The Critics Choice Awards have just made a pretty bad choice. The ceremony will not hand out its usual award for animated features this year. The category was nowhere to be seen among the nominations, which were announced yesterday.
Animation has been relegated to a separate ceremony, the Critics Choice Super Awards, the inaugural edition of which was held on January 10. Both ceremonies are hosted by the Critics Choice Association (CCA), which launched the Super Awards to celebrate “the most popular, fan-obsessed genres across both television and movies, including superhero, science fiction/fantasy, horror, action, and animation.”
In the CCA’s view, animation is now a genre and should be honored as such.