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Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture

So, you know how sometimes you watch a movie and you really like it? And then maybe you tell your family or your friends how much you liked it and they watch it too and they also like it a lot?

Well, imagine if there were a lot of people like you and your family and friends who liked the movie so much that they wanted to give it a special award. That's kind of what happens with the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture.

The Critics' Choice Awards is a big ceremony where lots of people who watch and talk about movies (called "critics") get together and choose their favorite movies of the year. They watch tons and tons of movies and talk about them a lot to decide which ones are the best.

When they all agree on which movie they think is the very best, they give it a special award called the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Picture. It's like saying "this movie was better than all the other movies we watched this year!"

Winning the Best Picture award is really special because it means lots of people who know a lot about movies and watch a lot of movies think it's really, really good. And sometimes when a movie wins Best Picture, it can go on to win even more special awards, sort of like when you do really well on a test and your teacher gives you a gold star, but then your teacher also tells your principal and you get a trophy!