Happy Piña Colada Day! I closed PBS Terra explains 'The REAL STORY of Climate Skeptics New Favorite Graph' by wondering about today's post: "Tomorrow is Piña Colada Day. Stay tuned to see if I celebrate it or cover the action movie nominees at the Critics Choice Super Awards. Maybe I will do both." I've decided to do both.
While Civil War and The Fall Guy tie for the lead in Best Action Movie with three Critics Choice Super Awards nominations apiece, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning with two nominations is my choice to win this category. Tying Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning at two nominations each are Monkey Man and Rebel Ridge, while Warfare has only this one nomination.
I see one snub, Twisters. That would have been my vote for Best Action Film at the Saturn Awards had Deadpool & Wolverine not been added to that category in the absence of Best Superhero Film. Yeah, but which nominee would it have replaced? I don't know.
Just like Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is my pick to win Best Action Movie, its star Tom Cruise is my choice to win Best Actor in an Action Movie. I don't think it's even close. Sorry, Taron Egerton, Ryan Gosling, Dev Patel, Aaron Pierre, and Jack Quaid are all great actors, but they don't have Cruise's star power.
Without a nominated actress from Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning to create the likelihood of a full sweep, Best Actress in an Action Movie is much more open. Emily Blunt, Ana de Armas, Kirsten Dunst, and June Squibb all have Oscar nominations, Anya Taylor-Joy has an Emmy nomination, and Cailee Spaeny has a second nomination at these awards for Alien: Romulus. Since electorates matter, I'm giving the edge to Blunt because she has the most Critics Choice Award nominations and wins, including winning Best Actress in an Action Movie for Edge of Tomorrow when this award was part of the main ceremony before the Critics Choice Association split off the Super Awards. Besides, like Cruise, I think she has the most star power.
Now for a category I last revisited in 'Sinners' leads Best Horror Movie nominees at the Critics Choice Super Awards.
This is the only nomination for Gladiator II, which qualifies it for consideration in the next paragraph.I'm going along with Hunter and picking Grant over Washington. Why not?Emma Corrin really chewed the scenery in Deadpool & Wolverine, making for a good villain one loves to hate, but I'm not going to pick a winner yet. I have until August 7th to do that, so I'll hold off until I look at the rest of the categories.As I wrote above, Austin Butler has a better chance to win Best Villain in a Movie and might do so as part of a Dune: Part Two sweep. Still, I think there are better villains, or at least villains played by more well-known actors, like Hugh Grant and Denzel Washington, so I'm not getting out the broom just yet.
Like Best Horror Film, there are plenty of nominees for action/adventure and thriller film at the upcoming Saturn Awards among the movies nominated here, although I have to include all the acting nominees to say so. Joining Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Warfare from the movie category would be Carry-On, Novocaine, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, and Gladiator II from the acting categories.* That's a full slate for one category right there.
Box Office Mojo's top grossing films of 2024 adds in one other possible nominee, September 5 — Red One is also an action movie, but I think it's more likely to be nominated as fantasy — while Box Office Mojo's top movies of 2025 adds F1: The Movie, The Accountant 2, Karate Kid: Legends, The Amateur, A Working Man, Den of Thieves: Pantera, Flight Risk, Black Bag, Last Breath, Babygirl, and The Phoenician Scheme in the top 50. There are 150 movies with lower box office totals that I didn't even look at! Furthermore, Box Office Mojo's Calendar lists Sovereign, She Rides Shotgun, and The Naked Gun upcoming between now and August 10th. While they are likely to be split among three categories, action/adventure, thriller, and independent film, there are still enough to fill all three and then some. There is no need to sacrifice the superhero film category to add Thunderbolts* and Captain America: Brave New World to Best Action Film!
I close with National Day Calendar's NATIONAL PINA COLADA DAY | July 10 to celebrate today's holiday.
July 10 recognizes a sweet, rum-based cocktail on National Pina Colada Day. Today, we are anxiously waiting for the end of the work day to enjoy the cream of coconut and pineapple juice with a dash of run cocktail.Sorry, no update on the prospects for Puerto Rican statehood today. Like Flag Day, I wasn't feeling it. Maybe next year.
This concludes my examination of the movie nominees at the Critics Choice Super Awards. I think I'll begin blogging about the television nominees on Saturday, for an early Sunday entertainment feature because Sunday is Souther. In the meantime, stay tuned for a joint celebration of World Population Day and National Mojito Day.
*I predicted "I expect Gladiator II will be nominated for Best Action/Adventure Film at next year's Saturn Awards" last December. As I wrote then, "You read it here first."
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