What became very clear in 2020 is that the need for entertainment has suffered no setback. With this fervour to celebrate quality content, Critics' Choice Awards announces the list of nominations for its third edition. After the success of two editions of Critics' Choice Awards, Film Critics Guild and Motion Content Group in collaboration with Vistas Media Capital join forces again for the third edition of the highly acclaimed awards, to honour talent, artists and technicians in feature films, web series and short films across all Indian languages. The unique bit is that the award is determined to honour all mediums of storytelling.
Sharing her views on the nominations, Anupama Chopra, Chairperson, Film Critics Guild says, “It’s been a watershed year for entertainment but despite the gargantuan odds of 2020, great stories have survived and thrived. The upcoming awards ceremony is a celebration of these stories that have sustained us!." Sudip Sanyal, Business Head- Motion Content Group India shared, “In such a period of unprecedented unpredictability, the one thing which has been consistently outstanding is content available in our country. This year has seen the audience enjoy some fantastic content across the country and languages at home across devices . It is only natural for us then to applaud the nominees, as chosen by the Film Critics Guild , and congratulate the eventual winners of 2020.”
Here's the list of nominations of the upcoming award ceremony.
In the short films category the nominations are as follows:
Best Short Film:
Let's give it up for the best short films to come out this past year - our BEST FILM (Fiction) nominees! #CriticsChoiceAwards #RohinRaveendranNair #TheBooth @thisisdriz #SBelviandDaughters @basu_abhiroop #Meal #ShaziaIqbal @anuragkashyap10 #Bebaak #Dhummas @nid_india https://t.co/7uwHOTptMr
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Bebaak (Dying Wind In Her Hair)
The Booth
Meal
B Selvi & Daughters
Dhummas
Best Director:
The people who bring it all together - here are the nominees for BEST DIRECTOR (Fiction) #CriticsChoiceAwards #ShaziaIqbal #Bebaak @anuragkashyap72 #RohinRaveendranNair #TheBooth @basu_abhiroop #Meal @arunfulara #Sunday @thisisdriz #SBelviandDaughters @strayfactory https://t.co/oWPYL7VlZB
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Shazia Iqbal for Bebaak (Dying Wind In Her Hair)
Rohin Raveendran Nair for The Booth
Abhiroop Basu for Meal
Arun Fulara for Sunday
Drishya for B Selvi & Daughters
Best Actor:
The people who bring it all together - here are the nominees for BEST DIRECTOR (Fiction) #CriticsChoiceAwards #ShaziaIqbal #Bebaak @anuragkashyap72 #RohinRaveendranNair #TheBooth @basu_abhiroop #Meal @arunfulara #Sunday @thisisdriz #SBelviandDaughters @strayfactory https://t.co/oWPYL7VlZB
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Shrikant Mohan Yadav for Sunday
Vipin Sharma for Naap
Sanjay Mishra for Adheen
Adil Hussain for Meal
Raja Chakravorty for Termites (Ghunn)
Best Actress:
The women who brought complex characters to life - bringing you the nominees for BEST ACTRESS (Short Film)! #CriticsChoiceAwards @AmrutaSubhash #PramodiniNanavati @SarahjuneHashmi #SeemaPahwa #Kalairaani @NID_India @thisisdriz @strayfactory https://t.co/h2jUGiCBgl
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Kalairaani for B Selvi & Daughters
Sarah Hashmi for Bebaak
Amruta Subhash for The Booth
Seema Pahwa for Everything is Fine
Pramodini Nanavati for Dhummas
Best Writing:
What's a film without a great story? Here are the nominees for BEST WRITING in a short film #CriticsChoiceAwards @anuragkashyap72 #RohinRaveendranNair @HumaraMovie #AbhiroopBasu #Bebaak #TheBooth #Bridge #Dhummas #Meal https://t.co/S54Az56cKe
