RRR, directed by SS Rajamouli, made history on Wednesday by garnering five nominations at the prestigious Critics Choice Awards. As the Critics Choice Awards announced their 2023 nominations, RRR received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (SS Rajamouli), Best Foreign Language Film, Best Visual Effects and Best Song (Naatu Naatu). (Also read | Golden Globes 2023 nominations: RRR takes the award for Best Song, Best Foreign Language Film)
Overall, Everything Everywhere All at Once led the nominees with a total of 14 nominations. It was followed by The Fabelmans with 11 and Babylon with ten nominations.
RRR follows a fictional pre-independence story woven around two real-life Indian revolutionaries – Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem – in the 1920s. Ram Charan and Jr NTR in the lead role, the film released worldwide in March in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. It also stars Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in key roles. The film has also garnered two nominations at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards.
See the full list of nominees here:
BEST PHOTO
Avatar: The way of the water
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin
Elvis
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
The Fables
Glass Onion: A Mystery of the Blades
RRR
tar
Top gun: Maverick
Women talk
BEST ACTOR
Austin Butler-Elvis
Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
Brendan Fraser – The whale
Paul Mescal – After sun
Bill Nighy – Alive
BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – Tar
Viola Davis – The King of Women
Danielle Deadwyler – Tot
Margot Robbie – Babylon
Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
Michelle Yeoh – Everything everywhere 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 at once
Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Jessie Buckley – Talking women
Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything everywhere at once
Stephanie Hsu – Everything everywhere at once
Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Mystery of the Blades
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 WORKING ENSEMBLE
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
The Fables
Glass Onion: A Mystery of the Blades
The Queen of Women
Women talk
BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water
Damien Chazelle-Babylon
Todd Field – Tar
Baz Luhrmann – Elvis
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything everywhere at once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Sarah Polley – Talking Women
Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
SS Rajamouli – RRR
Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
BEST ORIGINAL WRITER
Todd Field – Tar
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything everywhere at once
Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
Charlotte Wells – After Sun
BEST CUSTOM SCREEN
Samuel D. Hunter – The whale
Kazuo Ishiguro – Life
Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: a knife of mystery
Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She said
Sarah Polley – Talking Women
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Russell Carpenter – Avatar: The Way of Water
Roger Deakins – Realm of Light
Florian Hoffmeister – Tar
Janusz Kaminski – The Fabelmans
Claudio Miranda – Top Gun: Maverick
Linus Sandgren–Babylon
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The way of the water
The batter
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
RRR
Top gun: Maverick
BEST COMEDY
The Banshees of Inisherin
Brothers
Everything Everywhere Everything at once
Glass Onion: A Mystery of the Blades
Triangle of sadness
The unbearable weight of enormous talent
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Marcel the shell with shoes on
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
To blush
Wendell & Wild
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE MOVIE
No news from the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Bardo, false chronicle of a handful of truths
Close to
Decide to leave
RRR
BEST SONG
Carolina – Where the crawfish sing
Ciao Papa – Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
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 – Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
Michael Giacchino – The Batman
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Tar
Hildur Guðnadóttir – Talking Women
Justin Hurwitz-Babylon
John Williams – The Fabelmans
The 2023 Critics Choice Awards will be presented on January 15, 2023 in Los Angeles. The awards are considered the first in the prestigious American awards season, which concludes in March with the Academy Awards.
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