Critics Choice Movie Awards Live Blog
Sunday, January 13, 2019 at 8:11PM by Nathaniel R
7:30 It took me 15 minutes to find a live stream but I unfortunately found it just in time to see a frankly hideous video mix which used this strange early photoshop spotlight effect on movie clips so the actors were lit up and everything else was blacked out. Taye Diggs was introduced as a 'chocolatey heartthrob'. He launched into a musical performance which was........ ........ ........... ........ .........Yes, Taye Diggs is very handsome!
7:32 Lady Gaga wins Best Song for "Shallow". Who knew Peter Farrelly was such a fan, giving her a standing ovation. She thanks Bradley Cooper profusely and smartly talks about his transformation into Jackson Maine (we need people to talk about this amazing performance. "I was mesmerized both for myself and my character" Wait, they're different people? Kidding.
7:38 Best Young Actor or Actress goes to Elsie Fisher with reaction shots from Thomasin McKenzie and Amandla Stenberg, who both seem unfussed about losing, already pros they are.
As someone who has anxiety, it's exciting to be on this stage right now.
Tee hee. Sadly, though Elsie throws up a peace hand sign, she doesn't say "Gucci" but 'Peace and love, y'all'...
7:45 Winston Duke is presenting and marvels at the performancessaying "It's hard to believe these guys aren't in the lead actor category" THAT'S TRUE, WINSTON, BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE LEADING ROLES INCLUDING THE GUY WHO WILL WIN. Yup, Mahershala Ali wins Best Supporting Actor. Oh but that's sweet. He brings Kris Bowers up with him and dedicates the award to him. I didn't know the composer was also his stand-in on set.
7:49 Best Supporting Actress goes to Regina King. She stops to kiss Amy Adams on the way up. Nicole Kidman stands up to applaud. It's a love-in.
7:53 Commercial time. Is this where I tell you that I forgot to type anything about Taye Diggs as "Mary Poppin & Lockin". Emily Blunt's embarassed face throughout this joke is a treasure.
7:59 Best Horror Film goes to A Quiet Place. I voted for Hereditary, don'cha know. John Krasinski says he blacked out a second ago. That was me during the Mary Poppin & Lockin' joke.
8:05 They just shared a huge list of winners that weren't cool enough to air I guess. The fact that Oscar wants to do it when every show that does it seems so low rent, is beyond me. But, look, Ben Whishaw brought his composer husband who is very pleased for that A Very English Scandal win!
Ben & hubby
They met on the romantic drama Bright Star and I will never tire of that factoid. Jane Campion brought them together!
8:20 The Favourite wins Best Ensemble but not one of them is there to collect !!! Why didn't the BFCA have cut-outs at least? That worked before.
8:24 There sure are a lot of commercials on the CW! Or at least I'm not used to commercials anymore. That said I haven't seen any pharmateutical commercials and I really want to ask my doctor if those drugs are right for me!
8:28 Very funny presenting banter (and you don't see that every day. Hell, you rarely see it more than a few times a year) from Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy. This is insane? Why haven't they asked them to present together before at the Globes or Oscars? Darren Criss wins Best Actor in a TV Limited Series or Movie for TV. After watching A Very English Scandal this past week I'm kind of upset that Hugh Grant is winning nothing for it. Cute speech from Darren Criss who apologizes for any future lackluster performances. Haha! O'Hara and Levy present a second award.
Amy Adams and Patricia Arquette TIE for Best Actress in a TV Limited Series or Movie for TV. There's a gasp from the audience. They try to do one at a time but Amy wants to announce the other win and brings Patricia up. It's a genuine and deeply enjoyable moment as they go back and forth during their speeches, most humorously thanking HBO and then Showtime and laughing at themselves due to the corporate rivalry.
8:41 Best Actor in a Comedy goes to Olivia Colman in The Favourite (still not there) and Best Actor in a Comedy goes to Christian Bale in Vice. Hilariously, Bale thanks the HFPA because he forgot to at the Globes. Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron (WHO ARE SITTING TOGETHER --- ACTRESSEXUAL RED ALERT) enjoy that moment a lot.
Bale goes on forever, though, spoiling the fun of the first half....okay third... no fourth of his speech. He just keeps talking! Kris Bowers is forced to play him off. But Bale just talks through it for another minute.
8:47 Crazy Rich Asians wins Best Comedy. The CRA table is VERY excited. The speech from a producer is political and focuses on representation and how much was riding on this movie.
9:01 Chuck Lorre gets a Creative Achievement Award and starts his speech by joking about how much the critics don't like his shows. Unfortunately he returns to this theme so there's clearly some grudge holding. His speech doubles, briefly, as a Big Bang Theory tribute.
9:09 Bill Hader wins Best Comedy Series for Barry. He is not in the hangar to say thank you. Best Actress in a Comedy Series goes to Rachel Brosnahan. She is wearing a pantsuit. It's nice when actresses mix it up sometimes. She begins her speech "I want to continue to thank..." ah, the problem of too many awards shows with very little differentiation in winners.
9:14 Taye Diggs sings "Spike Lee. I really dig your movies. I really think you're groovy" into Spike Lee's ear while wearing an afro. Spike stays frozen in place. He looks direct to camera for your sympathy and a look that says 'If I ignore him, maybe he'll go away?'
9:15 Alfonso Cuaron wins Best Director for Roma. "Fllms may not break down walls but they can offer us a window to the other side. And what we see is our own reflection."
9:20 Matthew Rhys wins Best Actor in a Drama Series for The Americans (he is not there to accept) and Sandra Oh wins Best Actress in a Drama Series for Killing Eve. Wonderfully emotional speech that focuses on the talent of Jodie Comer, her co-star. We love it when actors stan other actors publicly in ways that are obviously genuine rather than just a list of names.
