premise: Freddie Highmore has been nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award.
hypothesis: Freddie Highmore . He won the Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer in two consecutive years ( 2004 -- 2005 ) . For five seasons , Highmore starred as Norman Bates in the A&E drama-thriller series Bates Motel ( 2013 -- 2017 ) , for which he was twice nominated for the Critics ' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series .