Critics Choice Award Nomineess

Dec 15, 2022 | 6:02 AM

The nominees for the Critics Choice Awards were announced on Wednesday (Dec. 14) and Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, and Rihanna are all up for Best Song. All three are competing for Best Original Song in the upcoming Golden Globes as well.

Taylor Swift for “Carolina,” a song she wrote for Where The Crawdads Sing. Lady Gaga for her performance of “Hold My Hand” featured in Top Gun: Maverick. And “Lift Me Up” by Rihanna, a song from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

The Critics Choice Awards gala will be hosted by Chelsea Handler and airs on The CW network on January 15.

SIDE NOTES

Best song

  • Taylor Swift, “Carolina” – Where the Crawdads Sing
  • Alexandre Desplat, Roeban Katz, Guillermo del Toro, “Ciao Papa” – Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
  • Lady Gaga, Bloodpop, “Hold My Hand” – Top Gun: Maverick
  • Tems, Ludwig Göransson, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, “Lift Me Up” – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Kala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj, “Naatu Naatu” – RRR
  • LCD Soundsystem, “New Body Rhumba” – White Noise

Best picture

  • Avatar: The Way of Water
  • Babylon
  • The Banshees of Inisherin
  • Elvis
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once
  • The Fabelmans
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  • RRR
  • Tár
  • Top Gun: Maverick
  • Women Talking

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