Rachel McAdams accepts the award for best acting ensemble for Spotlight.
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Spotlight, a film about Boston Globe reporters uncovering sex abuse in the Catholic Church, won the award for best ensemble. “Fury Road” which led the nominees with 13 nods came out as the biggest victor in movie field that night as it bagged 9 awards including Best Action Movie, Best Editing, Best Costume Design and Best Visual Effects, according to AceShowbiz.
Last month, the film was named Best Feature at the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) Gotham Awards.
Best Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone, “Creed”.
Jacob Tremblay melted hearts at the Critics’ Choice Awards when he referred to his win as the “best day of his life”.
“This is super cool!” he said, standing on tiptoes to reach the microphone.
“I also want to thank Team Room, who is Lenny, Emma, Brie, Ed, and all the other producers over there”.
He even revealed his plans for the trophy: “And I know where to put this – right on the shelf beside my Millennium Falcon”. DiCaprio is doing foreign press for the Alejandro Inarritu film.
Best Original Screenplay: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight”.
“See You Again”, the touching ballad dedicated to Paul Walker, the late star of “Furious 7”, won for best song.
Like all major players in Hollywood, he’s already campaigning for a berth in a “Star Wars” movie.
“They got snubbed, but there are lots of other great films that got snubbed as well”, said Neil Brown Jr. before the show began. Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron both received Best Actor Awards for their roles in the film. Her co-stars Jean Smart (Best Supporting Actress) and Jesse Plemons (Best Supporting Actor) also won.
Best guest actor or actress in a comedy series: Timothy Olyphant, “The Grinder”.
Schumer also scored the best actress in a comedy award for Trainwreck and collected the award wearing just one high-heeled sandal.
The Best Actress in a Comedy Series went to Rachel Bloom for her role in The CW network show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, while Carrie Coon scooped up the Best Actress in a Drama Series award for her role in the HBO show “The Leftovers”.
The Best Actress in a Tele-Movie or Limited Series award went to Kirsten Dunst for Fox’s Fargo.
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The 34-year-old is, of course, making light of her past year which saw her first movie gross over $100-million at the box office, and win multiple statues including an Emmy and a Peabody for her zeitgeist-hitting Comedy Central TV series “Inside Amy Schumer”. “Shark Tank” won for best structured reality show while “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” won for best unstructured reality show.
