Hollywood Critics Association Awards recognizes Apple TV+ as most nominated streaming service

Apple TV+ has received more than 50 nominations across a wide range of genres, including docuseries, comedy, drama, anthology series, and variety sketch series.

On Thursday, the Hollywood Critics Association announced that Apple had received a record 53 nominations. "Severance," the popular psychological thriller, picked up 12 nominations, including Best Drama Streaming series.

For the second year in a row, "Ted Lasso" is the most-nominated comedy series, totaling 12 nominations. It's picked up nominations for Best Streaming Series, Best Actor for Jason Sudeikis, Best Supporting Actress for Hannah Waddingham and Juno Temple, Best Supporting Actor for Brett Goldstein, Nick Mohammed, and Toheeb Jimoh, plus four writing and directing nominations.

More broadly, Apple had three series nominated for Best Streaming Series, Drama, including "The Morning Show," "Pachinko," and "Severance."

It picked up four nominations for Best Streaming Series, Comedy, with "The Afterparty," "Dickinson," "Shmigadoon!" and "Ted Lasso."

"Acapulco" and "Pachinko" both received nominations for Best International Series, and "Prehistoric Planet" was nominated for Best Streaming Docuseries or Non-Fiction Series.

The list is rather long and can be viewed on Apple's Apple TV+ press site.

Apple also points out that Apple Original films, documentaries, and series have earned 246 wins and 1,062 award nominations and counting. In 2022, Apple TV+ snagged an Oscar for Best Picture with "CODA."

Founded in 2016, the Hollywood Critics Association was "created to acknowledge the importance of online critics and encourage, support, and promote underrepresented voices within the industry," according to the HCA website.

The Hollywood Critics Association Awards will be presented at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on August 14.

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22july2013 3721 comments · 11 Years

About 2 years ago

I'm no expert, but don't most movie distributors, including Apple, purchase movies and properties after they have been funded, filmed and finalized by private producers? If so, it's not really the distributor who should get the credit for all the awards.

In the case of TV shows, it's probably just the pilot episodes that are funded privately, after which the producers shop around for a distributor to fund the whole season.

RudeBoyRudy 106 comments · 3 Years

22july2013 said:

I'm no expert, but don't most movie distributors, including Apple, purchase movies and properties after they have been funded, filmed and finalized by private producers? If so, it's not really the distributor who should get the credit for all the awards.

In the case of TV shows, it's probably just the pilot episodes that are funded privately, after which the producers shop around for a distributor to fund the whole season.

my head hurts after reading this

jeff fields 161 comments · 12 Years

22july2013 said:

I'm no expert, but don't most movie distributors, including Apple, purchase movies and properties after they have been funded, filmed and finalized by private producers? If so, it's not really the distributor who should get the credit for all the awards.

In the case of TV shows, it's probably just the pilot episodes that are funded privately, after which the producers shop around for a distributor to fund the whole season.

No.

Not even close to true. Two minutes of research could have answered this for you. The vast majority of Apple TV+ content was funded, conceived, hired for, and supported from the very beginning by Apple.

And so yes, it is Apple who should get the credit. Obviously.

jeff fields said:

22july2013 said:

I'm no expert, but don't most movie distributors, including Apple, purchase movies and properties after they have been funded, filmed and finalized by private producers? If so, it's not really the distributor who should get the credit for all the awards.

In the case of TV shows, it's probably just the pilot episodes that are funded privately, after which the producers shop around for a distributor to fund the whole season.

No.

Not even close to true. Two minutes of research could have answered this for you. The vast majority of Apple TV+ content was funded, conceived, hired for, and supported from the very beginning by Apple.

And so yes, it is Apple who should get the credit. Obviously.

CODA was filmed summer 2019 and Apple purchased the rights to distribute it on January 30, 2021. That took me under two minutes of research. You've proven my point. THANKS! Apple didn't fund the production of CODA because the movie was filmed 18 months before Apple provided any money.

After pondering why you were wrong, I think what you imagined was that I was thinking that most/all of Apple's products were filmed before Apple got involved. Go back and read my post again. I said "most companies purchase movies after they have been funded." I didn't say "ALL movies", I said "movies." And the fact that CODA was purchased after it was made proved my statement to be correct.

Beats 3073 comments · 4 Years

22july2013 said:

jeff fields said:

22july2013 said:

I'm no expert, but don't most movie distributors, including Apple, purchase movies and properties after they have been funded, filmed and finalized by private producers? If so, it's not really the distributor who should get the credit for all the awards.

In the case of TV shows, it's probably just the pilot episodes that are funded privately, after which the producers shop around for a distributor to fund the whole season.

No.

Not even close to true. Two minutes of research could have answered this for you. The vast majority of Apple TV+ content was funded, conceived, hired for, and supported from the very beginning by Apple.

And so yes, it is Apple who should get the credit. Obviously.

CODA was filmed summer 2019 and Apple purchased the rights to distribute it on January 30, 2021. That took me under two minutes of research. You've proven my point. THANKS! Apple didn't fund the production of CODA because the movie was filmed 18 months before Apple provided any money.

After pondering why you were wrong, I think what you imagined was that I was thinking that most/all of Apple's products were filmed before Apple got involved. Go back and read my post again. I said "most companies purchase movies after they have been funded." I didn't say "ALL movies", I said "movies." And the fact that CODA was purchased after it was made proved my statement to be correct.

A little of both are true but most Apple content isn’t revealed until after it’s finished. If your first post was true, Warner Bros. Disney, Sony etc. would be waiting around until some independent guys finish their next movie.

I do wish Apple didn’t include 3rd party producers in Apple TV Plus. It’s awkward as heck seeing 3rd party logos on a first party service. This is where Netflix does it right.