Critics Choice Awards 2022: Behind the Scenes With Lady Gaga, ‘West Side Story’ Cast in London
variety.comK.J. Yossman From Lady Gaga to the cast of “West Side Story,” it was the night Tinseltown came to London.The 2022 Critics Choice Awards hosted a satellite ceremony in the British capital on Sunday night after the omicron variant of COVID-19 forced the show to vacate its initial slot of Jan.
9 and the new March 13 date clashed with the U.K. BAFTA Awards.With a 10-hour flight and seven-hour time difference meaning attendees couldn’t hotfoot it between ceremonies, the broadcast from the U.K.
ensured that nominees including Lady Gaga, Ariana DeBose and Troy Kotsur were able to be in two places at (almost) the same time.In London, the Critics Choice Awards kicked off at 11 p.m.
GMT (4 p.m. PT), just as the BAFTA post-ceremony dinner was coming to a close, giving guests such as Rachel Zegler and Alana and Este Haim just enough time for a quick outfit change. (The men largely stayed in their BAFTA-required black tie dress code, which contrasted with the marginally more casual suits on the other side of the Atlantic.) Unlike the BAFTAs, which packed out the Royal Albert Hall, or the primary Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles’ Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, the London arm of the ceremony was a more intimate affair.
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