Campion — who has already won prestigious gongs from Hollywood’s directors guild and Britain’s BAFTA in a packed weekend — took best picture and best director at the high-profile awards gala in Los Angeles.
The film’s award charge comes just days before Oscars voting begins on Thursday, with the grand Academy Awards ceremony itself to be held in Hollywood on March 27.
“We are so proud and so grateful to the Critics Choice Awards for choosing us. I’ve still got some PTSD from critics going back to early in my career!” said Campion.
“I’m like the grandmother in the women’s movement in film now. But I’m still here,” added Campion, who was up against a slate of all-male directors.
Addressing Venus and Serena Williams in the star-studded audience, Campion said: “Serena and Venus you are such marvels — however you do not play against the guys as I have to,” joked Campion.
The tennis greats cheered as Oscars frontrunner Will Smith added to his BAFTA best actor win earlier in the day for his performance as their father, coach and manager in “King Richard.”
Smith thanked the sisters in his acceptance speech, telling them he had seen “the secret, scary, hard places that you went out on that court, and you smiled and you did your job.
“Serena didn’t smile all the time on court,” he joked of the 23-time Grand Slam winner, whose fiery temper has left her at loggerheads with officials on occasions.
Jessica Chastain won best actress for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” in which she disappeared beneath layers of the US televangelist’s trademark heavy makeup.
The supporting acting winners, Troy Kotsur of “CODA” and Ariana DeBose of “West Side Story,” added to growing award hauls as they too pull ahead as Oscars favourites.
Check out the complete winner’s list:
BEST PICTURE
Belfast
CODA
Don’t Look Up
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog – WINNER
tick, tick…Boom!
West Side Story
BEST ACTOR
Nicolas Cage – Pig
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog
Peter Dinklage – Cyrano
Andrew Garfield – tick, tick…Boom!
Will Smith – King Richard – WINNER
Denzel Washington – The Tragedy of Macbeth
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
Olivia Colman – The Lost Daughter
Lady Gaga – House of Gucci
Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza
Nicole Kidman – Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart – Spencer
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jamie Dornan – Belfast
Ciarán Hinds – Belfast
Troy Kotsur – CODA – WINNER
Jared Leto – House of Gucci
J.K. Simmons – Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Caitríona Balfe – Belfast
Ariana DeBose – West Side Story – WINNER
Ann Dowd – Mass
Kirsten Dunst – The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis – King Richard
Rita Moreno – West Side Story
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jude Hill – Belfast – WINNER
Cooper Hoffman – Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones – CODA
Woody Norman – C’mon C’mon
Saniyya Sidney – King Richard
Rachel Zegler – West Side Story
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Belfast – WINNER
Don’t Look Up
The Harder They Fall
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Guillermo del Toro – Nightmare Alley
Steven Spielberg – West Side Story
Denis Villeneuve – Dune
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza
Zach Baylin – King Richard
Kenneth Branagh – Belfast – WINNER
Adam McKay, David Sirota – Don’t Look Up
Aaron Sorkin – Being the Ricardos
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Lost Daughter
Siân Heder – CODA
Tony Kushner – West Side Story
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth – Dune
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bruno Delbonnel – The Tragedy of Macbeth
Greig Fraser – Dune
Janusz Kaminski – West Side Story
Dan Laustsen – Nightmare Alley
Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog – WINNER
Haris Zambarloukos – Belfast
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Jim Clay, Claire Nia Richards – Belfast
Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – Nightmare Alley
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo – The French Dispatch
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo – West Side Story
Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos – Dune – WINNER
BEST EDITING
Sarah Broshar and Michael Kahn – West Side Story – WINNER
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle – Belfast
Andy Jurgensen – Licorice Pizza
Peter Sciberras – The Power of the Dog
Joe Walker – Dune
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jenny Beavan – Cruella – WINNER
Luis Sequeira – Nightmare Alley
Paul Tazewell – West Side Story
Jacqueline West, Robert Morgan – Dune
Janty Yates – House of Gucci
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Cruella
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye – WINNER
House of Gucci
Nightmare Alley
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dune – WINNER
The Matrix Resurrections
Nightmare Alley
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
BEST COMEDY
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Don’t Look Up
Free Guy
The French Dispatch
Licorice Pizza – WINNER
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs the Machines – WINNER
Raya and the Last Dragon
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Hero
Drive My Car – WINNER
Flee
The Hand of God
The Worst Person in the World
BEST SONG
Be Alive – King Richard
Dos Oruguitas – Encanto
Guns Go Bang – The Harder They Fall
Just Look Up – Don’t Look Up
No Time to Die – No Time to Die – WINNER
BEST SCORE
Nicholas Britell – Don’t Look Up
Jonny Greenwood – The Power of the Dog
Jonny Greenwood – Spencer
Nathan Johnson – Nightmare Alley
Hans Zimmer – Dune – WINNER
The Critics Choice Awards — chosen by almost 500 members of North America’s largest critics organization — laid out a lavish red carpet and gala in Los Angeles for Hollywood A-listers, at a ceremony hosted by Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer.
On the TV side, “Succession” won best drama, “Ted Lasso” continued its relentless award sweep of the comedy prizes, and “Mare of Easttown” was named best limited series.
