“Nomadland” and “The Crown” dominated the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday, with “Nomadland” scoring the Best Picture and Best Director awards and “The Crown” taking residence awards for Best Drama Series, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
“Nomadland” additionally received awards for Best Cinematography and Best Adapted Screenplay to high all movies with 4 wins. “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” received three awards, together with Best Actor for Chadwick Boseman, whereas “Promising Young Woman” received two, together with Best Actress for Carey Mulligan. “Minari” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” additionally acquired two awards every, with the previous movie taking the Best Foreign-Language Film class and its younger co-star Alan Kim successful within the Best Young Actor/Actress class and the latter successful for its ensemble solid and its modifying (the latter class in a tie with “Sound of Metal”).
Supporting actor and actress awards went to Daniel Kaluuya for “Judas and the Black Messiah” and Maria Bakalova for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.”
In a approach, the present bolstered what was already recognized — that “Nomadland” is the clear choose of the critics for the very best film of 2020 (or of the unusual, elongated 2020 awards season that has prolonged into 2021, when “Nomadland” was truly launched). The Searchlight drama’s string of wins, which now consists of the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, makes it the closest factor to a real favourite within the Academy Awards race for Best Picture, although it’s necessary to notice that the movie professionals who vote for the Oscars and the critics and journalists who vote for the Globes and CCA are dramatically totally different teams of voters.
If there was a movie that took successful on Sunday evening, it was in all probability Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” which was thought of a robust contender within the Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay classes however misplaced within the former to “Nomadland” and within the latter to “Promising Young Woman.” (The Netflix movie’s wins for modifying and ensemble performing weren’t unhealthy comfort prizes, nevertheless it wants greater than comfort prizes at this level in awards season.)
Over the final decade, about 70% of the Critics Choice winners have gone on to obtain the Academy Award. The two reveals have 18 classes in widespread, with the variety of matching winners starting from a excessive of 16 in 2014 and 2018 to a low of eight in 2015. Last 12 months, 13 Critics Choice winners went on to obtain Oscars, although two of these have been from classes through which the CCA led to a tie with two winners.
In the Best Picture class, Critics Choice and Oscar winners have matched 5 instances within the final 10 years, although solely as soon as within the final 4 years.
In the tv classes, that are chosen by a special group of members from the Critics Choice Association, voters reaffirmed the dominance of “The Crown,” suitably sufficient for a present that was airing reverse Oprah’s interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. But within the comedy classes, the CCA opted to not reward the ultimate season of “Schitt’s Creek” with the Best Comedy Series Award, for which it has been nominated thrice with out ever successful. Instead, newcomer “Ted Lasso” took that prize, and in addition divvied up the performing awards with “Schitt’s Creek.”
Overall, “Ted Lasso” acquired three awards, with prizes for actors Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddington successful along with the Best Comedy Series award. “Schitt’s Creek” acquired two, for actors Catherine O’Hara and Daniel Levy.
The Critics Choice Awards occurred in a digital ceremony hosted by Taye Diggs, and have been voted on by members of the Critics Choice Association, a bunch of greater than 400 tv, radio and web critics and journalists.
Winners are indicated with *WINNER.
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