Warner Bros’ One Battle After Another won the best picture award at the 31st Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday (January 4). The film also won the best director and best adapted screenplay awards, bringing Paul Thomas Anderson a total of three prizes.
One Battle After Another had previously triumphed in the category at events such as the Gothams, LA Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle.
But there was a broad spread of Critics’ Choice winners over the night. Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix horror Frankenstein and Ryan Coogler’s vampire pic Sinners for Warner Bros led the film field with four prizes apiece.
Jacob Elordi won best supporting actor for Frankenstein, which also won awards for its production design, hair and makeup, and costumes.
Sinners was recognised for its original screenplay, casting and score, while Miles Caton, the film’s 20-year-old star, was named best young actor.
The main acting prizes were evenly distributed with Jessie Buckley winning best actress for her role as Shakespeare’s wife in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, and Timothée Chalamet earning best actor for his portrayal of a hustling table tennis player in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. The best supporting actress prize went to Amy Madigan for her standout performance as a witch in Warner Bros’s horror hit Weapons.
Meanwhile, Apple original F1 won two prizes for sound and cinematography, while Avatar: Fire And Ash picked up the visual effects prize.
Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters was named best animated feature and also earned a prize for best song for ‘Golden’.
Kleber Mendoca Filho’s The Secret Agent, set during Brazil’s military dictatorship, won best foreign-language film. It is distributed by Neon in the US.
Paramount’s The Naked Gun took home the best comedy prize, while Netflix’s Train Dreams won the cinematography prize for DoP Adolpho Veloso.
On the TV side, Netflix drama Adolescence earned four awards, including best limited series and acting prizes for Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty. Best actress in a limited series went to Sarah Snook for the mystery thriller All Her Fault.
Medical series The Pitt was named best drama, and picked up awards for stars Noah Wyle and Katherine LaNasa. Rhea Seehorn won best actress in a drama for Pluribus, and Tramell Tillman was named best supporting actor in a drama for Severance.
The Studio won awards for best comedy series with creator Seth Rogen taking home the best actor in a comedy prize and co-star Ike Barinholtz winning best supporting actor in a comedy.
Best actress in a comedy went to Jean Smart in Hacks, while Janelle James won supporting actress in a comedy for Abbott Elementary.
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