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Critics Choice Voting Begins Today, Here Are Top 15 Choices for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Etc

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The Critics Choice Awards begin voting today for nominations. The New York Film Critics and other groups are also voting this week, and there will be plenty of announcements. It’s been a pretty good year for movies as it turned out. Since everyone’s into lists, here are three: Best Picture, Actress, and Actor. Next item will be Director, Supporting Actor and Actress, and Screenplays.

This is the order now. But as we all know, it changes…Also, in Comedy category for Critics Choice or Golden Globes, we can’t forget “Dolemite is My Name” or “Hustlers.”
BEST PICTURE

1. The Irishman

2. 1917

3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

4. Richard Jewell

5. Little Women

6. Ford v Ferrari

7. Just Mercy

8. Bombshell

9. Joker

10. Two Popes

11. Knives Out

12. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

13. Marriage Story

14. Pain and Glory

15. The Farewell

BEST ACTRESS

1. Renee Zellweger
2. Saoirse Ronan
3. Cynthia Erivo
4. Charlize Theron
5. Alfre Woodard
6. Scarlett Johansson
7. Lupita Nyong’o
8. Awkwafina
9. Mary Kay Place

BEST ACTOR
1. Robert DeNiro
2. Adam Driver
3. Joaquin Phoenix
4. Eddie Murphy
5. Jonathan Pryce
6. Leonardo DiCaprio
7. George MacKay
8. Antonio Banderas
9. Paul Walter Hauser
10. Christian Bale

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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