{"id":313552,"date":"2025-11-25T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313552\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:59:10","slug":"critics-choice-awards-likely-to-favor-oscar-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313552\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics Choice Awards Likely to Favor Oscar Contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter starting out as a scrappy little show and subject to some awkward teen years, the Critics Choice Awards<\/a> have matured into their third decade. The 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards will air live on E! on Jan. 4, recognizing the best in film and television for the year. Comedian Chelsea Handler will be back as host, as she has ably handled duties for the previous five years.<\/p>\n

The film awards, selected by nearly 575 voting members of the CCA<\/a>, are often a strong indicator of what lies ahead at the Oscars. Take this year: after missing out at both the Golden Globes and SAG Awards, \u201cAnora\u201d took the top prize at the Critics Choice Awards \u2014 a feat it repeated shortly thereafter at the Academy Awards. Similarly, three of the acting winners went on to triumph at the show.<\/p>\n

So it stands to reason that the films being pegged for Oscar glory are likely to show up at Critics Choice, especially considering there are 10 best picture slots. Films looking likely to fill the quota include \u201cHamnet,\u201d \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d \u201cSentimental Value,\u201d \u201cSinners\u201d and \u201cWicked: For Good<\/a>.\u201d Other films that have yet to be widely seen but are heavily favored include \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d and \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d and, still in the mix, are \u201cBugonia,\u201d \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d \u201cJay Kelly\u201d and \u201cTrain Dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s fascinating is the amount of foreign-language films that have received critical acclaim and could factor into the race. While Joachim Trier\u2019s family drama \u201cSentimental Value\u201d is looking certain as a best pic nominee, there are several other movies that are gaining momentum, including Jafar Panahi\u2019s \u201cIt Was Just an Accident,\u201d which won the Palme d\u2019Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, besting \u201cSentimental Value.\u201d Its selection as France\u2019s entry in the international feature Oscar race pushed Richard Linklater\u2019s \u201cNouvelle Vague\u201d out of contention in that category, but that film \u2014 about the making of \u201cBreathless\u201d \u2014 might just break into best picture on its own. Also building buzz are South Korea\u2019s \u201cNo Other Choice,\u201d from Park Chan-wook, Tunisia\u2019s \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rijab\u201d by Kaouther Ben Hania, and Brazil\u2019s \u201cThe Secret Agent,\u201d from Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho.<\/p>\n

This is not to say that the Critics Choice Awards are bound to any other voting organization \u2014 they often surprise with their selections. Just this year, they named \u201cWicked\u201d helmer Jon M. Chu best director after he failed to be recognized in the category by the Academy. Chu even bested four directors who were nominated, including Sean Baker, who won the director Oscar and saw \u201cAnora\u201d win best pic, screenplay, editing and actress. The CCA\u2019s animated winner wasn\u2019t the wildly popular \u201cInside Out 2\u201d or eventual Oscar winner \u201cFlow\u201d but \u201cThe Wild Robot.\u201d And in editing, they awarded \u201cChallengers\u201d \u2014 a film that didn\u2019t even score an Oscar nod in the category.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the way the Critics Choice Awards show their own identity the most is in the additional categories and increased nomination slots. Acting categories are open to as many as six nominees, and they include awards for ensemble and best young actor\/actress. They also have a category for best comedy film, allowing even more movies a shot at glory.<\/p>\n

And really, the more the merrier, as films of all genres and scopes are celebrated and it\u2019s refreshing to see love spread between so many films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After starting out as a scrappy little show and subject to some awkward teen years, the Critics Choice…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[161570,21454,88,206,14787],"class_list":{"0":"post-313552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cca","9":"tag-critics-choice-awards","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-wicked-for-good"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}