Who will likely be presenting?
In fact, there’ll be the standard slate of movie and tv notables — Ava DuVernay, Carey Mulligan, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mayim Bialik, to call just some — however search for some large stars from the sports activities world this yr, too. Serena Williams, whose story is featured within the biopic “King Richard,” and Sean McVay, the Los Angeles Rams coach whose crew gained the Tremendous Bowl final month, may even hand out awards.
Who will obtain particular awards?
The Critics Alternative Affiliation provides out the #SeeHer Award every year, which honors a lady who pushes “boundaries on altering stereotypes” and furthers “genuine portrayals of girls throughout the leisure panorama.” This yr’s honoree is Halle Berry, who 20 years in the past turned the primary — and solely — Black lady to win an Academy Award for finest actress. The comic Billy Crystal may even obtain the Lifetime Achievement Award.
What ought to I look ahead to?
With the Oscars simply across the nook, on March 27, movies will likely be seeking to bolster their circumstances for finest image — or make them. “Belfast,” whose forged hasn’t taken dwelling many prizes throughout awards season thus far, may mount a finest image comeback if it wins large on the Critics Alternative Awards. The very best actress class is as soon as once more a tossup — because it has been at each awards present this yr — with the potential for Jessica Chastain to construct momentum after her large win on the Display screen Actors Guild Awards for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
On the tv facet, the hit Netflix sequence “Squid Recreation” is up for each finest international language sequence and finest drama sequence, although it’ll have stiff competitors within the latter class from “Succession,” which leads all reveals with eight nominations.
Who do we expect will win?
Ariana DeBose, who performed Anita within the Steven Spielberg remake of “West Aspect Story,” is basically a positive factor for finest supporting actress. Within the supporting actor class, it’s a two-man race between Kotsur and Kodi Smit-McPhee of “The Energy of the Canine.” And finest image? It’s in all probability between “Belfast” and “The Energy of the Canine.”
Why are the Critics Alternative Awards taking place the identical night time because the BAFTAs?
Nicely, the BAFTAs acquired right here first. However after the pandemic compelled the Critics Alternative Affiliation to scrap the January date, Joey Berlin, the group’s chief government, mentioned on the time that there was just one Sunday between the Tremendous Bowl and the Oscars that the present may transfer to and nonetheless honor contractual obligations with networks, sponsors and venues.