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Watch Your Favorite Stars Win Big in the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards

Stars, awards, glitz and glam. See it all in the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards LIVE Sunday, January 15 on CW26. 

The Critics Choice Awards 2023 honors the best in filmmaking and television in 2022 where nominees will be honored and winners chosen in a variety of categories. This year’s ceremony is hosted by Chelsea Handler and will take place at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in LA. 

Before the ceremony begins, witness your favorite stars make their glamorous entrances as we go LIVE on the Red Carpet. From 4-6P, experience the parade of fashion as your favorite Hollywood stars and award nominees strut their stuff and pose in their designer couture. 

The award ceremony follows right after from 6-9P. That’s three hours of live coverage so you can see exactly when your favorite star wins big.

Join us HERE on CW26 for five hours of can’t-miss entertainment in the biggest award ceremony of the year, Sunday, January 15 beginning at 4P on CW26. 


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Check out the full list of categories and nominees below!


Best Picture

- Avatar: The Way of Water

- Babylon

- The Banshees of Inisherin

- Elvis

- Everything Everywhere All at Once

- The Fabelmans

- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

- RRR

- Tár

- Top Gun: Maverick

- Women Talking


Best Actor

- Austin Butler – Elvis

- Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick

- Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin

- Brendan Fraser – The Whale

- Paul Mescal – Aftersun

- Bill Nighy – Living


Best Actress

- Cate Blanchett – Tár

- Viola Davis – The Woman King

- Danielle Deadwyler – Till

- Margot Robbie – Babylon

- Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

- Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once


Best Supporting Actor

- Paul Dano – The Fabelmans

- Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin

- Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans

- Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin

- Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway


Best Supporting Actress

- Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

- Jessie Buckley – Women Talking

- Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin

- Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery


Best Young Actor/Actress

- Frankie Corio – Aftersun

- Jalyn Hall – Till

- Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans

- Bella Ramsey – Catherine Called Birdy

- Banks Repeta – Armageddon Time

- Sadie Sink – The Whale


Best Acting Ensemble

- The Banshees of Inisherin

- Everything Everywhere All at Once

- The Fabelmans

- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

- The Woman King

- Women Talking


Best Director

- James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water

- Damien Chazelle – Babylon

- Todd Field – Tár

- Baz Luhrmann – Elvis

- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

- Sarah Polley – Women Talking

- Gina Prince-Bythewood – The Woman King

- S. S. Rajamouli – RRR

- Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans


Best Original Screenplay

- Todd Field – Tár

- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

- Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans

- Charlotte Wells – Aftersun


Best Adapted Screenplay

- Samuel D. Hunter – The Whale

- Kazuo Ishiguro – Living

- Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

- Rebecca Lenkiewicz – She Said

- Sarah Polley – Women Talking


Best Cinematography

- Russell Carpenter – Avatar: The Way of Water

- Roger Deakins – Empire of Light

- Florian Hoffmeister – Tár

- Janusz Kaminski – The Fabelmans

- Claudio Miranda – Top Gun: Maverick

- Linus Sandgren – Babylon


Best Production Design

- Hannah Beachler, Lisa K. Sessions – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

- Rick Carter, Karen O'Hara – The Fabelmans

- Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, Vanessa Cole – Avatar: The Way of Water

- Jason Kisvarday, Kelsi Ephraim – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn – Elvis

- Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – Babylon


Best Editing

- Tom Cross – Babylon

- Eddie Hamilton – Top Gun: Maverick

- Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water

- Paul Rogers – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Matt Villa, Jonathan Redmond – Elvis

- Monika Willi – Tár


Best Costume Design

- Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

- Jenny Eagan – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

- Shirley Kurata – Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Catherine Martin – Elvis

- Gersha Phillips – The Woman King

- Mary Zophres – Babylon


Best Hair And Makeup

- Babylon

- The Batman

- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

- Elvis

- Everything Everywhere All at Once

- The Whale


Best Visual Effects

 - Avatar: The Way of Water

- The Batman

- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

- Everything Everywhere All at Once

- RRR

- Top Gun: Maverick


Best Comedy

- The Banshees of Inisherin

- Bros

- Everything Everywhere All at Once

- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

- Triangle of Sadness

- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent


Best Animated Feature

- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

- Turning Red

- Wendell & Wild


Best Foreign Language Film

- All Quiet on the Western Front

- Argentina, 1985

- Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

- Close

- Decision to Leave

- RRR


Best Song

- 'Carolina' – Where the Crawdads Sing

- 'Ciao Papa' – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

- 'Hold My Hand' – Top Gun: Maverick

- 'Lift Me Up' – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

- 'Naatu Naatu' – RRR

- 'New Body Rhumba' – White Noise


Best Score

- Alexandre Desplat – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

- Michael Giacchino – The Batman

- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Tár

- Hildur Guðnadóttir – Women Talking

- Justin Hurwitz – Babylon

- John Williams – The Fabelmans