Close
Exit

Move over Boyhood, you’ve dominated the Golden Globes! Now it’s time for one of its contenders to shine.

Yes, I’m talking about Birdman, which had a total of seven wins at the 20th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards that took place last week at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Three of the awards belong to Michael Keaton, who walked away with Best Actor, Best Comedy Actor and Best Acting Ensemble.

He has won the Best Actor award at the Golden Globes and Critics' Choice Movie Awards. And he's nominated for an Oscar. Watch out, Michael Keaton is on a winning streak! -- Photo by EPA.

He has won the Best Actor award at the Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. And he’s nominated for an Oscar. Watch out, Michael Keaton is on a winning streak! — Photo by EPA.

After collecting his third award, he fell while walking off stage! Lucky for him, his tumble wasn’t captured on camera. (Darn it!) But later on, he said: “I took the Birdman flying thing way too far”.

Boyhood, which nabbed three major Golden Globes awards earlier this week, scored the second highest by winning four awards — Best Picture, Richard Linklater for Best Director, Patricia Arquette for Best Supporting Actress and Ellar Coltrane for Best Young Actor/Actress.

Like Keaton, Richard Linklater won Best Director at the Golden Globes and then, at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. He's also nominated for the same award for the Oscars happening February 22. -- Photo by AFP.

Boyhood director Richard Linklater won Best Director at the Golden Globes and then, at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. He’s also nominated for the same award for the Oscars happening February 22. — Photo by AFP.

But what I find interesting is the fact that the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards gave chances to movies that were snubbed by the Oscars, like The Lego Movie. They won Best Animated Feature and while accepting the award, the movie’s co-director Chris Miller said: “What a roller coaster of emotions today has been.” But it’s OK because everything is awesome now. Cue the song!

And also, one of my favourite actresses, Jessica Chastain was honoured with the first ever Critics’ Choice MVP award! According to the award presenter and her Zero Dark Thirty co-star, Chris Pratt, the award that is created by the Broadcast Film Critics Association is to celebrate the work of an actor/actress who has worked in a number of nominated movies. Chastain has appeared in three movies last year — Miss Julie, Interstellar and A Most Violent Year and after accepting her award, she made a strong statement in her speech.

“Today is Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. So, it got me thinking about our need to build the strength of diversity in our industry. And to stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feeling hopeful about the future of film, especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,’ and I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up. Thank you.”

Here’s the complete list of winners:
Picture: Boyhood
Actor: Michael Keaton, Birdman
Actress: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Supporting actor: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Supporting actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Young Actor/Actress: Ellar Coltrane, Boyhood
Acting Ensemble: Birdman
Director: Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Original screenplay: Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo, Birdman
Adapted screenplay: Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Birdman
Art direction: Adam Stockhausen (production designer), Anna Pinnock (set decorator), The Grand Budapest Hotel
Editing: Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione, Birdman
Costume design: Milena Canonero, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Hair and makeup: Guardians of the Galaxy
Visual effects: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Animated feature: The Lego Movie
Action movie: Guardians of the Galaxy
Actor in an action movie: Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Actress in an action movie: Emily Blunt, Edge of Tomorrow
Comedy: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Actor in a comedy: Michael Keaton, Birdman
Actress in a comedy: Jenny Slate, Obvious Child
Sci-fi/horror movie: Interstellar
Foreign language film: Force Majeure
Documentary feature: Life Itself
Song: Common, John Legend, Glory from Selma
Score: Antonio Sanchez, Birdman

About

Our entertainment and celebrity news expert who happens to be disturbingly good at laser tag. Graduated with a degree in communications at 21 and went straight into the magazine business. She not only writes for R.AGE now, but also coordinates our long-running BRATs young journalist programme.

Tell us what you think!

BTW…

Championing children’s education

Education director-general Datuk Dr Habibah Abdul Rahim speaks on the importance of empathy-based education, the challenges of adapting education policies in light of the Covid-19 situation, and her “dream” education system.

Read more Like this post22

I lost my mother to the Japanese war

 Whenever Allied planes bombed Sandakan town as part of its campaign to liberate Borneo, Daniel Chin Tung Foh’s grandfather would rush the whole family into a bomb shelter behind their house.  During its heyday, the British North Borneo Company had developed Sandakan into a major commercial and trading hub for timber, as well as […]

Read more Like this post17

A witness to the Double Tenth revolt

 Chua Hock Yong was born in Singapore, but his grandfather moved the family to British North Borneo (now Sabah) to establish their business in 1939 when he was a year old.  The Japanese invaded Borneo shortly after, but the family continued living in their shophouse in Gaya Street, Jesselton, now known as Kota Kinabalu.  […]

Read more Like this post21

An encounter with victims of the Sandakan Death Marches

 When the Second World War came to Borneo, Pelabiu Akai’s mother moved the family back to their village in Nalapak, Ranau.  Although the Japanese were known to be ruthless and brutal conquerors, they left the villagers to their own devices and Pelabiu had a largely uneventful life – until she came across gaunt-looking Allied […]

Read more Like this post19

Sarawak’s only living child prisoner of war

 Jeli Abdullah’s mother died from labour complications after giving birth to him and his twin brother. To his Bisaya tribe, this was seen as a bad omen, and his father did not know what to do with the twins.  Fortunately, an Australian missionary couple decided to adopt the newborns. But misfortunate fell upon the […]

Read more Like this post16

Lest we forget

AFIO Rudi, 21, had never thought much about his grandfather Jeli Abdullah’s life story until an Australian TV programme interviewed the 79-year-old about being Sarawak’s last surviving World War II child prisoner of war (POW). The engineering student then realised that despite living in Sarawak all his life, he also didn’t know very much of […]

Read more Like this post16

A native uprising against Japanese forces

 Basar Paru, 95, was only a teenager when his village in the central highlands of Borneo was invaded by the Japanese Imperial army.  “The Japanese told us not to help the British. They said Asians should help each other because we have the same skin, same hair,” Basar recalled. “But we, the Lun Bawang […]

Read more Like this post8

Left behind in wartime chaos

 Kadazan native Anthony Labangka was 10 years old when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Borneo during World War II.  Sitting in the verandah of a modern kampung house on a hot afternoon in Kampung Penampang Proper, where he has lived his whole life, Anthony recalls the hardships of the Japanese Occupation.  The villagers were […]

Read more Like this post8
Kajai R.AGE Wan Ifra Journalism Documentaries Digital Media Awards

R.AGE Audience Survey 2019 + Office Tour contest

Want to be in the running to meet R.AGE producers and journalists? Take part in our R.AGE Audience Survey 2019 by Feb 17, 2019!

Read more Like this post6

BRATs Goes to Genting!

The final BRATs camp of the year promises to be the coolest – literally!

Read more Like this post4

The Hidden Cut

Female circumcision is a very common practice in Malaysia, but the procedure is still almost completely unregulated.

Read more Like this post4

#TeamSatpal: Turtle-y in Trouble

The 21st century brings unseen threats to local turtle conservation efforts.

Read more Like this post3
Go top