23rd Critics' Choice Awards

The 23rd Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 11, 2018 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2017.^[1][2][3] The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and hosted by Olivia Munn.^[4] The nominations were announced on December 6, 2017.^[5][6][7] Netflix led the nominations for television with 20, followed by HBO with 15. Big Little Lies won four awards, becoming the biggest television winner of the night and repeating its victory four days prior at the 75th Golden Globe Awards.^[3][8][9]

23rd Critics' Choice Awards
Date	January 11, 2018
Site	Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California, United States
Hosted by	Olivia Munn
Highlights
Most awards	Film: The Shape of Water (4) Television: Big Little Lies (4)
Most nominations	Film: The Shape of Water (14) Television: Feud: Bette and Joan (6)
Best Picture	The Shape of Water
Best Comedy Series	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Best Drama Series	The Handmaid's Tale
Best Limited Series	Big Little Lies
Best Movie Made for TV	The Wizard of Lies
Website	www.criticschoice.com
Television/radio coverage
Network	The CW
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Winners and nominees

Film

 

Guillermo del Toro, Best Director winner

 

Gary Oldman, Best Actor winner

 

Frances McDormand, Best Actress winner

 

Sam Rockwell, Best Supporting Actor winner

 

Allison Janney, Best Supporting Actress winner

 

Jordan Peele, Best Original Screenplay winner

 

James Ivory, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

 

James Franco, Best Actor in a Comedy Movie winner

 

Margot Robbie, Best Actress in a Comedy Movie winner

Best Picture The Shape of Water The Big Sick Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Best Director Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Luca Guadagnino – Call Me by Your Name Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk Jordan Peele – Get Out Steven Spielberg – The Post
Best Actor Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau Jake Gyllenhaal – Stronger as Jeff Bauman Tom Hanks – The Post as Ben Bradlee Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington	Best Actress Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes Jessica Chastain – Molly's Game as Molly Bloom Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson Meryl Streep – The Post as Katharine Graham
Best Supporting Actor Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Officer Jason Dixon Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks Armie Hammer – Call Me by Your Name as Oliver Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water as Giles Patrick Stewart – Logan as Charles Xavier / Professor X Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name as Mr. Perlman	Best Supporting Actress Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden Mary J. Blige – Mudbound as Florence Jackson Hong Chau – Downsizing as Ngoc Lan Tran Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip as Dina Holly Hunter – The Big Sick as Beth Gardner Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water as Zelda Delilah Fuller
Best Young Actor/Actress Brooklynn Prince – The Florida Project as Moonee Mckenna Grace – Gifted as Mary Adler Dafne Keen – Logan as Laura Kinney / X-23 Millicent Simmonds – Wonderstruck as Rose Jacob Tremblay – Wonder as August "Auggie" Pullman	Best Acting Ensemble Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Dunkirk Lady Bird Mudbound The Post
Best Original Screenplay Jordan Peele – Get Out Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor – The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick Liz Hannah and Josh Singer – The Post Martin McDonagh – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Best Adapted Screenplay James Ivory – Call Me by Your Name Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber – The Disaster Artist Dee Rees and Virgil Williams – Mudbound Aaron Sorkin – Molly's Game Jack Thorne, Steven Conrad, and Stephen Chbosky – Wonder
Best Animated Feature Coco The Breadwinner Despicable Me 3 The Lego Batman Movie Loving Vincent	Best Action Movie Wonder Woman Baby Driver Logan Thor: Ragnarok War for the Planet of the Apes
Best Comedy The Big Sick The Disaster Artist Girls Trip I, Tonya Lady Bird
Best Actor in a Comedy Movie James Franco – The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau Steve Carell – Battle of the Sexes as Bobby Riggs Chris Hemsworth – Thor: Ragnarok as Thor Kumail Nanjiani – The Big Sick as Kumail Adam Sandler – The Meyerowitz Stories as Danny Meyerowitz	Best Actress in a Comedy Movie Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding Tiffany Haddish – Girls Trip as Dina Zoe Kazan – The Big Sick as Emily Gardner Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson Emma Stone – Battle of the Sexes as Billie Jean King
Best Foreign Language Film In the Fade • France / Germany BPM (Beats per Minute) • France A Fantastic Woman • Chile / Germany / Spain / United States First They Killed My Father • Cambodia / United States The Square • Denmark / France / Germany / Sweden Thelma • Denmark / France / Norway / Sweden	Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Get Out Blade Runner 2049 It The Shape of Water
Best Cinematography Roger Deakins – Blade Runner 2049 Dan Laustsen – The Shape of Water Rachel Morrison – Mudbound Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Call Me by Your Name Hoyte van Hoytema – Dunkirk	Best Editing Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos – Baby Driver (TIE) Lee Smith – Dunkirk (TIE) Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar – The Post Joe Walker – Blade Runner 2049 Sidney Wolinsky – The Shape of Water
Best Costume Design Mark Bridges – Phantom Thread Renée April – Blade Runner 2049 Jacqueline Durran – Beauty and the Beast Lindy Hemming – Wonder Woman Luis Sequeira – The Shape of Water	Best Production Design Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin – The Shape of Water Jim Clay and Rebecca Alleway – Murder on the Orient Express Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis – Dunkirk Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola – Blade Runner 2049 Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer – Beauty and the Beast Mark Tildesley and Véronique Melery – Phantom Thread
Best Score Alexandre Desplat – The Shape of Water Jonny Greenwood – Phantom Thread Dario Marianelli – Darkest Hour Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer – Blade Runner 2049 John Williams – The Post Hans Zimmer – Dunkirk	Best Song "Remember Me" – Coco "Evermore" – Beauty and the Beast "Mystery of Love" – Call Me by Your Name "Stand Up for Something" – Marshall "This Is Me" – The Greatest Showman
Best Hair and Makeup Darkest Hour Beauty and the Beast I, Tonya The Shape of Water Wonder	Best Visual Effects War for the Planet of the Apes Blade Runner 2049 Dunkirk The Shape of Water Thor: Ragnarok Wonder Woman

