All of Us Critics Choice Nominations

It's my first year as a member of the Critics Choice Association (y'all know how I feel about awards for art!) and so it's my duty to report on the nominations for the movies of the year 2023, which were just announced this morning. As happens every time I've voted in a large organization all of my weird votes were sucked into a black hole and the list of nominations looks like everybody else's lists of nominations, sigh. (How All of Us Strangers only got one nomination, for Screenplay, I will never comprehend.) 

There are a few highlights though that I can glom onto. All of the Poor Things love, and Saltburn got a few. I love May December and Killers of the Flower Moon and Past Lives and Anatomy of a Fall so no complaints on those. Bottoms for Best Comedy! And I didn't even vote for it in this category but I love that Godzilla Minus One made it into Best Foreign Language Film (I did vote for its Visual Effects, where it did not get in). That said the movies I did not like -- Maestro and The Holdovers specifically -- and the movies I think are just okay -- Oppenheimer and Barbie and American Fiction -- are way overrepresented. 

Anyway all of this is typical -- Awards Season always evens out to groupthink and the year's oddities must subsist on the love of the human oddities who keep loving them, so we'll keep doing that together. And eventually once I feel like I've seen enough of the year's movies I'll dole out my own faves. But for now know the Critics Choice Awards will air at 7pm EST on The CW on January 14th, hosted by Chelsea Handler -- I'm not going in person this year because I'm going to Sundance the following week instead and one has to make choices and that's was mine for 2024! Now hit the jump to see the full slate of Critics Choice noms...

FILM NOMINATIONS FOR THE 29th ANNUAL CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS

BEST PICTURE American Fiction Barbie The Color Purple The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives Poor Things Saltburn   BEST ACTOR Bradley Cooper – Maestro Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon Colman Domingo – Rustin Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction    BEST ACTRESS Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall Greta Lee – Past Lives Carey Mulligan – Maestro Margot Robbie – Barbie Emma Stone – Poor Things    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Sterling K. Brown – American Fiction Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer Ryan Gosling – Barbie Charles Melton – May December Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple America Ferrera – Barbie Jodie Foster – Nyad Julianne Moore – May December Da'Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers   BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Abby Ryder Fortson – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Ariana Greenblatt – Barbie Calah Lane – Wonka Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of a Fall Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers Madeleine Yuna Voyles – The Creator   BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE Air Barbie The Color Purple The Holdovers Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer    BEST DIRECTOR Bradley Cooper – Maestro Greta Gerwig – Barbie Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Alexander Payne – The Holdovers Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Samy Burch – May December Alex Convery – Air Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer – Maestro Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach – Barbie David Hemingson – The Holdovers Celine Song – Past Lives   BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Kelly Fremon Craig – Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers Cord Jefferson – American Fiction Tony McNamara – Poor Things Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer Eric Roth & Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon   BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Matthew Libatique – Maestro Rodrigo Prieto – Barbie Rodrigo Prieto – Killers of the Flower Moon Robbie Ryan – Poor Things Linus Sandgren – Saltburn Hoyte van Hoytema – Oppenheimer   BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Suzie Davies, Charlotte Dirickx – Saltburn Ruth De Jong, Claire Kaufman – Oppenheimer Jack Fisk, Adam Willis – Killers of the Flower Moon Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer – Barbie James Price, Shona Heath, Szusza Mihalek – Poor Things Adam Stockhausen, Kris Moran – Asteroid City   BEST EDITING William Goldenberg – Air Nick Houy – Barbie Jennifer Lame – Oppenheimer Yorgos Mavropsaridis – Poor Things Thelma Schoonmaker – Killers of the Flower Moon Michelle Tesoro – Maestro   BEST COSTUME DESIGN Jacqueline Durran – Barbie Lindy Hemming – Wonka Francine Jamison-Tanchuck – The Color Purple Holly Waddington – Poor Things Jacqueline West – Killers of the Flower Moon Janty Yates, David Crossman – Napoleon   BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP Barbie The Color Purple Maestro Oppenheimer Poor Things Priscilla    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS The Creator Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Oppenheimer Poor Things Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse   BEST COMEDY American Fiction Barbie Bottoms The Holdovers No Hard Feelings Poor Things   BEST ANIMATED FEATURE The Boy and the Heron Elemental Nimona Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Wish   BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Anatomy of a Fall Godzilla Minus One Perfect Days Society of the Snow The Taste of Things The Zone of Interest   BEST SONG “Dance the Night” – Barbie “I’m Just Ken” – Barbie “Peaches” – The Super Mario Bros. Movie “Road to Freedom” – Rustin “This Wish” – Wish “What Was I Made For” – Barbie   BEST SCORE Jerskin Fendrix – Poor Things Michael Giacchino – Society of the Snow Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt – Barbie