30th Critics Choice Awards: ‘Anora’ wins Best Picture; ‘Shōgun,’ ‘Hacks’ take TV prizes

The 30th Critics Choice Awards have chosen Anora as their Best Picture of 2024. Sean Baker’s only win on the night was the top prize, but in a year where the race for Best Picture is wide open, this was a much needed win for the Neon film, as it went home empty handed at the Golden Globes a month ago. It is the first film in CCA history to win Best Picture as its only award.

In the night’s most shocking win, Jon M. Chu was awarded Best Director for Wicked. Chu, not nominated in the same category at the Oscars, DGA, or BAFTA is a puzzling win, one that many predicted to go to Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and will be a true outlier in the ongoing season. Speaking of The Brutalist, Adrien Brody won Best Actor, which was the film’s sole win on the night, and putting him outfront as the man to beat in the category going forward.

A big winner on the night was The Substance, which took home Best Actress for Demi Moore, Best Hair and Makeup, and Best Original Screenplay for the film’s writer-director Coralie Fargeat. Conclave took home the other screenplay prize for Peter Straughan’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ celebrated novel of the same name, as well as Best Ensemble. Could we be looking at our Oscar screenplay winners or the SAG Ensemble winner; we’ll see.

Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor for A Real Pain, further cementing his place as the frontrunner for the Oscar. Culkin seems like the most sure bet this season for someone in the acting categories, as he will most like continue to win all the major awards moving forward, including the Academy Awards. Netflix’s Emilia Perez had a strong night, winning three awards including Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, Best International Feature Film, and Best Song. These wins come off the heels of a controversial week for the film regarding its lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón discovered social media posts and her fumbled attempts at making a sincere apology.

It is worth noting that the winners for the Critics Choice Awards were voted on several weeks ago before most of the online discourse for various films in the race surfaced. Only time will tell with the upcoming guilds and BAFTA awards just how much tonight’s winners will impact the Oscar race moving forward.

On the TV side of things, it was another impressive showing for Shōgun (FX/Hulu), winning Best Drama Series alongside Hiroyuki Sanada for Best Actor, Tadanobu Asano for Best Supporting Actor) and Moeka Hoshi for Best Supporting Actress. In a shocking upset, Kathy Bates took home the prize for Best Actress in a Drama series for Matlock (CBS), the only win for broadcast television on the night. Over in the Comedy categories, Hacks (HBO/Max) home Best Comedy Series, as well as wins for the show’s stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Adam Brody received Best Actor in a Comedy for Nobody Wants This (Netflix) and Michael Urie won Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for Shrinking (Apple TV+).

In the limited series categories, Baby Reindeer (Netflix) won Best Limited Series, matching its win from the Emmys and Golden Globe, as well as Jessica Gunning winning Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television. The Penguin (HBO/Max) took home a pair of wins for Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti in the Best Actor and Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television categories. Live Schreiber rounded out the winners in the Limited Series or Movie Made for Television with a win for Best Supporting Actor for his work on The Perfect Couple (Netflix).

Here is the complete list of winners of the 30th Critics Choice Awards for film and television.

BEST PICTURE 

• Anora – WINNER
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown 
• Conclave 
• Dune: Part Two 
• Emilia Pérez 
• Nickel Boys 
• Sing Sing 
• The Substance 
• Wicked

BEST ACTOR 

• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist – WINNER
• Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
• Daniel Craig – Queer 
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing 
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave 
• Hugh Grant – Heretic 

BEST ACTRESS 

• Cynthia Erivo – Wicked 
• Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez 
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths 
• Angelina Jolie – Maria 
• Mikey Madison – Anora 
• Demi Moore – The Substance – WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

• Yura Borisov – Anora 
• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain – WINNER
• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing 
• Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown 
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist 
• Denzel Washington – Gladiator II 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

• Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson 
• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
• Ariana Grande – Wicked 
• Margaret Qualley – The Substance 
• Isabella Rossellini – Conclave 
• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez – WINNER

BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS 

• Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 
• Elliott Heffernan – Blitz 
• Maisy Stella – My Old Ass – WINNER
• Izaac Wang – Didi 
• Alisha Weir – Abigail 
• Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet 

