacchino – The Batman
• Hildur Guðnadóttir – Tár
• Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking
• Justin Hurwitz – Babylon
• John Williams – The Fabelmans

[Based on a press release.]