Usually, the one factor the media can “vote” on at an awards present is the purple carpet’s best-dressed checklist. However not on the Critics Selection Awards! On the annual ceremony hosted by the American-Canadian Critics Selection Affiliation (CCA), winners are chosen by print, broadcast, and digital journalists who cowl leisure.

This yr’s awards passed off on the Barker Hangar on the Santa Monica Airport, with Chelsea Handler returning to host for the second yr in a row. She obtained issues off to a robust begin—solely very subtly making a jab at her ex’s controversial internet hosting gig on the Golden Globes final weekend.

Just like the Globes, the Critics Selection Awards are arrange dinner party-style, that means its A-list company are free to mingle between business breaks. This tends to be when the actual enjoyable occurs—celebs snap their selfies (they’re similar to us!), and casts have mini-reunions months after wrapping. (The Morning Present’s Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, for instance, may very well be seen catching up; each have been nominated for finest actress in a drama sequence.)

Co-nominees Billie Eilish (in a slick Thom Browne corset) and Dua Lipa (in a Merlot-colored Prada quantity) posed for a number of photographs; Oprah Winfrey, nonetheless repping The Coloration Purple along with her purple carpet seems to be, hugged seatmate Danielle Brooks. Elsewhere, Succession (nominated for finest drama sequence) star Nicholas Braun chatted it up with Barbie’s Margot Robbie (in a “Barbie-esque” Balmain costume, she took a beat from her archival Barbie getups), and Invoice Hader (up for finest actor in a comedy sequence) appeared to make the rounds alongside his girlfriend, Ali Wong—who was voted finest actress in a restricted sequence or film made for tv for her flip in Beef. See all the easiest moments, under.