For the first time, Critics’ Choice Movie and Television Awards have been combined into a single show
TheWrap will update the winners as they are announced.
This was the first year the Broadcast Film Critics Association and Broadcast Television Journalists Association, sister organizations, combined their Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and Critics’ Choice Television Awards into a single show. As a result, the TV awards were handed out fewer than eight months after the last show, with an adjusted eligibility period of less than a full year.
With 28 film categories and 23 television categories, the super-sized show, broadcast live on A&E, Lifetime and LMN, required a large number of categories to be given out in a pre-telecast portion of the show.
Last year, the Critics’ Choice winner went on to win the Academy Award in only eight of the 19 categories shared by the two shows, though the success rate is usually higher than that. “Boyhood” and its director Richard Linklater was the Critics’ Choice winner, while “Birdman” and Alejandro G. Inarritu took the Oscars.
Going into the show, “Mad Max: Fury Road” led all films with 13 nominations, to nine each for “Carol,” “The Martian” and “The Revenant.”
All eight of the Oscar Best Picture nominees were also nominated for the top Critics’ Choice Award, along with “Carol,” “Sicario” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
In an unusual quirk, the Critics’ Choice Awards had 11 Best Picture nominees instead of the usual 10. Voting took place before Disney had begun to screen “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” – but after what the BFCA said was an outcry from members, it had a second round of voting to determine if members would have put the film on their ballot if they had seen it before voting. Enough said they would for it to be added to the roster of nominees in that category.
In the television categories, “Fargo” was the leading nominee, followed by “The Leftovers” and “Transparent” with six.
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