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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.
Release Date: Apr 18, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr 18 min
Budget: $90,000,000
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.
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’. Photo: A24.
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
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jacob Elordi as The Creature in ‘Frankenstein’. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana Grande is Glinda in ‘Wicked For Good’, directed by Jon M. Chu.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BEST EDITING
Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker in ‘A House of Dynamite’. Photo:. Eros Hoagland/Netflix © 2025.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mia Goth as Elizabeth in Frankenstein. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
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.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
‘Kpop Demon Hunters’. ©2025 Netflix.
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.
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Wagner Moura in ‘The Secret Agent.’ Photo: Neon.
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.
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.
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
