The Critics Choice

The Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, frequently called the Critics' Choice Awards, are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honour the finest in cinematic accomplishment. Nominees are taken by written ballots in a week-long voting period of time, and are proclaimed in December.

The achievers are brought out at the annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony in January. The awards are broadcast live on the VH1 television network. The 2007 and 2008 Awards were at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, the 2009 eventrenamed The Critics' Choice Movie Awards - was held at the refurbished historic Hollywood Palladium on January 15, 2010. Special awards are given out at the discreetness of the BFCA Board of Directors.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association prides itself on its power to expect Academy Award nominations : between 1997 and 2004, the Critics Choice nominations foreboded all but two of 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. By comparability, the Golden Globe Awards were threefold likely to differ during the same period of time. (citation needed) However, the fact that the BFCA which in general nominates nine or ten films for Best Film chooses more than the five nominations of the Academy Awards and Golden Globes may account for some of this greater predictive power. The nominations for the 2011 Awards were foretold on December 13, 2010.