Critics Choice Awards Articles

While accepting the award for Best Comedy for Bridesmaids at the 2012 Critics Choice Awards ceremony, Judd Apatow ended his speech with the following: "Jerry Lewis [photo] once said that he didn’t think women were funny. So I’d just like to say, with all respect, fuck you." Jerry Lewis' negative comment about female comedians was made at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in [...]

Sean Penn and the humanitarians behind him, Critics Choice Awards George Clooney, Viola Davis: Critics Choice Awards Ceremony Speeches Best Supporting Actor winner Christopher Plummer (Beginners) announced he had discovered a substitute for the Fountain of Youth. "I feel terribly young tonight suddenly," Plummer told the crowd, "and, at my age, I need all the help I can get in that department." (Academy members eager [...]

Speeches at the 2012 Critics Choice Awards ranged in tone from the "family friendly" and socially conscious to the crass and vulgar. As to be expected on such occasions, both God and the American film industry were praised. [Full list of Critics Choice Award winners.] Now, who cares about speeches? Well, a lot of people, including the all-important voters in the various guilds and the [...]

Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer in Tate Taylor's The Help George Clooney, Viola Davis: Critics Choice Awards Ceremony Speeches BEST PICTURE * The Artist The Descendants Drive Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Help Hugo Midnight in Paris  Moneyball The Tree of Life War Horse BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM In Darkness Le Havre * A Separation by Asghar Farhadi The Skin I Live In Where Do [...]