{"id":29171,"date":"2020-01-13T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/when-they-see-us-celebrated-critics-choice-awards\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T17:32:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T17:32:00","slug":"when-they-see-us-celebrated-critics-choice-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/when-they-see-us-celebrated-critics-choice-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"‘When They See Us’ Celebrated at Critics’ Choice Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘When They See Us’ Celebrated at Critics’ Choice Awards<\/h3>\n

\n By N. Jamiyla Chisholm<\/span> Jan 13, 2020<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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The <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Critics\u2019 Choice Awards<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, which aired Sunday (January 12), seemed to do what the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Golden Globes<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> could not this year when it awarded a (slightly more) diverse group of performers and creators with trophies. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hosted by actor <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Taye Diggs<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, the ceremony recognized television shows and films, and people who created them. The night included a standing ovation for director Ava DuVernay<\/a> when she accepted the award for Best Limited Series for the docuseries \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>When They See Us<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u201d And newcomer <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Jharrel Jerome<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, who starred in the series about Black and Brown boys wrongfully convicted for the rape of a White woman in New York’s Central Park, took home the trophy for Best Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie Made For Television.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Other wins included a Best Director award for Bong Joon Ho<\/a> and his<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> Korean class-thriller \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Parasite<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>,\u201d which also won for Best Foreign Language Film; Best Actress in a Drama Series to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Regina King<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> for her superhero turn on \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Watchmen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>;\u201d and \u201cUs<\/a>,\u201d which received the Best Sci-fi Or Horror Movie award.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Dolemite Is My Name<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u201d won for Best Comedy and for <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Ruth E. Carter<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>\u2019s costume design. The star of the Netflix film, comedian <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Eddie Murphy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>, received a Lifetime Achievement Award that was presented by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Keegan-Michael Key<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a> \u201cfor his extraordinary career, including most recently his brilliant performance in ‘Dolemite,’\u201d according to a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>statement<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>  from the Critics Choice Association.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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To see the complete list of winners, click <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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\n Archive<\/a>Arts & Culture<\/a>Ava DuVernay<\/a>Bong Joon Ho<\/a>Critics' Choice Awards<\/a>Docuseries<\/a>Dolemite is My Name<\/a>Eddie Murphy<\/a>Jharrel Jerome<\/a>Parasite<\/a>Regina King<\/a>Ruth E. Carter<\/a>Us<\/a>Watchmen<\/a>When They See Us<\/a> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The docuseries received recognition alongside “Parasite,” “Watchmen,” “Dolemite Is My Name” and “Us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_gspb_post_css":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[16402,16412,1645,2440,3890,4597,4606,4886,7570,11087,12181,12663,15444,15778,15901],"article-type":[],"topic-meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29171"},{"taxonomy":"article-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-type?post=29171"},{"taxonomy":"topic-meta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-meta?post=29171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}