Oppenheimer took home multiple awards tonight, including Best Acting Ensemble, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor, Best Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Director and Best Picture. Barbie also did well, winning Best Song, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Comedy, Best Hair and Makeup, and [x]. Anatomy of a Fall won the award for Best Foreign Language Film, a notable win since the film was not the one chosen by France to represent the country at the Academy Awards this year. Best Young Actor/Actress went to Dominic Sessa from The Holdovers. The two screenplay awards, Original and Adapted, went to Barbie and American Fiction respectively. Barbie will be competing in Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards instead, so it will have different competitions there. The two lead performance awards went to Emma Stone for her role in Poor Things and Paul Giamatti for his in The Holdovers. Best Director went to [x] for [x] work on [x].
On the television side, Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri took home the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy Series for their work in The Bear, while Steven Yeun and Ali Wong also took home the lead performance awards for their roles in Beef. Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook then took home the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Drama Series for their roles on Succession, which went on to win Best Drama Series. The Bear won Best Comedy Series and Beef took home Best Limited Series, not too surprising with each of these show’s lead performers winning awards. Lupin won the award for Best Foreign Language Series, while Scott Pilgrim Takes Off took home Best Animated Series.
Harrison Ford took home a Career Achievement Award at tonight’s ceremony for his long career that includes roles in Blade Runner as well as the Indiana Jones and Star Wars franchises, with his latest role a supporting turn on AppleTV+’s comedy Shrinking.
Here are the winners of the 2024 Critics Choice Awards:
BEST PICTURE: Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST ACTOR: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
BEST ACTRESS: Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
BEST DRAMA SERIES: Succession (HBO)
BEST COMEDY SERIES: The Bear (FX)
BEST LIMITED SERIES: Beef (Netflix)
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Ayo Edebiri, The Bear (FX)
BEST SONG: “I’m Just Ken,” Barbie (Warner Bros)
BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Steven Yeun, Beef (Netflix)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Ali Wong, Beef (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear (FX)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Billy Crudup, The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Maria Bello, Beef (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Jonathan Bailey, Fellow Travelers (Showtime)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Anatomy of a Fall (NEON)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Barbie (Warner Bros)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS: Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers (Focus Features)
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE: Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach, Barbie (Warner Bros)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Cord Jefferson, American Fiction (Amazon MGM)
BEST EDITING: Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Jacqueline Durran, Barbie (Warner Bros)
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP: Barbie (Warner Bros)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST COMEDY: Barbie (Warner Bros)
BEST SCORE: Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Kieran Culkin, Succession (HBO)
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Sarah Snook, Succession (HBO)
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear (FX)
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION: Quiz Lady (Hulu)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES: Lupin (Netflix)
BEST ANIMATED SERIES: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off (Netflix)
BEST TALK SHOW: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
BEST COMEDY SPECIAL: John Mulaney: Baby J (Netflix)
Robert Downey Jr. won the Critics Choice Award for best supporting actor in a movie on Sunday night and took the opportunity to read some of his harshest review from, well, critics.
The Oppenheimer star started his speech by noting that he was thinking about some of the reviews of his work earlier that day from the members of the Critics Choice Association.
“I was thinking this morning, I love critics. … You know, they’ve given me such beautiful feedback, really just so many great moments, and some of it is so poetic,” he said. “I just want to share some of their thoughts with you over the years.”
He continued: “The first one is kind of like Haiku: ‘Sloppy, messy and lazy.’ The next one is more metaphoric: ‘Like Pee-Wee Herman emerging from a coma.’ This was from a Brit: ‘A puzzling waste of talent.’ And lastly, and this one lingered: ‘Amusing as a bed-locked fart.'”
He went on to thank his “Oppenhomies,” those who worked alongside Downey on the movie.
“Every day of filming was like having my ego’s ass handed to me at the door, and I think it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy,” he joked.
America Ferrera was honored with the SeeHer Award at Sunday night’s Critics Choice Awards.
Margot Robbie introduced her Barbie co-star, saying: “She is an artist and an activist. She tells us the truth and asks us to reach for something more in the world and in ourselves. She deserves to be celebrated.”
When Ferrera stepped on the stage, she had a bit of a teleprompter issue that got the audience laughing (in a supportive way) before delivering an inspirational speech.
Read her full speech below.
I’m just waiting for the teleprompter to show my speech. There it is.
Thank you so much to the Critics Choice Association. Truly, your voices shape how people think about and value the stories we tell. I’m deeply thankful to you for this acknowledgment and this honor. Receiving the SeeHer Award for my contributions to more authentic portrayals of women and girls — could it be more meaningful to me? Because I grew up as a first generation Honduran American girl in love with TV, film and theater, who desperately wanted to be a part of a storytelling legacy that I could not see myself reflected in.
Of course, I could feel myself in characters who were strong and complex. But these characters rarely, if ever, looked like me. I yearned to see people like myself onscreen as full humans.
When I started working over 20 years ago — that seems impossible, I know — but it seemed impossible that anyone could make a career portraying fully dimensional Latina characters but because of writers, directors, producers and executives who are daring enough to rewrite outdated stories and to challenge deeply entrenched biases, I, and some of my beloved Latina colleagues, have been supremely blessed to bring to life some fierce and fantastic women.
Uh, skip this part. I cut that. [Laughter] Thank you. OK. Stop, stop, stop. [Applause]
Because of that, we have had the chance to bring through some deeply layered Latina characters and characters that I could not have seen growing up.
But now I can see her and I see her expanding in the next generation of talent like my beloved Ariana Greenblatt, who plays my daughter in Barbie, and in Jenna Ortega, and in Selena Gomez, and in so many more out there. To me, this is the best and highest use of storytelling to affirm one another’s full humanity, to uphold the truth that we are all worthy of being seen — Black, brown, indigenous Asian, trans, disabled, any body type, any gender. We are all worthy of having our lives richly and authentically reflective.
There have been so many people along my path who have truly seen me and who I would not be here without. So I have to think Jodi Peikoff, Carrie Byalick, Kim Gillingham, Ali Trustman and my wonderful team at CAA and my incredible publicists, Molly Kawachi and Brianna Smith.
I also know that I would not be standing here today now without Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig. Margot, where’d you go? Margo, you saw value in Barbie, an entirely female idea that most would have dismissed as too girly, too frivolous or just too problematic. But you had the courage and the vision to take it on. Thank you for gifting the world with Barbie.
And Greta. Greta, I can’t see you because the cameraman is standing right and I can only see Ryan [Gosling]. [Laughter] There you are. Greta, thank you for proving through your incredible mastery as a filmmaker that women’s stories have no difficulty achieving cinematic greatness and box office history at the same time and that unabashedly telling female stories does not diminish your powers, it expands them. Greta, your mind, your talent, your heart have inspired us all. And thank you for asking me to be your Gloria.
Thank you to thank you to our Kens — Noah Baumbach, Tom Ackerley, David Heyman and Ryan Gosling — for all being man enough to support women’s work. You are all brilliant and you are more than “Kenough.”
Thank you to Pam Abdy, Mike De Luca, Robbie Brenner and the wonderful teams at Warner Bros. and Mattel for all of your support.
And thank you to my husband, my husband Ryan, not Gosling, the other one. El esposo de Gloria. You see me and my dreams and you believe and support them as if they were your own. I love you.
This is for every kid yearning to break in. I see you, and you’ve got this. Thank you. Goodnight.