The best of the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards red carpet — black gowns, Nicole Kidman and more

Now that the Golden Globes are said and done, you might have thought red carpets would go back to normal. We’d focus on the clothes and the trends and nothing more.

Well, friends, that’s just not the case. At the 2018 Critics’ Choice Awards on Thursday night, politics still creeped onto the red carpet — albeit in a much smaller way. While pointed black dresses and those “Time’s Up” pins did make appearances, the red carpet itself was soaked in color — Nicole Kidman wore hot pink, for instance — and far less of the women and men in attendance donned those pins.

Unlike the Golden Globes, those two sartorial statements just weren’t seen as nearly the obligation they once were. So let’s run through some of the best and most notable looks we saw last night, shall we?

The black ensembles

Reese Witherspoon in Prada

Laura Dern in Balmain

Elisabeth Moss in Erdem

Emilia Clarke in Dolce & Gabbana

Rachel Bloom in Christian Siriano

The non-black dresses

Angelina Jolie in Ralph & Russo

Margot Robbie in Chanel

Gal Gadot in Prada

Nicole Kidman in Valentino

Octavia Spencer in Tadashi Shoji

Saoirse Ronan in Michael Kors

Samira Wiley in Rebecca Vallance

Rachel Brosnahan in Zuhair Murad

Constance Wu in Galia Lahav

Greta Gerwig in Fendi

Mary J. Blige in Vivienne Westwood Couture

Alison Brie in Roberto Cavalli

Olivia Munn in Prada

Diane Kruger in Vera Wang

Jessica Chastain in Vionnet

Zoe Kazan in Valentino

Kiernan Shipka in Delpozo

Yara Shahidi in Giambattista Valli

Allison Janney in Michael Cinco

Jessica Biel in Oscar de la Renta

The Time’s Up pin

The Handmaid’s Tale creator Bruce Miller

Ironic that the creator of the eerily culturally relevant TV show The Handmaid’s Tale is the only truly notable man who wore that “Time’s Up” pin, isn’t it?

The Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 21 are the next big awards show, so let’s see how politics shapes that red carpet.