Inside Critics’ Choice Awards ‘tiny’ snack plates

This year’s Critics' Choice Awards season officially began in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday 4.

The luxury event included guests Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessie Buckley, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Ryan Coogler.

Notably, during the ceremony, The New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan offered a look at the food served to the A-listers and wrote on X: “Hello from the Critics' Choice Awards and our dinner, this snack plate."

The image showed an ordinary-looking plain plate of grapes, cheeses, bruschetta chips, bread, and cherry tomatoes.

Janelle James, while accepting her award, joked, “The best thing about being nominated four times is I finally realized they're never gonna feed us at this thing. It’s gonna be grapes and ice cream every year, but this makes up for it!” 

People on Twitter and X poked fun at how the snacks looked, “like it lost a fight with a blender” or were “made for Instagram, not for eating.”

“Plate giving Fyre Festival,” one person commented, while sharing a picture of the infamous cheese sandwiches provided at the disastrous 2017 music festival.

“This looks like a meal on a United flight, not at an award show,” another responded.

 Another netizen added, “This plate is so sad. It's not even presented particularly nicely.”

“The critics should choose something more substantial for dinner,” a fourth one chimed in.

Additionally, the food wasn’t the only dish at last night’s award show. During the red carpet, Paul Downs and Meg Stalter paid a cheeky tribute to Chalamet and his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner.