As reported by Deadline, The Critics Choice Awards for television were held last night, with AMC’s Better Call Saul taking home the top prize for Best Drama Series in its final season. Bob Odenkirk (Seinfeld, Breaking Bad), the show’s lead actor, also took home the award for Best Actor in a Drama. HBO’s Euphoria saw Zendayan (Spider Man: No Way Home, Dune) win Best Actress in a Drama.
In the comedy categories, ABC’s Abbott Elementary followed up its Golden Globe win by taking home the award for Best Comedy Series. Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) won Best Actor in Comedy Series for FX’s The Bear, and Jean Smart (Babylon, Sweet Home Alabama) won Best Actress in a Comedy Series for HBO Max’s Hacks, despite being unable to attend the ceremony due to Covid-19.
Supporting actors and actresses also took home awards, with Jennifer Coolidge (Legally Blonde, The Watcher) and Giancarlo Esposito (The Boys, Breaking Bad) winning for HBO’s The White Lotus and AMC’s Better Call Saul, respectively. Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia, Mean Girls), who previously won Emmys and Golden Globes for her role in Hulu’s The Dropout, repeated her success in the Critics Choice Awards. Niecy Nash Betts (Claws, Never Have I Ever) and Paul Walter Hauser (Cobra Kai, Cruella) won Supporting Actress and Actor in Limited Series for Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and Apple TV+’s Black Bird, respectively. Sheryl Lee Ralph (It’s a Living, Moesha) and Henry Winkler (Happy Days, Click) took the Comedy prizes for Abbott Elementary and HBO’s Barry.
Roku Channel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic story won the award for Best TV Movie, with its star, Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), also winning. The Dropout and Abbott Elementary were the only other multiple award winners, with Better Call Saul taking home three awards. In terms of networks and distributors, A24 and the combined HBO/HBO Max led the pack with six awards each, followed by Netflix with five.
Per Deadline, the television winners of the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards are as follows:
BEST LIMITED SERIES
The Dropout (Hulu)
BEST DRAMA SERIES
Better Call Saul (AMC)
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Zendaya – Euphoria (HBO)
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul (AMC)
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
Pachinko (Apple TV+)
BEST TALK SHOW
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
BEST COMEDY SPECIAL
Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (Netflix)
BEST ANIMATED SERIES
Harley Quinn (HBO Max)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – Babylon
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear (FX)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Daniel Radcliffe – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Henry Winkler – Barry (HBO)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Sheryl Lee Ralph – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Paul Walter Hauser – Black Bird (Apple TV+)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Niecy Nash-Betts – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Giancarlo Esposito – Better Call Saul (AMC)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus (HBO)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout (Hulu)