'The Penguin' Ices 4 Critics' Choice Awards Nominations
Awards season is heating up, but even it can’t stop the flightless bird from soaring
The TV side of the Critics Choice Awards announced its nominations Thursday. Even with the Critics Choice Super Awards existing, it’s still intriguing as to how the genre programming fares in the general field. The film categories’ nominees will be announced next Thursday, December 12. The ceremony will air on E! on January 12, moving from The CW but hosted by Chelsea Handler for the third straight year. The clear leader here is HBO’s The Batman spinoff The Penguin which received four nominations.
The Penguin, being a limited series, is competing appropriately. In Best Limited Series, their competition includes True Detective: Night Country also from HBO, Netflix’s Baby Reindeer and Ripley, Apple TV+’s Disclaimer and Masters of the Air PBS’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office and Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones. Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb aka The Penguin is nominated for Best Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie against Andrew Scott for Ripley, Richard Gadd for Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, Tom Hollander for FX’s FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans, Kevin Kline for Disclaimer, Ewan McGregor for Paramount+ with Showtime’s A Gentleman in Moscow. Cristin Milioti is up 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, a movie released in late November, and Naomi Watts for FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans. Deirdre O’Connell, who plays Oz’s mom Francis in the backstory flashbacks, is nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie against Leila George for Disclaimer, Betty Gilpin for Starz’s Three Women, Jessica Gunning for Baby Reindeer, and Kali Reis for True Detective: Night Country. The Penguin not only ended on a creative high, but numerical too, with 2.1 million viewers for its finale.
From here, there are only two other categories relevant to this realm that I haven’t already covered. But for what I did cover already, Ncuti Gatwa was nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for playing the Fifteenth Doctor on Doctor Who. Maybe all that crying connected with this voting organization. He’s competing against Jeff Bridges for The Old Man on FX, Eddie Redmayne for The Day of the Jackal on Peacock, Hiroyuki Sanada for Shōgun on FX and Hulu, Rufus Sewell for The Diplomat on Netflix, and Antony Starr for The Boys on Prime Video. The last relevant acting category finds Agatha All Along’s lone nomination, with Patti LuPone earning for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series alongside Liza Colón-Zayas for The Bear, Hannah Einbinder for Hacks, Janelle James for Abbott Elementary, Stephanie Koenig for FX’s English Teacher, and Annie Potts for Young Sheldon.
And finally, there was no way I was going to skip Best Animated Series. It’s a category that could probably look a little 2009, maybe 1994 with some of these nominees, but definitely not entirely. We have Batman: Caped Crusader, X-Men ’97, Bluey, Bob’s Burgers, Invincible, and The Simpsons. A pretty damn good batch.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter