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Following a pattern that is very clearly emerging now, the Critics' Choice Awards is adjusting its dates to reflect changes the Motion Picture Academy announced earlier this week for Oscar season. The Critics' Choice Awards for Movies and Television will now take place at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, and again be…

Fox won Sunday night with a massive NFL divisional playoff game in primetime, where the Green Bay Packers beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-23 and cemented a spot in the NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers. The showdown earned a 8.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 31.05 million viewers in early…

The resurgence of Eddie Murphy continued on Sunday night at the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award as well as two wins for Dolemite Is My Name including the award for best comedy film. The 58-year-old comedy icon has been enjoying a brighter spotlight in recent months thanks to his…

The Critics' Choice Awards, hosted by Taye Diggs, were handed out on Sunday night and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood took the award for Best Picture and on the TV side, Fleabag nabbed the trophy for Best Comedy Series while Succession went home with Best Drama. A big shocker of the evening was the…

Just who will receive the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award this year? It’s Gumby, dammit! Well, Eddie Murphy, to be exact, as the veteran comic and actor’s resurgence continues. The Saturday Night Live alum and Oscar-nominated actor will be feted for his extraordinary roles over the years, most recently his…

The era of Netflix dominance may have just begun in earnest, as the streamer handily leads all comers in film nominations for the 25th annual Critics Choice Association’s (formerly the Broadcast Film Critics Association) Critics’ Choice Awards nominations, announced Sunday morning. It also had an impressive showing in…

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences abruptly moved the 2020 Academy Awards ceremony up to early February, panic set in among those other awards shows that often serve as bellweathers for Oscar's grande finale. Stung by record low ratings for the 2018 telecast, hosted for the second year in a row by…

The 25th annual Critics' Choice Awards has set its 2020 date, with the show to air live on The CW on Sunday, January 12 at 7-10 PM ET/PT. Taye Diggs, who hosted for the first time at this year’s show, is returning for the show which again will be held at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar. The Critics’ Choice Awards, which…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Welcome to a special Monday edition of Notes on the Season. Hey, Academy members, you have just moments left to make your mark on this year’s increasingly heated Oscar race. Ballots for nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards are due today at…

NFL playoff fever heated up Fox comedies Sunday night. The Simpsons (3.8, 10.20M) nabbed its best stats in four years and Bob's Burgers (2.2, 5.33M) clocked its best data in five, though both sets of numbers are subject to change owing to the game. Moving further away from NFL play, Fox’s Family Guy (1.8,  4.18M)…

UPDATED with video: After two wins at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday – a co-win for Best Actress, and Best Song in A Star is Born – Lady Gaga told press backstage she was “speechless” because it was her “greatest dream to be an actor.” She once gave up acting, “but here I am now with Glenn Close,” she said…

UPDATED with all winners: Alfonso Cuarón’s personal drama Roma from Netflix led all winners at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday, taking four total wins including the marquee Best Picture honor at the televised ceremony at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. Cuarón was busy onstage during a show in which the Broadcast…