21st Critics' Choice Awards

The 21st Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 17, 2016 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2015.

Robot (USA) Fargo (FX) BoJack Horseman (Netflix) Outlander (Starz) Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman – Transparent Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Andre Braugher as Captain Raymond Holt – Brooklyn Nine-Nine Mayim Bialik as Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler – The Big Bang Theory Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson – Mr.

Robot Constance Zimmer as Quinn King – UnREAL Idris Elba as DCI John Luther – Luther Kirsten Dunst as Peggy Blumquist – Fargo Jesse Plemons as Ed Blumquist – Fargo Jean Smart as Floyd Gerhardt – Fargo Timothy Olyphant as Himself – The Grinder Margo Martindale as Ruth Eastman – The Good Wife Shark Tank (ABC) Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN) The Voice (NBC) James Lipton – Inside the Actors Studio Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Industrial Light & Magic[6] Amy Schumer[7] The film Star Wars: The Force Awakens screened too late for the vast majority of the Broadcast Film Critics Association to see it in time for consideration for the awards.

(A similar situation happened for the 6th Critics' Choice Awards in 2001, in which the film Cast Away was voted by referendum to be included among the nominees for Best Picture.)

Melin, in an open letter, wrote: "In order for a professional critics body to have integrity, nomination and voting guidelines must be consistent with the way they were laid out at the beginning of the process.

Nominating Star Wars: The Force Awakens for Best Picture does not follow those guidelines, and re-ignites a loophole for this kind of thing to happen every year...