Critics Choice Awards 2025: Chelsea Handler ROASTS Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in opener

Chelsea Handler delivered a roast of A-list stars during her opening monologue astatine the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards, held astatine Barker Hangar successful Santa Monica connected Friday.

The comedian, 49, took purpose astatine Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's ongoing ineligible battle, earlier poking amusive of Nicole Kidman's Babygirl enactment scenes and teasing Ariana Grande for 'dating a munchkin.'

She started by roasting It Ends With Us stars Blake and Justin, arsenic she thanked the 2 for providing the state with a 'distraction.' 

'I deliberation everybody successful this room, nary substance whose broadside you're on, we tin each hold to judge that there's astir apt not gonna beryllium a sequel,' she joked. 

'It ends with us, guys,' Chelsea, who hosted the amusement for the 3rd time, humorously added. 

Chelsea went connected to rib Ariana and her narration with Wicked co-star Ethan Slater, 32, making a pun astatine the 5' 7" actor's relation successful the movie arsenic good arsenic his height.

She told the crowd: 'It's bully to spot immoderate of our astir beloved kid stars grown up and thriving. Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande are each nominated tonight. 

'And present Ariana has adjacent recovered emotion with a munchkin,' she added successful regards to Slater, who plays a Munchkin named Boq successful the 2024 movie adaptation of the philharmonic Wicked

After proceeding the crowd's amazed reaction, she said: 'That's bully news, everybody.' 

She went on: 'It wasn't conscionable the young actresses. We had a 95-year-old pistillate enactment star, June Squibb. How chill is that?'

'From Ariana to June, to win this year, you had to either past Nickelodeon oregon World War II.'

'I saw that documentary and Nickelodeon looked harder,' she quipped. 

Chelsea past poked amusive of Nicole's steamy enactment scenes successful Babygirl.

'There were truthful galore unthinkable philharmonic performances: Zoe Saldana successful Emilia Perez, that was beautiful, Sing Sing, which is not a philharmonic but I thought it would be. Nicole Kidman successful Babygirl look down successful a carpet.'

'Okay, technically Babygirl wasn't a musical, but she decidedly deed a fewer notes I've ne'er heard before.'

Nicole was pictured burying her caput successful her hands aft the joke. 

Chelsea besides made a hilarious remark astir Hollywood fable Ralph Fiennes, aft she mentioned his movie Conclave, wherever helium stars arsenic Cardinal Lawrence.

'Ralph Fiennes, don't deliberation I'm not gonna speech astir you. You've played a ruthless Nazi, evil Lord Voldemort, and present a celibate Cardinal, and someway made maine privation to person enactment with you successful each 3 movies,' she quipped arsenic the camera panned to Ralph, who was pictured laughing.

Chelsea went on: 'I americium not alone. You've made immoderate genuinely unsexy people, precise sexy. I'm begging you, delight ne'er play Vladimir Putin. I can't bash that again.'

'And my different large takeaway from Conclave you Vatican b*****s truly emotion to gossip.' 

Later successful her opener Chelsea joked astir archetypal woman Melania Trump.

'Musicals weren't the lone unthinkable films this year, we besides had movies for consecutive people. It was a immense twelvemonth for biopics. A Complete Unknown astir Bob Dylan. Maria astir Maria Callas. And Anora astir Melania Trump.'

Anora is simply a comedy-drama movie that follows the communicative of a young pistillate named Anora (played by Mikey Madison) who works arsenic a stripper successful Brooklyn, earlier gathering and marrying the lad of a affluent Russian oligarch. 

Chelsea past quipped that Janelle James' quality from the amusement Abbott Elementary is 'so incompetent' that she was amazed Janelle 'hasn't been tapped to tally the existent section of education.' 

Chelsea past tased Kristen Bell, the prima of Netflix bid Nobody Wants This.

'Hollywood was connected the vanguard of societal justness this year,' she said, adding, 'Netflix fought backmost against the rising tide of anti-semitism by having Kristen Bell get penetrated by a sexy rabbi.'

The Critics Choice Awards are yet taking spot aft doubly being delayed owed to the LA fires.

The amusement was archetypal slated to instrumentality spot connected Sunday, January 12, earlier being pushed to Sunday, January 26.

But owed to the venue's adjacent proximity to the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades, ceremonial officials decided to propulsion the amusement to February.

Wicked, Conclave and Shogun pb the nominations.

Wicked scored the most Critics Choice Awards 2025 nominations, including large nods for its stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, arsenic the philharmonic ties Conclave for the astir nominations with 11. 

Both Wicked and Conclave are besides up for the biggest prize of the nighttime successful Best Picture.

The 2 films volition look disconnected against an awesome tract including: A Complete Unknown, Anora, The Brutalist, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Substance. 

Ariana, 31, is up for Best Supporting actress, and she volition instrumentality connected Danielle Deadwyler — The Piano Lesson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor — Nickel Boys, Margaret Qualley — The Substance, Isabella Rossellini — Conclave, and Zoe Saldaña –—Emilia Pérez.

Cynthia, 38, volition besides look stiff contention successful the coveted Best Actress category, arsenic she is up against: Karla Sofía Gascón — Emilia Pérez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Hard Truths, Angelina Jolie — Maria, Mikey Madison — Anora, and Demi Moore — The Substance.

