'The Penguin' & 'X-Men ‘97' Win, 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Gets A Tie At Critics Choice Awards
Even if the show couldn’t fell 'Baby Reindeer', it still did well. 'The Wild Robot' and 'Wicked' racked up wins too
After a 26 day delay from January 12 due to the California Wildfires, the Critics Choice Awards were finally held Friday evening. It was hosted by Chelsea Handler for the third year in a row, a homecoming for the former Chelsea Lately host as the ceremony moved from The CW to E!. Nominations for TV and film came out separately, and at the time the film nominations came out, I wasn’t focused on Wicked yet so I didn’t find the film nominations as well-catered to the many interests I cover, so I didn’t do an article. The musical film had 11 nominations, both major and technical, with Anora defeating it for Best Picture, but the biggest focus in the nominations article was that HBO’s The Penguin had been nominated for four awards, and they went home very happy.
The The Batman spinoff series got both lead acting categories, with Colin Farrell winning Best Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie against Andrew Scott for Ripley, Richard Gadd for Baby Reindeer, Tom Hollander for FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans, Kevin Kline for Disclaimer, and Ewan McGregor for A Gentleman in Moscow. Cristin Milioti also won for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie as Sofia Falcone/Gigante against Cate Blanchett for Disclaimer, Jodie Foster for True Detective: Night Country, Jessica Lange for HBO’s The Great Lillian Hall, Phoebe-Rae Taylor for Disney+’s Out of My Mind, the one actual movie included in the category, and Naomi Watts for FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans. Deirdre O’Connell, who plays Oz’s mom Francis in the backstory flashbacks, lost to Jessica Gunning for Baby Reindeer Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie, alongside Leila George for Disclaimer, Betty Gilpin for Starz’s Three Women, and Kali Reis for True Detective: Night Country. Alas, the reindeer bested the penguin in the Best Limited Series, as well as True Detective: Night Country, Baby Reindeer, Ripley, Disclaimer, Masters of the Air, PBS’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office and Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones. That’s a 2 out of 4 outing, not shabby at all.
Notably, Kathy Bates won Best Actress in a Drama Series for Matlock, a rare win for network television on the awards circuit these days, especially the scripted side of CBS. She defeated Caitriona Balfe for Outlander, Shanola Hampton for NBC’s Found, Keira Knightley for Black Doves, Keri Russell for The Diplomat, and Anna Sawai for Shōgun. Genre shows also suffered a couple of losses elsewhere. Hiroyuki Sanada for Shōgun defeated Ncuti Gatwa on Doctor Who in the Best Actor in a Drama Series category, as well as Jeff Bridges for The Old Man, Eddie Redmayne for The Day of the Jackal, Rufus Sewell for The Diplomat, and Antony Starr for The Boys. Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series went to Hannah Einbinder for Hacks, defeating Agatha All Along’s Patti LuPone, Liza Colón-Zayas for The Bear, Janelle James for Abbott Elementary, Stephanie Koenig for FX’s English Teacher, and Annie Potts for Young Sheldon.
Unfortunately, Marvel was otherwise not much in the way of stage awards Friday night, even if both were victories. X-Men ’97 emerged victorious in the Best Animated Series category, defeating Batman: Caped Crusader, Bluey, Bob’s Burgers, Invincible, and The Simpsons. Deadpool & Wolverine meanwhile tied with A Real Pain, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin for the award for Best Comedy (on the movie side of course). They defeated Saturday Night, Hit Man, My Old Ass, and Thelma.
Now that we’re into the films, Wicked did end up winning three awards. Jon M. Chu for Best Director was the biggest, over Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, Sean Baker for Anora, Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Best Original Screenplay winner Coralie Fargeat for The Substance, RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys and Denis Villeneuve for Dune: Part Two. Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales won Best Production Design against Judy Becker and Patricia Cuccia fqor The Brutalist, Suzie Davies and Cynthia Sleiter for Conclave, Craig Lathrop and Beatrice Brentnerova for Nosferatu, Arthur Max, Jille Azis, and Elli Griff for Gladiator II, and Patrice Vermette and Shane Vieau for Dune: Part Two. Paul Tazewell won Best Costume Design against Lisy Christl for Conclave, Linda Muir for Nosferatu, Massimo Cantini Parrini for Maria, Jacqueline West for Dune: Part Two, and Janty Yates and Dave Crossman for Gladiator II.
The Wild Robot received two nominations, facing Flow, Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail, and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl for Best Animated Feature like it did at the Golden Globes. However, unlike there, it beat Flow. However, what this means for the Oscars race does not bode well for Roz and Brightbill. A similar split last year happened between these two organizations, as the Critics Choice was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, while the Globes chose The Boy and the Heron, which ultimately won the Oscar. Maren Morris’s song for the film lost Best Original Song to “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez by Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Camille, as did “Beautiful That Way” from The Last Showgirl by Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus and Lykke Li, “Compress / Repress” from Challengers by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Luca Guadagnino, “Harper and Will Go West” from Will & Harper by Kristen Wiig, and “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez by Selena Gomez. Personally I see it as a major downgrade from last year’s expectation-subverting winner and fun choice of “I’m Just Ken” from Barbie.
Source: Nexus Point News