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE 

• Anora 
• Conclave – WINNER
• Emilia Pérez 
• Saturday Night 
• Sing Sing 
• Wicked 

BEST DIRECTOR 

• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez 
• Sean Baker – Anora 
• Edward Berger – Conclave 
• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist 
• Jon M. Chu – Wicked – WINNER
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
• RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
• Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two 

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 

• Sean Baker – Anora 
• Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5 
• Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
• Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain 
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance – WINNER
• Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers 

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 

• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez 
• Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox – Wicked
• Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley – Sing Sing 
• RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys 
• Peter Straughan – Conclave – WINNER
• Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

• Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu – WINNER
• Alice Brooks – Wicked 
• Lol Crawley – The Brutalist  
• Stéphane Fontaine – Conclave  
• Greig Fraser – Dune: Part Two  
• Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys  

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 

• Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia – The Brutalist 
• Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – Wicked – WINNER
• Suzie Davies – Conclave 
• Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu  
• Arthur Max, Jille Azis, Elli Griff – Gladiator II  
• Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau – Dune: Part Two  

BEST EDITING 

• Sean Baker – Anora
• Marco Costa – Challengers – WINNER
• Nick Emerson – Conclave  
• David Jancso – The Brutalist  
• Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two
• Hansjörg Weißbrich – September 5

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 

• Lisy Christl – Conclave  
• Linda Muir – Nosferatu  
• Massimo Cantini Parrini – Maria  
• Paul Tazewell – Wicked – WINNER
• Jacqueline West – Dune: Part Two  
• Janty Yates, Dave Crossman – Gladiator II  

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP 

• Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener, Neal Scanlan – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Hair and Makeup Team – Dune: Part Two
• Hair and Makeup Team – The Substance – WINNER
• Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount – Wicked  
• Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White – Nosferatu  
• Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, Aaron Saucier – A Different Man  

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 

• Mark Bakowski, Pietro Ponti, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould – Gladiator II  
• Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk – Wicked  
• Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – Dune: Part Two – WINNER
• Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs – Better Man  
• Visual Effects Team – The Substance  
• Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot – WINNER

BEST COMEDY 

• A Real Pain – WINNER (TIE)
• Deadpool & Wolverine – WINNER (TIE)
• Hit Man 
• My Old Ass 
• Saturday Night
• Thelma 

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 

• All We Imagine as Light 
• Emilia Pérez – WINNER
• Flow 
• I’m Still Here 
• Kneecap 
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig 

BEST SONG 

• “Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl – Miley Cyrus
• “Compress / Repress” – Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• “El Mal” – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille – WINNER
• “Harper and Will Go West” – Will & Harper – Kristen Wiig
• “Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot – Maren Morris
• “Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez – Selena Gomez

BEST SCORE 

• Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
• Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist 
• Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot 
• Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez 
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers – WINNER
• Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two 

BEST DRAMA SERIES

• The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)
• The Diplomat (Netflix)
• Evil (Paramount+)
• Industry (HBO | Max)
• Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
• The Old Man (FX)
• Shōgun (FX / Hulu) – WINNER
• Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Jeff Bridges – The Old Man (FX)
• Ncuti Gatwa – Doctor Who (Disney+)
• Eddie Redmayne – The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)
• Hiroyuki Sanada – Shōgun (FX / Hulu) – WINNER
• Rufus Sewell – The Diplomat (Netflix)
• Antony Starr – The Boys (Prime Video)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Caitriona Balfe – Outlander (Starz)
• Kathy Bates – Matlock (CBS) – WINNER
• Shanola Hampton – Found (NBC)
• Keira Knightley – Black Doves (Netflix)
• Keri Russell – The Diplomat (Netflix)
• Anna Sawai – Shōgun (FX / Hulu)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Tadanobu Asano – Shōgun (FX / Hulu) – WINNER
• Michael Emerson – Evil (Paramount+)
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar – Found (NBC)
• Takehiro Hira – Shōgun (FX / Hulu)
• John Lithgow – The Old Man (FX)
• Sam Reid – Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES

• Moeka Hoshi – Shōgun (FX / Hulu) – WINNER
• Allison Janney – The Diplomat (Netflix)
• Nicole Kidman – Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+)
• Skye P. Marshall – Matlock (CBS)
• Anna Sawai – Pachinko (Apple TV+)
• Fiona Shaw – Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