Have you watched Killing Eve? It's finally easy to see (Hulu) and we've been eating it up but not too quickly. Savoring the episodes one at a time. Halfway through and it lives up to the hype. Comer & Oh are both incredible. If there was going to be a tie tonight, it would have been fun if it were them.
9:31 The Assassination of Gianni Versace wins Best Limited Series. I was on a snack break.
9:39 The Americans (drama) and Marvelous Mrs Maisel win the Series awards. I was on a losing interest in the show break.
9:49 Lady Gaga and Glenn Close tie for Best Actress. And I couldn't tell a better joke than this...
Glenn needs to pee next to Lady Gaga accepting her award or what has it all been for?
— Ryan (@sortathatguy) January 14, 2019
Glenn is soooo happy to share the prize! This industry pits us against each other but we celebrate each other! and Lady Gaga tells us that Glenn Close and her mother are good friends! The music starts playing Lady Gaga off. Her awesome quip? "It's okay, I can still do this with a piano background"
9:52 Nicole Kidman presents Best Actor. There are SEVEN nominees. That is toooo many. Christian Bale wins for Vice. Again. "I don't have anything to say. I said it at the last one." Even Bale sees the problem!
10:08 It's over and it was so anticlimactic that I drifted off. Roma won Best Picture.
Good night!
FULL LIST OF WINNERES
Picture Roma
Comedy Crazy Rich Asians
Foreign Film Roma
Sci-Fi or Horror Movie A Quiet Place
Action Movie Mission Impossible - Fallout
Animated Feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Actress Glenn Close and Lady Gaga
Actress in a Comedy Olivia Colman
Actor Christian Bale
Actor in a Comedy Christian Bale
Supporting Actress Regina King
Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali
Young Actor/Actress Elsie Fisher
Director Alfonso Cuaron Roma
Screenplay First Reformed
Adapted Screenplay If Beale Street Could Talk
Cinematography Roma
Production Design Black Panther
Editing First Man
Hair and Makeup Vice
Score First Man
Visual Effects Black Panther
Costume Design Black Panther
Song "Shallow" A Star is Born
Drama Series The Americans
Actor in a Drama Series Matthew Rhys
Actress in a Drama Series Sandra Oh
Supporting Actor Drama Series Noah Emmerich
Supporting Actress Drama Series Thandie Newton Westworld
Comedy Series Mrs Maisel
Actor in a Comedy Series Bill Hader
Actress in a Comedy Series Rachel Brosnahan
Supporting Actor Comedy Series Henry Winkler
Supporting Actress Comedy Series Alex Borstein
Limited Series Assassination of Gianni Versace
Movie for TV Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert
Actor in a Limited eries Darren Criss
Actress in a Limited Series TIE Amy Adams and Patricia Arquette
Supporting Actor Limited Series Ben Whishaw
Supporting Actress Limited Series Patricia Clarkson
Animated Series Bojack Horseman
Reader Comments (61)
To be fair, '08 Best Actress was a fluke because Winslet was still "supporting" for The Reader. Several major Best Actress awards that season (both Globes, the SAG, BFCA) went to performances that didn't win the Oscar.
A lot of ties are more comprehensible the smaller the voting body. I don't think the voting body here is THAT small, is it?
If Dick Cheney rigged the presidential elections, I can totally see the Critics Choice rgging their results to give the gays what they want.
Forever grateful
Anon - Yeah, I know, I just thought it was interesting to take a closer look at those races.
I'm still disappointed that Ed Harris has no Oscar (and Kevin Spacey's two Oscars are damning in retrospect), so the 1995 Supporting Actor race bugs. The 2002 Best Actor race is one that I keep thinking about as I'm watching both lead acting races this year because both seem up in the air and Brody's win seemed shocking (specifically, I wish Hawke could pull this off), but I don't know if it could happen in this era.
Ok, Nat. Since you are a member, can you please clarify what the rule is to decree a tie? It certainly does look suspicious. Is what the critics vote respected? Is there a a committee that decides to decree a tie if, say, there is a difference of "x" votes?
Ties are clearly the BFCA's jam since the BEGINNING, so why so upset about it now? It takes surprising little for ties with a voting pool I can't imagine is more than a few hundred, and some categories have 7 or 8! nominees. Poor host and fraudulent voting members aside, the ties gave the show a clear boost that it wouldn't have had otherwise. I'm all for them now! ?!
I would be perfectly fine with Glenn Close taking home the Oscar after all these years, but I don't think her performance was that fantastic. All those teary eyed, forced smiles were well executed but I feel like I've seen it all before. Numerous times. In numerous tv series.
I was more impressed with Pryce. That was one complex a-hole.
If Close wins, it will be largely because of the character's nobility and the feminist zeitgeist.
So, business as usual, pretty much.
Suzanne, it’s funny too that in the ties where neither won the Oscar there was kind of a surprise winner in those categories. Day Lewis and Nicholson lost to Brody which was a surprise. Cotilliard was also a surprise over Hathaway and Streep, I can’t remember if Weisz in 2005 was a surprise or not but it feels like it was.
Michael Troutman: Cotillard did not win over Streep and Hathaway. That was the year of Kate Winslet's win for The Reader.
Weisz actually was locked and loaded for her Oscar win in '05 — not a full-on steamroll, mind you, but she did win the Globe and SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress, *and* was rightly nominated by BAFTA in the Best Leading Actress category (losing to Witherspoon). She also won the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress, as well as a handful of critics prizes (in supporting actress, whatever that means...then or now).
It was actually Winslet who won the Oscar over Hathaway and Streep — not Cotillard, who won the year prior.
Not true about Close. I'd say it's definitely the best performance of her career.
Weisz seemed an obvious supporting actor. Not saying you can't make the case, but I don't really see it.