The twenty eighth annual Critics’ Choice Awards went off with out a hitch Sunday evening … and whereas celebs had been takin’ house gold all evening lengthy, they had been having a great deal of enjoyable when the cameras WEREN’T rolling,
Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan hugged it out behind the scenes, marking one other emotional get-together for the two since final working collectively in 1992’s “Encino Man.” They each had been winners of the evening — Brendan for “The Whale” and Ke for “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
Award season frontrunners Austin Butler and Cate Blanchett — who gained for Best Actress — buddied up for the digital camera backstage, too!
Angela Bassett, who took house the award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” was all smiles on the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in L.A.
It was a ‘Big Lebowski’ reunion, too — pretty much as good buds John Goodman and Jeff Bridges had been cheesin’ onerous collectively … as you realize, John had the respect of presenting Jeff with this yr’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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ICYMI — Brendan gave an extremely emotional acceptance speech for his win, breaking down whereas telling the gang he was lately “within the wilderness,” and is grateful to have been rediscovered. What adopted these remarks was simply as highly effective.
Janelle Monae took house the SeeHer Award — and rocked a head-turning robe that seemed to be from Vera Wang‘s Spring 2023 assortment … givin’ everybody an eyeful.
