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
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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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