The Hollywood Critics Association has announced the 2023 HCA Midseason Movie Awards nominees. The HCA Midseason Movie Awards honor the best in cinema from the first half of each calendar year. For a film to be eligible, a film must have been released between January 1, 2023 and June 30, 2023. Nomination ballots for the HCA Midseason Awards were tallied from the 178 members of the Hollywood Critics Association. Yours truly is one of those voting members.

Celine Song’s directorial debut Past Lives received seven HCA nominations. The A24 film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress for Greta Lee, Best Actor for Teo Yoo, Best Supporting Actor for John Magaro, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Indie Film. Ben Affleck’s Air tied Past Lives with seven nominations of its own. Their nominated honors include Best Picture, Best Actor for Matt Damon, dual Best Supporting Actor nominations for Chirs Messina and Ben Affleck, Best Supporting Actress for Viola Davis, Best Screenplay, and Best Director. 

Final voting for the 2023 HCA Midseason Movie Awards is currently underway with final votes due by midnight on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The winners of the Midseason Awards will be announced on the official Hollywood Critics Association Twitter page on Friday, June 30, 2023

The full list of nominated films can be found below:

BEST PICTURE

Air 
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Asteroid City 
Blackberry 
Creed III
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Past Lives
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-verse

BEST ACTOR

Joaquin Phoenix - Beau Is Afraid
Matt Damon - Air 
Michael B. Jordan - Creed III
Taron Egerton- Tetris 
Teo Yoo - Past Lives

BEST ACTRESS

Abby Ryder Fortson - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Greta Lee - Past Lives 
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - You Hurt My Feelings 
Mia Goth - Infinity Pool
Teyana Taylor - A Thousand and One 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ben Affleck - Air 
Chris Messina - Air
Glenn Howerton - Blackberry 
Jason Momoa - Fast X 
John Magaro - Past Lives

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Kathy Bates - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Patti LuPone - Beau Is Afraid
Rachel McAdams - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret 
Scarlett Johansson - Asteroid City
Viola Davis - Air

BEST DIRECTOR

Ben Affleck - Air 
Celine Song - Past Lives
Chad Stahelski - John Wick: Chapter 4
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kelly Fremon Craig - Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret 

BEST STUNTS

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Extraction 2
Fast X
John Wick: Chapter 4 
Polite Society

BEST SCREENPLAY

Alex Convery - Air
Celine Song - Past Lives
Kelly Fremon Craig - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Phil Lord, Chris Miller, Dave Callaham - Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse
Wes Anderson - Asteroid City

BEST HORROR

Evil Dead Rise
Infinity Pool
Knock at the Cabin
M3GAN
Scream IV

BEST INDIE

A Thousand and One 
Blackberry
Past Lives
Rye Lane
You Hurt My Feelings 

MOST ANTICIPATED FILM FOR THE SECOND HALF OF 2023

Barbie
Dune: Part Two
Killers Of The Flower Moon 
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer 

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