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



Best Comedic Performance
DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH
ETERNITY • A24
David Freyne | Director
Trevor White, Tim White | Producers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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

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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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