Critics Choice Awards: ‘Anora’ Takes Best Picture; ‘Shōgun’, ‘Hacks’, ‘Baby Reindeer’ Lead TV – Full Winners List​on February 8, 2025 at 3:03 am

The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards selected Neon’s Anora as its Best Picture on Friday, boosting the fortunes of Sean Baker’s indie pic that started its journey by winning Cannes’ Palme d’Or last spring. Anora had come into the night with seven nominations but had come up short until the final category was announced at […]The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards selected Neon’s Anora as its Best Picture on Friday, boosting the fortunes of Sean Baker’s indie pic that started its journey by winning Cannes’ Palme d’Or last spring. Anora had come into the night with seven nominations but had come up short until the final category was announced at   

The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards selected Neon’s Anora as its Best Picture on Friday, boosting the fortunes of Sean Baker’s indie pic that started its journey by winning Cannes’ Palme d’Or last spring.

Anora had come into the night with seven nominations but had come up short until the final category was announced at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Up next this weekend for Anora to keep the momentum going are the DGA Awards and PGA Awards, where it is up for both top prizes Saturday.

The Critics Choice Awards, which were hosted for a third year in a row by Chelsea Handler, has traditionally been a good Oscar bellwether. Last year, eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer scored a leading eight wins here including the marquee Best Picture prize that Anora just snagged.

Wicked, Universal’s blockbuster Broadway musical adaptation that came into tonight tied with Focus Features’ Conclave with the most Critics Choice nominations overall this year with 11, ended up winning three awards, including a jubilant Jon M. Chu scoring the Best Director trophy after being snubbed by the Oscars. The pic also won for Costume Design and Production Design but was shut out in the acting categories where Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were nominated.

Conclave, meanwhile, took Best Ensemble and won for Peter Straughan’s Original Screenplay.

Emilia Pérez, which has 10 nominations coming in, also picked up three wins including a Best Supporting Actress trophy for Zoe Saldaña, cementing her place as an Oscar frontrunner and giving a push to the musical movie that has been dealing with the fallout from its star Karla Sofía Gascón‘s old tweets. Gascón, nominated for Best Actress tonight, die not attend.

The Netflix pic from France also won in Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Song (“El Mal” from Saldaña, Gascón and Camille).

The other triple winner tonight was Mubi’s The Substance, with Demi Moore taking Best Actress after doing the same at the Globes to add to her Oscar momentum. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat won Adapted Screenplay, and the pic also won for Hair and Makeup.

Adrien Brody also repeated his Globes win by taking Best Actor, the only win for The Brutalist which had won Best Picture – Drama at the Globes.

Among double film winners tonight was Searchlight’s A Real Pain, which landed Kieran Culkin a Supporting Actor win and also tied for the Best Comedy Film prize with Disney/Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine. Amazon MGM’s Challengers won for both Score and Editing.

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On the TV side, FX/Hulu’s Emmy juggernaut Shōgun, which led the way with six nominations coming in, won Best Drama Series and Best Actor in a Drama Series for Hiroyuki Sanada, repeating his Globes and Emmys wins. The Japanese period drama also swept both Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress categories.

The only category it didn’t take was Best Actress in a Drama, where Kathy Bates of CBS’ Matlock won over Emmy winner Anna Sawai.

Still, Shōgun won the most trophies overall on the night across film and TV with four.

HBO | Max’s Hacks scored three wins, both for lead Jean Smart and Supporting Hannah Einbinder ahead of its win for Best Comedy Series.

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Colin Farrell, who transferred his Oswald Cobblepot from the big to the small screen for HBO | Max’s The Penguin, won for Best Actor in a Limited Series to add to his Golden Globes win for the role, while his co-star Cristin Milioti won Best Actress. The Best Limited Series prize however went to Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, which also won for Jessica Gunning’s Supporting performance.

This year’s Critics Choice Awards aired live on the East Coast and were tape delayed in the West until 7 p.m. PT on E! in the debut of a new deal with the network and Peacock. The show will drop on the streamer on Saturday.

Here are tonight’s winners:

BEST PICTURE

Anora

BEST ACTOR

Adrien Brody – The Brutalist

BEST ACTRESS

Demi Moore – The Substance

BEST DIRECTOR

Jon M. Chu – Wicked

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Peter Straughan – Conclave

BEST SONG

“El Mal” – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – Wicked

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Paul Tazewell – Wicked

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

Hair and Makeup Team – The Substance

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – Dune: Part Two

BEST SCORE

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Emilia Pérez

BEST COMEDY (tie)

A Real Pain
Deadpool & Wolverine

BEST EDITING

Marco Costa – Challengers

BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS

Maisy Stella – My Old Ass

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

The Wild Robot

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Conclave

BEST DRAMA SERIES

Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Kathy Bates – Matlock (CBS)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Hiroyuki Sanada – Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

BEST COMEDY SERIES

Hacks (HBO | Max)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO | Max)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This (Netflix)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

Baby Reindeer (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Cristin Milioti – The Penguin (HBO | Max)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Colin Farrell – The Penguin (HBO | Max)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

Moeka Hoshi – Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

Tadanobu Asano – Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Liev Schreiber – The Perfect Couple (Netflix)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

Hannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO | Max)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

Michael Urie – Shrinking (Apple TV+)

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Rebel Ridge (Netflix)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES

Squid Game (Netflix)

BEST ANIMATED SERIES

X-Men ’97 (Disney+)

BEST TALK SHOW

John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. (Netflix)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL

Ali Wong: Single Lady (Netflix)