The biggest winner of the night was Nomadland, which picked up the Critics Choice Awards for Best Picture and Best Director, making Chloé Zhao an even more concrete frontrunner at the Oscars (ahead of her Marvel debut via Eternals). But after the Golden Globes shut out Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, the movie’s star Carey Mulligan took home the Best Actress prize at the CCA while Fennell herself won the Best Original Screenplay award. With the pitch black comedy/feminist thriller being one of the most talked about films of 2020—and one that had an honest to God theatrical release—its resurgence at the CCA will counteract last week’s media narrative that it is too outside the box and too hard to categorize (or feminist) for awards voters as the race moves forward toward the guilds. Similarly, Maria Bakalova got a major bump after she lost in the Golden Globes category she seemed like a shoo-in for (Best Actress in a Musical/Comedy). Prognostications that the chances of the Borat 2 star winning a major award had vanished proved premature, with Bakalova taking home Best Supporting Actress over perceived favorites like Amanda Seyfried for Mank and Olivia Colman for The Father. She also teased us with information that she’d be there in a heartbeat if Sacha Baron Cohen ever decided to make Borat 3. Overall the awards circuit continues to be strange during the COVID era. Once again stars and filmmakers appeared Zooming from their homes or hotel rooms. Jason Sudeikis, who’s Ted Lasso won Best Comedy Series and Best Actor, once again appeared in a hoodie (this one from the set of Booksmart). Conversely, Anya Taylor-Joy—the breakout star of The Queen’s Gambit who won a Critics Choice Award tonight, as did her show for Best Limited Series—was in an evening gown in the wee small hours of the morning. Yet in such strange times, celebrating art that actually entertained or distracted people has perhaps greater merit than ever. And it can bring attention to unique projects. That’s at least one silver lining Andy Samberg, who picked up the Critics Choice Award on behalf of Palm Springs in the Best Comedy Movie category, told us. “I always hesitate to say this, because there is nothing good about the quarantine and the pandemic, and everything, but I think in a lot of ways it helped people see our movie more because everyone was at home [and] because it went straight to streaming to Hulu in the States,” Samberg says. “It came out really at this moment when movies were just starting to come out again… We were like the first wave of ‘see what happens when you put a movie out!’ It turns out people were just sitting there waiting for new stuff.” Below is all the new stuff that was awarded by the CCAs. Winners (including a few ties) will be BOLDED.
Critics Choice Awards 2021: Complete Winners List (Film)
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Christopher Blauvelt – First Cow (A24)Erik Messerschmidt – Mank (Netflix)Lachlan Milne – Minari (A24)Joshua James Richards – Nomadland (Searchlight Pictures)Newton Thomas Sigel – Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)Hoyte Van Hoytema – Tenet (Warner Bros.)Dariusz Wolski – News of the World (Universal Pictures)
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Cristina Casali, Charlotte Dirickx – The Personal History of David Copperfield (Searchlight Pictures)David Crank, Elizabeth Keenan – News of the World (Universal Pictures)Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas – Tenet (Warner Bros.)Donald Graham Burt, Jan Pascale – Mank (Netflix)Kave Quinn, Stella Fox – Emma (Focus Features)Mark Ricker, Karen O’Hara, Diana Stoughton – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)
Best Costume Design
Alexandra Byrne – Emma (Focus Features)Bina Daigeler – Mulan (Disney)Suzie Harman & Robert Worley – The Personal History of David Copperfield (Searchlight Pictures)Ann Roth – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)Nancy Steiner – Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)Trish Summerville – Mank (Netflix)
Best Hair and Makeup
Emma (Focus Features)Hillbilly Elegy (Netflix)Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)Mank (Netflix)Promising Young Woman (Focus Features)The United States vs. Billie Holiday (Hulu)
Best Score
Alexandre Desplat – The Midnight Sky (Netflix)Ludwig Göransson – Tenet (Warner Bros.)James Newton Howard – News of the World (Universal Pictures)Emile Mosseri – Minari (A24)Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Mank (Netflix)Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Soul (Disney)
Best Song
Best Foreign Language Film
Another Round (Samuel Goldwyn Films)Collective (Magnolia Pictures)La Llorona (Shudder)The Life Ahead (Netflix)Minari (A24)Two of Us (Magnolia Pictures)
Best Comedy
Best Young Actor
Alan Kim – Minari (A24)Ryder Allen – Palmer (Apple TV+)Ibrahima Gueye – The Life Ahead (Netflix)Talia Ryder – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Focus Features)Caoilinn Springall – The Midnight Sky (Netflix)Helena Zengel – News of the World (Universal Pictures)
Best Comedy Series
The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)Mom (CBS)PEN15 (Hulu)Ramy (Hulu)Schitt’s Creek (Pop)Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Best Limited Series
Best Made for Television Movie
Best Actress in a Drama Series
Emma Corrin – The Crown (Netflix)Christine Baranski – The Good Fight (CBS All Access)Olivia Colman – The Crown (Netflix)Claire Danes – Homeland (Showtime)Laura Linney – Ozark (Netflix)Jurnee Smollett – Lovecraft Country (HBO)
Best Actor in a Drama Series
Josh O’Connor – The Crown (Netflix)Jason Bateman – Ozark (Netflix)Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us (NBC)Jonathan Majors – Lovecraft Country (HBO)Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul (AMC)Matthew Rhys – Perry Mason (HBO)
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Michael K. Williams – Lovecraft Country (HBO)Jonathan Banks – Better Call Saul (AMC)Justin Hartley – This Is Us (NBC)John Lithgow – Perry Mason (HBO)Tobias Menzies – The Crown (Netflix)Tom Pelphrey – Ozark (Netflix)
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
Catherine O’Hara – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)Pamela Adlon – Better Things (FX)Christina Applegate – Dead to Me (Netflix)Kaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)Natasia Demetriou – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)Issa Rae – Insecure (HBO)
Best Actor in a Comedy Series
Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)Hank Azaria – Brockmire (IFC)Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)Nicholas Hoult – The Great (Hulu)Eugene Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)Ramy Youssef – Ramy (Hulu)
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)Lecy Goranson – The Conners (ABC)Rita Moreno – One Day at a Time (Pop)Annie Murphy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)Ashley Park – Emily in Paris (Netflix)Jaime Pressly – Mom (CBS)
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Daniel Levy – Schitt’s Creek (Pop)William Fichtner – Mom (CBS)Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)Alex Newell – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC)Mark Proksch – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)Andrew Rannells – Black Monday (Showtime)
Best Actor in a Limited Series or Made for TV Movie
Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Made for TV Movie
Donald Sutherland – The Undoing (HBO)Daveed Diggs – The Good Lord Bird (Showtime)Joshua Caleb Johnson – The Good Lord Bird (Showtime)Dylan McDermott – Hollywood (Netflix)Glynn Turman – Fargo (FX)John Turturro – The Plot Against America (HBO)
Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Made for TV Movie
Uzo Aduba – Mrs. America (FX)Betsy Brandt – Soulmates (AMC)Marielle Heller – The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix)Margo Martindale – Mrs. America (FX)Winona Ryder – The Plot Against America (HBO)Tracey Ullman – Mrs. America (FX)
Best Talk Show
Desus & Mero (Showtime)Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC/Syndicated)Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)
Best Comedy Special
Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours to Kill (Netflix) (TIE)Michelle Buteau: Welcome to Buteaupia (Netflix) (TIE)Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty (Netflix)Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (Netflix)Marc Maron: End Times Fun (Netflix)Patton Oswalt: I Love Everything (Netflix)