Television

 

Ted Danson, Best Actor in a Comedy Series winner

 

Rachel Brosnahan, Best Actress in a Comedy Series winner

 

Walton Goggins, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series winner

 

Mayim Bialik, Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series winner

 

Sterling K. Brown, Best Actor in a Drama Series winner

 

Elisabeth Moss, Best Actress in a Drama Series winner

 

David Harbour, Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series winner

 

Ann Dowd, Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series winner

 

Ewan McGregor, Best Actor in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series winner

 

Nicole Kidman, Best Actress in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series winner

 

Alexander Skarsgård, Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series winner

 

Laura Dern, Best Supporting Actress in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series winner

 

RuPaul, Best Reality Show Host winner

Best Series
Best Comedy Series	Best Drama Series
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Black-ish (ABC) GLOW (Netflix) Modern Family (ABC) Orange Is the New Black (Netflix)	The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) American Gods (Starz) Better Call Saul (AMC) Game of Thrones (HBO) Stranger Things (Netflix) This Is Us (NBC)
Best Limited Series	Best Movie Made for TV
Big Little Lies (HBO) American Vandal (Netflix) Fargo (FX) Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Godless (Netflix) The Long Road Home (Nat Geo)	The Wizard of Lies (HBO) Flint (Lifetime) I Am Elizabeth Smart (Lifetime) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO) Sherlock: The Lying Detective (PBS)
Best Animated Series
Rick and Morty (Adult Swim) Archer (FX) Bob's Burgers (Fox) Family Guy (Fox) The Simpsons (Fox) South Park (Comedy Central)
Best Acting in a Comedy Series
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ted Danson as Michael – The Good Place Anthony Anderson as Andre "Dre" Johnson, Sr. – Black-ish Aziz Ansari as Dev Shah – Master of None Hank Azaria as Jim Brockmire – Brockmire Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks – Silicon Valley Randall Park as Louis Huang – Fresh Off the Boat	Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop – The Good Place Alison Brie as Ruth "Zoya the Destroya" Wilder – GLOW Sutton Foster as Liza Miller – Younger Ellie Kemper as Kimmy Schmidt – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Constance Wu as Jessica Huang – Fresh Off the Boat
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Walton Goggins as Lee Russell – Vice Principals Tituss Burgess as Titus Andromedon – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland – Will & Grace Marc Maron as Sam Sylvia – GLOW Kumail Nanjiani as Dinesh Chugtai – Silicon Valley Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett – Modern Family	Mayim Bialik as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler – The Big Bang Theory Alex Borstein as Susie Myerson – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Betty Gilpin as Debbie "Liberty Belle" Eagan – GLOW Jenifer Lewis as Ruby Johnson – Black-ish Alessandra Mastronardi as Francesca – Master of None Rita Moreno as Lydia Riera – One Day at a Time
Best Acting in a Drama Series
Best Actor	Best Actress
Sterling K. Brown as Randall Pearson – This Is Us Paul Giamatti as Charles "Chuck" Rhoades Jr. – Billions Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates – Bates Motel Ian McShane as Mr. Wednesday – American Gods Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill – Better Call Saul Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan – Ray Donovan	Elisabeth Moss as Offred / June Osborne – The Handmaid's Tale Caitríona Balfe as Claire Fraser – Outlander Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart – The Good Fight Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II – The Crown Tatiana Maslany as Various Characters – Orphan Black Robin Wright as Claire Underwood – House of Cards
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
David Harbour as Jim Hopper – Stranger Things Bobby Cannavale as Irving – Mr. Robot Asia Kate Dillon as Taylor Amber Mason – Billions Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister – Game of Thrones Delroy Lindo as Adrian Boseman – The Good Fight Michael McKean as Chuck McGill – Better Call Saul	Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia – The Handmaid's Tale Gillian Anderson as Media – American Gods Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen – Game of Thrones Cush Jumbo as Lucca Quinn – The Good Fight Margo Martindale as Audrey Bernhardt – Sneaky Pete Chrissy Metz as Kate Pearson – This Is Us
Best Acting in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ewan McGregor as Emmit and Ray Stussy – Fargo Jeff Daniels as Frank Griffin – Godless Robert De Niro as Bernie Madoff – The Wizard of Lies Jack O'Connell as Roy Goode – Godless Evan Peters as Kai Anderson – American Horror Story: Cult Bill Pullman as Detective Harry Ambrose – The Sinner Jimmy Tatro as Dylan Maxwell – American Vandal	Nicole Kidman as Celeste Wright – Big Little Lies Jessica Biel as Cora Tannetti – The Sinner Alana Boden as Elizabeth Smart – I Am Elizabeth Smart Carrie Coon as Gloria Burgle – Fargo Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford – Feud: Bette and Joan Reese Witherspoon as Madeline Martha Mackenzie – Big Little Lies
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Alexander Skarsgård as Perry Wright – Big Little Lies Johnny Flynn as Young Albert Einstein – Genius Benito Martinez as Luis Salazar – American Crime Alfred Molina as Robert Aldrich – Feud: Bette and Joan David Thewlis as V. M. Varga – Fargo Stanley Tucci as Jack L. Warner – Feud: Bette and Joan	Laura Dern as Renata Klein – Big Little Lies Judy Davis as Hedda Hopper – Feud: Bette and Joan Jackie Hoffman as Mamacita – Feud: Bette and Joan Regina King as Kimara Walters – American Crime Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth Madoff – The Wizard of Lies Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Nikki Swango – Fargo
Reality & Variety
Best Structured Reality Series	Best Unstructured Reality Series
Shark Tank (ABC) The Carbonaro Effect (truTV) Fixer Upper (HGTV) The Profit (CNBC) Undercover Boss (CBS) Who Do You Think You Are? (TLC)	Born This Way (A&E) Ice Road Truckers (History) Intervention (A&E) Live PD (A&E) Ride with Norman Reedus (AMC) Teen Mom (MTV)
Best Reality Competition Series	Best Reality Show Host
The Voice (NBC) America's Got Talent (NBC) Chopped (Food Network) Dancing with the Stars (ABC) Lip Sync Battle (Spike) RuPaul's Drag Race (VH1)	RuPaul – RuPaul's Drag Race Ted Allen – Chopped Tyra Banks – America's Got Talent Tom Bergeron – Dancing with the Stars Cat Deeley – So You Think You Can Dance Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines – Fixer Upper
Best Talk Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC) The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (Comedy Central) Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (Bravo)

