"You're a giant of the heart and thank you so much for making me a little more human," Jessie Buckley told Paul Mescal in her Best Actress acceptance speech

The calendar has turned — and awards season is moving into hyperdrive. The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards are being handed out tonight, and Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced.

At the Critics Choice 2026, Jessie Buckley had a cheeky message for her Hamnet costar Paul Mescal "I Could Drink You Like Water" at Critics Choice Awards

Hamnet actress Jessie Buckley confirms she quietly welcomed her first child after announcing her pregnancy on the red carpet in April.

The If I Had Legs I’d Kick You star is the first to sweep NYFCC, NBR, and LAFCA since Helen Mirren in 2006, skyrocketing from a long-shot contender to the clear woman to beat.

Amanda Seyfried, Laura Dern and Renate Reinsve joined in with intimate tales of getting drunk with a co-star and letting out a primal screen on camera.

Jessie Buckley is earning early awards-season buzz for her portrayal of Agnes in Hamnet, the Oscar-tipped adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel. The film explores the emotional origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, focusing on the grief and resilience of Shakespeare’s family after tragedy strikes their young son.

Fresh from Golden Globe nominations and the Irish premiere, Esther McCarthy meets lead actress Jessie Buckley and director Chloé Zhao to discuss the extraordinary ‘Hamnet’

Her statements were loud and fearless: gothic, punk energy in Schiaparelli, Harlequin queen drama in Vivienne Westwood, raven hair one red carpet, platinum blonde the next. That sense of surprise was part of the thrill—until, suddenly, it wasn’t.