BEST COMEDY SERIES

• Abbott Elementary (ABC)
• English Teacher (FX)
• Hacks (HBO | Max) – WINNER
• Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
• Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
• Somebody Somewhere (HBO | Max)
• St. Denis Medical (NBC)
• What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

• Brian Jordan Alvarez – English Teacher (FX)
• Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This (Netflix) – WINNER
• David Alan Grier – St. Denis Medical (NBC)
• Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
• Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

• Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
• Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
• Natasia Demetriou – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Bridget Everett – Somebody Somewhere (HBO | Max)
• Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO | Max) – WINNER
• Kristen Wiig – Palm Royale (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

• Paul W. Downs – Hacks (HBO | Max)
• Asher Grodman – Ghosts (CBS)
• Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
• Brandon Scott Jones – Ghosts (CBS)
• Michael Urie – Shrinking (Apple TV+) – WINNER
• Tyler James Williams – Abbott Elementary (ABC)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES

• Liza Colón-Zayas – The Bear (FX / Hulu)
• Hannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO | Max) – WINNER
• Janelle James – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
• Stephanie Koenig – English Teacher (FX)
• Patti LuPone – Agatha All Along (Disney+)
• Annie Potts – Young Sheldon (CBS)

BEST LIMITED SERIES

• Baby Reindeer (Netflix) – WINNER
• Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
• Masters of the Air (Apple TV+)
• Mr Bates vs the Post Office (PBS)
• The Penguin (HBO | Max)
• Ripley (Netflix)
• True Detective: Night Country (HBO | Max)
• We Were the Lucky Ones (Hulu)

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• The Great Lillian Hall (HBO | Max)
• It’s What’s Inside (Netflix)
• Música (Prime Video)
• Out of My Mind (Disney+)
• Rebel Ridge (Netflix) – WINNER
• V/H/S/Beyond (Shudder)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Colin Farrell – The Penguin (HBO | Max) – WINNER
• Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
• Tom Hollander – FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans (FX)
• Kevin Kline – Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
• Ewan McGregor – A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount+)
• Andrew Scott – Ripley (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Cate Blanchett – Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
• Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country (HBO | Max)
• Jessica Lange – The Great Lillian Hall (HBO | Max)
• Cristin Milioti – The Penguin (HBO | Max) – WINNER
• Phoebe-Rae Taylor – Out of My Mind (Disney+)
• Naomi Watts – FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans (FX)

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

• Robert Downey Jr. – The Sympathizer (HBO | Max)
• Hugh Grant – The Regime (HBO | Max)
• Ron Cephas Jones – Genius: MLK/X (National Geographic)
• Logan Lerman – We Were the Lucky Ones (Hulu)
• Liev Schreiber – The Perfect Couple (Netflix) – WINNER
• Treat Williams – FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans (FX)

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

• Dakota Fanning – Ripley (Netflix)
• Leila George – Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
• Betty Gilpin – Three Women (Starz)
• Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
• Deirdre O’Connell – The Penguin (HBO | Max)
• Kali Reis – True Detective: Night Country (HBO | Max)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES

• Acapulco (Apple TV+)
• Citadel: Honey Bunny (Prime Video)
• La Máquina (Hulu)
• The Law According to Lidia Poët (Netflix)
• My Brilliant Friend (HBO | Max)
• Pachinko (Apple TV+)
• Senna (Netflix)
• Squid Game (Netflix) – WINNER

BEST ANIMATED SERIES

• Batman: Caped Crusader (Prime Video)
• Bluey (Disney+)
• Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
• Invincible (Prime Video)
• The Simpsons (Fox)
• X-Men ’97 (Disney+) – WINNER

BEST TALK SHOW

• Hot Ones (YouTube)
• The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
• The Graham Norton Show (BBC America)
• John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. (Netflix) – WINNER
• The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC/Syndicated)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL

• Ali Wong: Single Lady (Netflix) – WINNER
• Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny (Hulu)
• Kevin James: Irregardless (Prime Video)
• Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die (HBO | Max)
• Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Special (Netflix)
• Ramy Youssef: More Feelings (HBO | Max)

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