'Oppenheimer' Leads Critics Choice Awards With Eight Wins, Including Best Picture

Oppenheimer continued making its case that it’s the film to beat for Best Picture at the Oscars with an impressive showing at the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards that included eight wins, including the top prize.

Oppenheimer took home eight awards including Best Picture, Best Director for Christopher Nolan, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., and Best Cast Ensemble. The film also won several technical awards including Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Design.

Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.

Awards season appears to not be a sure thing race in a couple of categories, including Best Actress which saw Emma Stone take home the Critics Choice Award for Poor Things, after Lily Gladstone took home the prize last week at the Golden Globes. The Hollywood Foreign Press does separate Musical/Comedy from Drama so Stone one in the former category last week while Gladstone won in the latter. The Killers of the Flower Moon actress was viewed as the frontrunner for the award but now the race appears to be a bit tighter than anticipated.

The same can be said in the Best Actor race. While many thought Cillian Murphy would take it home for Oppenheimer but Paul Giamatti won the Best Actor Critics Choice Award for his role in The Holdovers. Their situation mirrors the Stone/Gladstone scenario at the Golden Globes last week with Murphy taking Best Actor – Drama while Giamatti took it home for Musical/Comedy.

Da’Vine Joy Randolph continued to dominate the Best Supporting Actress category with another win for The Holdovers. She has been the clear frontrunner in this category and it would appear that her road to Oscar is very clear unless something truly crazy happens.

Barbie was the second big winner of the night with a total of six wins, including Best Original Screenplay for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, Best Production Design, Best Song for “I’m Just Ken”, Best Costume Design, Best Hair and Makeup and Best Comedy.

On the TV side of things, Succession and The Bear continued their respective dominance in the drama and comedy categories with the former taking home Best Drama Series while the latter took home Best Comedy Series. In the limited series category, Beef continued to ride a wave of wins by taking home Best Limited Series.

On the acting side on television, Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook won Best Actor and Actress in a drama for Succession while Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri walked home with Best Actor and Actress in a comedy for The Bear. The actors of Beef also represented for limited series with wins for Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, and Maria Bello.

Check out the full list of winners below!

BEST PICTURE
Oppenheimer

BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer

BEST ACTOR
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers