How to watch the 2025 Critics Choice Awards for free: Start time, nominees

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as fires raged on, the awards were pushed back again. The Critics Choice Awards are given out yearly by the eponymous critics association to the best of the best in both film and television.

To be eligible for this year’s ceremony, titles had to be released between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024. “Conclave” and “Wicked” lead the film nominees with 11 each, while “Emilia Perez,” the former Oscar frontrunner mired in controversy, has 10 nominations and could likely take home a few wins tonight as voting closed before star Karla Sofía Gascón came under fire for rediscovered racist, antisemitic, and Islamaphobic posts on X.

Gascón will not attend tonight’s ceremony as reports emerged that Netflix has nixed her from the film’s campaign entirely.In the TV categories, Emmys and Golden Globes darling “Shōgun” is well represented with six nods.Here’s everything you need to know to tune in to tonight’s Critics Choice Awards.The 2025 Critics Choice Awards are tonight, Feb.

7, at 7:00 p.m. ET.The Critics Choice Awards are airing on E!, so if you have cable, just flip over to E! around 7:00 p.m. ET to watch.If you don’t have cable, the only way to stream the Critics Choice Awards live is to use a live TV streaming service with a free trial.We recommend DIRECTV Stream, which offers a five-day free trial for new subscribers.