Awards season has officially begun! The 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards was held last night in Los Angeles, which had A-listers dressed to the nines in their finest gowns to kick off Hollywood's most glamorous, and possibly most competitive, time of the year.

Held on Sunday night at the Barker Hangar in Sta. Monica, comedian Chelsea Handler took to the podium as master of ceremonies for the fourth year in a row. In her opening monologue, she gave a social commentary on the hit film Sinners, and the pending Warner Bros. / Discovery sale. She also made special mention of the series heating up screens all over the world, Heated Rivalry, describing it as "Gay men love it, women love it, straight men who say they aren’t gay but work out at Equinox love it!” She closed out her speech with a heartfelt tribute to the late director Rob Reiner (and his wife Michelle Singer-Reiner), calling him the 'nicest guy in Hollywood,' saying “Anyone who ever spent time with Rob Reiner knows that the minute you met him, he felt like an old friend."

On the film front

One of the big winners of the night was the Leonardo Di Caprio-led drama One Battle After Another, which centers around a burned-out revolutionary searching for his daughter. The film took home the evening's top nods with trophy for "Best Picture," while writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson won for both "Best Director" and Best Adapted Screenplay." In his acceptance speech, he said “This is the best time I ever had making a movie, and I feel like it shows.”

Another frontrunner was Ryan Coogler's vampire-Western Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan playing twins, which led the nomination count at 17, and won four. They got a trophies for "Best Original Screenplay" for Coogler, "Best Young Actor / Actress" for Miles Caton, "Best Musical Score," and the veery first "Best Casting and Ensemble" award. Matching them for trophy count was Netflix's Frankenstein, for "Best Costume Design," "Best Hair & Makeup," and "Best Production Design," as well as Jacob Elordi's first acting nod as "Best Supporting Actor" for the film's titular role.

Aside from Elordi, the recipients of the acting awards were distributed across various films. "Best Actress" went to Hamnet's Jessie Buckley, while Amy Madigan won "Best Supporting Actress" for "Weapons." One of Hollywood's most in-demand actors, Timothée Chalamet, took to the podium to receive his "Best Actor" award for A24's Marty Supreme, which he dedicated to girlfriend Kylie Kardashian, saying "I love you. I couldn't do this without you."

"Best Animated Feature" went to Netflix's runaway hit of 2025, K-Pop Demon Hunters, which also won for "Best Song" for Golden.