‘RRR’ does a double; ‘Everything Everywhere’, ‘Better Call Saul’ register big wins

Los Angeles, Jan 16 : After winning a Golden Globe for Naatu Naatu, S.S.

Rajamoulis epic drama RRR won Best Foreign Language Film and walked away with the Best Song trophy for the number that has made the world fall in love with the Ram Charan-NTR Jr hook step.At the 28th Critics Choice Awards, which took place on Sunday night (U.S.Pacific Time) at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, also saw Rajamouli invoke Mera Bharat Mahan and get taken by surprise by James Cameron, the creator of Avatar, when he said that he had seen RRR twice.Indie production house A24s Everything Everywhere All at Once won Best Picture.

Brendan Fraser won Best Actor for A24s The Whale and Cate Blanchett took Best Actress for Focus Features Tar, reports Deadline.Everything Everywhere.

came into the ceremony with a leading 14 nominations and left leading all films and TV shows with five trophies, including Best Director for Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the duo who are better known as the Daniels.The screenplay awards went to Kwan and Scheinert for Everything Everywhere (Original) and Sarah Polley for MGM/United Artists Women Talking (Adapted).

Ke Huy Quan continued his awards-season dominance with a Supporting Actor win for Everything Everywhere and Angela Bassett took the Supporting Actress prize for Disney/Marvels Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.Netflixs Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story took the Acting Ensemble and Best Comedy prizes.Guillermo del Toros Pinocchio, also from Netflix, got the trophy for Best Animated Feature.

On the TV side, FXs Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul won Best Drama Series for its sixth and final season, and its star Bob Odenkirk won Best Actor in a Drama.And Zendaya picked up more Best Actress hardware for HBOs Euphoria.

ABCs Abbott Elementary followed its Golden Globe win with the Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy Series.Jeremy Allen White won Best Actor in a Comedy Series for FXs The Bear, and Jean Smart — who missed the ceremony because of Covid — was named Best Actress for HBO Maxs Hacks.

Jennifer Coolidge and Giancarlo Esposito won Supporting Actress and Actor in a Drama Series for HBOs The White Lotus and Better Call Saul, respectively.Amanda Seyfried repeated her Emmy and Golden Globe wins for Hulus The Dropout, which also won Best Limited Series.

Niecy Nash Betts and Paul Walter Hauser respectively won Supporting Actress and Actor in a Limited Series for Netflixs Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Apple TV+s Black Bird.Sheryl Lee Ralph and Henry Winkler took the Comedy prizes for Abbott Elementary and HBOs Barry.Roku Channels Weird: The Al Yankovic Story walked off with Best TV Movie, and its star Daniel Radcliffe also won, making that film, The Dropout and Abbott Elementary the only other multiple TV winners; Better Call Saul took three.A24 and the combined HBO/HBO Max topped all networks and distributors with six trophies each, followed by Netflix with five.Disney and AMC got three each.

ABC, Apple TV+, Disney, Focus Features, Hulu, Paramount, Roku Channel and Variance Films (RRR) were the only other multiple winners.srb/ #double #Saul #wins #James #Jan #Los Angeles #Apple #Abbott #Netflix #Disney #Covid #Song #Akanda.