Chelsea Handler, the six-time New York Times best-selling author and advocate, will be hosting the gala event for the third consecutive year.

Critics Choice Awards, originally scheduled for Jan. 12 and pushed to Jan. 26, it will now take place February 7.

The 2025 Critics Choice Awards have been rescheduled for a second time because of the California wildfires. The show as originally scheduled for Jan. 12 then moved to Jan. 26 and now will air on Friday, Feb. 7. The Critics Choice Association said the red carpet special ahead of the telecast will no longer be held.

The Critics Choice Awards is one of many Hollywood events upended by the fires that began on Jan. 7, which have scorched large areas of Los Angeles County. With thousands of structures destroyed and mass evacuations affecting nearly 200,

But in true Hollywood fashion, the show must go on, and despite the delay, the Critics Choice Awards are still set to try and bring cause for celebration to a community rocked by disaster. On the movie front,