The list of winners of the 4th edition of the Critics' Choice Awards 2022 has been released by the Film Critics Guild and Motion Content Group in collaboration with Vistas Media Capital.
The prestigious award ceremony has announced the long-awaited list of winners in all categories of short films, feature films, and web series. The Motion Content Group, Film Critics Guild, and Vistas Media Capital endeavor to felicitate and recognize the high-quality credible content presented to the audience across all genres.
"We are delighted to share that the fourth edition of the Critics' Choice Awards was a success. We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed to leading the charge of content. Congratulations to the teams at Motion Content Group and Film Critics Guild for creating an inspiring legacy,“ says Anupama Chopra, Chairperson of Film Critics Guild.
“Congratulations to all the winners and also the nominees in all categories. They have set the bar higher for the future filmmakers.” says, Abhayanand Singh, Group CEO and Co-Founder of Vistas Media Capital.
“Through Critics Choice Awards, we at Motion Content Group envisaged awards show that truly represents, acknowledges, and felicitates outstanding work across short films, series, and films that have been made throughout the year. Over the years, we have earned the reputation of identifying great work and some of the winners went on claim several awards in India and abroad. We congratulate all the winners and acknowledge the stellar efforts of the Film Critics Guild in picking the winners”, says Satyanarayana Murthy, Head Growth Business - Matrix, Group M India.
The winners across the feature films category are:
Best Actor - Suvinder Vicky for Meel Patthar
Best Actress - A tie between Konkona Sen Sharma for Ajeeb Daastaans and Nimisha Sajayan for The Great Indian Kitchen
Best Supporting Actor – Pasupathy for Sarpatta Parambarai
Best Supporting Actress - Neena Gupta for Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar
Best Writing - Chaitanya Tamhane for The Disciple
Best Director - Chaitanya Tamhane for The Disciple
Best Editing - Selva RK for Sarpatta Parambarai
Best Cinematography - Avik Mukhopadhyay for Sardar Udham
Best Film - The Disciple
Gender Sensitivity Award - The Great Indian Kitchen.
The winners across the web series category are:
Best Series – Tabbar
Best Actor - Pavan Malhotra for Tabbar
Best Actress - Samantha Ruth Prabhu for The Family Man S2
Best Supporting Actor - Sharib Hashmi for The Family Man S2
Best Supporting Actress - Konkona Sen Sharma for Mumbai Diaries 26/11
Best Writing - Raj Nidimoru, Krishna DK, Suman Kumar, Suparn Varma for The Family Man S2
The winners of the short films category are:
Best Short Film – Bittu
Best Director - Karishma Dev Dube for Bittu
Best Actor – Pratik Gandhi for Shimmy
Best Actress - Rani Kumari for Bittu
Best Writing - Karishma Dev Dube for Bittu
Best Cinematography - Vivekanand Daakhore, Bhumika Dube, Jacky Bhavsar for Cycle
Extraordinary Contribution to Cinema Award - B R Vijayalakshmi, Asia's first woman cinematographer
About Film Critics Guild
The Film Critics Guild, India’s first registered association of film critics, is a geographically diverse cross-section of professionals who have come together to streamline the ethical and quality standards for film criticism in the country. With India’s most credible critics — representing print, radio, broadcast, and the web — at its helm, the Guild is dedicated to maintaining the highest level of integrity amongst its members and evaluating works of cinema that stand apart in their storytelling.
About Vistas Media Capital
Vistas Media Capital is a media content and technology company, headquartered in Singapore, that operates and invests in ventures across the ecosystem of the global media and entertainment industry. The businesses and venture investments are diversified across Global Content Production and Distribution, Streaming Platforms across video and music, Animation & VFX Studio, Blockchain Technology and NFT (Non-Fungible Token), Gaming, Digital Media Marketing, Events, and Award IPs.
About Motion Content Group
Motion Content Group is a global content investment and rights management company that meets the market demand for new economic models for premium content across the entertainment and media marketplace. This is achieved by investing and partnering with the world’s leading talent, producers, and distributors to fund, develop, produce, and distribute premium content to help drive and support editorially and commercially vibrant, premium content networks and platforms for the global benefit of our content partners and advertisers. Motion Content Group India’s IP includes the YAARI Series, Critics Choice Awards, Hello Sago, and others. Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, the business currently operates in 26 countries worldwide with Motion’s broad range of award-winning programming distributed globally. Motion Content Group is part of GroupM, the world’s leading full-service media investment management operation, a WPP company.
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