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Critics Choice Award for Best Director, tick by tick.
Kalshi series KXCRITICSDIR: order book and trades, 2026-10-06 → 2026-10-23.

The order-book and trade history of Kalshi's Critics Choice Award for Best Director series (a new event every year): top of book on every change, the 25-level book on every change in YES terms, every trade with the taker's side, and Kalshi's own ticker, with exchange timestamps to the millisecond. Captured by us from Kalshi's websocket on two independent legs and checked against the exchange's own book snapshots.

18 days2026-10-06 → 2026-10-23 · every day since its first · ~612 kB per day · 11 MB on disk · 16 open markets
pull KXCRITICSDIR days →schemapricing

What a KXCRITICSDIR day contains

Four parquet files per day, every market of the series in each. Sizes are this series' own averages over its 18 days on disk.

Top of book (every change)kalshi_l1

Best YES bid and ask with sizes and the spread, one row whenever either changed, derived tick by tick from the rebuilt book: not Kalshi's conflated ticker.

~43 kB per KXCRITICSDIR day
Order book, 25 levels, every changekalshi_l2

The whole ladder after every book event, in YES terms (the NO bids become the asks, at their sizes), 25 levels a side: wide columns bid_px_1 … ask_sz_25, plus the exchange's own hourly snapshots. Each row is self-contained, so you can start reading mid-day.

~510 kB per KXCRITICSDIR day
Tradeskalshi_trades

Every trade: YES and NO price, size in contracts, the taker's side, block-trade flag, trade id.

~11 kB per KXCRITICSDIR day
Kalshi ticker (~1 s)kalshi_ticker

Kalshi's own ticker feed, about one update a second per market: last price, YES bid/ask with sizes, cumulative volume and open interest in contracts and dollars.

~48 kB per KXCRITICSDIR day

KXCRITICSDIR markets

The 12 closing nearest to now, from Kalshi's daily market list. Each is a row key (market_ticker) in every table, captured from the day it opens until it settles.

Will Alejandro G. Iñárritu win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Alejandro G. IñárrituKXCRITICSDIR-27-AINAcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Cristian Mungiu win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Cristian MungiuKXCRITICSDIR-27-CMUNcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Christopher Nolan win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Christopher NolanKXCRITICSDIR-27-CNOLcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Denis Villeneuve win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Denis VilleneuveKXCRITICSDIR-27-DVILcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Javier Calvo and Javier AmbrossiKXCRITICSDIR-27-JCALJAMBcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Jesse Eisenberg win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Jesse EisenbergKXCRITICSDIR-27-JEIScloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will James Gray win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: James GrayKXCRITICSDIR-27-JGRAcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Mike Leigh win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Mike LeighKXCRITICSDIR-27-MLEIcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Martin McDonagh win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Martin McDonaghKXCRITICSDIR-27-MMCDcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Olivia Wilde win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Olivia WildeKXCRITICSDIR-27-OWILcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Peter Farrelly win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Peter FarrellyKXCRITICSDIR-27-PFARcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC
Will Phil Lord and Chris Miller win Best Director at the 32nd Critics Choice Awards?: Phil Lord and Chris MillerKXCRITICSDIR-27-PLORCMILcloses 2028-01-03 15:00 UTC

Coverage notes for KXCRITICSDIR

  • First day on disk: 2026-10-06. The series' first book appeared then. New days are added daily.
  • Trades before 2026-09-27. Kalshi's historical API has no tick-level order book, so earlier KXCRITICSDIR trades are in the whole-exchange trades history (from 2021-06-30, one file a day): filter market_ticker to this series' markets, which start with KXCRITICSDIR-.
  • Every bundle ships a README with the schemas and, per day, how often the rebuilt book matched the exchange's own snapshots, for your exact range.

Pricing

A month of KXCRITICSDIR, every table, is about 18 MB. Bought for Kalshi, Starter ($29/mo) carries top of book, trades and the ticker for every series plus one series of your choice, KXCRITICSDIR if you like, at full book depth; L10 ($49/mo) carries every series' book at 10 levels and L25 ($99/mo) the full 25-level book. Each includes 7 days before you join and every day after. Any free account can pull 2026-10-07, any series, up to 1.0 GB.

Starter: KXCRITICSDIR at full depth →L10: every series at 10 levelsL25: every series, 25 levelsfree sample day

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