Critics' Choice Awards noms out; Scam 1992, Paatal Lok to contend for best series prize

What became very clear in 2020 is that the need for entertainment has suffered no setback. With this fervour to celebrate quality content, Critics’ Choice Awards announces the list of nominations for its third edition, to honour talent, artists and technicians in feature films, web series and short films across all Indian languages. The unique bit is that the award is determined to honour all mediums of storytelling. Sharing her views on the nominations, Anupama Chopra, Chairperson, Film Critics Guild says, “It’s been a watershed year for entertainment but despite the gargantuan odds of 2020, great stories have survived and thrived. The upcoming awards ceremony is a celebration of these stories that have sustained us." Sudip Sanyal, Business Head- Motion Content Group India shared, “In such a period of unprecedented unpredictability, the one thing which has been consistently outstanding is content available in our country. This year has seen the audience enjoy some fantastic content across the country and languages at home across devices. It is only natural for us then to applaud the nominees, as chosen by the Film Critics Guild, and congratulate the eventual winners of 2020.” Here’s the list of nominations for the upcoming award ceremony. Best Short Film: Bebaak (Dying Wind In Her Hair) The Booth Meal B Selvi & Daughters Dhummas Best Director: Shazia Iqbal for Bebaak (Dying Wind In Her Hair) Rohin Raveendran Nair for The Booth Abhiroop Basu for Meal Arun Fulara for Sunday Drishya for B Selvi & Daughters Best Actor: Shrikant Mohan Yadav for Sunday Vipin Sharma for Naap Sanjay Mishra for Adheen Adil Hussain for Meal Raja Chakravorty for Termites (Ghunn) Best Actress: Kalairaani for B Selvi & Daughters Sarah Hashmi for Bebaak Amruta Subhash for The Booth Seema Pahwa for Everything is Fine Pramodini Nanavati for Dhummas Best Writing: Shazia Iqbal for Bebaak Rohin Raveendran Nair for The Booth K.R. Meera, Nainisha Dedhia for Dhummas Bikramjit Gupta for Bridge Abhiroop Basu for Meal Best Series: Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Paatal Lok Aarya Special Ops Panchayat Best Actor Pratik Gandhi for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Jaideep Ahlawat for Paatal Lok Kay Kay Menon for Special OPS Divyenndu Sharma for Mirzapur Season 2 Bobby Deol for Aashram Best Actress Rasika Dugal for Mirzapur Season 2 Sushmita Sen for Aarya Shreya Dhanwanthary for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Sumukhi Suresh for Pushpavalli Season 2 Shweta Tripathi for Mirzapur Season 2 Best Supporting Actor Chandan Roy for Panchayat Abhishek Banerjee for Paatal Lok Hemant Kher for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Ishwak Singh for Paatal Lok Chandan Roy Sanyal for Aashram Best Supporting Actress Neena Gupta for Panchayat Sheeba Chaddha for Bandish Bandits Swastika Mukherjee for Paatal Lok Divya Dutta for Hostages Season 2 Best Writing Sumit Purohit, Saurav Dey, Vaibhav Vishal, Karan Vyas for Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Sudip Sharma, Sagar Haveli, Hardik Mehta, Gunjit Chopra for Paatal Lok Chandan Kumar for Panchayat Naveen Richard, Ayesha Nair, Sumaira Shaikh, Kumar Shivam, Sumukhi Suresh for Pushpavalli Season 2 Anu Singh Choudhary, Sandeep Shrivastava for Aarya The dates of the award ceremony will be announced soon.