Harrison Ford takes the time to smell his flowers.
Ford looked back on his illustrious career during the 29th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night when he received the Critics’ Choice Career Achievement Award.
“I’m really excited to be here tonight to see where our business is going and all the talented people are getting opportunities that maybe didn’t exist in the early part of my career.” Ford said. “I’m here because of a combination of luck and the work of amazing directors, writers and filmmakers. I feel very lucky.”
The “Indiana Jones and the Connection of Destiny” star also gave a sweet tribute to his “beautiful” wife, Calista Flockhart, who “supports me when I need a lot of support,” he said. “And I need a lot of support,” Ford added jokingly.
Emma Stone gives critics a kiss-off with her Best Actress win
Emma Stone is learning to become her own biggest fan.
The “Poor Things” star, who won the Best Actress award, spoke about what her character Bella Baxter taught her about self-acceptance. “Playing Bella has been one of the greatest joys of my life,” she said. “I have to unlearn a lot of things from playing out, and unlearn parts of the shame and societal things that are forced upon us.”
However, Stone jokingly pointed out the irony of discussing internal validation at an awards show where the critics are the voters.
“This is the Critics’ Choice Awards, and it’s about the outside opinion of the awards show,” Stone said with a laugh. “I’m very grateful to the critics for this, but I’ve learned not to care what you think.”
America Ferrera defends diversity in Critics’ Choice Awards speech
America Ferrera, whose emotional monologue portraying Gloria in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” went viral, has been honored with the SeeHer Award. The actress received the honor for her contribution to the representation of women in entertainment.
“I grew up as a first-generation Honduran American girl who loved television, film, and theater, and who desperately wanted to be part of a storytelling legacy that I couldn’t see myself reflected in,” Ferreira said. “Of course, I felt myself in strong, complex characters, but these characters rarely, if ever, looked like me. I longed to see people like me on screen as whole human beings.”
Ferrera, who made her film debut in the 2002 drama “Real Women Have Curves,” also praised the progress the industry has seen in portraying the Latino experience.
“It seems impossible that anyone could make a career portraying fully-dimensional Latino characters,” Ferreira said. “But because of the writers, directors, producers and executives who were bold enough to rewrite outdated stories and challenge entrenched biases, I and some of my beloved Latina colleagues have been incredibly fortunate to bring to life some fierce and wonderful women.”
This authentic representation creates space for a more diverse generation of talent, the “Dumb Money” star said, praising actresses like “Barbie” co-star Ariana Greenblatt and Jenna Ortega.
“For me, this is the best and highest use of storytelling: to affirm each other’s full humanity,” Ferreira said. “To support the fact that we all deserve to be seen — Black, brown, Indigenous, Asian, trans, disabled, any body type, any gender — we all deserve to have our lives reflected richly and authentically.”
Robert Downey Jr. attacks critics at Critics’ Choice Awards: ‘Such lovely comments’
The “Oppenheimer” star, who won Best Supporting Actor, gave a sarcastic acceptance speech in which the actor highlighted some of the criticism he’s received from members of the awards ceremony’s parent organization, the Critics’ Choice Association.
“You know, I was thinking this morning, I love critics,” Downey joked. “The Critics’ Choice Awards have given me very lovely feedback – just a lot of great moments and some of them very poetic – I just want to share with you some of their thoughts over the years.”
In a deadpan manner, Downey continued to mock critics’ scathing reviews of his performance.
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“The first one is kind of like a haiku: dirty, messy and lazy,” Downey said. “The next one is more metaphorical: like Pee-Wee Herman coming out of a coma. This one was from a Brit: a baffling waste of talent. And finally, this one sticks around: as entertaining as a locked fart.”
The actor concluded his speech with a fun shout-out to his Oppenheimer teammates, including Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Alden Ehrenreich. “I just want to say to my friends at Oppenhomies, every day of filming was like having my ass handed to me at the door,” Downey said. “I think it couldn’t happen to a prettier man.”
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