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Shazia Iqbal for Bebaak
Rohin Raveendran Nair for The Booth
K.R. Meera, Nainisha Dedhia for Dhummas
Bikramjit Gupta for Bridge
Abhiroop Basu for Meal
In the series category the nominations are as follows:
Best Series:
Ending our nominations with the most anticipated BEST SERIES! Which one are you rooting for? #CriticsChoiceAwards #Scam1992 #HarshadMehta #PaatalLok #Aarya #SpecialOps #Panchayat @primevideoin @SonyLIV @DisneyPlusHS https://t.co/eM6QwETIf9
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Paatal Lok
Aarya
Special Ops
Panchayat
Best Actor
Nominations for the BEST ACTOR (Series) are here! Whose performance did you love the most?#CriticsChoiceAwards @pratikg80 @JaideepAhlawat @kaykaymenon02 @divyenndu @thedeol #Scam1992 #PaatalLok #SpecialOps #Mirzapur #Aashram @SonyLIV @PrimeVideoIN @MXPlayer @DisneyPlusHS https://t.co/RzrsYnfNGe
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Pratik Gandhi for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Jaideep Ahlawat for Paatal Lok
Kay Kay Menon for Special OPS
Divyenndu Sharma for Mirzapur Season 2
Bobby Deol for Aashram
Best Actress
Presenting to you our nominations for BEST ACTRESS (Series) #CriticsChoiceAwards@RasikaDugal @thesushmitasen @shreya_dhan13 @sumukhisuresh @battatawada #Mirzapur #Aarya #Scam1992 #HarshadMehta #Pushpavalli @PrimeVideoIN @DisneyplusHSVIP @ApplauseSocial @SonyLIV https://t.co/Yb8DX8nSrH
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Rasika Dugal for Mirzapur Season 2
Sushmita Sen for Aarya
Shreya Dhanwanthary for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Sumukhi Suresh for Pushpavalli Season 2
Shweta Tripathi for Mirzapur Season 2
Best Supporting Actor
Here are the nominees for BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Series)
Who are you rooting for? #CriticsChoiceAwards @nowitsabhi @hemantgkher @IshwakSingh @IamRoySanyal #Panchayat #PaatalLok #Scam1992 #Aashram @primevideoin @SonyLIV @MXPlayer #AbhishekBanerjee #IshwakSingh #HarshadMehta https://t.co/aMpjoUmYmb— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Chandan Roy for Panchayat
Abhishek Banerjee for Paatal Lok
Hemant Kher for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Ishwak Singh for Paatal Lok
Chandan Roy Sanyal for Aashram
Best Supporting Actress
Give it up for some of the most outstanding performances this year - BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Series)! #CriticsChoiceAwards @Neenagupta001 @swastika24 @divyadutta25 #SheebaChaddha @PrimeVideoIN @DisneyplusHSVIP #Panchayat #BandishBandits #PaatalLok #HostagesS2 https://t.co/mTGN1GbaD7
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Neena Gupta for Panchayat
Sheeba Chaddha for Bandish Bandits
Swastika Mukherjee for Paatal Lok
Divya Dutta for Hostages Season 2
Best Writing
Let's honour the shows that kept us company in a gloomy year
BEST WRITING (Series)#CriticsChoiceAwards @karanmukeshvyas @SumitPurohit @GunjitChopra @chandan_txt @sumukhisuresh @thekumarshyam @sumairashaik @NaveenRichard #Scam1992 #PaatalLok #Panchayat #Pushpavalli #Aarya https://t.co/UNCpdNsMRE
— Film Critics Guild (@theFCGofficial) January 12, 2021
Sumit Purohit, Saurav Dey, Vaibhav Vishal, Karan Vyas for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta, Gunjit Chopra for Paatal Lok
Chandan Kumar for Panchayat
Naveen Richard, Ayesha Nair , Sumaira Shaikh , Kumar Shivam, Sumukhi Suresh for Pushpavalli Season 2
Anu Singh Choudhary, Sandeep Shrivastava for Aarya
The dates of the award ceremony will be announced soon.
