Now that the Golden Globes are said and done, you might have thought red carpets would go back to normal. We’d focus on the clothes and the trends and nothing more.
Well, friends, that’s just not the case. At the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards on Thursday night, politics still creeped onto the red carpet — albeit in a much smaller way. While pointed black dresses and those “Time’s Up” pins did make appearances, the red carpet itself was soaked in color — Nicole Kidman wore hot pink, for instance — and far less of the women and men in attendance donned those pins.
Unlike the Golden Globes, those two sartorial statements just weren’t seen as nearly the obligation they once were. So let’s run through some of the best and most notable looks we saw last night, shall we?
The black ensembles
Reese Witherspoon in Prada
Reese Witherspoon at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Laura Dern in Balmain
Laura Dern at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Elisabeth Moss in Erdem
Elisabeth Moss at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsChristopher Polk/Getty Images
Emilia Clarke in Dolce & Gabbana
Emilia Clarke at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Rachel Bloom in Christian Siriano
Rachel Bloom at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Angelina Jolie at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Margot Robbie in Chanel
Margot Robbie at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Gal Gadot in Prada
Gal Gadot at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Nicole Kidman in Valentino
Nicole Kidman at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJean-Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images
Octavia Spencer in Tadashi Shoji
Octavia Spencer at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Saoirse Ronan in Michael Kors
Saoirse Ronan at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJean-Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images
Samira Wiley in Rebecca Vallance
Samira Wiley at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Rachel Brosnahan in Zuhair Murad
Rachel Brosnahan at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Constance Wu in Galia Lahav
Constance Wu at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Greta Gerwig in Fendi
Greta Gerwig at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Mary J. Blige in Vivienne Westwood Couture
Mary J. Blige at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Alison Brie in Roberto Cavalli
Alison Brie at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Olivia Munn in Prada
Host Olivia Munn at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsChristopher Polk/Getty Images
Diane Kruger in Vera Wang
Diane Kruger at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Jessica Chastain in Vionnet
Jessica Chastain at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Zoe Kazan in Valentino
Zoe Kazan at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Kiernan Shipka in Delpozo
Kiernan Shipka at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Yara Shahidi in Giambattista Valli
Yara Shahidi at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsMatt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images
Allison Janney in Michael Cinco
Allison Janney at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
Jessica Biel in Oscar de la Renta
Jessica Biel at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsJordan Strauss/AP
The Time’s Up pin
The Handmaid’s Tale creator Bruce Miller
Bruce Miller at the 23rd annual Critics’ Choice AwardsChristopher Polk/Getty Images
Ironic that the creator of the eerily culturally relevant TV show The Handmaid’s Tale is the only truly notable man who wore that “Time’s Up” pin, isn’t it?
The Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 21 are the next big awards show, so let’s see how politics shapes that red carpet.
