The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards ceremony was presented on Feb. 7 at the Barker Hangar venue in California’s Santa Monica Airport. The awards, which recognize achievement in film and television, offered many hat-tips to performers, screen projects and behind-the-scenes creatives with ties to Broadway.
The box office record-breaker “Wicked,” a film adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical, took home three Critics Choice Awards: Best Production Design (Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales), Best Costume Design (Paul Tazewell, a Tony winner for “Hamilton” represented on Broadway this season by “Death Becomes Her”) and Best Director (Jon M. Chu).
On the acting front, victors included Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber, named Best Supporting Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie, for his turn in “The Perfect Couple.” Kieran Culkin, who will return to Broadway next month in the role that two decades ago won Schreiber his Tony — Richard Roma of “Glengarry Glen Ross” — won the 2025 Critics Choice Award as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in “A Real Pain,” a film which also won the prize for Best Comedy (tying with “Deadpool & Wolverine”).
A pair of veteran stage-and-screen performers with recent Broadway turns — Michael Urie of “Once Upon a Mattress” and John Mulaney of “All In” — also won Critics Choice Awards. Urie took home the prize as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for “Shrinking” while Mulaney was honored in the category of Best Talk Show for “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A.”
A trio of performers whose Broadway history dates back further also won 2025 Critics Choice honors. Cristin Milioti, a 2012 Tony nominee for “Once,” took home the Critics Choice as Best Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie, for “The Penguin.” Kathy Bates, a Tony nominee for 1983’s “’Night, Mother,” won the Critics Choice in the category of Best Actress in a Drama Series for “Matlock.” And Jean Smart, a Tony nominee for 2001’s “The Man Who Came to Dinner,” won the Critics Choice Award as Best Actress in a Comedy Series for “Hacks,” this year’s winner for Best Comedy Series.
Adrien Brody, who recently took to the London stage in “The Fear of 13,” was honored with the Critics Choice Award as Best Actor for “The Brutalist.” And the original movie musical “Emilia Pérez” nabbed three Critics Choice Awards: Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, Best Song for the tune “El Mal” and the prize for Best Foreign Language Film. The Critics Choice Award for Best Picture went to the comedy-drama “Anora.”
For a full list of 2025 winners, click here.
