This morning you have a lot of people claiming that “Everything Everywhere All At Once” winning BIG at last night’s Critics Choice awards means it’s the actual Best Picture frontrunner. Wrong! It’s not.
The Critics Choice awards are exactly what they are, a voting body primarily composed of film critics and journalists. This particular group has been on the EEAO bandwagon since the very beginning. EEAO appeared on the most critics top 10 lists this year, according to this excellent website. A whopping 395 lists.
This is how I see the Best Picture race at the moment, at least until the PGA announces its winner: it’s a three-way race between EEAO, “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “The Fabelmans” with “Top Gun: Maverick” being the very legitimate dark horse. There is no frontrunner!
The other winners in the main categories were Cate Blanchett (TÁR), Brendan Fraser (The Whale), Angela Bassett (Wakanda Forever) and Ke Huy Quan (EEAO). Best Director went to EEAO’s Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan.
The best part of the evening was Cate Blanchett’s shout out to Andrea Riseborough’s performance in “To Leslie.”