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“EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE” AND “TOP GUN: MAVERICK” LEAD THE HOLLYWOOD CRITICS ASSOCIATION’S CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS NOMINATIONS
The Inaugural HCA Creative Arts Awards will take place on Friday, February 24, 2023
LOS ANGELES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2022 — The Hollywood Critics Association has announced the complete list of nominees for their inaugural HCA Creative Arts Awards. The HCA Creative Arts Awards winners will be revealed at their ceremony, scheduled to take place on Friday, February 24, 2023.
A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once tied with Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick with seven nominations, including Best Cinematography, Stunts, and Visual Effects. Matt Reeves’ The Batman came in third place with six nominations, including Best Makeup and Hair, Score, and Sound.
Some other nominees with multiple nominations include Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, S. S. Rajamouli’s RRR, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Woman King.
A shortlist committee, led by AwardsWatch and HCA Member, Erik Anderson, was created and tasked with generating twelve category shortlists for the HCA Creative Arts Awards. HCA Members Ema Sasic, Ryan McQuade, Terence Johnson, Chris James, Kathia Woods, and Dana Han-Klein worked alongside Anderson to build and shape this year’s shortlists. Once the lists were finalized, the shortlists were sent out to the HCA membership and were used to vote for this year’s nominees.
A complete list of all nominations in all twelve categories can be found below:
Casting Director
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) – Sarah Finn
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix) – Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe
- The Menu (Searchlight Pictures) – Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe
- The Woman King (Sony Pictures) – Aisha Coley
- Women Talking (UA Releasing) – John Buchan and Jason Knight
Costume Design
- Babylon (Paramount Pictures) – Mary Zophres
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios) – Ruth Carter
- Elvis (Warner Brothers) – Catherine Martin
- Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (Focus Features) – Jenny Beavan
- The Woman King (Sony Pictures) – Gersha Phillips
Makeup and Hairstyling
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios) – Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
- Elvis (Warner Brothers) – Shane Thomas, Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, and Louise Coulston
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) – Michelle Chung and Anissa Salazar
- The Batman (Warner Brothers) – Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, and Zoe Tahir
- The Whale (A24) – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley
Original Song
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios) – “Lift Me Up” performed by Rihanna
- Elvis (Warner Brothers) – “Vegas” performed by Doja Cat
- RRR (Variance Films) – “Naatu Naatu” performed by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava
- Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures) – “Hold My Hand” performed by Lady Gaga
- Turning Red (Pixar) – “Nobody Like U” performed by 4Town
Score
- Babylon (Paramount Pictures) – Justin Hurwitz
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) – Alexandre Desplat
- The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures) – Carter Burwell
- The Batman (Warner Brothers) – Michael Giacchino
- Women Talking (UA Releasing) – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Stunts
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
- RRR (Variance Films)
- The Batman (Warner Brothers)
- The Woman King (Sony Pictures)
- Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
Cinematography
- Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios) – Russell Carpenter
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) – Larkin Seiple
- The Batman (Warner Brothers) – Greig Fraser
- The Fabelmans (Universal Pictures) – Janusz Kamiński
- Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures) – Claudio Miranda
Editing
- Decision to Leave (MUBI) – Kim Sang-bum
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) – Paul Rogers
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Netflix) – Bob Ducsay
- RRR (Variance Films) – A. Sreekar Prasad
- Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures) – Eddie Hamilton
Marketing Campaign
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios)
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24)
- Nope (Universal Pictures)
- Smile (Paramount Pictures)
- Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures)
Production Design
- Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios) – Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, and Vanessa Cole
- Babylon (Paramount Pictures) – Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios) – Hannah Beachler
- Elvis (Warner Brothers) – Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, and Bev Dunn
- The Batman (Warner Brothers) – James Chinlund and Lee Sandales
Sound
- Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios) – Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Gary Summers, Michael Hedges, and Julian Howarth
- Elvis (Warner Brothers) – David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson, and Michael Keller
- Nope (Universal Pictures) – Johnnie Burn and Jose Antonio Garcia
- The Batman (Warner Brothers) – Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray, and Andy Nelson
- Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures) – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor
Visual Effects
- Avatar: The Way of Water (20th Century Studios) – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
- Everything Everywhere All At Once (A24) – Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer, and Jeff Desom
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Netflix) – Aaron Weintraub, Brian Leif Hansen, Georgina Hayns, and Ian Mackinnon
- RRR (Variance Films) – V. Srinivas Mohan
- Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount Pictures) – Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill, and Bryan Litson
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