Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer laid down the gauntlet forward of the Oscars, successful eight Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles.

The epic’s haul included greatest image, greatest director for Nolan and greatest supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.

But it missed out on a number of different appearing prizes, with its star, Cillian Murphy, dropping out to The Holdovers’ Paul Giamatti in the perfect actor race.

Barbie gained six prizes, plus the SeeHer award for America Ferrera.

Ferrera, who performs Mattel worker Gloria in Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster, gave a robust speech as she accepted the prize, which is given for advocating for gender equality, portraying characters with authenticity, defying stereotypes and pushing boundaries.

Ferrera mentioned the perfect use of storytelling is to “hold the truth that we are all worthy of being seen”.

“Brown, indigenous, Asian, trans, disabled, any body type, any gender, we are all worthy of having our lives richly and authentically reflected,” she mentioned.

“Receiving the SeeHer award for my contributions to more authentic portrayals of women and girls couldn’t be more meaningful to me because I grew up as a first generation Honduran American girl in love with TV, film and theatre, who desperately wanted to be a part of a storytelling legacy that I could not see myself reflected in.”

She added that it “seemed impossible” when she started working 20 years in the past “that anyone could make a career of portraying fully dimensional Latina characters” however credited creatives “who were daring enough to rewrite outdated stories and to challenge deeply entrenched biases”.

Ferrera additionally thanked Gerwig for proving that “unabashedly telling female stories does not diminish your powers, it expands them”.

She signed off her speech saying: “This is for every kid yearning to break in. I see you and you got this.”

Barbie’s prizes included greatest comedy, greatest authentic screenplay and greatest authentic tune for Mark Ronson’s I’m Just Ken, sung by Ryan Gosling.

Emma Stone gained greatest actress for her portrayal of Bella Baxter in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, a younger girl who’s bizarrely introduced again to life by having a child’s mind implanted in her head by an unorthodox scientist.

She mentioned: “Playing Bella was one of the greatest joys in my life and I got to unlearn a lot of things in playing her.”

The upcoming Oscar race for greatest actress is being considered by many movie buffs as a two-horse race between Stone and Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone, who picked up greatest actress in a drama on the Golden Globes earlier this month.

Giamatti’s Holdovers co-star, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, gained greatest supporting actress.

There was another appearing prize for Oppenheimer, greatest ensemble.

Wife and husband group Gerwig and Noah Baumbach gained greatest authentic screenplay for Barbie, whereas Cord Jefferson picked up greatest tailored screenplay class for his directorial debut American Fiction, primarily based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett.

Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford was additionally honoured with the profession achievement award, and was rewarded with a standing ovation.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse gained greatest animated function, whereas French thriller Anatomy of A Fall was named greatest movie in a overseas language.

The Critics Choice additionally honours TV exhibits and performances, with Netflix’s Beef, HBO’s Succession and FX’s The Bear successful greatest restricted sequence, drama and comedy sequence, respectively.

Succession additionally scooped greatest actor in a drama sequence (Kieran Culkin) and greatest actress in a drama sequence (Sarah Snook).

The Bear stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Ross-Bachrach, and all took residence appearing prizes, as did Beef’s Steve Yeun, Ali Wong and Maria Bello.