3 January, 2026 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

The 31st Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 4, 2026, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2025.[1][2][3] The ceremony was broadcast on E! and USA Network, and was hosted by comedian Chelsea Handler for the fourth consecutive year.[1][4][5][6] Nominations for both the film and television categories were revealed on cable's E! and USA Network's channels. In addition, the announcement of the nominations were streamed on criticschoice.com, as well as the CCA, E!, E! Online and the USA Network's YouTube channels; the nominations were also unveiled on the CCA's social media channels. The livestream was hosted by television personalities Keltie Knight and Erin Lim Rhodes.[5][7][8] Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners led the film nominations with seventeen, followed by Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another with fourteen. For the television categories, Netflix limited series Adolescence led the nominations with six, followed by the romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This with five.

Critical Sinners…

The Critics’ Choice Association unveiled its film nominations for 2026 on December 5, 2025, officially rounding out this year’s awards-season contenders ahead of the 31st Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The race is shaping up to be a decisive one: on the television side, Netflix’s Adolescence leads the pack with six nominations, while in film, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners dominates the field with an impressive seventeen nominations.

Genre Crime drama Psychological drama[1][2] Created by Jack Thorne Stephen Graham Written by Jack Thorne Stephen Graham Directed by Philip Barantini Starring Stephen Graham Ashley Walters Faye Marsay Mark Stanley Christine Tremarco Owen Cooper Amélie Pease Hannah Walters Jo Hartley Fatima Bojang Kaine Davis Amari Bacchus Erin Doherty Composers Aaron May David Ridley Country of origin United Kingdom Original language English No. of episodes 4

Directed by Ryan Coogler Written by Ryan Coogler Produced by Zinzi Coogler Sev Ohanian Ryan Coogler Starring Michael B. Jordan Hailee Steinfeld Miles Caton Jack O'Connell Wunmi Mosaku Jayme Lawson Omar Miller Delroy Lindo Cinematography Autumn Durald Arkapaw Edited by Michael P. Shawver Music by Ludwig Göransson Production companies Warner Bros. Pictures[1] Proximity Media[1] Domain Entertainment[1] Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures

Critical Viewing…

The 31st Critics’ Choice Awards will be presented on January 04, 2026, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2024. The ceremony will be broadcast on E! and USA Network. Chelsea Handler will return as host for the fourth consecutive year.

The 30th Critics' Choice Awards will be presented on January 12, 2025, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2024.[1][2][3] The ceremony will be broadcast on E! and will be available to stream the next day on Peacock. Chelsea Handler will return as host for the third consecutive year.[1][3][4] Like in the previous four years, film and television nominations will be announced separately. The television nominations were announced on December 5, 2024.[5] The film nominations were announced on December 12, 2024.[6] Conclave and Wicked led the film nominations with eleven each, followed by Dune: Part Two and Emilia Pérez with ten each.[6] Shōgun led the television nominations with six, followed by Abbott Elementary, The Diplomat, Disclaimer, Hacks, The Penguin and What We Do in the Shadows with four each.

Santa Monica Airport includes Barker Hangar, a former aircraft hangar that was converted to a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) entertainment venue.[28] The hanger was originally built in 1954 by Bill Lear, inventor and founder of the jet manufacturer Learjet. He intended to use the hanger to build a private fleet of jets, but was denied permission by the city. Lear thus sold the building to Pacific Airmotive, who then rented the space to private jet owners. After Pacific Airmotive went out of business in 1969, the hanger was sold to former Pacific Airmotive engineer James Barker, who then used the building for aviation-contract engineering. After he died of leukemia in 1986, his daughter Judi converted the hanger to the present-day events venue.[6] The hangar has hosted a variety of events, including boxing matches, art presentations, movies, concerts, wine and food festivals, and trade shows.[29][30][31][32] The 2005 album INXS: Live at Barker Hangar is a live recording of a 1993 concert held at the hanger by Australian rock band INXS. Award shows hosted at the Barker Hanger include the MTV Movie & TV Awards, the NBA Awards, and the People's Choice Awards.[6] It was also used as a small-scale supermarket set for the 2020 version of Supermarket Sweep.

Santa Monica (Spanish for 'Saint Monica'; Spanish: Santa Mónica) is a city in Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to its climate, beaches, and hospitality industry.[11] It has a diverse economy, hosting headquarters of companies such as Hulu, Activision Blizzard, Universal Music Group, Starz Entertainment, Illumination and The Recording Academy. Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Mónica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John P. Jones and Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which incorporated as a city in 1886. The city developed into a seaside resort during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the creation of tourist attractions such as Palisades Park, the Santa Monica Pier, Ocean Park, and the Hotel Casa del Mar.

The 30th Critics' Choice Awards will be presented on January 04, 2025, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2024. The ceremony will be broadcast on E! and USA Network. Chelsea Handler will return as host for the fourth consecutive year.

Below you will find a complete list of the 2026 nominees for the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards…

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The nominees for Best Casting and Ensemble are: Sinners – Francine Maisler Hamnet – Nina Gold Jay Kelly – Douglas Aibel and Nina Gold Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis Wicked: For Good – Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey Photo Credit: Critics Choice Awards Threads

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Medgar Wiley Evers (/ˈmɛdɡər/; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. A United States Army veteran who served in World War II, he was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the segregation of public facilities, and expand opportunities for African Americans, including the enforcement of voting rights prior to his assassination. After college, Evers became active in the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, he challenged the segregation of the state-supported public University of Mississippi. Evers applied to law school there, as the state had no public law school for African Americans. He also worked for voting rights, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society. In 1963, Evers was awarded the NAACP Spingarn Medal. On June 12, 1963, Evers was murdered at his home in Jackson, Mississippi, now the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, by Byron De La Beckwith,[1] a member of the White Citizens' Council in Jackson. Only hours earlier, Evers was listening to President John F Kennedy’s Speech Report to the American People on Civil Rights. Evers' murder and the resulting trials inspired civil rights protests. His life and death have inspired numerous works of art, music, and film. Although all-white juries failed to reach verdicts in the first two trials of De La Beckwith in the 1960s, he was convicted in 1994 based on new evidence. Evers' widow, Myrlie, became a noted activist in her own right, and served as national chair of the NAACP. In 1969, after passage of civil rights legislation and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medgar's older brother, Charles, was elected as mayor of Fayette, Mississippi. He was the first African American to be elected mayor of a Mississippi city in the post-Reconstruction era.

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31st Annual Critics’ Choice Awards: The 2026 Nominees: