{"id":222871,"date":"2026-01-06T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222871\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:56:07","slug":"how-critics-choice-awards-2026-winners-celebrated-their-wins-backstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222871\/","title":{"rendered":"How Critics Choice Awards 2026 winners celebrated their wins backstage"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Hollywood\u2019s A-list toasted the critics\u2019 favorite TV and films of the year at the Critics Choice Awards<\/a> on Sunday night, the evening\u2019s biggest winners made their way backstage to take photos and chat with press.<\/p>\n

\u201cField of Dreams\u201d alum Amy Madigan, who pulled off a surprise supporting actress win for her work as Aunt Gladys in the horror film \u201cWeapons,\u201d breezed into the winners circle with a glazed donut in hand.<\/p>\n

After some requests from photographers, she reluctantly swapped the pastry for her silver starred trophy, waving it around and hamming it up for the cameras. <\/p>\n

\u201cWeapons\u201d star Amy Madigan bested the likes of Ariana Grande and Elle Fanning to win the Critics Choice Award for best supporting actress. Getty Images for Critics Choice Association<\/p>\n

\u201cGolden\u201d from \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d took home the Critics Choice Award for best original song. Getty Images for Critics Choice Association<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got donut on my face! Ah, I don\u2019t care!\u201d she said with a giggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d singer-songwriter Ejae, who took home best original song for the smash hit \u201cGolden\u201d alongside Mark Sonnenblick, reflected on how the song has evolved over the past year. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s in sync with the intention of the song and how I felt writing it. For me, it was a hopeful song. It gave me hope that one day my dreams would come true. I still feel that now.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the TV world, \u201cThe Studio\u201d won big for lead actor Seth Rogen, supporting actor Ike Barinholtz and best comedy series.<\/p>\n

Seth Rogen mistook Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein \u2014 he actually plays the mad doctor\u2019s monster in the Netflix film. Getty Images for Critics Choice Association<\/p>\n

An excited Jean Smart fist-pumped and joked her martini had just kicked in backstage. Getty Images for Critics Choice Association<\/p>\n

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As a screen in the press room showed Jacob Elordi taking the stage for his \u201cFrankenstein\u201d supporting actor win, Rogen quipped, \u201cElordi won? For playing Frankenstein?\u201d<\/p>\n

Barinholz was quick to correct Rogen\u2019s literary faux-pas: \u201cHe\u2019s not Frankenstein! He\u2019s Frankenstein\u2019s monster,\u201d he said, prompting belly laughs from Rogen and co-star Chase Sui Wonders.<\/p>\n

Jean Smart entered the press room soon after, joking that her martini just kicked in as she fist-pumped and crunched her trophy like a 10-pound weight in her arms.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel, who snagged the award for outstanding talk show<\/a>, took a moment to ask some questions of his own to the photographers and reporters in the room.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel sarcastically thanked President Trump in his acceptance speech for outstanding talk show. Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet opted to skip the backstage photo op after winning best actor for \u201cMarty Supreme.\u201d Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

\u201cHow does this work? You all take the exact same picture of me, then it\u2019s a competition to see whose photos get used?\u201d<\/p>\n

After a resounding \u201cyes\u201d from the peanut gallery, he quipped: \u201cAnd do you all hate each other?\u201d to laughs from all the photographers (who assured him that they prefer to help each other out, not just compete for the best shot).<\/p>\n

Not every winner made their way to the backstage press room: the Leonardo DiCaprio-led \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d crew, which took home trophies for best picture and best director Paul Thomas Anderson, opted to skip the photo op, as did \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d best actor victor Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Hollywood\u2019s A-list toasted the critics\u2019 favorite TV and films of the year at the Critics Choice Awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1096,458,100196,146,6947,85,46,4176,888],"class_list":{"0":"post-222871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-critics-choice-awards","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-exclusive","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","16":"tag-seth-rogen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}