‘Sinners’ dominates Critics Choice Awards 2026 nominations

Critics' Choice Awards 2025 recently announced nominations for the event.

The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards, which will be posted by Chelsea Handler for the fourth consecutive year, is set to take place on January 4, 2026, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.

According to E News!, Michael B. Jordan's period drama horror film Sinners dominated this year's Critics Choice Awards nominations list with an impressive 17 nods.

Best Picture

Bugonia

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Jay Kelly

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Train Dreams

Wicked: For Good

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another

Joel Edgerton for Train Dreams

Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon

Michael B. Jordan for Sinners

Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley for Hamnet

Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Chase Infiniti for One Battle After Another

Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value

Amanda Seyfried for The Testament of Ann Lee

Emma Stone for Bugonia

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another

Ryan Coogler for Sinners

Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein

Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme

Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value

Chloé Zhao for Hamnet

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio del Toro for One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein

Paul Mescal for Hamnet

Sean Penn for One Battle After Another

Adam Sandler for Jay Kelly

Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning for Sentimental Value

Ariana Grande for Wicked: For Good

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value

Amy Madigan for Weapons

Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners

Teyana Tayson for One Battle After Another

Best Young Performer

Everett Blunck for The Plague

Miles Caton for Sinners

Cary Christopher for Weapons

Shannon Mahina Gorman for Rental Family

Jacobi Jupe for Hamnet

Nina Ye for Left-Handed Girl

Best Original Screenplay

Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer for Jay Kelly

Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme

Ryan Coogler for Sinners

Zach Cregger for Weapons

Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby

Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value

Best Adapted Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another

Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar for Train Dreams

Park Chan-wook and Lee Kyoung-mi with Don McKellar and Jahye Lee for No Other Choice

Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein

Will Tracy for Bugonia

Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell for Hamnet

Best Cinematography

Claudio Miranda for F1

Dan Laustsen for Frankenstein

Łukasz Żal for Hamnet

Michael Bauman for One Battle After Another

Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners

Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams

Best Animated Feature

Arco

Elio

In Your Dreams

KPop Demon Hunters

Little Amélie or the Characters of Rain

Zootopia 2

Best Comedy

The Ballad of Wallis Island

Eternity

Friendship

The Naked Gun

The Phoenician Scheme

Splitsville

Best Foreign Language Film

It Was Just an Accident

Left-Handed Girl

No Other Choice

The Secret Agent

Sirāt

Belén

Best Song

Drive by Ed Sheeran, John Mayer and Blake Slatkin (F1)

Golden by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24 and Teddy (KPop Demon Hunters)

I Lied to You by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)

Clothed by the Sun by Daniel Blumberg (The Testament of Ann Lee)

Train Dreams by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner (Train Dreams)

The Girl in the Bubble by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked: For Good)

Best Score

Hans Zimmer for F1

Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein

Max Richter for Hamnet

Daniel Lopatin for Marty Supreme (No Time to Die)

Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another

Ludwig Göransson for Sinners