People Are Calling Out The “Insulting” Way That This Major Award Was Presented On The Critics' Choice Red Carpet, And This Whole Interaction Is Painful To Watch

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• However, many viewers called out the frankly bizarre way the award for Best Foreign Language Film was presented before the Critics' Choice ceremony this year.
• Kevin Winter / If you haven’t been following, the Best Foreign Language Film category this year had some tough competition.
• The movies up for the award were It Was Just an Accident, Left-Handed Girl, No Other Choice, The Secret Agent, Sirat, and Belén, most of which have been pretty buzzy in the lead up to awards season — particularly The Secret Agent, which won.
• Dimitrios Kambouris / Despite the excitement surrounding The Secret Agent — a Latin American film primarily in Portuguese — the film’s director, Kleber Mendonça Filho, was unable to properly celebrate the win.
• He was abruptly presented with the award midway through an interview on the red carpet.