‘Sinners’ Leads The Critics Choice Film Awards Nominations With 17
‘Hamnet,’ ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Jay Kelly’ are also on the list of movies competing for awards at the ceremony in January.
The Critic's Choice Awards will be January 4th.
Preview:
- The 31st Annual Critics Choice Film Awards Nominations have been announced.
- ‘Sinners’ leads the pack with 17 nominations.
- The ceremony will air on E! and the USA Network in January.
After turning its box office fortunes around (and er, just being purchased), Warner Bros. is also seeing some awards success this year, with the likes of 'Sinners' and 'One Battle After Another' nabbing nominations and taking home trophies.
And now the former is leading the list of nominees for the 2026 Critics Choice Association awards.
Sinners
Also up for awards this year are the likes of 'Hamnet', 'Marty Supreme' and 'Wicked: For Good,' which have all also been getting attention during the current awards season.
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Here's the full list...
Critics Choice 2026: Film Nominations
BEST PICTURE
(L to R) Jayme Lawson as Pearline, Wunmi Mosaku as Annie, Michael B. Jordan as Smoke, Miles Caton as Sammie Moore, and Li Jun Li as Grace Chow, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Sinners,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- ‘Bugonia’
- ‘Hamnet’
- ‘Jay Kelly’
- ‘Marty Supreme’
- ‘One Battle After Another’
- ‘Sentimental Value’
- ‘Sinners’
- ‘Train Dreams’
- ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’. Photo: A24.
- 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
(L to R) Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chloé Zhao’s 'Hamnet', a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
- 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
Jacob Elordi as The Creature in ‘Frankenstein’. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
- Benicio del Toro – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Jacob Elordi – ‘Frankenstein’
- Paul Mescal – ‘Hamnet’
- Sean Penn – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Adam Sandler – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Stellan Skarsgård – ‘Sentimental Value’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana Grande is Glinda in 'Wicked For Good', directed by Jon M. Chu.
- Elle Fanning – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Ariana Grande – ‘Wicked: For Good’
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Amy Madigan – ‘Weapons’
- Wunmi Mosaku – ‘Sinners’
- Teyana Taylor – ‘One Battle After Another’
BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS
(L to R) Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in 'Rental Family'. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
- Everett Blunck – ‘The Plague’
- Miles Caton – ‘Sinners’
- Cary Christopher – ‘Weapons’
- Shannon Mahina Gorman – ‘Rental Family’
- Jacobi Jupe – ‘Hamnet’
- Nina Ye – ‘Left-Handed Girl’
BEST DIRECTOR
Director Paul Thomas Anderson attends a special screening and Q&A of 'One Battle After Another'. Photo Credit: Jay L. Clendenin/Shutterstock for Warner Bros. Copyright: Copyright ©2025 Jay L. Clendenin.
- Paul Thomas Anderson – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Guillermo del Toro – ‘Frankenstein’
- Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Joachim Trier – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Chloé Zhao – ‘Hamnet’
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
(L to R) George Clooney as Jay Kelly and Adam Sandler as Ron Sukenick in 'Jay Kelly'. Cr. Peter Mountain/Netflix © 2025.
- Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Ryan Coogler – ‘Sinners’
- Zach Cregger – ‘Weapons’
- Eva Victor – ‘Sorry, Baby’
- Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier – ‘Sentimental Value’
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in 'Train Dreams'. Cr. BBP Train Dreams. LLC. © 2025.
- 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
(L to R) Jonathan Bailey is Fiyero and Ariana Grande is Glinda in 'Wicked For Good', directed by Jon M. Chu.
- Nina Gold – ‘Hamnet’
- Douglas Aibel, Nina Gold – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Jennifer Venditti – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Cassandra Kulukundis – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Francine Maisler – ‘Sinners’
- Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Director/Producer Joseph Kosinski (eye to viewfinder) on the set of Apple Original Films’ 'F1', a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Photo by Scott Garfield. Courtesy Warner Bros Pictures / Apple Original Films. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Claudio Miranda – ‘F1’
- Dan Laustsen – ‘Frankenstein’
- Łukasz Żal – ‘Hamnet’
- Michael Bauman – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw – ‘Sinners’
- Adolpho Veloso – ‘Train Dreams’
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
(L to R) Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing and H.E.R.B.I.E in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios' 'Fantastic Four: First Steps'. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2025 Marvel.
- Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis – ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
- Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – ‘Frankenstein’
- Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton – ‘Hamnet’
- Jack Fisk, Adam Willis – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne – ‘Sinners’
- Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST EDITING
Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker in ‘A House of Dynamite’. Photo:. Eros Hoagland/Netflix © 2025.
- Kirk Baxter – ‘A House of Dynamite’
- Stephen Mirrione – ‘F1’
- Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Andy Jurgensen – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Viridiana Lieberman – ‘The Perfect Neighbor’
- Michael P. Shawver – ‘Sinners’
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mia Goth as Elizabeth in Frankenstein. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
- 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
Dwayne Johnson stars in 'The Smashing Machine'. Photo: A24.
- Flora Moody, John Nolan – ‘28 Years Later’
- Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey – ‘Frankenstein’
- Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry – ‘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
David Corwnswet as Superman in DC Studios’ and Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Superman', a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved. TM & © DC.
- Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett – ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
- Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, Keith Dawson – ‘F1’
- Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell – ‘Frankenstein’
- Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, Kirstin Hall – ‘'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
- Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean – ‘Sinners’
- Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, Guy Williams – ‘Superman’
BEST STUNT DESIGN
Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' from Paramount Pictures and Skydance. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
- Stephen Dunlevy, Kyle Gardiner, Jackson Spidell, Jeremy Marinas, Jan Petřina, Domonkos Párdányi, Kinga Kósa-Gavalda – ‘Ballerina’
- Gary Powell, Luciano Bacheta, Craig Dolby – ‘F1’
- Wade Eastwood – ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
- Brian Machleit – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Andy Gill – ‘Sinners’
- Giedrius Nagys – ‘Warfare’
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
'Kpop Demon Hunters'. ©2025 Netflix.
- ‘Arco’
- ‘Elio’
- ‘In Your Dreams’
- ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
- ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’
- ‘Zootopia 2’
BEST COMEDY
(L to R) Mia Threapleton as Liesl and Benicio Del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda in director Wes Anderson's 'The Phoenician Scheme', a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.
- ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’
- ‘Eternity’
- ‘Friendship’
- ‘The Naked Gun’
- ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
- ‘Splitsville’
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Wagner Moura in 'The Secret Agent.' Photo: Neon.
- ‘It Was Just an Accident’
- ‘Left-Handed Girl’
- ‘No Other Choice’
- ‘The Secret Agent’
- ‘Sirāt’
- ‘Belén’
BEST SONG
Miles Caton as Sammie Moore in Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Sinners,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- “Drive” – Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, Blake Slatkin – ‘F1’
- “Golden” – Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, Teddy – ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
- “I Lied to You” – Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson – ‘Sinners’
- “Clothed by the Sun” – Daniel Blumberg – ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
- “Train Dreams” – Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner – ‘Train Dreams’
- “The Girl in the Bubble” – Stephen Schwartz – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST SCORE
Leonardo Di Caprio as Bob Ferguson in 'One Battle After Another.' A Warner Bros. Pictures Release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.
- Hans Zimmer – ‘F1’
- Alexandre Desplat – ‘Frankenstein’
- Max Richter – ‘Hamnet’
- Daniel Lopatin – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Jonny Greenwood – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Ludwig Göransson – ‘Sinners’
BEST SOUND
Directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland's 'Warfare'. Photo: A24.
- Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John – ‘F1’
- Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Greg Chapman – ‘Frankenstein’
- Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco, David V. Butler – ‘Sinners’
- Laia Casanovas – ‘Sirāt’
- Mitch Low, Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner – ‘Warfare’
When will the Critics Choice Awards be on TV this year?
The awards ceremony will air live on E! and the USA Network on Sunday, January 4, 2026 hosted by Chelsea Handler.
Paul Mescal stars as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s 'Hamnet', a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
