CCA nominations kick off awards season

 

The Critics Choice Association (I'm a member) kicked off the awards season with its announcement of nominations for its 31st annual Critics Choice awards. The awards ceremony will be handed out on Sunday Jan. 4, 2026. Sinners lead the field with 17 nominations. One Battle After Another earned second place with 14 nominations. Frankenstein and Hamnet garnered 11 nominations each. So let's get the awards merry-go-round spinning with this year's CCA nominations:

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, 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  

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 

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 

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 

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

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 ADAPTED SCREENPLAY  

One Battle After Another 
Train Dreams 
No Other Choice 
Frankenstein 
Bugonia 
Hamnet

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY  

Jay Kelly 
Marty Supreme 
Sinners 
Weapons 
Sorry, Baby 
Sentimental Value 

BEST CASTING AND ENSEMBLE

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 

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 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps 
Frankenstein 
Hamnet 
Marty Supreme 
Sinners 
Wicked: For Good

BEST EDITING 

A House of Dynamite 
F1 
Marty Supreme 
One Battle After Another 
The Perfect Neighbor 
Sinners 

BEST COSTUME DESIGN 

Frankenstein 
Malgosia Turzanska, Hamnet 
Lindsay Pugh,  Hedda 

Kiss of the Spider Woman 

Sinners

Wicked: For Good 

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP 

28 Years Later 

Frankenstein 
Sinners 
The Smashing Machine 

Weapons
Wicked: For Good 

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar: Fire and Ash 
F1 
Frankenstein 
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Sinners
Superman

BEST STUNT DESIGN  

Ballerina 
F1

Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning

One Battle After Another
Sinners

Warfare

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,” F1 
“Golden,” KPop Demon Hunters 
“I Lied to You," The Testament of Ann Lee 
“Train Dreams," Train Dreams
“The Girl in the Bubble:" Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)

BEST SCORE  

Hans Zimmer,  F1 
Alexandre Desplat,  Frankenstein 
Max Richter, Hamnet 
Daniel Lopatin, Marty Supreme 
Jonny Greenwood,  One Battle After Another
Ludwig Göransson, Sinners 

BEST SOUND  

F1 
Frankenstein 
One Battle After Another

Sinners 

Sirāt 
Warfare