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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE AND THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN LEAD THE 2023 HOLLYWOOD CRITICS ASSOCIATION FILM AWARDS NOMINATIONS
Tig Notaro set to host the 2023 HCA Film Awards at the Beverly Wilshire
LOS ANGELES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022 – This morning, Hollywood Critics Association Board Member Rasha Goel along with 2022 HCA Film Awards Newcomer honoree and Belfast star Jude Hill, Till star Jalyn Hall, and The Black Phone star Madeleine McGraw announced the nominations for the 2023 HCA Film Awards on the HCA YouTube channel. The prestigious ceremony will be produced by DIGA Studios and Content.23 Media and live-streamed on the official HCA YouTube channel and HCA App from the historic Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles, CA on Friday, February 24th beginning at 6 p.m. PST / 9 p.m. EST.
Downloadable HCA Film Awards Logos here
Comedian, Actor, Writer Tig Notaro will host the 2023 HCA Film Awards ceremony. Named by Rolling Stone as one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time, Tig can currently be seen in Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount+ and next year on AppleTV+’s The Morning Show. Last year, Tig starred in Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, and prior to that was seen in the heartwarming Paramount film, Instant Family. Tig also previously wrote, produced and starred in the semi-autobiographical Amazon series, One Mississippi, for which she also directed an episode. Tig’s most recent and fully animated standup special, Drawn, was nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association Award earlier this year. Tig and her wife, Stephanie Allynne, co-directed the feature film, AM I OK?, starring Dakota Johnson and Sinoya Mizuno, which premiered at Sundance this year and will be available on HBO Max in 2023.
[Media Ready Downloadable Tig photo here]
A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once, written and directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, led the 2023 HCA Film Awards with a total of nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Michelle Yoeh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, and dual Best Supporting Actress nominations for Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis. The A24 film previously received seven HCA Creative Arts Awards nominations bringing the film’s total to sixteen HCA nominations.
Searchlight Pictures’ The Banshees of Inisherin received seven 2023 HCA Film Awards nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor for Colin Farrell, Best Supporting Actress for Kerry Condon, and Best Director for Martin McDonagh. The Searchlight Pictures film also received a nomination for Best Score last week at the HCA Creative Arts Awards, bringing its grand total to eight HCA nominations.
Focus Features’ TÁR, Sony Pictures’ The Woman King, and UA Releasing’s Woman Talking collected five 2023 HCA Film Awards nominations with each film being nominated for Best Picture. Variance Films’ RRR and Universal Pictures’ The Fabelmans received four 2023 HCA Film Awards nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Other films nominated in the HCA Film Awards include Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick, 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: The Way of Water, Warner Brothers’ Elvis, and Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, just to name a few.
A complete list of nominees in all 19 categories can be found below:
Best Action Film
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- RRR
- The Batman
- The Woman King
- Top Gun: Maverick
Best Documentary Film
- All the Beauty and The Bloodshed
- Fire of Love
- Good Night Oppy
- Moonage Daydream
- Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
Best Horror Film
- Barbarian
- Bones and All
- Nope
- The Black Phone
- X
Best International Film
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Argentina, 1985
- Close
- Decision to Leave
- RRR
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Guillermo del Toro & Patrick McHale – Gulliermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said
- Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale
- Sarah Polley – Women Talking
Best Director
- Baz Luhrmann – Elvis
- Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King
- James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water
- Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
- Park Chan-wook – Decision to Leave
- S.S. Rajamouli – RRR
- Sarah Polley – Women Talking
- Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans
- Todd Field – TÁR
Best Voice or Motion-Capture Performance
- Antonio Banderas in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- Ewan McGregor in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Jenny Slate in Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Rosalie Chiang in Turning Red
- Zoe Saldaña in Avatar: The Way of Water
Best Supporting Actor
- Barry Keoghan- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Ben Whishaw – Women Talking
- Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin
- Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway
- Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actor
- Austin Butler – Elvis
- Brendan Fraser – The Whale
- Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin
- Paul Mescal – Aftersun
- Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
Best Animated Film
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
- The Bad Guys
- Turning Red
Best First Feature
- Charlotte Wells – Aftersun
- Lila Neugebauer – Causeway
- John Patton Ford – Emily the Criminal
- Elegance Bratton – The Inspection
- Domee Shi – Turning Red
Best Indie Film
- Aftersun
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- TÁR
Best Short Film
- All Too Well: The Short Film
- Moshari
- North Star
- Regret to Inform You
- Triggered
Best Original Screenplay
- Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin
- Seth Reiss & Will Tracy – The Menu
- Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans
- Todd Field – TÁR
Best Cast Ensemble
- Babylon
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- The Woman King
- Women Talking
Best Supporting Actress
- Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Hong Chau – The Whale
- Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Keke Palmer – Nope
- Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin
- Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Actress
- Cate Blanchett – TÁR
- Danielle Deadwyler – Till
- Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans
- Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Viola Davis – The Woman King
Best Comedy
- Bros
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- The Menu
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
- Triangle of Sadness
Best Picture
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- RRR
- TÁR
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- The Fabelmans
- The Woman King
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Women Talking
Last week, the Hollywood Critics Association announced three of their 2023 HCA Film Awards honorary award recipients: Angela Bassett is receiving the HCA Acting Achievement Award, Rian Johnson is receiving the HCA Filmmaking Achievement Award, and the Cast/Crew of RRR is receiving the HCA Spotlight Award.