Transgender histrion Gascon, who has been slammed for resurfaced 'racist' societal media posts, is not expected to beryllium successful attendance with her Emilia Pérez castmates.

Wicked is centered around Elphaba (Erivo), a misunderstood young pistillate due to the fact that of her greenish skin, and Glinda (Grande), a fashionable girl. The 2 go friends astatine Shiz University successful the Land of Oz, but aft an brushwood with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their relationship reaches a crossroads.

Meanwhile, Conclave's Ralph Fiennes leads the Best Actor field, which includes: Adrien Brody — The Brutalist, Timothée Chalamet — A Complete Unknown, Daniel Craig — Queer, Colman Domingo — Sing Sing, and Hugh Grant — Heretic.

Conclave is centered astir Fiennes' character, Cardinal Lawrence, who is tasked with starring 1 of the world's astir secretive and past events, selecting a caller Pope. But helium soon finds himself astatine the halfway of a conspiracy that could shingle the precise instauration of the Catholic Church.

Rounding retired the apical idiosyncratic honors is the Best Supporting Actor category, which features: Yura Borisov — Anora, Kieran Culkin — A Real Pain, Clarence Maclin — Sing Sing, Edward Norton — A Complete Unknown, Guy Pearce — The Brutalist, and Denzel Washington — Gladiator II.

Both Wicked and Conclave are up for Best Acting Ensemble against Anora, Emilia Pérez, Saturday Night and Sing Sing. 

Best Director volition beryllium a contentious category, arsenic the tract includes: Jacques Audiard — Emilia Pérez, Sean Baker — Anora, Edward Berger — Conclave, Brady Corbet — The Brutalist, Jon M. Chu — Wicked, Coralie Fargeat — The Substance, RaMell Ross — Nickel Boys, and Denis Villeneuve — Dune: Part Two. 

Behind the 2 frontrunners with the astir nominations were Dune: Part Two and Emilia Perez, which each landed 10 nods.

The Brutalist had 9 portion Anora and The Substance trailed somewhat with 7 nominations each.

The Critics Choice Awards don't lone grant the finest successful films, but tv arsenic well.

FX bid Shōgun leads the mode with six nominations. The amusement earned a motion for Best Drama Series, portion the formed was recognized successful aggregate categories, including Hiroyuki Sanada for Best Actor successful a Drama Series and Anna Sawai for Best Actress successful a Drama Series. 

Tadanobu Asano and Takehiro Hira are some up for Best Supporting Actor successful a Drama Series, portion Moeka Hoshi could instrumentality location the Best Supporting Actress successful a Drama Series award.

Abbott Elementary, Disclaimer, Hacks, The Diplomat, The Penguin and What We Do successful the Shadows followed with an awesome 4 nominations each. 

Abbott Elementary, Hacks and What We Do successful the Shadows volition each look disconnected successful the Best Comedy Series category, portion Disclaimer and The Penguin are up for Best Limited Series and The Diplomat earned a motion for Best Drama Series.

Abbott Elementary earned further nods for Quinta Brunson for Best Actress successful a Comedy Series, Tyler James Williams for Best Supporting Actor successful a Comedy Series and Janelle James for Best Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series. 

Disclaimer received nominations for Kevin Kline for Best Actor successful a Limited Series oregon Movie Made for Television, Cate Blanchett for Best Actress successful a Limited Series oregon Movie Made for Television and Leila George for Best Supporting Actress successful a Limited Series oregon Movie Made for Television. 

The formed of Hacks was recognized successful respective categories, earning nods for Jean Smart for Best Actress successful a Comedy Series, Paul W. Downs for Best Supporting Actor successful a Comedy Series and for Hannah Einbinder for Best Supporting Actress successful a Comedy Series. 

The Diplomat earned nominations for Rufus Sewell and Keri Russell, who are up for Best Actor successful a Drama Series and Best Actress successful a Drama Series, respectively, portion Allison Janney garnered a motion for Best Supporting Actress successful a Drama Series. 

Colin Farrell could instrumentality location the Best Actor successful a Limited Series oregon Movie Made for Television grant for his relation successful The Penguin, portion the show’s Cristin Milioti is up for Best Actress successful a Limited Series oregon Movie Made for Television and Deirdre O’Connell was nominated for Best Supporting Actress successful a Limited Series oregon Movie Made for Television. 

What We Do successful the Shadows garnered nominations for Kayvan Novak for Best Actor successful a Comedy Series, Natasia Demetriou for Best Actress successful a Comedy Series and Harvey Guillén for Best Supporting Actor successful a Comedy Series.

Netflix sensation Baby Reindeer is besides up for 4 awards, including nods for Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning and Best Limited Series. 

Historically, the awards are considered the astir close predictor of Academy Award nominations.

Another large alteration for the ceremonial is determination volition nary longer beryllium a Live from E!: Critics Choice Awards two-hour reddish carpet peculiar up of the telecast.

The Critics Choice Awards are presented by the American–Canadian Critics Choice Association, which is the largest critics enactment successful the United States and Canada, representing much than 600 media critics and amusement journalists. 

It was established successful 2019 with the ceremonial merger of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, recognizing the intersection betwixt film, television, and streaming content.

The 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards volition aerial connected E! from 7 p.m.–10 p.m. EST/PST.