The run of present for the Critics Selection Awards received a shock replace when host Chelsea Handler determined to “go rogue” and name Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie to the stage.

Gerwig and Robbie’s “Barbie” had picked up a bunch of awards throughout the night, however many have been introduced throughout the industrial breaks, together with finest comedy. That wasn’t going to work for Handler, who’d devoted a very good portion of her monologue to saluting “Barbie” for its $1.4 billion field workplace achievement and its cultural relevance amid “The Yr of the Girl.”

“I’m gonna go rogue as a result of Greta and Margot deserve the chance to make an acceptance speech,” Handler mentioned. “Would you thoughts arising and accepting the award?”

The digicam minimize to Gerwig and Robbie, who excitedly scrambled to the stage from their desk.

“Thanks, Chelsea. We love you a lot,” Robbie mentioned onstage. “You realize, when everyone seems to be like ‘Oh, that is so sudden. That is truly sudden and was not aside of the present.’ We have been very grateful nonetheless and I’d like Greta to speak.”

The filmmaker started by thanking Handler too: “We have been excited in our chairs. And it’s good to be up right here. Thanks to everybody that helped make the film. I laughed throughout most takes. Due to our lovely solid — Margot and Ryan and America — who received to be as good as they’re.”

Gerwig then thanked the firms behind the movie — Mattel for “letting us take their beloved icon and make one thing so unhinged” and Warner Bros. for “standing behind us each step of the best way.” She saved her ultimate shoutout for Baumbach, her co-writer and new husband. “We wished to make everybody giggle and we made the world giggle too.”

By this level, “Barbie” had received awards for unique screenplay (Gerwig and Noah Baumbach), unique track (“I’m Simply Ken”), manufacturing design (Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer), costume design (Jaqueline Durran) and hair and make-up. Selecting up the very best comedy prize meant the movie had received six out of its record-setting 18 nominations — which included finest image, director, actress (Robbie), supporting actor (Ryan Gosling), supporting actress (America Ferrera) and three for unique track.

Plus, Ferrera was honored with the Critics Selection SeeHer Award and delivered a robust speech that evoked her viral monologue from the film, wanting again at her two-decade profession and dedicating the award to “each child craving to interrupt in.”

“I’m deeply grateful for this acknowledgment and this honor for my contributions to extra genuine portrayals of girls and ladies,” Ferrera started. “I couldn’t be extra significant to me as a result of I grew up as a first-generation Honduran American woman in love with TV, movie and theater who desperately wished to be a part of a storytelling legacy that I couldn’t see myself mirrored in.”

She continued: “In fact, I might really feel myself in characters who’re sturdy and complicated, however these characters who’re sturdy and complicated, however these characters not often, if ever, appeared like me. I yearned to see folks like myself on display screen as full people. Once I began working over 20 years in the past, that appeared unimaginable.”

However, because of writers, administrators, producers and executives — like Robbie and Gerwig — who “have been daring sufficient to rewrite outdated tales and to problem deeply entrenched biases,” Ferrera and her Latino colleagues have been “supremely blessed to deliver to life some fierce and improbable ladies.”

It’s about carving out a pathway for the brand new era of expertise, like Ariana Greenblatt, who performed Ferrera’s daughter in “Barbie,” Jenna Ortega and Selena Gomez.

“That is the very best and highest use of storytelling: to affirm each other full humanity. To uphold the reality. That we’re all worthy of being seen — Black, brown, Indigenous, Asian, trans, disabled, any physique sort, any gender. We’re all worthy of getting our lives richly and authentically mirrored.”