Overview
- Accepting Best Talk Show at the Critics Choice Awards, Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump, jokingly calling him “Donald Jennifer Trump” and thanking him for the “ridiculous things” he does every day.
- Ethan Hawke, honored with a Career Achievement Award in Palm Springs, criticized the bombing in comments to Variety, saying “power corrupts” and calling the moment a familiar pattern in history.
- Leonardo DiCaprio missed the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala after restricted airspace and travel disruptions kept him in St. Barts, according to a festival spokesperson.
- DiCaprio accepted the Desert Palm Achievement Award via a pre-recorded video message, saying, “Movies still matter, not content, but cinema.”
- The Critics Choice and Palm Springs events proceeded with high-profile honorees that included Timothée Chalamet, Rose Byrne, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Hudson, Adam Sandler and Elle Fanning.