Paul Giamatti at the Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Jan. 14, 2024.Photo:Kevin Winter/GettyThe 2024Critics Choice Awardshave named their best movie actor of the year:Paul Giamatti!TheHoldoversstar beat out fellow leading menBradley CooperforMaestro,Leonardo DiCaprioforKillers of the Flower Moon,Colman DomingoforRustin,Cillian MurphyforOppenheimerandJeffrey WrightforAmerican Fiction.Giamatti, 56, began his acceptance speech with a hilarious nod to hispost-Golden Globes In-N-Out moment, joking to laughter from the crowd, “Wow, guys. I didn’t think my week could get any better than going viral for eating a cheeseburger.““Seriously guys, I need that endorsement, so let’s all just pray for me,” he quipped.Aside from cast, crew, his team and the studio, Giamatti thanked his son Samuel, girlfriend Clara Wong and his late father Bart Giamatti, “who never saw me act professionally” before his death.“He was a literary critic, and so you couldn’t get away with anything but good work with him,” the actor went on. “This would make him really happy, and that makes me really happy. So thank you.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.Paul Giamatti inThe Holdovers(2023).Seacia Pavao/ FOCUS FEATURESThe awards attention Giamatti is receiving forThe Holdoversis special considering the movie marks his reunion withAlexander Payne, who also directed 2004’sSideways.For playing across-eyed boarding school professorin 1970, Giamatti recentlytook home a Golden Globe Award. (So did his Critics Choice-winning costar,Da’Vine Joy Randolph.)It’s the veteran actor’s sixth overall nod, including wins forSidewaysand 2006’sCinderella Man.SeePEOPLE’s full coverageof the 29th annual Critics’ Choice Awards as they’re broadcasting live from The Barker Hangar in Los Angeles on The CW.
Paul Giamatti at the Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, on Jan. 14, 2024.Photo:Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty
The 2024Critics Choice Awardshave named their best movie actor of the year:Paul Giamatti!TheHoldoversstar beat out fellow leading menBradley CooperforMaestro,Leonardo DiCaprioforKillers of the Flower Moon,Colman DomingoforRustin,Cillian MurphyforOppenheimerandJeffrey WrightforAmerican Fiction.Giamatti, 56, began his acceptance speech with a hilarious nod to hispost-Golden Globes In-N-Out moment, joking to laughter from the crowd, “Wow, guys. I didn’t think my week could get any better than going viral for eating a cheeseburger.““Seriously guys, I need that endorsement, so let’s all just pray for me,” he quipped.Aside from cast, crew, his team and the studio, Giamatti thanked his son Samuel, girlfriend Clara Wong and his late father Bart Giamatti, “who never saw me act professionally” before his death.“He was a literary critic, and so you couldn’t get away with anything but good work with him,” the actor went on. “This would make him really happy, and that makes me really happy. So thank you.“Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.Paul Giamatti inThe Holdovers(2023).Seacia Pavao/ FOCUS FEATURESThe awards attention Giamatti is receiving forThe Holdoversis special considering the movie marks his reunion withAlexander Payne, who also directed 2004’sSideways.For playing across-eyed boarding school professorin 1970, Giamatti recentlytook home a Golden Globe Award. (So did his Critics Choice-winning costar,Da’Vine Joy Randolph.)It’s the veteran actor’s sixth overall nod, including wins forSidewaysand 2006’sCinderella Man.SeePEOPLE’s full coverageof the 29th annual Critics’ Choice Awards as they’re broadcasting live from The Barker Hangar in Los Angeles on The CW.
The 2024Critics Choice Awardshave named their best movie actor of the year:Paul Giamatti!
TheHoldoversstar beat out fellow leading menBradley CooperforMaestro,Leonardo DiCaprioforKillers of the Flower Moon,Colman DomingoforRustin,Cillian MurphyforOppenheimerandJeffrey WrightforAmerican Fiction.
Giamatti, 56, began his acceptance speech with a hilarious nod to hispost-Golden Globes In-N-Out moment, joking to laughter from the crowd, “Wow, guys. I didn’t think my week could get any better than going viral for eating a cheeseburger.”
“Seriously guys, I need that endorsement, so let’s all just pray for me,” he quipped.
Aside from cast, crew, his team and the studio, Giamatti thanked his son Samuel, girlfriend Clara Wong and his late father Bart Giamatti, “who never saw me act professionally” before his death.
“He was a literary critic, and so you couldn’t get away with anything but good work with him,” the actor went on. “This would make him really happy, and that makes me really happy. So thank you.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human-interest stories.
Paul Giamatti inThe Holdovers(2023).Seacia Pavao/ FOCUS FEATURES
Seacia Pavao/ FOCUS FEATURES
The awards attention Giamatti is receiving forThe Holdoversis special considering the movie marks his reunion withAlexander Payne, who also directed 2004’sSideways.
For playing across-eyed boarding school professorin 1970, Giamatti recentlytook home a Golden Globe Award. (So did his Critics Choice-winning costar,Da’Vine Joy Randolph.)
It’s the veteran actor’s sixth overall nod, including wins forSidewaysand 2006’sCinderella Man.
SeePEOPLE’s full coverageof the 29th annual Critics’ Choice Awards as they’re broadcasting live from The Barker Hangar in Los Angeles on The CW.
source: people.com