#SeeHer Award

Gal Gadot^[10]

Films with multiple nominations and wins

The following twenty-six films received multiple nominations:

Film	Nominations
The Shape of Water	14
Call Me by Your Name	8
Dunkirk
Lady Bird
The Post
Blade Runner 2049	7
The Big Sick	6
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Get Out	5
I, Tonya
Beauty and the Beast	4
Darkest Hour
The Disaster Artist
Mudbound
Phantom Thread
The Florida Project	3
Girls Trip
Logan
Thor: Ragnarok
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Baby Driver	2
Battle of the Sexes
Coco
Molly's Game
War for the Planet of the Apes

The following six films received multiple awards:

Film	Awards
The Shape of Water	4
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	3
Coco	2
Darkest Hour
Get Out
I, Tonya

Television programs with multiple nominations and wins

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Program	Network	Category	Nominations
Feud: Bette and Joan	FX	Limited	6
Big Little Lies	HBO		5
Fargo	FX
GLOW	Netflix	Comedy	4
American Gods	Starz	Drama	3
Black-ish	ABC	Comedy
Game of Thrones	HBO	Drama
Godless	Netflix	Limited
The Good Fight	CBS All Access	Drama
The Handmaid's Tale	Hulu
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Amazon	Comedy
This Is Us	NBC	Drama
The Wizard of Lies	HBO	Movie
American Crime	ABC	Limited	2
American Vandal	Netflix
America's Got Talent	NBC	Reality – Competition
Better Call Saul	AMC	Drama
The Big Bang Theory	CBS	Comedy
Billions	Showtime	Drama
Chopped	Food Network	Reality – Competition^[a]
The Crown	Netflix	Drama
Dancing with the Stars	ABC	Reality – Competition
Fixer Upper	HGTV	Reality – Structured
Fresh Off the Boat	ABC	Comedy
The Good Place	NBC
I Am Elizabeth Smart	Lifetime	Movie
Master of None	Netflix	Comedy
Modern Family	ABC
RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1	Reality – Competition
Silicon Valley	HBO	Comedy
The Sinner	USA	Limited
Stranger Things	Netflix	Drama
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt		Comedy

1. Briefly categorized as Structured Reality

The following programs received multiple awards:

Program	Network	Category	Awards
Big Little Lies	HBO	Limited	4
The Handmaid's Tale	Hulu	Drama	3
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Amazon	Comedy	2

References

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4. Hipes, Patrick (January 3, 2018). "Olivia Munn to Host Critics' Choice Awards". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
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External links

• 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards – Winners