After a whirlwind year for film and television, awards season continued in full swing on Sunday with the return of the Critics Choice Awards: a star-studded night where professionals and pundits honour the top films and television of the previous year.

Actress-comedian Chelsea Handler returned for the second consecutive year as host of the ceremony, which was held in The Barkar Hangar at Santa Monica Airport in Los Angeles.

Oppenheimer cemented its front-runner status with a leading eight Critics Choice Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Christopher Nolan, and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best Editing, and Best Visual Effects.

It was indeed a 'Barbenheimer' event at this year’s ceremony, with summer box-office rival Barbie taking home six wins, including Best Comedy, Best Original Screenplay, Best Song for "I'm Just Ken," Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Hair and Makeup.

Barbie takes home six wins, including Best Comedy and Best Original Screenplay / Copyright Warner Bros

Elsewhere, the ceremony rocked the leaderboard for this season’s predicted winners. Emma Stone won Best Actress for her performance in Poor Things, and the lead cast of The Holdovers took home awards: Best Actor for Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Best Young Actor/Actress for Dominic Sessa.

With fewer surprises and upsets, it was a Golden Globe redux on the television side. The Bear, Succession and Beef won top honours, each with multiple awards and earning Best Comedy Series, Best Drama Series and Best Limited Series, respectively.

The same is true for the acting awards, with Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook repeating as Best Actor and Actress in a Drama for HBO's Succession and Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri taking Best Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series for FX’s The Bear. Ali Wong and Steven Yeun both took Best Actress and Actor in a Limited Series or Made for TV Film for the Netflix Original Beef.

Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin win Best Actress and Actor for their roles in Succession / Copyright HBO

Billy Crudup and Elizabeth Debicki won the respective Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Drama Series categories for The Morning Show and The Crown, with the latter repeating her Globes triumph. Ebon Moss-Bachrach of The Bear and an absent Meryl Streep of Only Murders in the Building won Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series.

Maria Bello (Beef) and Jonathon Bailey (Fellow Travelers) earlier took Best Supporting Actress and Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television.

​​Beef and The Bear dominated the television side with four trophies apiece, and Succession with three.

View the full list of winners at the Critics Choice Awards below.

FILM

Best Picture: Oppenheimer

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers

Best Actress: Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Young Actor or Actress: Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers

Best Acting Ensemble: Oppenheimer

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Original Screenplay: Barbie

Best Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction

Best Cinematography: Oppenheimer

Best Production Design: Barbie

Best Editing: Oppenheimer

Best Costume Design: Barbie

Best Hair and Makeup: Barbie

Best Visual Effects: Oppenheimer

Best Comedy: Barbie

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Foreign-Language Film: Anatomy of a Fall

Best Song: “I’m Just Ken,” from Barbie

Best Score: Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer

TELEVISION

Best Drama Series: Succession

Best Actor, Drama Series: Kieran Culkin, Succession

Best Actress, Drama Series: Sarah Snook, Succession

Best Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Billy Crudup, The Morning Show

Best Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown

Best Comedy Series: The Bear

Best Actor, Comedy Series: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

Best Actress, Comedy Series: Ayo Edebiri, The Bear

Best Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Bear

Best Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building

Best Limited Series: Beef

Best TV Movie: Quiz Lady

Best Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie: Steven Yeun, Beef

Best Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie: Ali Wong, Beef

Best Supporting Actor, Limited Series or TV Movie: Jonathan Bailey, Fellow Travelers

Best Supporting Actress, Limited Series or TV Movie: Maria Bello, Beef

Best Foreign-Language Series: Lupin

Best Animated Series: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Best Talk Show: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

Best Comedy Special: John Mulaney, Baby J