19TH ANNUAL HOUSTON FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Best Picture

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

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


Bugonia • Focus Features
F1: The Movie • Warner Bros Pictures / Apple Original Films
Frankenstein • Netflix
Hamnet • Focus Features
Marty Supreme • A24
One Battle After Another • Warner Bros Pictures
The Secret Agent • NEON
Sentimental Value • NEON
Train Dreams • Netflix
Weapons • Warner Bros Pictures / New Line Cinema

Best Director of a Motion Picture

RYAN COOGLER
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers


Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

MICHAEL B. JORDAN
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

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


Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

JESSIE BUCKLEY
HAMNET • Focus Features

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


Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

JACOB ELORDI
FRANKENSTEIN • Netflix

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


Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

AMY MADIGAN
WEAPONS • Warner Bros / New Line Cinema

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


Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

BEST SCREENPLAY

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Written by Ryan Coogler

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


Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery – Rian Johnson

BEST ANIMATED FILM

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS • Netflix

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


Arco
The Bad Guys 2
Ne Zha 2
Zootopia 2

Best Cinematography 

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw

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


F1: The Movie – Claudio Miranda
Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso

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Best Documentary Feature

THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR • Netflix

Geeta Gandbhir | Director
Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee, Geeta Gandbhir | Producers


The Alabama Solution
Cover-Up
My Mom Jayne
Orwell: 2+2=5

Best Foreign Language Film

SENTIMENTAL VALUE • NEON

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


It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sirāt

Best ORIGINAL SCORE

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Composed by Ludwig Göransson

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


F1: The Movie – Hans Zimmer
Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin
One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood

Best ORIGINAL SONG

“GOLDEN” from
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS • Netflix

Music & Lyrics by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, IDO, 24 and Teddy

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


“Our Love” from The Ballad of Wallis Island
“I Lied to You” from Sinners
“Last Time (I Seen the Sun)” from Sinners
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH •
20th Century Studios

James Cameron | Director
James Cameron, Jon Landau | Producers


F1: The Movie
Frankenstein
Sinners
Superman

Best Stunt Team Coordination

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING • Paramount Pictures

Christopher McQuarrie | Director
Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise | Producers


Ballerina
F1: The Movie
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Casting

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Casting by Francine Maisler

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


Frankenstein – Robin D. Cook
Hamnet – Nina Gold
Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti
One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis

BEST Ensemble

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

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


Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Texas Independent Film Award

The Librarians • Independent Lens

Kim A. Snyder | Director
Kim A. Snyder, Janique L. Robillard, Maria Cuomo Cole, Jana Edelbaum | Producers


Ick
Luv Ya Bum
Selena y Los Dinos
The Senior

Houston Film Critics Society

Best Picture:
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Best Documentary Feature:
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Best CastING:

Best Ensemble:
Texas Independent Film Award:

“Sinners”
Ryan Coogler – “Sinners”
Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners”
Jessie Buckley – “Hamnet”
Jacob Elordi – “Frankenstein”
Amy Madigan – “Weapons”
“Sinners” – Ryan Coogler
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“Sinners” – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
“The Perfect Neighbor”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners” – Ludwig Göransson
“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”
“Sinners” – Francine Maisler
“Sinners”
“The Librarians”

ABOUT THE Houston Film Critics Society

The Houston Film Critics Society is a not-for-profit, unincorporated voluntary organization of print, broadcast, and internet film critics based in or serving publication in the Houston metropolitan area, the Gulf Coast region, and beyond who meet our membership criteria. We count San Antonio as an affiliate city and include its eligible critics among our collective.

Founded in 2007, the Houston Film Critics Society helps to organize and coordinate the local area film critics community, and bring the wonders of cinema to the public at large.

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