
Critics Choice Awards 2026: ‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Adolescence’ take top prize, ‘Frankenstein’and ‘Sinners’ also shine
The Hindu
The Critics Choice Awards 2026 were announced on Sunday, January 4, 2026, at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, where 'One Battle After Another' won multiple awards while Leonardo Di Caprio lost the Best Actor honour to Timothee Chalamet for 'Marty Supreme'

Away from the memorial of saint-composer Thyagaraja in Thiruvaiyaru, where his 179th aradhana is marked by five days of uninterrupted concerts, unchavritti and rendering of the Pancharatna kritis, a parallel aradhana is under way in Thanjavur. In the narrow Varagappa Iyer Lane off the bustling South Main Street, devotees queue up at a house named after Thyagaraja. It is here that the idols of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Shatrughna and Anjaneya, worshipped by Thyagaraja himself, are preserved, along with a portrait of the saint-composer said to have been drawn by his disciples.












