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…

As the Tribune Broadcasting-Charter blackout enters its second week, NFL playoff games, college basketball and WGN America have gone unseen by millions of Spectrum subscribers. But as awards season gears up, one more indignity from the carriage fight lies ahead. Sunday’s 24th Critics’ Choice Awards telecast, which…

While the Academy Awards try to dig themselves out of a hole when it comes to finding a host, the Critics’ Choice Awards aren’t having a problem at all. The Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association announced today that TV, film and Broadway star Taye Diggs will host the…

The Critics’ Choice Awards will honor The Girl in the Spider’s Web star and The Crown alum Claire Foy and sitcom hitmaker Chuck Lorre at its 24th annual ceremony next month. Foy, who also recently co-starred opposite Ryan Gosling in Damien Chazelle’s First Man, will receive the CCA’s #SeeHer Award. The group says it a…

The Favourite led all movies with a whopping 14 nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s 24th annual Critics’ Choice Awards including Best Picture, Director and nods for all three of its stars — Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. This had to be a bit of deja vu for distributor Fox Searchlight…

The season is starting to shift, as usual, into that phase that separates the wheat from the chaff. It is that moment, after Thanksgiving, when everyone who thought they still had a shot gets a sober assessment as critics groups (Gotham, National Board of Review, and New York Film Critics Circle all this week), and…

The Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association said their 24th annual Critics' Choice Awards will air live on the CW on Sunday, January 13, 2019. The show, to run 7-10 PM ET/PT, will continue its combined film and television awards format, honoring cinematic and…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. UPDATED WITH FURTHER CLARIFICATION: Oscar ballots are due today at 5 PM PT, capping one of the most intense pre-nominations weeks in memory. Voting for the nine semi-finalists for Best Foreign Language Film though is still continuing, in fact, with…