30TH ANNUAL SAN DIEGO FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS
Monday, December 15, 2025

BEST PICTURE

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers


Runner-Up: One Battle After Another • Warner Bros. Pictures
Hamnet • Focus Features
It Was Just An Accident • NEON
Marty Supreme • A24

BEST DIRECTOR

RYAN COOGLER
SINNERS• Warner Bros. Pictures

Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers


Runner-Up: Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just An Accident
Chloe Zhao – Hamnet

BEST ACTOR

MICHAEL B. JORDAN
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers


Runner-Up: Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo Dicaprio – One Battle After Another
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

BEST ACTRESS (TIE)

JESSIE BUCKLEY
HAMNET • Focus Features

Chloé Zhao | Director
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg | Producers

BEST ACTRESS (tie)

ROSE BYRNE
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU • A24

Mary Bronstein | Director
Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Conor Hannon, Richie Doyle | Producers


Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

STELLAN SKARSGÅRD
SENTIMENTAL VALUE • NEON

Joachim Trier | Director
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Maria Ekerhovd | Producers


Runner-Up: Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Jeffrey Wright – Highest 2 Lowest

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

AMY MADIGAN
WEAPONS • Warner Bros / New Line Cinema

Zach Cregger | Director
Zach Cregger, Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J. D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules | Producers


Runner-Up: Nina Hoss – Hedda
Odessa A’Zion – Marty Supreme
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

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Best Comedic Performance

DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH
ETERNITY • A24

David Freyne | Director
Trevor White, Tim White | Producers


Runner-Up: Molly Gordon – Oh, Hi!
Will Arnett – Is This Thing On?
Liam Neeson – The Naked Gun
Tim Robinson – Friendship

Best Youth Performance (for a performer under the age of 18)

CARY CHRISTOPHER
WEAPONS • Warner Bros / New Line Cinema

Zach Cregger | Director
Zach Cregger, Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J. D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules | Producers


Runner-Up: Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Shannon Mahina Gorman – Rental Family
Alfie Williams – 28 Years Later
Nina Ye – Left-Handed Girl

Best Original Screenplay

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT • NEON

Written by Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi | Director/Producer


Runner-Up: Black Bag – David Koepp
Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt
Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Weapons – Zack Cregger

Best ADAPTED Screenplay

BUGONIA • Focus Features

Written by Will Tracy

Yorgos Lanthimos | Director
Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Ari Aster. Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee | Producers


Runner-Up: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao
The Long Walk – JT Mollner
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Best First Feature (Director)

EVA VICTOR
SORRY, BABY • A24

Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski | Producers


Runner-Up: Kristen Stewart – The Chronology Of Water
Drew Hancock – Companion
Scarlett Johansson – Eleanor The Great
Ben Leonberg – Good Boy

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

ORWELL: 2+2=5 • NEON

Raoul Peck | Director
Alex Gibney, Raoul Peck, George Chignell, Nick Shumaker | Producers


Runner-Up: Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Becoming Led Zeppelin
John Candy: I Like Me
Predators

BEST ANIMATED FILM

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS • Netflix

Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang | Directors
Michelle L.M. Wong | Producer


Runner-Up: Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain
Elio
Predator: Killer Of Killers
Zootopia 2

Best Foreign Language Film

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT • NEON

Jafar Panahi | Director/Producer


Runner-Up: Sentimental Value
Left-Handed Girl
The Secret Agent
Sirāt

Best Editing

MARTY SUPREME • A24

Editing by Josh Safdie & Ronald Bronstein

Josh Safdie | Director
Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Timothée Chalamet | Producers


Runner-Up: One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen
Highest 2 Lowest – Barry Alexander Brown & Allyson C. Johnson
Hamnet – Affonso Goncalves & Chloe Zhao
F1: The Movie – Stephen Mirione & Patrick J. Smith

Best Cinematography

TRAIN DREAMS • Netflix

Cinematography by Adolpho Veloso

Clint Bentley | Director
Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer, Michael Heimler | Producers


Runner-Up: One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
Hamnet – Lukasz Zal
Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw

Best Production Design

FRANKENSTEIN • Netflix

Production Design by Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau

Guillermo del Toro | Director
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Scott Stuber | Producerss


Runner-Up: The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Kasra Farahani & Jille Azis
Runner-Up: Sinners – Hannah Bleachler & Monique Champagne
Hamnet – Fiona Crombie & Alice Felton
Hedda – Cara Brower & Stella Fox

Best Visual Effects

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH •
20th Century Studios

James Cameron | Director
James Cameron, Jon Landau | Producers


Runner-Up: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Runner-Up: Frankenstein
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Superman

Best Costume Design

WICKED: FOR GOOD • Universal Pictures

Costume Design by Paul Tazewell

Jon M. Chu | Director
Marc Platt, David Stone | Producers


Runner-Up: Frankenstein – Kate Hawley
Runner-Up: Sinners – Ruth E. Carter
The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Alexandra Byrne
Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska

Best Sound Design

WARFARE • A24

Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland | Directors
Andrew Macdonald, Mathew Penry-Davey, Allon Reich, Peter Rice | Producers


Runner-Up: F1: The Movie
Avatar: Fire And Ash
Frankenstein
Sinners

Best Use of Music

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers


Runner-Up: Hedda
KPop Demon Hunters
Marty Supreme
Sirāt

Best Stunt Choreography

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING • Paramount Pictures

Christopher McQuarrie | Director
Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise | Producers


Runner-Up: Sinners
Ballerina: From The World Of John Wick
One Battle After Another
Superman

BEST ENSEMBLE

BLACK BAG • Focus Features

Steven Soderbergh | Director
Casey Silver, Gregory Jacobs | Producers


Runner-Up: Sinners
Jay Kelly
The Long Walk
Weapons

Breakthrough Performance

CHASE INFINITI
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures

Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers

BEST Special Award for Body of Work

Josh O’Connor

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
The Mastermind
The History of Sound
Rebuilding

San Diego Film Critics Society

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Breakthrough Artist:
Body Of Work:

“Sinners”
Ryan Coogler – “Sinners”
Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners”
Jessie Buckley – “Hamnet” ║ Rose Byrne – “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Stellan Skarsgård – “Sentimental Value”
Amy Madigan – “Weapons”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – “Eternity”
Cary Christopher – “Weapons”
“It Was Just An Accident” – Jafar Panahi
“Bugonia” – Will Tracy
Eva Victor – “Sorry, Baby”
“Orwell 2+2=5”
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“It Was Just An Accident”
“Marty Supreme” – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
“Train Dreams” – Adolpho Veloso
“Frankenstein” – Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“Wicked: For Good” – Paul Tazewell
“Warfare”
“Sinners”
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”
“Black Bag”
Chase Infiniti – “One Battle After Another”
Josh O’Connor

ABOUT THE San Diego Film Critics Society

The San Diego Film Critics Society comprises print, radio, TV and digital film critics working in SDCounty. Screenings, events, awards, scholastic support.

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