Critics Different Awards 2022 to Air Keep from L.A. and London

The Critics Different Awards will add a London broadcast to its scheduled U.S. telecast on March 13, the Critics Different Affiliation launched on Wednesday. On this side of the pond, Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer will host the beforehand scheduled ceremony on the Fairmont Century Plaza Resort in Los Angeles, which The CW and TBS will air dwell from 7 p.m. — 10 p.m. ET. (Totally different nations may additionally resolve it up for air.)

Within the meantime, throughout the U.Okay., stars may additionally be gathering on the Savoy Resort in London for a night-owl celebration that can in all probability be, based mostly on the Critics Different Affiliation, “an integral part of the dwell telecast.”

“When the pandemic made us switch our current date from its standard kick off in January into the middle of the awards season, we felt the need so as to add a second stage in London to make certain that all our honorees would have the possibility to participate throughout the dwell telecast,” CCA CEO Joey Berlin talked about in an announcement.

The selection to incorporate the U.Okay. contingent has a simple clarification: When the pandemic pressured the CCA to postpone its ceremony, which was initially scheduled for Jan. 9, the one Sunday-evening date that didn’t pose insurmountable conflicts was March 13. Nonetheless that may be the day of the EE British Academy Film Awards in London, an event that always attracts an enormous contingent of nominees. A lot of the excessive Critics Different nominees are moreover up for BAFTA Awards, and it is unlikely that plenty of them would have skipped the London current to attend the one in Los Angeles.

The CCA is now hoping that plenty of their nominees will extend their evening for only a few further hours by making the three-mile journey from the Royal Albert Hall, the place the BAFTA ceremony is going on, to the Critics’ Different post-BAFTA bash on the Savoy.

For instance, the “Belfast” employees is predicted to be a robust presence on the BAFTAs, the place Kenneth Branagh’s coming-of-age story is throughout the working for various prizes, along with Most interesting Film and Most interesting Genuine Screenplay. And with 11 nominations from the Critics Different Awards — tying it with “West Aspect Story” as the best nominee — “Belfast” will in all probability be a centerpiece of that gathering as successfully. “Dune” and “The Vitality of the Canine” had been moreover acknowledged by every groups this yr.

All of BAFTA’s best-film nominees are moreover nominated for Critics Different Awards, as are 12 nominated actors, along with Lady Gaga, Alana Haim, Benedict Cumberbatch, Will Smith, Ariana DeBose, Aunjanue Ellis, Troy Kotsur and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

The CCA beforehand launched that Billy Crystal would get hold of the Lifetime Achievement Award on the twenty seventh annual ceremony and Halle Berry the SeeHer Award.

Final voting for the Critics Different Awards is March ninth – eleventh.

Steve Pond contributed to this report.