After a year of dominating box offices, Barbenheimer showed its collective strength at tonight’s Critics Choice Awards! The Critics Choice Association (of which I am a member) awarded eight awards to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, while Barbie drove off with six victories.
Oppenheimer may have established its Oscars frontrunner position by winning Best Picture at the Critics Choice, while Nolan won for Best Director. The film also earned Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Acting Ensemble, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Score, and Best Visual Effects.
As for Barbie, it had the second most wins of the night with six, including a win for Best Comedy. The top-grossing movie of 2023 also won for Production Design, Costume Design, Hair and Makeup, Best Song for Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken”, and Original Screenplay.
In what some will consider an upset, Emma Stone’s performance in Poor Things beat out Golden Globes winnner Lily Gladstone for Best Actress. Paul Giamatti, who joked about going viral for his stop at a fast food joint after the Golden Globes, won Best Actor once again for The Holdovers. Giamatti’s The Holdovers co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph also continued to show awards season strength by winning for Best Supporting Actress. Alexander Payne’s dramedy added a third acting award when Dominic Sessa won for Best Young Actor.
Other awards on the night went to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse for Best Animated Feature, while the Best Foreign Language award went to Anatomy of a Fall. Cord Jefferson’s feature debut American Fiction earned Best Adapted Screenplay.
The full list of winners including the TV side is below! Go here for more on the Critics Choice Association.
BEST PICTURE
Oppenheimer
BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
BEST ACTOR
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
BEST ACTRESS
Emma Stone – Poor Things
BEST LIMITED SERIES
Beef (Netflix)
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Succession (HBO | Max)
BEST COMEDY SERIES
The Bear (FX)
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Kieran Culkin – Succession (HBO | Max)
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Sarah Snook – Succession (HBO | Max)
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Oppenheimer
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear (FX)
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear (FX)
BEST SONG
“I’m Just Ken” – Barbie
BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Steven Yeun – Beef (Netflix)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Ali Wong – Beef (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear (FX)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Meryl Streep – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Maria Bello – Beef (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jonathan Bailey – Fellow Travelers (Showtime)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
BEST COMEDY (non-televised)
Barbie
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (non-televised)
Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach – Barbie
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (non-televised)
Cord Jefferson – American Fiction
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (non-televised)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM (non-televised)
Anatomy of a Fall
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (non-televised)
Oppenheimer
BEST EDITING (non-televised)
Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (non-televised)
Hoyte van Hoytema – Oppenheimer
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN (non-televised)
Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer – Barbie
BEST COSTUME DESIGN (non-televised)
Jacqueline Durran – Barbie
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP (non-televised)
Barbie
BEST SCORE (non-televised)
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (non-televised)
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
BEST TALK SHOW (non-televised)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO | Max)
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION (non-televised)
Quiz Lady (Hulu)
BEST ANIMATED SERIES (non-televised)
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES (non-televised)
Lupin (Netflix)
BEST COMEDY SPECIAL (non-televised)
John Mulaney: Baby J (Netflix)
