Critics Choice Awards: ‘Shōgun’, ‘Hacks’, ‘Baby Reindeer’ Take Top TV Prizes; Zoe Saldaña, ‘Conclave’ Among Early Film Winners (Updating Live)
deadline.comThe 30th annual Critics Choice Awards are underway Friday at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, launching a ceremony that had twice been postponed due to the L.A.
wildfires that wreaked havoc on the city the past month. Chelsea Handler returns to host. Already, Zoe Saldaña won for Best Supporting Actress for Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, cementing her place as a frontrunner for the Oscars next month, and giving a push to the musical movie that has been dealing with the fallout from its star Karla Sofía Gascón‘s old tweets.
Gascón, nominated for Best Actress tonight, is one of 10 noms for the movie here, but she is not attending. Conclave, the Focus Features drama that came in tied with Universal’s Wicked with the most nominations overall with 11, has already won for Best Ensemble, while Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot won for Best Animated Film.
On the TV side, FX/Hulu’s Emmy juggernaut Shōgun, which led the way with six nominations coming in, won Best Drama Series and Best Actor in a Drama Series for Hiroyuki Sanada, repeating his Globes and Emmys wins.
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