Critics’ Choice Awards 2024: winners

The Critics’ Choice Awards was staged  at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Airport today.

Host Chelsea Handler took to the stage and dropped plenty of jokes.

“We are back,” she declared after the strikes ended.

“Of course, nobody had a harder time this year than studio executives, who were forced to vacation for six consecutive months in a row.”

There were nods to Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig for Barbie, Oprah Winfrey for The Color Purple. There were also references to a very “horny 2023”, with Fellow Travelers, “Ali Wong in Beef, Cillian Murphy being horny for uranium, and 2023 being the year everyone became horny for Pedro Pascal.”

Unlike last week’s Golden Globes event host by Jo Koy, her jokes all went over well in the room.

“Thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.”

There were big wins for Succession, Beef and The Bear.

TV winners in bold:

Best Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie Made For Television
Maria Bello – Beef
Billie Boullet – A Small Light
Willa Fitzgerald – The Fall of the House of Usher
Aja Naomi King – Lessons in Chemistry
Mary McDonnell – The Fall of the House of Usher
Camila Morrone – Daisy Jones & the Six

“Thank you so much for inviting me to your party,” she said to producers.

Best Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie Made For Television
Jonathan Bailey – Fellow Travelers
Taylor Kitsch – Painkiller
Jesse Plemons – Love & Death
Lewis Pullman – Lessons in Chemistry
Liev Schreiber – A Small Light
Justin Theroux – White House Plumbers

“I share this with you, Matt. Those of you who have seen Fellow Travelers will know that Matt and I come together… this is a reminder that LGBTQ+ people have always existed… I thank those who came before me,” Jonathan Bailey said.

 

Best Supporting Actress In A Drama Series
Nicole Beharie – The Morning Show
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown
Sophia Di Martino – Loki
Celia Rose Gooding – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Karen Pittman – The Morning Show
Christina Ricci – Yellowjackets

“This role has been an incredible challenge,” Elizabeth Debicki said. “My only hope was I would do this remarkable woman… proud, by playing her in the show.”

Best Supporting Actor In A Drama Series
Khalid Abdalla – The Crown
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
Ron Cephas Jones – Truth Be Told
Matthew MacFadyen – Succession
Ke Huy Quan – Loki
Rufus Sewell – The Diplomat

“You really gave me something that I didn’t really expect at this point in my life,” Crudup said to producers and Apple TV.

Best Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Phil Dunster – Ted Lasso
Harrison Ford – Shrinking
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows
James Marsden – Jury Duty
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear
Henry Winkler – Barry

“This is such a privilege to play this part… a really beautiful experience to take this man froma. dark place, into the light. It’s not often you get to do that,” he said.

Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Paulina Alexis – Reservation Dogs
Alex Borstein – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Janelle James – Abbott Elementary
Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary
Meryl Streep – Only Murders in the Building
Jessica Williams – Shrinking

Meryl Streep was not in attendance.

Best Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie Made For Television
Kaitlyn Dever – No One Will Save You
Brie Larson – Lessons in Chemistry
Bel Powley – A Small Light
Sydney Sweeney – Reality
Juno Temple – Fargo
Ali Wong – Beef

“This is such an honour….” Ali Wong said before thanking creatives for manking an “original and intense show.”

Best Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie Made For Television
Matt Bomer – Fellow Travelers
Tom Holland – The Crowded Room
David Oyelowo – Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Tony Shalhoub – Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
Kiefer Sutherland – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Steven Yeun – Beef

“We had a fun time making this show,” said Yeun. “I appreciate this, Love to my family, love to my mum and dad.”

Margot Robbie presented the SeeHer Award to America Ferrera.

“I grew up as a first generation Honduras American girl in love with film and TV who desperately wanted to be a part of a storytelling legacy that I could not see myself refelcted in,” Ferrera said.

“We are all worthy of being seen… Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, Trans, Disabled, any body type, any gender. We are all worthy of having our lives richly and authentically reflected.

“I would not be standing her today without Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig.”

Best Actress In A Comedy Series
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Bridget Everett – Somebody Somewhere
Devery Jacobs – Reservation Dogs
Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face

Ayo Edebiri thanked her colleagues and creatives before saying “Wait is that the music… no we’re in an air hanger.”

Best Actor In A Comedy Series
Bill Hader – Barry
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows
Drew Tarver – The Other Two
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai – Reservation Dogs

“We made this show with no expectations… we made sandwiches,” said Jeremy Allen White. “Thank you to my parents for just making me think that this was something thatw as possible for me.”

Harrison Ford received the Career Achievement Award presented by director, producer and screenwriter James Mangold.

“I feel enormously lucky. I’m happy for this honour and appreciate it very much,” said Ford. “I’m grateful to all the fine actors, many I see here tonight, that I’ve worked with. I’m deeply to have happy to have had the opportunities that I’ve had. …. thank you, I won’t take any more of your time, thank you.”

In awards handed out earlier:

Best Movie Made For Television
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Finestkind
Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie
No One Will Save You
Quiz Lady
Reality

Best Foreign Language Series
Bargain
The Glory
The Good Mothers
The Interpreter of Silence
Lupin
Mask Girl
Moving

Best Animated Series
Bluey
Bob’s Burgers
Harley Quinn
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Star Trek: Lower Decks
Young Love

Best Talk Show
The Graham Norton Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Best Comedy Special
Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool
Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits
John Early: Now More Than Ever
John Mulaney: Baby J
Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Wanda Sykes – I’m an Entertainer

Best Actress In A Drama Series
Jennifer Aniston – The Morning Show
Aunjanue Ellis – Justified: City Primeval
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Sarah Snook – Succession
Reese Witherspoon – The Morning Show

Sarah Snook thanked co-stars Matthew MacFadyen and Kieran Culkin and her real husband, “for being the best husband in a supporting role, you are the joy of my life, thank you.”

Best Actor In A Drama Series
Kieran Culkin – Succession
Tom Hiddleston – Loki
Timothy Olyphant – Justified: City Primeval
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Ramón Rodríguez – Will Trent
Jeremy Strong – Succession

Culkin joked about ear-hairs (!) before thanking the under-appreciated camera department… “the show was really through them.”

Best Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary
Barry
The Bear
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Poker Face
Reservation Dogs
Shrinking
What We Do in the Shadows

“Hulu, Disney, thank you for loving and embracing us…” said the Bear team. “And especially the people of Chicago for opening their hearts and their kitchens to us.”

Best Drama Series
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
Loki
The Morning Show
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Succession
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

“We’d like to say thanks to the critics. It wasn’t a completely smooth ride for our show but I think the support the critics gave it, helped our show find an audience, “said creator Jesse Armstrong.

Best Limited Series
Beef
Daisy Jones & the Six
Fargo
Fellow Travelers
Lessons in Chemistry
Love & Death
A Murder at the End of the World
A Small Light

“In my 20s I used to sneak into awards like these all by myself…if I could just make something people love then maybe I’ll be happy…. here we are 20 years later and I can assure you that is not the case,” said creator Lee Sung Jin before acknowledging what has made him happy are the connections made from Beef. “Thank you to the community and for accepting us as we are.”

That’s a wrap of TV categories! Tomorrow onto the Emmys.

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