{Awards Season 2016} Critics Choice
The 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards
Held January 17, 2016, at the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar. Hosted by TJ Miller.
I said last year that I always look forward to this event because it has a Best Young Actor/Actress category. But this year, for only the second time in the event's history, the nominees in this category were all boys. (This isn't counting the three years, 2004-7, that the award was split into two separate categories, Best Young Actor and Best Young Actress.) It's true that this season saw more notable young actor performances than young actress ones, but I hardly think it was to the extent that no young actress deserved a nomination. One of the girls from Steve Jobs or Infinitely Polar Bear could've held her own in this field.
The last time this award was comprised of all boys was fourteen years ago in 2002, when it was called Best Child Performer and the nominees were Tyler Hoechlin, Nicholas Hoult, Daniel Radcliffe, and Kiernan Culkin, who won for Igby Goes Down. (This year, it was Abraham Attah, RJ Cyler, Shameik Moore, Milo Parker, and Jacob Tremblay, who won for Room.) Ironically, the very next year, 2003, the opposite happened, and the nominees were all girls: Sarah & Emma Bolger for In America, Evan Rachel Wood for Thirteen, and Keisha Castle-Hughes, who won for Whale Rider. Maybe this pattern will repeat itself in 2016-17!
But let's take a look at the ladies nominated in other categories...
8-year-old Alyvia Alyn Lind ( Blended) was nominated for Best Actress: TV Movie/Limited Series for her starring role as young Dolly in Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors. She lost out to a former child actress, Kirsten Dunst (scroll down).
Shanice Williams, 19, was also nominated for Best Actress: TV Movie/Limited Series for her performance as Dorothy in The Wiz: Live! This year marked the first time that the Critics' Choice TV Awards (usually held during the summer) were presented at the same time as the movie awards. I think that Critics' Choice hopes to mimic the size and audience of the Golden Globes by doing this.
Saoirse Ronan, 21, was nominated for Best Actress for Brooklyn, but she lost to Brie Larson for Room. (Neither Brie, who just won this same award at the Golden Globes last weekend, nor Jennifer Lawrence, who was nominated for Joy, attended.) This was Saoirse's fifth Critics' Choice nomination. She's been nominated once before in the adult category, for The Lovely Bones, and in the Best Young Actor/Actress category, she's been nominated twice (for Atonement and Hanna) and won once, for The Lovely Bones.
Saoirse at a screening of Brooklyn at the Museum of Modern Art on January 15. She's been campaigning so hard, and while I'm sure that she would love to win, I get the impression that it has more to do with her wanting to be seen as an adult than with winning. Best Actress is such an usually strong field this year; if Brooklyn had come out at a different time, I think that Saoirse would be winning for sure.
Hayden Panettiere, 26, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Drama Series for Nashville, but she lost to Constance Zimmer for UnReal. She and Nashville costar Jonathan Jackson also presented the award for Best Acting Ensemble to Spotlight. Critics' Choice was Hayden's first TV appearance since she entered rehab for postpartum depression in October; her daughter Kaya was born December 2014.
Kirsten Dunst, 33, won Best Actress: TV Movie/Limited Series for Fargo.
Mayim Bialik, 40, won Best Supporting Actress: Comedy Series for The Big Bang Theory.
All previous posts on the Critics Choice Awards here. All posts on Awards Season 2016 here.
Held January 17, 2016, at the Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar. Hosted by TJ Miller.
I said last year that I always look forward to this event because it has a Best Young Actor/Actress category. But this year, for only the second time in the event's history, the nominees in this category were all boys. (This isn't counting the three years, 2004-7, that the award was split into two separate categories, Best Young Actor and Best Young Actress.) It's true that this season saw more notable young actor performances than young actress ones, but I hardly think it was to the extent that no young actress deserved a nomination. One of the girls from Steve Jobs or Infinitely Polar Bear could've held her own in this field.
The last time this award was comprised of all boys was fourteen years ago in 2002, when it was called Best Child Performer and the nominees were Tyler Hoechlin, Nicholas Hoult, Daniel Radcliffe, and Kiernan Culkin, who won for Igby Goes Down. (This year, it was Abraham Attah, RJ Cyler, Shameik Moore, Milo Parker, and Jacob Tremblay, who won for Room.) Ironically, the very next year, 2003, the opposite happened, and the nominees were all girls: Sarah & Emma Bolger for In America, Evan Rachel Wood for Thirteen, and Keisha Castle-Hughes, who won for Whale Rider. Maybe this pattern will repeat itself in 2016-17!
But let's take a look at the ladies nominated in other categories...
8-year-old Alyvia Alyn Lind ( Blended) was nominated for Best Actress: TV Movie/Limited Series for her starring role as young Dolly in Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors. She lost out to a former child actress, Kirsten Dunst (scroll down).
Shanice Williams, 19, was also nominated for Best Actress: TV Movie/Limited Series for her performance as Dorothy in The Wiz: Live! This year marked the first time that the Critics' Choice TV Awards (usually held during the summer) were presented at the same time as the movie awards. I think that Critics' Choice hopes to mimic the size and audience of the Golden Globes by doing this.
Saoirse Ronan, 21, was nominated for Best Actress for Brooklyn, but she lost to Brie Larson for Room. (Neither Brie, who just won this same award at the Golden Globes last weekend, nor Jennifer Lawrence, who was nominated for Joy, attended.) This was Saoirse's fifth Critics' Choice nomination. She's been nominated once before in the adult category, for The Lovely Bones, and in the Best Young Actor/Actress category, she's been nominated twice (for Atonement and Hanna) and won once, for The Lovely Bones.
Saoirse at a screening of Brooklyn at the Museum of Modern Art on January 15. She's been campaigning so hard, and while I'm sure that she would love to win, I get the impression that it has more to do with her wanting to be seen as an adult than with winning. Best Actress is such an usually strong field this year; if Brooklyn had come out at a different time, I think that Saoirse would be winning for sure.
Hayden Panettiere, 26, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress: Drama Series for Nashville, but she lost to Constance Zimmer for UnReal. She and Nashville costar Jonathan Jackson also presented the award for Best Acting Ensemble to Spotlight. Critics' Choice was Hayden's first TV appearance since she entered rehab for postpartum depression in October; her daughter Kaya was born December 2014.
Kirsten Dunst, 33, won Best Actress: TV Movie/Limited Series for Fargo.
Mayim Bialik, 40, won Best Supporting Actress: Comedy Series for The Big Bang Theory.
All previous posts on the Critics Choice Awards here. All posts on Awards Season 2016 here.