The best and worst moments from the 29th Critics Choice Awards

Some awards shows allow actors to pick the awards. Others allow kids. The Critics Choice Awards, however, towers over all of them, especially the People’s Choice Awards, because it is chosen by critics. Yes, the very people whose Rotten Tomatoes scores fandoms frequently tell viewers to ignore are in control tonight, so look out. Not that they had too much trouble. Unlike the Golden Globes Journalists, who picked the winners of last week’s fiasco of a ceremony, the Critics Choice Awards was a more low-key affair. Maybe it’s because this is the one time a year when Hollywood and the critical community lower their swords and agree, “Oppenheimer was really good.”

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, though. Like any award show, The Critics Choice Awards have their own struggles, like failing to give Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse an on-air award. We know that, like the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of American Prometheus, A.V. Club readers are always watching The CW, but if not, we have you covered. Let’s take a look back at the best and worst that the Critics Choice had to offer.

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