More awards season shenanigans today with the announcement of the nominations for the 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.
Here are a selection of their nominees:
Best Picture
The Big Sick
Call Me By Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape Of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro (The Shape Of Water)
Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)
Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk)
Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name)
Jordan Peele (Get Out)
Steven Spielberg (The Post)
Best Actor
Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread)
James Franco (The Disaster Artist)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Stronger)
Tom Hanks (The Post)
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out)
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (Molly's Game)
Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water)
Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Margot Robbie (I, Tonya)
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
Meryl Streep (The Post)
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe (The Florida Project)
Armie Hammer (Call Me By Your Name)
Richard Jenkins (The Shape Of Water)
Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
Patrick Stewart (Logan)
Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me By Your Name)
Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige (Mudbound)
Hong Chau (Downsizing)
Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip)
Holly Hunter (The Big Sick)
Allison Janney (I, Tonya)
Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird)
Octavia Spencer (The Shape Of Water)
A full list of nominees can be found here.
Refreshingly, the Critics' Choice Awards also recognise genre cinema, with separate categories for action movies, comedy and scifi/horror. In previous years, there have been nominations for actor/actress in an action movie but that doesn't seem to be the case this year. Although I'm massively pleased that Patrick Stewart has been recognised in the Best Supporting Actor category for Logan.
As in previous years, we have several actors who have two nominations for the same role. This year, James Franco (Best Actor and Best Actor In A Comedy, Tiffany Haddish (Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress In A Comedy), Margot Robbie (Best Actress and Best Actress In A Comedy) and Saoirse Ronan (Best Actress and Best Actress In A Comedy) have that honour.
The Shape Of Water leads the field with an impressive 14 nominations across the board. Call Me By Your Name, Dunkirk, Lady Bird, and The Post all have 8 nominations each.
The Critics' Choice Awards will be handed out on Thursday January 11th 2018. Congratulations to all the nominees!
Next stop on the Awards Season trail will be the Golden Globes nominees announcement this coming Monday (11th December).
