It feels a little anticlimactic in the wake of the Oscars, but the Critics Choice Super Awards winners have been announced. The Critics Choice Awards is a prestigious honor and is one of the better predictors of the Oscars, but the Super Awards are kind of just a lark they issue to appeal to casual fans of Superhero, Action, Horror, and Science Fiction films and TV shows.
This isn’t actually an awards ceremony. The body just announces its winners… honestly, I don’t even know if there’s even a trophy or plaque or hell, a tiara, that the winners get. This being a more casual prize, they don’t even split the acting categories between Lead and Supporting and the TV nominations are lumped together for Series, Limited Series, or Made-For-TV Movie.
This also seemed like the “Jump On The Bandwagon Awards” as most of the honors went to either the projects that have been sweeping other more serious awards or are just hot right now.
So you probably guessed it; Everything Everywhere All At Once was the most-awarded movie with three wins for Best Sci-Fi Movie, Best Sci-Fi Actress for Michelle Yeoh, and Best Sci-Fi Actor for Ke Huy Quan. Of course, this film just swept the Academy Awards and won Best Picture, with Yeoh being named Best Actress and Quan landing Best Supporting Actor.
Yeoh triumphed over her co-star Stephanie Hsu who was also up for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Interestingly, at the Oscars, Hsu was up against their fellow co-star Jamie Lee Curtis who won. Curtis wasn’t even nominated for the CCSAs!
Last year’s biggest hit (or second-biggest, depending on how you look at it), Top Gun: Maverick only took home one Oscar for Sound Editing, but it got more love here for Best Action Movie, with Tom Cruise scoring Best Action Actor.
Two other films won two CCSAs — The Batman which nabbed Best Superhero Movie and Best Superhero Actor for Colin Farrell, and Pearl for which Mia Goth took home Best Horror Actress and Best Villain (any genre).
Going into this announcement, The Batman actually had the most nominations of any movie, with six overall, including three Best Actor nods for Farrell, Robert Pattinson, and Paul Dano.
Best Action Actress went to Viola Davis for The Woman King. This film didn’t receive ANY Oscar nominations, with many crying “Snub!” so this is a nice redemption.
Speaking of redemptions, Angela Bassett who was considered by many as a lock for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, before she lost to Curtis, managed to score Best Superhero Actress at the CCSAs. Once again this isn’t a major accolade, but… it’s something.
In the Horror field, Barbarian took Best Movie, and Ralph Fiennes won Best Actor for The Menu.
On the TV side of things, The Boys also won three awards for Best Superhero Series, and with Antony Starr taking both Best Superhero Actor, and Best Villain (any genre). Tatiana Maslani nabbed Best Superhero Actress.
Wednesday scored two wins for Best Horror Series and Best Horror Actress for Jenna Ortega. Severance also nabbed two wins for Best Sci-Fi Actor for Adam Scott and Best Sci-Fi Actress for Patricia Arquette. Although they aren’t technically the same show, they exist in the same universe, so Kevin Costner won Best Action Actor for Yellowstone while Helen Mirren won Best Action Actress for the prequel 1923.
Evan Peters scored Best Horror Actor for Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (not sure I agree with this being classified as a Horror Series, but oh well…), and Cobra Kai landed Best Action Series. Best Sci-Fi Series was a tie between Stranger Things and Andor.
