After Hollywood’s A-listers toasted this year’s critics’ favorite TV and movies at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night, the night’s biggest winners headed backstage to pose for photos and chat with the press.
“Field of Dreams” alumnus Amy Madigan, who won a surprise supporting actress award for her role as Aunt Gladys in the horror film “Weapons,” slipped into the winners’ circle with a glazed donut in hand.
After a few requests from photographers, she reluctantly traded the pastry for a silver star trophy and started swinging and fucking it for the camera.
“I’ve got a donut on my face! Oh, I don’t care!” she said with a laugh.
KPop Demon Hunters singer-songwriter Lee Jae, who won the Best Original Song award for the hit song “Golden” with Mark Sonnenblick, reflected on how the song has evolved over the past year.
“The intent of this song is in sync with how I felt when I wrote it. For me, it was a hopeful song. It gave me hope that someday my dreams would come true. I still feel that.”
In the world of television, “The Studio” won big awards for lead actor Seth Rogen, supporting actor Ike Barinholtz and best comedy series.
When a screen in the press room showed Jacob Elordi walking on stage after winning Best Supporting Actor for “Frankenstein,” Rogen quipped, “Did Elordi win? For playing Frankenstein?”
Barinholtz quickly corrected Rogen’s literary gaffe, saying, “He’s not Frankenstein! He’s Frankenstein’s monster,” prompting Rogen and co-star Chase Sui Wonders to burst out laughing.
Soon Gene Smart entered the press room, fist-pumping and crunching the trophy like it was a 10-pound weight in his arms, joking that the martini had taken effect.
Jimmy Kimmel, who won the award for outstanding talk show, asked some questions of his own to photographers and reporters in the audience.
“How does this work? You all take the exact same photo of me, and you compete to see whose photo gets used?”
After hearing a resounding “yes” from the peanut gallery, he quipped: “So you all hate each other?” Laughter erupted from all the photographers (who assured him they liked helping each other, not just competing for the best shot).
Not all winners made it to the backstage press room. The crew of “One Battle After Another,” led by Leonardo DiCaprio, who picked up Paul Thomas Anderson’s trophies for Best Picture and Best Director, skipped the photo shoot, as did Timothée Chalamet, who won Best Actor for “Marty Supreme.”
