Ahead of a busy weekend on the awards circuit — which will see star-studded audiences at Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards and Monday’s long-awaited Emmy Awards — some of the biggest names in Hollywood gathered on Friday to celebrate the American Film Institute’s picks for the top 10 films and television shows of 2023.
A-list names crowded the ballroom at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, where films American Fiction, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, May December, Oppenheimer, Past Lives, Poor Things and Spider-Man: Across the Universe were honored along with TV shows Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Beef, Jury Duty, The Last of Us, The Morning Show, Only Murders in the Building, Poker Face, Reservation Dogs and Succession.
Creatives, directors and stars of those projects were in attendance, including American Fiction‘s Cord Jefferson, Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown and Erika Alexander; Barbie‘s Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and America Ferrera; The Holdovers‘ Alexander Payne, Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Killers of the Flower Moon‘s Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone; Maestro‘s Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan; May December‘s Todd Haynes, Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore and Charles Melton; Oppenheimer‘s Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.; Poor Things‘ Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe.
On the TV side, Abbott Elementary‘s Quinta Brunson; The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri; Beef‘s Ali Wong and Steven Yeun; The Last of Us‘ Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey and Nick Offerman; The Morning Show‘s Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Beharie and Karen Pittman; Only Murders in the Building‘s Steve Martin, Martin Short, Meryl Streep, Selena Gomez and Michael Cyril Creighton; and Succession‘s Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin came out to celebrate.
Also mingling in the room were the industry’s top…
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