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The run of current for the Critics Choice Awards acquired a shock substitute when host Chelsea Handler decided to “go rogue” and identify Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie to the stage.

Gerwig and Robbie’s “Barbie” had picked up a bunch of awards all through the evening, nevertheless many have been launched all through the economic breaks, along with best comedy. That wasn’t going to work for Handler, who’d devoted an excellent portion of her monologue to saluting “Barbie” for its $1.4 billion subject office achievement and its cultural relevance amid “The Yr of the Woman.”

“I’m gonna go rogue because of Greta and Margot deserve the possibility to make an acceptance speech,” Handler talked about. “Would you ideas arising and accepting the award?”

The digicam decrease to Gerwig and Robbie, who excitedly scrambled to the stage from their desk.

“Thanks, Chelsea. We love you numerous,” Robbie talked about onstage. “You notice, when everybody appears to be like ‘Oh, that’s so sudden. That’s really sudden and was not apart of the current.’ We’ve got been very grateful nonetheless and I’d like Greta to talk.”

The filmmaker began by thanking Handler too: “We’ve got been excited in our chairs. And it’s good to be up proper right here. Due to everyone that helped make the movie. I laughed all through most takes. On account of our beautiful strong — Margot and Ryan and America — who acquired to be pretty much as good as they’re.”

Gerwig then thanked the corporations behind the film — Mattel for “letting us take their beloved icon and make one factor so unhinged” and Warner Bros. for “standing behind us every step of one of the best ways.” She saved her final shoutout for Baumbach, her co-writer and new husband. “We wished to make everyone giggle and we made the world giggle too.”

By this degree, “Barbie” had acquired awards for distinctive screenplay (Gerwig and Noah Baumbach), distinctive monitor (“I’m Merely Ken”), manufacturing design (Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer), costume design (Jaqueline Durran) and hair and make-up. Choosing up the perfect comedy prize meant the film had acquired six out of its record-setting 18 nominations — which included best picture, director, actress (Robbie), supporting actor (Ryan Gosling), supporting actress (America Ferrera) and three for distinctive monitor.

Plus, Ferrera was honored with the Critics Choice SeeHer Award and delivered a sturdy speech that evoked her viral monologue from the movie, wanting once more at her two-decade career and dedicating the award to “every little one craving to interrupt in.”

“I’m deeply grateful for this acknowledgment and this honor for my contributions to further real portrayals of ladies and women,” Ferrera began. “I couldn’t be further vital to me because of I grew up as a first-generation Honduran American girl in love with TV, film and theater who desperately wished to be part of a storytelling legacy that I couldn’t see myself mirrored in.”

She continued: “In truth, I would actually really feel myself in characters who’re sturdy and sophisticated, nevertheless these characters who’re sturdy and sophisticated, nevertheless these characters not typically, if ever, appeared like me. I yearned to see of us like myself on show display as full folks. As soon as I started working over 20 years prior to now, that appeared unimaginable.”

Nevertheless, due to writers, directors, producers and executives — like Robbie and Gerwig — who “have been daring enough to rewrite outdated tales and to drawback deeply entrenched biases,” Ferrera and her Latino colleagues have been “supremely blessed to ship to life some fierce and inconceivable women.”

It’s about carving out a pathway for the model new period of experience, like Ariana Greenblatt, who carried out Ferrera’s daughter in “Barbie,” Jenna Ortega and Selena Gomez.

“That’s the perfect and highest use of storytelling: to affirm one another full humanity. To uphold the truth. That we’re all worthy of being seen — Black, brown, Indigenous, Asian, trans, disabled, any physique type, any gender. We’re all worthy of getting our lives richly and authentically mirrored.”