Check out all of the nominees and winners below:
3rd Annual Critics Choice Super Awards
FILM:
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Bullet Train
RRR
**WINNER** Top Gun: Maverick
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
The Woman King
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Nicolas Cage – The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Ram Charan – RRR
**WINNER** Tom Cruise – Top Gun: Maverick
Brad Pitt – Bullet Train
N.T. Rama Rao Jr. – RRR
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Sandra Bullock – The Lost City
Jennifer Connelly – Top Gun: Maverick
**WINNER** Viola Davis – The Woman King
Joey King – Bullet Train
Joey King – The Princess
BEST SUPERHERO MOVIE
**WINNER** The Batman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
DC League of Super-Pets
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Thor: Love and Thunder
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPERHERO MOVIE
Benedict Cumberbatch – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Paul Dano – The Batman
**WINNER** Colin Farrell – The Batman
Tenoch Huerta – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Robert Pattinson – The Batman
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPERHERO MOVIE
**WINNER** Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Zoë Kravitz – The Batman
Elizabeth Olsen – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Natalie Portman – Thor: Love and Thunder
Letitia Wright – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
BEST HORROR MOVIE
**WINNER** Barbarian
The Black Phone
Pearl
Smile
Speak No Evil
X
BEST ACTOR IN A HORROR MOVIE
Ethan Hawke – The Black Phone
Fedja van Huêt – Speak No Evil
**WINNER** Ralph Fiennes – The Menu
Rory Kinnear – Men
Justin Long – Barbarian
BEST ACTRESS IN A HORROR MOVIE
Jessie Buckley – Men
Aisha Dee – Sissy
Anna Diop – Nanny
**WINNER** Mia Goth – Pearl
Rebecca Hall – Resurrection
BEST SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY MOVIE
Avatar: The Way of Water
**WINNER** Everything Everywhere All at Once
Nope
The Northman
Prey
BEST ACTOR IN A SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY MOVIE
Colin Farrell – After Yang
Daniel Kaluuya – Nope
**WINNER** Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Ryan Reynolds – The Adam Project
Alexander Skarsgård – The Northman
BEST ACTRESS IN A SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY MOVIE
Karen Gillan – Dual
Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once
Amber Midthunder – Prey
Keke Palmer – Nope
Zoe Saldana – Avatar: The Way of Water
**WINNER** Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once
BEST VILLAIN IN A MOVIE
Paul Dano – The Batman
**WINNER** Mia Goth – Pearl
Tenoch Huerta – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Joey King – Bullet Train
Elizabeth Olsen – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Mark Rylance – Bones and All
TELEVISION:
BEST ACTION SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
9-1-1
**WINNER** Cobra Kai
Kung Fu
Reacher
Tulsa King
Vikings: Valhalla
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
**WINNER** Kevin Costner – Yellowstone
John Krasinski – Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Ralph Macchio – Cobra Kai
Alan Ritchson – Reacher
Sylvester Stallone – Tulsa King
William Zabka – Cobra Kai
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Angela Bassett – 9-1-1
Queen Latifah – The Equalizer
Olivia Liang – Kung Fu
Katherine McNamara – Walker: Independence
**WINNER** Helen Mirren – 1923
Kelly Reilly – Yellowstone
BEST SUPERHERO SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
**WINNER** The Boys
Doom Patrol
Ms. Marvel
Peacemaker
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Werewolf by Night
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPERHERO SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
John Cena – Peacemaker
Brendan Fraser – Doom Patrol
Grant Gustin – The Flash
Oscar Isaac – Moon Knight
Elliot Page – The Umbrella Academy
**WINNER** Antony Starr – The Boys
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPERHERO SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Danielle Brooks – Peacemaker
Michelle Gomez – Doom Patrol
Caity Lotz – Legends of Tomorrow
**WINNER** Tatiana Maslany – She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Erin Moriarty – The Boys
Iman Vellani – Ms. Marvel
BEST HORROR SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
Chucky
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Evil
The Walking Dead
**WINNER** Wednesday
What We Do in the Shadows
BEST ACTOR IN A HORROR SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Jacob Anderson – Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows
Mike Colter – Evil
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows
**WINNER** Evan Peters – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Sam Reid – Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
BEST ACTRESS IN A HORROR SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Jennifer Coolidge – The Watcher
Natasia Demetriou – What We Do in the Shadows
Katja Herbers – Evil
Niecy Nash-Betts – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
**WINNER** Jenna Ortega – Wednesday
Christina Ricci – Wednesday
BEST SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE (TIE)
**WINNER** Andor (tie)
For All Mankind
House of the Dragon
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
**WINNER** Stranger Things (tie)
BEST ACTOR IN A SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Chiwetel Ejiofor – The Man Who Fell to Earth
Samuel L. Jackson – The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
Diego Luna – Andor
Anson Mount – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
**WINNER** Adam Scott – Severance
Matt Smith – House of the Dragon
BEST ACTRESS IN A SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Milly Alcock – House of the Dragon
**WINNER** Patricia Arquette – Severance
Morfydd Clark – The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Moses Ingram – Obi-Wan Kenobi
Fiona Shaw – Andor
Sissy Spacek – Night Sky
BEST VILLAIN IN A SERIES, LIMITED SERIES OR MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE
Ethan Hawke – Moon Knight
Brad Dourif – Chucky
Matt Smith – House of the Dragon
Hayden Christensen – Obi-Wan Kenobi
**WINNER** Antony Starr – The Boys
Michael Emerson – Evil
Jamie Campbell Bower – Stranger Things
Harriet Sansom Harris – Werewolf By Night