[Media Ready Downloadable Photo of Ms. Bassett available here: – Photo Credit: D’Andre Michael]
[Media Ready Downloadable Photo of Rian Johnson available here – Photo Credit: Emily Soto]
The HCA also announced the nominees of their Inaugural HCA Creative Arts Awards, which will take place on Friday, February 17, 2023. Paramount Pictures’ Top Gun: Maverick tied with A24’s Everything Everywhere All At Once with seven nominations each including Best Cinematography, Stunts and Visual Effects. Matt Reeves’ The Batman came in third with six nominations, including Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Score and Sound. A complete list of nominees in all twelve categories can be found below.
Best Casting Director
- Everything Everywhere All At Once – Sarah Finn
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe
- The Menu – Mary Vernieu and Bret Howe
- The Woman King – Aisha Coley
- Women Talking – John Buchan and Jason Knight
Best Costume Design
- Babylon – Mary Zophres
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Ruth Carter
- Elvis – Catherine Martin
- Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris – Jenny Beavan
- The Woman King – Gersha Phillips
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
- Elvis – Shane Thomas, Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, and Louise Coulston
- Everything Everywhere All At Once – Michelle Chung and Anissa Salazar
- The Batman – Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, and Zoe Tahir
- The Whale – Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley
Best Original Song
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – “Lift Me Up” performed by Rihanna
- Elvis – “Vegas” performed by Doja Cat
- RRR – “Naatu Naatu” performed by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava
- Top Gun: Maverick – “Hold My Hand” performed by Lady Gaga
- Turning Red – “Nobody Like U” performed by 4Town
Best Score
- Babylon – Justin Hurwitz
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Alexandre Desplat
- The Banshees of Inisherin – Carter Burwell
- The Batman – Michael Giacchino
- Women Talking – Hildur Guðnadóttir
Best Stunts
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- RRR
- The Batman
- The Woman King
- Top Gun: Maverick
TOTAL NOMINATIONS (HCA Film Awards & HCA Creative Arts Awards Combined):
- Aftersun – 3
- All the Beauty and The Bloodshed – 1
- All Too Well: The Short Film – 1
- Avatar: The Way of Water – 7
- Babylon – 4
- Barbarian – 1
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – 7
- Bones and All – 1
- Bros – 1
- Causeway – 2
- Cha Cha Real Smooth – 1
- Close – 1
- Decision to Leave – 3
- Elvis – 8
- Emily The Criminal – 1
- Everything Everywhere All At Once – 16
- Fire of Love – 1
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – 5
- Good Night Oppy – 1
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – 5
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – 3
- Moonage Daydream – 1
- Moshari – 1
- Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris – 1
- Nope – 4
- North Star – 1
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – 2
- Regret to Inform You – 1
- RRR – 8
- Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me – 1
- She Said – 1
- Smile – 1
- TÁR – 5
- The Bad Guys – 1
- The Banshees of Inisherin – 8
- The Batman – 7
- The Black Phone – 1
- The Fabelmans – 5
- The Inspection – 1
- The Menu – 3
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent – 1
- The Whale – 4
- The Woman King – 8
- Till – 1
- Top Gun: Maverick – 10
- Triangle of Sadness – 1
- Triggered – 1
- Turning Red – 4
- Women Talking – 7
- X – 1
Best Cinematography
- Avatar: The Way of Water – Russell Carpenter
- Everything Everywhere All At Once – Larkin Seiple
- The Batman – Greig Fraser
- The Fabelmans – Janusz Kamiński
- Top Gun: Maverick – Claudio Miranda
Best Editing
- Decision to Leave – Kim Sang-bum
- Everything Everywhere All At Once – Paul Rogers
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bob Ducsay
- RRR – A. Sreekar Prasad
- Top Gun: Maverick – Eddie Hamilton
Best Marketing Campaign
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Nope
- Smile
- Top Gun: Maverick
Best Production Design
- Avatar: The Way of Water – Dylan Cole, Ben Procter and Vanessa Cole
- Babylon – Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Hannah Beachler and Lisa K. Sessions
- Elvis – Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, and Bev Dunn
- The Batman – James Chinlund and Lee Sandales
Best Sound
- Avatar: The Way of Water – Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Gary Summers, Michael Hedges, and Julian Howarth
- Elvis – David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson, and Michael Keller
- Nope – Johnnie Burn and Jose Antonio Garcia
- The Batman – Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray, and Andy Nelson
- Top Gun: Maverick – Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor
Best Visual Effects
- Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett
- Everything Everywhere All At Once – Zak Stoltz, Ethan Feldbau, Benjamin Brewer and Jeff Desom
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Aaron Weintraub, Brian Leif Hansen, Georgina Hayns and Ian Mackinnon
- RRR – V. Srinivas Mohan
- Top Gun: Maverick – Ryan Tudhope, Scott R. Fisher, Seth Hill and Bryan Litson
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