'Florida Project' Star Wins Critics' Choice Award: 'We Should All Get Ice Cream'
Brooklynn Prince won Best Young Actor/Actress at last night's Critics' Choice Awards, but really, she won the whole show.
The 7-year-old star of "Wonderstruck").
As she accepted her award, she gushed, "This is such a big honor, all the nominees are great. You guys are awesome, we should go and get ice cream after this!"
She added, "God, I would like to thank you for this wonderful opportunity, and I would like to thank [director] Sean [Baker] for giving me this wonderful opportunity to be his Moonee."
In the film, she plays a girl who lives with her mother in a Florida motel, where she's befriended by kindly motel manager (Willem Dafoe, who's also getting his share of awards recognition).
Watch her winning speech below:
She also got to meet some big stars, including Angelina Jolie and posed adorably with Tremblay (who won Best Young Actor/Actress in 2016 for "Room").
