26th Critics' Choice Awards

{{Short description|26th Critics' Choice Awards for film and television}}

{{Use American English|date=July 2022}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}}

{{Infobox award

| name = 26th Critics' Choice Awards

| image = Critics Choice Awards.jpg

| caption = Title card

| date = March 7, 2021

| site =

| host = Taye Diggs

| most_wins = Film:
Nomadland (4)
Television:
The Crown (4)

| most_nominations = Film:
Mank (12)
Television:
The Crown / Ozark (6)

| award1_type = Best Picture

| award1_winner = Nomadland

| award2_type = Best Comedy Series

| award2_winner = Ted Lasso

| award3_type = Best Drama Series

| award3_winner = The Crown

| award4_type = Best Limited Series

| award4_winner = The Queen's Gambit

| award5_type = Best Movie Made for Television

| award5_winner = Hamilton

| website = {{url|https://www.criticschoice.com}}

| network = The CW

| previous = 25th

| next = 27th

}}

The 26th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on March 7, 2021, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2020.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/critics-choice-awards-moves-march-follows-oscars-leadr-for-tv-1202963030/ |title=Critics' Choice Awards Moves To March 7; Eligibility Extended To End Of February For Films But Keeps 2020 Calendar Year For TV |last=Hammond |first=Pete |date=June 18, 2020 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=June 18, 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/how-to-watch-2021-critics-choice-awards-1234706886/ |title=How To Watch The 26th Annual Critics Choice Awards |last=Hipes |first=Patrick |date=March 7, 2021 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=March 7, 2021}}{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/critics-choice-awards-2021-complete-winners-list-1234708683/ |title=Critics Choice Awards: 'Nomadland', 'The Crown' Among Top Honorees – Complete Winners List |last=Ramos |first=Dino-Ray |date=March 7, 2021 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=March 7, 2021}} The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and Taye Diggs returned to host for the third consecutive time. The television nominations were announced on January 18, 2021.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2021/01/critics-choice-awards-nominations-ozark-the-crown-tv-series-1234675506/ |title=Critics Choice Awards TV Nominations: 'Ozark', 'The Crown' & Netflix Lead |last=Ramos |first=Dino-Ray |date=January 18, 2021 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=January 18, 2021}} The film nominations were announced on February 8, 2021.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/mank-minari-lead-critics-choice-awards-film-nominations-chadwick-boseman-1234689332/ |title='Mank', 'Minari' Lead Critics Choice Awards Film Nominations; Netflix Tops Studios; Chadwick Boseman Receives 4 |last=Hammond |first=Pete |date=February 8, 2021 |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=February 8, 2021}} Mank led the film nominations with 12, followed by Minari with 10. The Crown and Ozark led the television nominations with six each. Overall, Netflix received a total of 72 nominations, 46 for film and 26 for television, the most for any studio or network.

Winners and nominees

=Film=

File:Chloe Zhao by Gage Skidmore.jpg, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay winner]]

File:Chadwick Boseman by Gage Skidmore July 2017 (cropped).jpg, Best Actor winner]]

File:Carey Mulligan - 2018 (45646489364) (cropped).jpg, Best Actress winner]]

File:Daniel Kaluuya (2017).jpg, Best Supporting Actor winner]]

File:Bakalova Paris Fashion Week (cropped 2).jpg, Best Supporting Actress winner]]

File:Emerald Fennell, 2023 (1).jpg, Best Original Screenplay winner]]

File:Jon Batiste 2018 (cropped).jpg, Best Score co-winner]]

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Director}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actor}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actress}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actor}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actress}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Young Actor/Actress}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Acting Ensemble}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Original Screenplay}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Adapted Screenplay}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Cinematography}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Editing}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Costume Design}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Production Design}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Score}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Song}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Hair and Makeup}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Visual Effects}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Comedy}}

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{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Foreign Language Film}}

{{notelist}}

==#SeeHer Award==

  • Zendaya{{cite web |url=https://www.etonline.com/zendaya-honored-with-5th-annual-seeher-award-at-2021-critics-choice-awards-161683 |title=Zendaya Honored With 5th Annual SeeHer Award at 2021 Critics Choice Awards |last=McRady |first=Rachel |date=March 7, 2021 |work=ET Online |access-date=March 7, 2021}}

=Television=

File:Josh O'Connor at the 6th Odessa International Film Festival (2).jpg, Best Actor in a Drama Series winner]]

File:Omar Michael Williams 2012 Shankbone.JPG, Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series winner]]

