Critics’ Choice Awards: ‘Spotlight’ Wins Best Picture; ‘Mr. Robot’ Best Drama Series
UPDATE with complete list of winners: The 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards were unveiled tonight in Santa Monica in 51 categories of both film and TV, with the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association joining forces for one three-hour show simulcast on A&E, Lifetime and LMN.
Although Mad Max: Fury Road dominated on the film side with nine wins overall, it was Open Road’s Spotlight which took the marquee honor Best Picture on the night as well as Best Ensemble. Paramount’s The Big Short was another oft-mentioned film, taking Best Comedy Movie and a Best Comedy Actor win for Christian Bale. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which was belatedly put into the Best Picture race after the other noms had already been announced, did not win, but BB-8 did roll out to help ILM COO John Knoll accept the critics’ Genius Award.
The Revenant Leonardo DiCaprio and Room‘s Brie Larson continued their runs with wins for Best Actor and Best Actress, though neither was in attendance. Neither was George Miller, who won Best Director for Mad Max, which swept through several craft awards including Editing, VFX, Costume Design, Hair & Makeup and Production Design. It also swept the Action Movie category with best film, actress (Charlize Theron) and actor (Tom Hardy).
On the TV side, USA Network’s Mr Robot repeated its Golden Globes success with wins for Best Drama Series, Best Actor for Rami Malek and Supporting Actor for Christian Slater. Other Globe repeaters included Rachel Bloom as Best Actress In A Comedy Series for the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. FX’s Fargo had the most wins on the TV side with four, including Best TV Movie or Limited Series and trophies for Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Jean Smart.
The night was a blur with host TJ Miller doing his best as awards flew by. Announcer William Shatner was given the task of announcing before the commercial breaks All The Awards That’ Weren’t Fit To Air, including some serious categories including Cinematography, Editing and the Screenplay categories.
Among the refreshing moments included Judd Apatow taking off the gloves with a free-swinging intro of Amy Schumer, who was given the critics’ MVP Award (she also won for Best Comedy Actress for Trainwreck).
Here’s the full list of winners:
FILM
BEST PICTURE
Spotlight
BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio
The Revenant
BEST ACTRESS
Brie Larson
Room
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Sylvester Stallone, Creed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Jacob Tremblay, Room
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Spotlight
BEST DIRECTOR
George Miller
Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Colin Gibson, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST EDITING
Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Jenny Beavan, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Inside Out
BEST ACTION MOVIE
Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Tom Hardy, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COMEDY
The Big Short
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Christian Bale, The Big Short
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
Ex Machina
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Son of Saul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy
BEST SONG
“See You Again”, Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa, Furious 7
BEST SCORE
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
TELEVISION
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent, Amazon
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot, USA
BEST ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Idris Elba, Luther, BBC America
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The CW
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Carrie Coon, The Leftovers, HBO
BEST ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo, FX Networks
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Master of None, Netflix
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Mr. Robot, USA
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Timothy Olyphant, The Grinder, Fox
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Margo Martindale, The Good Wife, CBS
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Fargo, FX Networks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Fox
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot, USA
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Jesse Plemons, Fargo, FX Networks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory, CBS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Constance Zimmer, UnREAL, Lifetime
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION OR LIMITED SERIES
Jean Smart, Fargo, FX Networks
BEST ANIMATION SERIES
BoJack Horseman, Netflix
BEST REALITY SHOW – COMPETITION
The Voice, NBC
BEST REALITY SHOW HOST
James Lipton, Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo
BEST STRUCTURED REALITY SHOW
Shark Tank, ABC
BEST TALK SHOW
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO
BEST UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN
Genius Award
Industrial Light + Magic
MVP Award
Amy Schumer
Most Bingeworthy Show
Outlander, Starz