Star Wars: The Force Awakens Earns Critics’ Choice Awards Nomination

After a record-breaking opening weekend at the box office, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has earned an award nomination.

The film on Tuesday received a nod in the best picture category for the 21st annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The nominees were announced last week, but a special referendum for Star Wars was held Monday because it was not screened for voters in time for the initial nominations balloting.

The Critics’ Choice Awards will air on A&E, Lifetime and LMN on January 17.

The Force Awakens set several records over the weekend, including the best domestic debut ever, with 248 million dollars. It made 40.1 million dollars on Monday, a record for that day of the week.

On Tuesday, The Force Awakens set another new mark, having raised a total of 300 million dollars at the domestic box office faster than any other film in history.

The massive success of The Force Awakens should help its cast members earn bigger paychecks for the follow-up films, though Harrison Ford was already paid handsomely for reprising his role of Han Solo in this movie. He earned as much as 20 million dollars for The Force Awakens — more than 50 times more than co-stars John Boyega and Daisy Ridley, who made somewhere between 100 thousand and 300 thousand dollars, according to Variety.

The Force Awakens was released by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.