9TH ANNUAL DUBLIN FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
Thursday, December 12, 2025

BEST PICTURE

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

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


2) One Battle After Another • Warner Bros. Pictures
3) Train Dreams • Netflix
4) The Brutalist • A24
5) It Was Just an Accident • NEON
6) Sentimental Value • NEON
7) Flow • Sideshow / Janus Films
8) I Swear • Sony Pictures Classics
9) Weapons • Warner Bros. Pictures / New Line Cinema
10) Vermiglio • Sideshow / Janus Films

Best director

RYAN COOGLER
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers


2) Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
3) Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
4) Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
5) Dea Kulumbegashvili – April

Best Actor

MICHAEL B. JORDAN
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

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


2) Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
3) Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
4) Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
5) Robert Aramayo – I Swear

Best Actress

EMMA STONE
BUGONIA • Focus Features

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


2) Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
3) Jennifer Lawrence – Die, My Love
4) Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
5) Leonie Benesch – Late Shift

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story • SOS Films

Sinéad O’Shea | Director
Eleanor Emptage | Producer


2) Testimony
3) Sanatorium
4) A Want in Her
5) The Perfect Neighbor

Best Irish film

CHRISTY • BBC Film

Brendan Canty | Director
Marina Brackenbury, Rory Gilmartin, Meredith Duff | Producers


2) Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
3) Frewaka
4) Beat the Lotto
5) Testimony

Best screenplay

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Written by Ryan Coogler

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


2) One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
3) A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
4) It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi
5) The Brutalist – Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw

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


2) The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
3) Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
4) One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
5) F1: The Movie – Claudio Miranda | April – Arseni Khachaturan (TIE)

BEST INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH

EVA VICTOR
SORRY BABY • A24

Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski | Producers

BEST IRISH BREAKTHROUGH

Brendan Canty
CHRISTY • BBC Film

Marina Brackenbury, Rory Gilmartin, Meredith Duff | Producers

Dublin Film Critics Circle

BEST FILM:
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
BEST INTERNATIONAL BREAKTHROUGH:

BEST IRISH BREAKTHROUGH:

“Sinners”
Ryan Coogler – “Sinners”
Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners”
Emma Stone – “Bugonia”
“Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story”
“Christy”
“Sinners” – Ryan Coogler
“Sinners” – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Eva Victor – “Sorry, Baby”
Brendan Canty – “Christy”

ABOUT THE Dublin Film Critics Circle

Established in 2006, The Dublin Film Critics Circle offers the city’s full-time professional movie reviewers an opportunity to pool opinions on recent releases, consider movie heritage and whinge about each other’s shortcomings.

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