'Oppenheimer' tops Critics Choice awards

 

The Critics Choice Association Sunday announced its 2024 awards with Oppenheimer winning best picture.

  The best actor category provided one of the biggest surprises of the organizations 29th edition. Paul Giamatti won for his performance in the Holdovers. Giamatti bested Cillian Murphy; the Oppenheimer star had been considered the favorite by many. 

   A win for the popular Giamatti could shake up this year's Oscar race.

   The best actress category also included a surprise that could impact Oscar voters. Emma Stone won best actress for her work in Poor Things. Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) won a Golden Globe in this category and remains a strong Oscar contender.

  Otherwise, the evening went as expected with Barbie (six awards) trailing Oppenheimer (eight awards). 

  I'm a voting member to the Critic Choice Association. If you're interested, you can find the complete list of this year's nominees in an earlier post. (Use the search box in the top left hand corner of this page.)l

   So, yes, we're inching our way toward Oscar. 

   Nominations for the 2024 Oscars will be announced on Jan. 23.

   Here are the 2024 Critics Choice winners:

Best Picture: Oppenheimer

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Best Actress: Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Young Actor/Actress: Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Best Acting Ensemble: Oppenheimer

Best Original Screenplay: Barbie, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach

Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction, Cord Jefferson

Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer, Hoyte van Hoytema

Best Production Design: Barbie, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Best Editing: Oppenheimer, Jennifer Lame

Best Costume Design: Barbie, Jacqueline Durran

Best Hair and Makeup: Barbie

Best Visual Effects: Oppenheimer

Best Comedy: Barbie

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Foreign Language Film: Anatomy of a Fall

Best Original Song: I'm Just Ken, Barbie

Best Score: Ludwig Goransson, Oppenheimer

And while we're at it: The Denver Film Critics awards for 2024 are as follows:

Best Film: Oppenheimer

Best Director, Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Female: Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Male: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Female: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Male: Ryan Gosling, Barbie

Best Sci-Fi/Horror: Godzilla Minus One

Best Comedy: Barbie & Poor Things

Best Visual Effects: The Creator & Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3

Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony McNamara, Poor Things

Best Documentary Feature: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Original Song: What Was I Made For, Barbie

Best Original Score: Ludwig Goransson, Oppenheimer

Best Non-English Language Feature (Godzilla Minus One & The Zone of Interest)