Checkout Winners of The 2016 Critics' Choice Awards

 

The Critics' Choice Awards kicked off Sunday at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, where some of the biggest names in television and film turned out for a night of fun, some surprises, and a wholehearted celebration of the industry.

One of the most important takeaways from the evening, however, is the role the Critics' Choice Awards could play in indicating what films are favorites to take home Oscar gold when the Academy Awards roll around on Feb. 28.

First and foremost, the critics spoke loudly when it came to their love of the gritty newspaper drama Spotlight, which beat out The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol, Brooklyn, The Martian, The Revenant, Room and Sicario, to take home the top prize of Best Picture.

With its wins for Best Original Screenplay and Best Ensemble Cast -- which includes Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci and Liev Schreiber, to name just a few -- Spotlight could be poised to earn quite a bit of hardware come Oscar night, where it’s nominated in six categories including Best Picture.

Given Fury Road's 10 Oscar nominations, there's a good chance the film may get some of the recognition from the Academy that its legion of fans believes it deserves.

And it was another good night for Leonardo DiCaprio, who followed up his Golden Globes win last weekend with another award for Best Actor Sunday night for his role in The Revenant. Could the 41-year-old star finally take home an Oscar after getting nominated six times?
For more on who had a great night at the Critics' Choice Awards, check out the full list of winners below.

TELEVISION
BEST COMEDY SERIES: Master of None
BEST DRAMA SERIES: Mr. Robot
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Carrie Coon, The Leftovers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TV-MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES: Jesse Plemons, Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TV-MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES: Jean Smart, Fargo
BEST ANIMATION SERIES: BoJack Horseman
BEST REALITY SHOW HOST: James Lipton, Inside the Actors Studio
BEST TALK SHOW: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
BEST STRUCTURED REALITY SHOW: Shark Tank
BEST REALITY SHOW – COMPETITION: The Voice
BEST ACTRESS IN A TV-MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES: Kirsten Dunst, Fargo
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Constance Zimmer, UnREAL
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES: Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES: Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES: Timothy Olyphant, The Grinder
BEST GUEST ACTOR/ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES: Margo Martindale, The Good Wife
BEST TV-MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES: Fargo
BEST ACTOR IN A TV-MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES: Idris Elba, Luther
BEST UNSTRUCTURED REALITY SHOW: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

FILM
BEST PICTURE: Spotlight
BEST ACTOR: Leonard DiCaprio, The Revenant
BEST ACTRESS: Brie Larson, Room
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sylvester Stallone, Creed
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS: Jacob Tremblay, Room
BEST ENSEMBLE: Spotlight
BEST DIRECTOR: George Miller, Max Max: Fury Road
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Spotlight
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: The Big Short
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Inside Out
BEST ACTION MOVIE: Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Tom Hardy, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE: Charlize Theron, Mad Max: Fury Road
BEST COMEDY: The Big Short
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY: Christian Bale, The Big Short
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY: Amy Schumer, Trainwreck
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE: Ex Machina
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Son of Saul
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Amy
BEST SONG: "See You Again," Furious 7
BEST SCORE: The Hateful Eight

Christian Bale Totally Made Out With Adam McKay After Critics' Choice Win

 

 

 

 

 

Christian Bale was pretty excited to take home the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Actor in a Comedy on Sunday night, so much so that he started smooching everyone in sight!

After Workaholics star Adam DeVine announced Bale as the winner -- for his role in the comedy The Big Short, about the 2008 housing crisis -- the actor gave a celebratory kiss to wife Sibi Blazic, then turned to the film’s director Adam McKay, and laid one on him as well.

“That was just a lovely makeout session with my life and with Adam and with Charles [Randolph, The Big Short screenwriter],” Bale said in his acceptance speech. “We all really got to know each other very well on this film.”

The actor called McKay -- who was previously best known for his collaborations with Will Ferrell, including Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and the Funny or Die comedy website -- “absolutely phenomenal, brilliant and funny,” during his acceptance speech, and then got semi-serious when thanking his family.

