10TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO FILM CRITICS AWARDS
Sunday, December 21, 2025

BEST PICTURE

HAMNET • Focus Features

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

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Runner-Up: Left-Handed Girl • Netflix

Best Director

Chloé Zhao
HAMNET • Focus Features

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

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Runner-Up: Shih-Ching Tsou – Left-Handed Girl

Best Actor

ETHAN HAWKE
BLUE MOON • Sony Pictures Classics

Richard Linklater | Director
Mike Blizzard, John Sloss, Richard Linklater | Producers

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Runner-Up: Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme

Best Actress

LEA MYREN
THE UGLY STEPSISTER • IFC Films

Emilie Blichfeldt | Director
Maria Ekerhovd | Producer

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Runner-Up: Janel Tsai – Left-Handed Girl

Best Supporting Actor

JACOB ELORDI
FRANKENSTEIN • Netflix

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

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Runner-Up: Delroy Lindo – Sinners

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: Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good

Best Original Screenplay

LEFT-HANDED GIRL • Netflix

Written by Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker

Shih-Ching Tsou | Director
Sean Baker, Mike Goodridge, Alice Labadie, Jean Labadie, Shih-Ching Tsou | Producers

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Runner-Up: The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho

Best Adapted Screenplay

HAMNET • Focus Features

Written by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell

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

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Runner-Up: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle – Ufotable

Best Animated Film

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA THE MOVIE: INFINITY CASTLE • Crunchyroll/Sony

Haruo Sotozaki | Director
Akifumi Fujio, Masanori Miyake, Yūma Takahashi | Producers

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Runner-Up: KPop Demon Hunters

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

LEFT-HANDED GIRL • Netflix

Shih-Ching Tsou | Director
Sean Baker, Mike Goodridge, Alice Labadie, Jean Labadie, Shih-Ching Tsou | Producers

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Runner-Up: Sirāt

Best EDITING

HAMNET • Focus Features

Editing by Chloé Zhao & Affonso Gonçalves

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

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Runner-Up: Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein

Best Cinematography 

GOOD BOY • IFC Films

Cinematography by Wade Grebnoel & Ben Leonberg

Ben Leonberg | Director
Kari Fischer | Producer

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Runner-Up: Nouvelle Vague – David Chambille

Best MUSIC/SCORE

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Composed by Ludwig Göransson

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

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Runner-Up: Sirāt – Kangding Ray

Best Production Design 

FRANKENSTEIN • Netflix

Production Design by Tamara Deverell

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

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Runner-Up: Sinners – Hannah Bleacher & Monique Champagne

Best Documentary film

SEEDS • Interior Films

Brittany Shyne | Director
Danielle Varga, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Brittany Shyne | Producers

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Runner-Up: 2000 Meters to Andriivka

Best Original Song 

“LET’S JUST ROCK AGAIN” from
SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES • Bleecker Street

Rob Reiner | Director
Rob Reiner, Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Matthew George, Michele Reiner | Producers

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Runner-Up: “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters

ALBUQUERQUE AMERICAN AWARD

METROPOLIS (1927)

Fritz Lang | Director
Erich Pommer | Producer

A visionary masterpiece that transformed the language of cinema and astonishingly anticipated the social, technological, and human dilemmas of the modern world.

GLENN STRANGE HONORARY AWARD

WINONA RYDER

New Mexico Film Critics

BEST PICTURE:
BEST DIRECTOR:
BEST ACTOR:
BEST ACTRESS:
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
BEST ANIMATED FILM:
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:
BEST EDITING:
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
BEST MUSIC/SCORE:
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN:
BEST DOCUMENTARY:
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

“Hamnet”
Chloé Zhao – “Hamnet”
Ethan Hawke – “Blue Moon”
Lea Myren – “The Ugly Stepsister”
Jacob Elordi – “Frankenstein”
Amy Madigan – “Weapons”
“Left-Handed Girl” – Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker
“Hamnet” – Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle”
“Left-Handed Girl”
“Hamnet” – Chloé Zhao & Affonso Gonçalves
“Good Boy” – Wade Grebnoel & Ben Leonberg
“Sinners” – Ludwig Göransson
“Frankenstein” – Tamara Deverell
“Seeds”
“Let’s Just Rock Again” from “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues”

ABOUT THE New Mexico Film Critics Association

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