File:Gillian Anderson Berlinale 2017.jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series winner]]

File:Jason Sudeikis 2011 (cropped).jpg, Best Actor in a Comedy Series winner]]

File:CATHERINE OHARA.jpg, Best Actress in a Comedy Series winner]]

File:Hannah Waddingham 2010.jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series winner]]

File:John Boyega by Gage Skidmore.jpg, Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television winner]]

File:Anya Taylor-Joy by Patrick Lovell, January 2019.jpg, Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television winner]]

File:Donald Sutherland (cropped).JPG, Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television winner]]

File:Uzo Aduba 2014 (cropped).jpg, Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television winner]]

class=wikitable
colspan="2" valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Drama Series}}

valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actor in a Drama Series}}
  • Josh O'ConnorThe Crown as Prince Charles (Netflix)
  • Jason BatemanOzark as Martin "Marty" Byrde (Netflix)
  • Sterling K. BrownThis Is Us as Randall Pearson (NBC)
  • Jonathan MajorsLovecraft Country as Atticus "Tic" Freeman (HBO){{efn|name="BestActorInAHorrorSeries"|Nominated for Best Actor in a Horror Series at the 1st Critics' Choice Super Awards}}
  • Bob OdenkirkBetter Call Saul as Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman (AMC)
  • Matthew RhysPerry Mason as Perry Mason (HBO)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actress in a Drama Series}}

    valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series}}
  • Michael K. WilliamsLovecraft Country as Montrose Freeman (HBO){{efn|name="BestActorInAHorrorSeries"}}
  • Jonathan BanksBetter Call Saul as Mike Ehrmantraut (AMC)
  • Justin HartleyThis Is Us as Kevin Pearson (NBC)
  • John LithgowPerry Mason as Elias Birchard "E. B." Jonathan (HBO)
  • Tobias MenziesThe Crown as Prince Philip (Netflix)
  • Tom PelphreyOzark as Ben Davis (Netflix)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series}}

    colspan="2" valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Comedy Series}}
  • Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
  • Better Things (FX)
  • The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)
  • Mom (CBS)
  • PEN15 (Hulu)
  • Ramy (Hulu)
  • Schitt's Creek (Pop)
  • What We Do in the Shadows (FX){{efn|Nominated for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series at the 1st Critics' Choice Super Awards}}
  • valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actor in a Comedy Series}}
  • Jason SudeikisTed Lasso as Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
  • Hank AzariaBrockmire as Jim Brockmire (IFC)
  • Matt BerryWhat We Do in the Shadows as Laszlo Cravensworth (FX)
  • Nicholas HoultThe Great as Peter III (Hulu)
  • Eugene LevySchitt's Creek as Johnny Rose (Pop)
  • Ramy YoussefRamy as Ramy Hassan (Hulu)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actress in a Comedy Series}}

    valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series}}
  • Dan LevySchitt's Creek as David Rose (Pop)
  • William FichtnerMom as Adam Janikowski (CBS)
  • Harvey GuillénWhat We Do in the Shadows as Guillermo de la Cruz (FX)
  • Alex NewellZoey's Extraordinary Playlist as Mo (NBC)
  • Mark ProkschWhat We Do in the Shadows as Colin Robinson (FX)
  • Andrew RannellsBlack Monday as Blair Pfaff (Showtime)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series}}

    valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Limited Series}}
  • The Queen's Gambit (Netflix)
  • I May Destroy You (HBO)
  • Mrs. America (FX on Hulu)
  • Normal People (Hulu)
  • The Plot Against America (HBO)
  • Small Axe (Prime Video)
  • The Undoing (HBO)
  • Unorthodox (Netflix)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Movie Made for Television}}

    valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television}}
  • John BoyegaSmall Axe as Leroy Logan (Prime Video)
  • Hugh GrantThe Undoing as Jonathan Fraser (HBO)
  • Paul MescalNormal People as Connell Waldron (Hulu)
  • Chris RockFargo as Loy Cannon (FX)
  • Mark RuffaloI Know This Much Is True as Dominick and Thomas Birdsey (HBO)
  • Morgan SpectorThe Plot Against America as Herman Levin (HBO)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television}}

    valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television}}
  • Donald SutherlandThe Undoing as Franklin Reinhardt (HBO)
  • Daveed DiggsThe Good Lord Bird as Frederick Douglass (Showtime)
  • Joshua Caleb JohnsonThe Good Lord Bird as Henry "Onion" Shackleford (Showtime)
  • Dylan McDermottHollywood as Ernest "Ernie" West (Netflix)
  • Glynn TurmanFargo as Doctor Senator (FX)
  • John TurturroThe Plot Against America as Rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf (HBO)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television}}

    valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Talk Show}}
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
  • Desus & Mero (Showtime)
  • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TBS)
  • The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC / Syndicated)
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)
  • Red Table Talk (Facebook Watch)
  • | valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Comedy Special}}

    colspan="2" valign="top" width="50%"|{{Award category|#EEDD82|Best Short Form Series}}
  • Better Call Saul: Ethics Training with Kim Wexler (AMC / YouTube)
  • The Andy Cohen Diaries (Quibi)
  • Mapleworth Murders (Quibi)
  • Nikki Fre$h (Quibi)
  • Reno 911! (Quibi)
  • Tooning Out the News (CBS All Access)
  • {{notelist}}

    Films with multiple nominations and wins

    The following twenty-five films received multiple nominations:

    class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" background: #f6e39c;
    scope="col" style="text-align:center"| Film

    ! scope="col" style="width:55px"| Nominations

    Mank

    | style="text-align:center"| 12

    Minari

    | style="text-align:center"| 10

    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    | style="text-align:center"| 8

    News of the World

    | style="text-align:center"| 7

    Da 5 Bloods

    | rowspan=5 style="text-align:center"| 6

    Nomadland
    One Night in Miami...
    Promising Young Woman
    The Trial of the Chicago 7
    Sound of Metal

    | rowspan=2 style="text-align:center"| 5

    Tenet
    The Father

    | style="text-align:center"| 4

    Emma

    | rowspan=6 style="text-align:center"| 3

    Judas and the Black Messiah
    The Life Ahead
    The Midnight Sky
    Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    The United States vs. Billie Holiday
    Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

    | rowspan=7 style="text-align:center"| 2

    First Cow
    Hillbilly Elegy
    Mulan
    On the Rocks
    The Personal History of David Copperfield
    Pieces of a Woman

    The following five films received multiple awards:

    class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" background: #f6e39c;
    scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Film

    ! scope="col" style="width:55px;"| Wins

    Nomadland

    | style="text-align:center"| 4

    Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    | style="text-align:center"| 3

    Minari

    | rowspan=3 style="text-align:center"| 2

    Promising Young Woman
    The Trial of the Chicago 7

    Television programs with multiple nominations and wins

    The following programs received multiple nominations:

    class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center" background: #f6e39c;
    scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Program

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Network

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Category

    ! scope="col" style="width:55px"| Nominations

    The Crown

    | rowspan="2"| Netflix

    | rowspan="3"| Drama

    | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"| 6

    Ozark
    Lovecraft Country

    | HBO

    | rowspan="4" style="text-align:center"| 5

    Mrs. America

    | FX on Hulu

    | Limited

    Schitt's Creek

    | Pop

    | rowspan="2"| Comedy

    What We Do in the Shadows

    | FX

    Better Call Saul

    | AMC

    | Drama

    | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"| 4

    The Plot Against America

    | HBO

    | Limited

    Mom

    | CBS

    | Comedy

    | rowspan="7" style="text-align:center"| 3

    Normal People

    | Hulu

    | Limited

    Perry Mason

    | HBO

    | Drama

    The Queen's Gambit

    | Netflix

    | Limited

    Ted Lasso

    | Apple TV+

    | Comedy

    This Is Us

    | NBC

    | Drama

    The Undoing

    | HBO

    | Limited

    Better Things

    | rowspan="2"| FX

    | Comedy

    | rowspan="10" style="text-align:center"| 2

    Fargo

    | Limited

    The Flight Attendant

    | HBO Max

    | Comedy

    The Good Fight

    | CBS All Access

    | Drama

    The Good Lord Bird

    | Showtime

    | rowspan="2"| Limited

    I May Destroy You

    | HBO

    Ramy

    | Hulu

    | Comedy

    Small Axe

    | rowspan="2"| Prime Video

    | Limited

    Sylvie's Love

    | Movie

    Unorthodox

    | Netflix

    | Limited

    The following programs received multiple awards:

    class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" background: #f6e39c;
    scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Program

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Network

    ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Category

    ! scope="col" style="width:55px;"| Wins

    The Crown

    | Netflix

    | Drama

    | style="text-align:center"| 4

    Ted Lasso

    | Apple TV+

    | Comedy

    | style="text-align:center"| 3

    The Queen's Gambit

    | Netflix

    | Limited

    | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center"| 2

    Schitt's Creek

    | Pop

    | Comedy

    See also

    References

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