“First of all, my wife. It’s so lovely to be able to play dress up for a living, and she holds everything together whilst I get to go play dress up,” said Bale, who is also nominate for an Oscar for his Big Short role. “My daughter as well, who kicks me in the nuts just like my wife does, keeping me on the straight and narrow.”

McKay and Bale shared another smooch on stage later in the show, when the cast and crew accepted the award for Best Comedy.

“That’s collaborative love between Christian and I,” the director joked in his acceptance speech. “Don’t judge it. It’s what fuels movies like this.”

Kim's sister, Kourtney K poses nude for photo shoot

Kim's sister, Kourtney K poses nude for photo shoot

 

 

The celebrity mother of 3 Kourtney K posed nude for a photoshoot with artist Brian Bowen Smith.

"The whole vibe of the shoot, other than it's going to be nude for the art thing, is that if you're not blown away by your picture, then it means we didn't do it right," Smith tells Kourt.

"The only thing is I feel like my ass like disappeared when I lost weight," Kourtney laughs. "We need to plump it up!"

 

 

Missing budget: Group calls for Sen. Enang’s arrest

 

                                   Senator Ita Enang

 

“In civilised and saner society what any democratically elected and law abiding government should have done immediately it is established that certain indiscretion bordering on alleged perjury has occurred is to arrest and prosecute the indicted offender irrespective of the status of such a person because the keystone of democracy is the Rule of law and the import of Rule of law is Equality of all persons and institutions before the law of the land.”

With this affirmation, a pro-Democracy Non-governmental organisation, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, has canvassed the immediate arrest by the Nigeria Police Force and interrogation of the Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly matters to President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Ita Enang, for allegedly falsifying the 2016 Budget presented to the Senate.

In a statement signed jointly by the National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, and the National Media Affairs Director, Zainab Yusuf, HURIWA said any attempt to sweep under the carpets the allegations of such a monumental magnitude of alleged theft of the 2016 budget would amount to an unmitigated impunity and would signpost the total abandonment by the national policing institution of its constitutional duty, which is an inevitable prelude to the breakdown of law and order.

The group said the lesson to be learnt by the inaction of the law enforcement agencies to the emerging accusations on the theft of the 2016 budget and its replacement with a fake edition is that the international community would view the Nigerian government as a band of gangsters who give no qualms about reported breach of the law committed by high profile Federal Government officials linked to the President.

It said this would be a very dangerous precedence.
HURIWA said: “It is in the self enlightened interest of President Muhammadu Buhari that any of his officials suspected of masterminding this horrendous national shame of theft of the original version of the 2016 budget are suspended from official duties until such a person or persons could purge himself or themselves of such damaging and extensively embarrassing national odium and/or is discharged and acquitted of such charges.

There is no amount of public relations damage limitation strategy that can clean up this image of a Presidency that tolerate misdemeanour if no action or measures are adopted to remedy this abysmal slap on our international image as a constitutional democracy. Let all the Presidency officials implicated or fingered in this grandiose show of shame be brought to book.”

HURIWA also condemned the alleged conversion of a serving operative of the Department of State Services serving with the Minister of Interior, Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Danbazau, into a domestic servant as depicted in a widely circulated video, which shows the Secret Police operative cleaning up the dusty shoes of someone identified on the video trending on the social media as the Interior minister.

The Rights group said if it is confirmed that the serving DSS operative indeed was used as a domestic servant as a shoe shiner, then the minister must be suspended for some months without pay as an effective deterrent to stop government officials from grossly abusing their official privileges as Federal Cabinet members.

HURIWA said: “We note with disappointment that whereas the current Inspector General of Police Mr Solomon Arase and other relevant authorities are in the public media advertising that henceforth police operatives should stop carrying hand bags for political office holders this video of the alleged use of a member of the nation’s secret police as shoes shiner is a crime against the institution of the Department of State Service because it has devalued members of such an esteemed national institution as mere slaves of serving political office holders who are of the All Progressives Congress specie. This incident must be investigated and appropriate sanctions as suggested above adopted if the minister is found wanting. This is absolutely unacceptable and very despicable.”