Critics' Choice Television Awards
Critics' Choice Television Award | |
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Current: 8th Critics' Choice Television Awards | |
Description | Best in television |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Broadcast Television Journalists Association |
First awarded | 2011 |
Website | criticschoice.com |
The Critics' Choice Television Awards are accolades that are presented annually by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) (US).[1] They were established in 2011, and the first ceremony was held on June 20, 2011, and streamed live on VH1.com.[2][3] The fourth ceremony was televised live, for the first time in award history, on June 19, 2014 on The CW.[4] In October 2014, the A&E Network was granted exclusive rights to broadcast the television and film awards in 2015 and 2016.[5]
History
The Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) was founded in 2011 as an offshoot of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. The Awards are produced by executive producer Bob Bain.[6]
According to the acting president of the BTJA, Joey Berlin, the Critics' Choice Television Awards were launched "to enhance access for broadcast journalists covering the television industry. Just as the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards has been established as an important part of the annual movie awards season, we are confident that the Critics' Choice Television Awards will play a similar role for the television industry."[7]
Categories
Criticism
Following the announcement of the partnership with Entertainment Weekly prior to the 7th Critics' Choice Television Awards in November 2016, several high profile members of the Broadcast Television Journalists Association left the organization, including Michael Ausiello of TV Line, Maureen Ryan of Variety, Ken Tucker of Yahoo! TV, and Michael Schneider of Indiewire. In an article Schneider published shortly after his resignation titled, he wrote: "The idea that Entertainment Weekly would be the preferred media outlet for an awards show decided by journalists from many outlets is unusual. (It would be like CNN being named the official partner of the Presidential Debates, even though they’re moderated and covered by representatives from multiple news organizations.)"[8] Following the mass exodus of television critics, the Broadcast Television Journalists Association lost 15%-30% of it's membership.[9] This caused the majority of the membership to be made up of internet journalists instead of television critics. During the 7th Critics' Choice Television Awards the fact that several critically acclaimed shows were snubbed such as The Americans, Rectify, The Night Of and You're the Worst in favor of shows with very little to no critical support such as Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, and House of Cards was credited, and widely criticized, due to this change.[8]
Award ceremonies
Superlatives
Multiple winners
- 3 awards
- 2 awards
Multiple nominees
- 7 nominations
- 5 nominations
- 4 nominations
- 3 nominations
- Aziz Ansari
- Ellen Burstyn
- Emilia Clarke
- Carrie Coon
- Bryan Cranston
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Peter Dinklage
- Vera Farmiga
- Anna Gunn
- Freddie Highmore
- Margo Martindale
- Thomas Middleditch
- Nick Offerman
- Martha Plimpton
- Carrie Preston
- Danny Pudi
- RuPaul
- Matthew Rhys
- Keri Russell
- John Slattery
- Robin Wright
- Constance Wu
- 2 nominations
- Ted Allen
- Gillian Anderson
- Caitriona Balfe
- Jonathan Banks
- Kathy Bates
- Julie Bowen
- Andre Braugher
- Alison Brie
- Sterling K. Brown
- Tituss Burgess
- Ty Burrell
- Jaime Camil
- Bobby Cannavale
- Don Cheadle
- Kaley Cuoco
- Hugh Dancy
- Claire Danes
- Viola Davis
- Zooey Deschanel
- Ann Dowd
- Lena Dunham
- Christopher Eccleston
- Idris Elba
- Will Forte
- Sutton Foster
- Claire Foy
- Martin Freeman
- Eva Green
- Max Greenfield
- Tony Hale
- Jon Hamm
- Christina Hendricks
- Taraji P. Henson
- Charlie Hunnam
- Jane Krakowski
- Damian Lewis
- Jenifer Lewis
- Judith Light
- Rami Malek
- Kelly Macdonald
- Joel McHale
- Wendi McLendon-Covey
- John Noble
- Ed O'Neill
- Randall Park
- Aaron Paul
- Diana Rigg
- Gina Rodriguez
- Emmy Rossum
- Katey Sagal
- Amy Schumer
- Adam Scott
- Ryan Seacrest
- Maggie Siff
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Cicely Tyson
- Dominic West
- Casey Wilson
- Patrick Wilson
- Aden Young
- Constance Zimmer
References
- ^ "Broadcast Television Journalists Association Announces Winners of the 2nd Annual Critics' Choice Television Awards". The Broadcast Films Critics Association. 2012-06-18. Retrieved 2012-06-20.
- ^ Labrecque, Jeff (2011-06-06). "'Modern Family' cast nabs five Critics Choice Television Awards nominations". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ Ausiello, Michael (2010-06-06). "Mad Men, Fringe, Good Wife, Modern Family, Community, Justified Lead Critics Choice Kudos". TVLine. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ Bibel, Sara (September 16, 2013). "The CW to Broadcast the 'Critics Choice Movie Awards' & 'Critics Choice Television Awards' in 2014". Zap2it. The CW press release. Retrieved September 16, 2013.
- ^ Kondolojy, Amanda (October 7, 2014). "A&E Network to Televise 'The Critics' Choice Awards'". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (2010-05-31). "Critics' Choice Television Awards Land TV, Online Distribution, Tap Host". Deadline. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ Ng, Philiana (2011-04-13). "Critics' Choice Television Awards Announce Categories". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2011-06-08.
- ^ a b Schneider, Michael. "Why the Entertainment Weekly Partnership Made Me Quit the Critics' Choice Awards". Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ Robb, David. "Critics' Choice Announcement Sparks More Resignations – Update". Retrieved 11 December 2017.