Critics Choice Awards 2024: The Complete Winners List

Oppenheimer at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night, earned eight top trophies including best picture, best director for Christopher Nolan and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.

Oppenheimer continued its explosive awards campaign at the Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night, earning eight top trophies including best picture, best director for Christopher Nolan and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.

That caps a hot week for the period drama, which also dominated last Sunday’s Golden Globes and has since picked up key nominations from the actors, producers and directors guilds. If it wasn’t already clear, we’ve got a formidable Oscar front-runner on our hands.

An appreciative Nolan used his speech to thank “all the critics who helped with convincing mainstream audiences that a film about quantum physics and apocalypse could be worth their time”.

Though Oppenheimer won in the biggest categories at the Critics Choice Awards, it was the film’s box office frenemy, Barbie, that entered the night as the most nominated movie, with a record-breaking 18 citations.

Greta Gerwig’s hit comedy managed six wins, including trophies for its costumes, production design and song (I’m Just Ken), but since most of those awards were announced in the margins before a commercial break, host Chelsea Handler “went rogue” near the end of the show and brought up Gerwig and star Margot Robbie to make a speech anyway.

Robbie was genuinely taken aback by the gesture. “When everyone is like, ‘Oh, this is so unexpected’, this is actually unexpected and was not a part of the show,” she said.

The night’s quartet of film acting trophies went to performers who had already picked up Golden Globes, though the lead wins still came in very competitive categories.

Emma Stone acknowledged as much when she picked up her best-actress trophy for Poor Things, admitting, “I’m going to be honest, I’m in full-blown shock,” before shouting out her fellow nominees, including Killers of the Flower Moon actress Lily Gladstone. “I didn’t have anything that I was going to say because this is completely crazy.”

The lead-actor award went to Paul Giamatti for his portrayal of a dyspeptic history teacher in The Holdovers. The actor gave a moving speech in honor of his late father (A. Bartlett Giamatti, a president of Yale and later the commissioner of Major League Baseball), but not before joking about his much-snapped trip to the California burger joint In N Out after winning his Golden Globe, “I didn’t think my week could go any better than going viral for eating a cheeseburger”.

The supporting trophies were awarded to Giamatti’s co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Oppenheimer foil Downey, the latter of whom took the opportunity to read some of the most withering reviews he’s received in his career.

But one of the night’s buzziest moments came early in the show when Handler alluded to the dismally received Golden Globes monologue delivered by her ex-boyfriend, Jo Koy, who threw his writers under the bus at that awards show when his jokes went sour.

After cracking wise about her crush on Martin Scorsese, Handler told the crowd with a smirk, “Thank you for laughing at that. My writers wrote it.”

Here's the full list of winners:

Film

Best Picture - Oppenheimer

Best Actor - Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers

Best Actress - Emma Stone for Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr for Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress - Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers

Best Young Actor or Actress - Dominic Sessa for The Holdovers

Best Acting Ensemble - Oppenheimer

Best Director - Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer

Best Original Screenplay - Barbie

Best Adapted Screenplay - American Fiction

Best Cinematography - Oppenheimer

Best Production Design - Barbie

Best Editing - Oppenheimer

Best Costume Design - Barbie

Best Hair and Makeup - Barbie

Best Visual Effects - Oppenheimer

Best Comedy - Barbie

Best Animated Feature - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Foreign-Language Film - Anatomy of a Fall

Best Song - I’m Just Ken from Barbie

Best Score - Ludwig Göransson for Oppenheimer

Television

Best Drama Series - Succession

Best Actor, Drama Series - Kieran Culkin for Succession

Best Actress, Drama Series - Sarah Snook for Succession

Best Supporting Actor, Drama Series - Billy Crudup fir The Morning Show

Best Supporting Actress, Drama Series - Elizabeth Debicki for The Crown

Best Comedy Series - The Bear

Best Actor, Comedy Series - Jeremy Allen White for The Bear

Best Actress, Comedy Series - Ayo Edebiri for The Bear

Best Supporting Actor, Comedy Series - Ebon Moss-Bachrach for The Bear

Best Supporting Actress, Comedy Series - Meryl Streep for Only Murders in the Building

Best Limited Series - Beef

Best TV Movie - Quiz Lady

Best Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie - Steven Yeun for Beef

Best Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie - Ali Wong for Beef

Best Supporting Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie - Jonathan Bailey for Fellow Travelers

Best Supporting Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie - Maria Bello for Beef

Best Foreign-Language Series - Lupin

Best Animated Series - Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Best Talk Show - Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Best Comedy Special - John Mulaney: Baby J