Critics Choice Awards: 'RRR' wins two awards

After winning a Golden Globe for Naatu Naatu SS 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 CharanNTR Jr hook stepAt the 28th Critics Choice Awards which took place on Sunday night US 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 twiceIndie 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 DeadlineEverything 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 DanielsThe screenplay awards went to Kwan and Scheinert for Everything Everywhere Original and Sarah Polley for MGMUnited Artists Women Talking AdaptedKe Huy Quan continued his awardsseason dominance with a Supporting Actor win for Everything Everywhere and Angela Bassett took the Supporting Actress prize for DisneyMarvels Black Panther Wakanda ForeverNetflixs 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 FeatureOn 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 EuphoriaABCs 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 HacksJennifer 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 SeriesNiecy 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 TVs Black Bird Sheryl Lee Ralph and Henry Winkler took the Comedy prizes for Abbott Elementary and HBOs BarryRoku 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 threeA24 and the combined HBOHBO 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 winnersAlso Read See how Rana Daggubati reacted to SS Rajamoulis picture with Steven SpielbergThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever