Award season has kicked off with One Battle After Another taking the lead at Critics Choice.
Award season has officially kicked off with the Critics Choice Awards, and the race to the Oscars is already taking shape, with One Battle After Another, Sinners and Frankenstein emerging as dominant contenders. One Battle After Another lead the charge, securing Best Picture alongside Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, while Sinners and Frankenstein made strong statements across performance and technical categories, signaling a tightly contested award season ahead.
Here is the full list of Critics Choice winners:
Best Picture
Winner: One Battle After Another
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Jay Kelly
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
Wicked: For Good
Best Director
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best Actor
Winner: Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Best Actress
Winner: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Amy Madigan – Weapons
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Best Young Actor/Actress
Winner: Miles Caton – Sinners
Everett Blunck – The Plague
Cary Christopher – Weapons
Shannon Mahina Gorman – Rental Family
Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Nina Ye – Left-Handed Girl
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Noah Baumbach & Emily Mortimer – Jay Kelly
Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Zach Cregger – Weapons
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar – Train Dreams
Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar & Jahye Lee – No Other Choice
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
Will Tracy – Bugonia
Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
Best Casting and Ensemble
Winner: Francine Maisler – Sinners
Nina Gold – Hamnet
Douglas Aibel & Nina Gold – Jay Kelly
Jennifer Venditti – Marty Supreme
Cassandra Kulukundis – One Battle After Another
Tiffany Little Canfield & Bernard Telsey – Wicked: For Good
Best Cinematography
Winner: Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams
Claudio Miranda – F1
Dan Laustsen – Frankenstein
Łukasz Żal – Hamnet
Michael Bauman – One Battle After Another
Autumn Durald Arkapaw – Sinners
Best Editing
Winner: Stephen Mirrione – F1
Kirk Baxter – A House of Dynamite
Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Andy Jurgensen – One Battle After Another
Viridiana Lieberman – The Perfect Neighbor
Michael P. Shawver – Sinners
Best Production Design
Winner: Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau – Frankenstein
Kasra Farahani & Jille Azis – The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Fiona Crombie & Alice Felton – Hamnet
Jack Fisk & Adam Willis – Marty Supreme
Hannah Beachler & Monique Champagne – Sinners
Nathan Crowley & Lee Sandales – Wicked: For Good
Best Costume Design
Winner: Kate Hawley – Frankenstein
Malgosia Turzanska – Hamnet
Lindsay Pugh – Hedda
Colleen Atwood & Christine Cantella – Kiss of the Spider Woman
Ruth E. Carter – Sinners
Paul Tazewell – Wicked: For Good
Best Hair and Makeup
Winner: Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel & Cliona Furey – Frankenstein
Flora Moody & John Nolan – 28 Years Later
Siân Richards, Ken Diaz & Mike Fontaine – Sinners
Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox & Mia Neal – The Smashing Machine
Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat & Jason Collins – Weapons
Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier & Laura Blount – Wicked: For Good
Best Visual Effects
Winner: Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Sinners
Superman
Best Stunt Design
Winner: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Ballerina
F1
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare
Best Animated Feature
Winner: KPop Demon Hunters
Arco
Elio
In Your Dreams
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice
Sirāt
Belén
Best Song
Winner: “Golden” – KPop Demon Hunters
“Drive” – F1
“I Lied to You” – Sinners
“Clothed by the Sun” – The Testament of Ann Lee
“Train Dreams” – Train Dreams
“The Girl in the Bubble” – Wicked: For Good
Best Score
Winner: Ludwig Göransson – Sinners
Hans Zimmer – F1
Alexandre Desplat – Frankenstein
Max Richter – Hamnet
Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme
Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another
Best Sound
Winner: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt
Warfare