‘One Battle After Another’ Triumphs at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards
Director Paul Thomas Anderson takes home a clutch of trophies, while the likes of Timothée Chalamet and Jacob Elordi also won for their respective movies.
Chelsea Handler hosts the 31st Annual Critics Choice Awards. Photo: CCA.
Preview:
- Winners of the 31st Critics Choice Awards included ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Hamnet.’
- ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Sinners’ also took home awards.
- The ceremony was hosted by Chelsea Handler.
Though there were few surprises among the big winners at this year’s Critics Choice Awards, where ‘One Battle After Another’ took home a three big trophies (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay), the ceremony was nevertheless still a lively, energetic affair, hosted once again by Chelsea Handler.
Following a monologue from Handler that took shots at Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav and paid loving tribute to Rob Reiner and Diane Keaton, it was on with the show.
After scoring the most nominations, Ryan Coogler's ‘Sinners’ won four trophies, tying Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein.’
On the acting front, the likes of ‘Marty Supreme’s Timothée Chalamet and ‘Frankenstein’s Jacob Elordi won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, along with ‘Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley and ‘Weapons’Amy Madigan in their respective categories.
TV-wise, prizes predictably went to ‘The Pitt,’‘Adolescence’ and ‘The Studio,’ though it was welcome to see Rhea Seehorn taking the stage after winning her category for ‘Pluribus.’
Here’s the full list of winners…
Related Article: ‘Sinners’ Leads The Critics Choice Film Awards Nominations With 17
BEST PICTURE
Leonardo Di Caprio as Bob Ferguson in 'One Battle After Another.' A Warner Bros. Pictures Release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.
- ‘Bugonia’
- ‘Hamnet’
- ‘Jay Kelly’
- ‘Marty Supreme’
- ‘One Battle After Another’ - WINNER
- ‘Sentimental Value’
- ‘Sinners’
- ‘Train Dreams’
- ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’. Photo: A24.
- Timothée Chalamet – ‘Marty Supreme’ - WINNER
- Leonardo DiCaprio – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Joel Edgerton – ‘Train Dreams’
- Ethan Hawke – ‘Blue Moon’
- Michael B. Jordan – ‘Sinners’
- Wagner Moura – ‘The Secret Agent’
BEST ACTRESS
(L to R) Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chloé Zhao’s 'Hamnet', a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
- Jessie Buckley – ‘Hamnet’ - WINNER
- Rose Byrne – ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’
- Chase Infiniti – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Renate Reinsve – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Amanda Seyfried – ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
- Emma Stone – ‘Bugonia’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jacob Elordi as The Creature in ‘Frankenstein’. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
- Benicio del Toro – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Jacob Elordi – ‘Frankenstein’ - WINNER
- Paul Mescal – ‘Hamnet’
- Sean Penn – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Adam Sandler – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Stellan Skarsgård – ‘Sentimental Value’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Madigan as Gladys in New Line Cinema’s 'Weapons,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Quantrell Colbert. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Elle Fanning – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Ariana Grande – ‘Wicked: For Good’
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Amy Madigan – ‘Weapons’ - WINNER
- Wunmi Mosaku – ‘Sinners’
- Teyana Taylor – ‘One Battle After Another’
BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS
Miles Caton as Sammie Moore in Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Sinners,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Everett Blunck – ‘The Plague’
- Miles Caton – ‘Sinners’ - WINNER
- Cary Christopher – ‘Weapons’
- Shannon Mahina Gorman – ‘Rental Family’
- Jacobi Jupe – ‘Hamnet’
- Nina Ye – ‘Left-Handed Girl’
BEST DIRECTOR
(L to R) Leonardo Di Caprio and Director/Writer/Producer Paul Thomas Anderson on the set of 'One Battle After Another.' A Warner Bros. Pictures Release. Photo Credit: Merrick Morton.
- Paul Thomas Anderson – ‘One Battle After Another’ - WINNER
- Guillermo del Toro – ‘Frankenstein’
- Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Joachim Trier – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Chloé Zhao – ‘Hamnet’
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Director Ryan Cooler at the New York Premiere of 'Sinners'. Photo: Warner Bros.
- Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Ryan Coogler – ‘Sinners’ - WINNER
- Zach Cregger – ‘Weapons’
- Eva Victor – ‘Sorry, Baby’
- Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier – ‘Sentimental Value’
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Benicio del Toro as Sensei St. Carlos in 'One Battle After Another.' A Warner Bros. Pictures Release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
- Paul Thomas Anderson – ‘One Battle After Another’ - WINNER
- Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar – ‘Train Dreams’
- Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee – ‘No Other Choice’
- Guillermo del Toro – ‘Frankenstein’
- Will Tracy – ‘Bugonia’
- Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell – ‘Hamnet’
BEST CASTING AND ENSEMBLE
(L to R) Jayme Lawson as Pearline, Wunmi Mosaku as Annie, Michael B. Jordan as Smoke, Miles Caton as Sammie Moore, and Li Jun Li as Grace Chow, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Sinners,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Nina Gold – ‘Hamnet’
- Douglas Aibel, Nina Gold – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Jennifer Venditti – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Cassandra Kulukundis – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Francine Maisler – ‘Sinners’ - WINNER
- Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in 'Train Dreams'. Cr: Netflix © 2025.
- Claudio Miranda – ‘F1’
- Dan Laustsen – ‘Frankenstein’
- Łukasz Żal – ‘Hamnet’
- Michael Bauman – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw – ‘Sinners’
- Adolpho Veloso – ‘Train Dreams’ - WINNER
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
(L to R) Jacob Elordi as The Creature and Oscar Isaac as Dr. Victor Frankenstein on the set of Frankenstein. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
- Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis – ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
- Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – ‘Frankenstein’ - WINNER
- Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton – ‘Hamnet’
- Jack Fisk, Adam Willis – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne – ‘Sinners’
- Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST EDITING
Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes in Apple Original Films’ 'F1', a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Photo by Scott Garfield. Courtesy Warner Bros Pictures / Apple Original Films. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Kirk Baxter – ‘A House of Dynamite’
- Stephen Mirrione – ‘F1’ - WINNER
- Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Andy Jurgensen – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Viridiana Lieberman – ‘The Perfect Neighbor’
- Michael P. Shawver – ‘Sinners’
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Mia Goth as Elizabeth in Frankenstein. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
- Kate Hawley – ‘Frankenstein’ - WINNER
- Malgosia Turzanska – ‘Hamnet’
- Lindsay Pugh – ‘Hedda’
- Colleen Atwood, Christine Cantella – ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’
- Ruth E. Carter – ‘Sinners’
- Paul Tazewell – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Oscar Isaacs in 'Frankenstein'. Photo: Netflix.
- Flora Moody, John Nolan – ‘28 Years Later’
- Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey – ‘Frankenstein’ - WINNER
- Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry – ‘Sinners’
- Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox, Mia Neal – ‘The Smashing Machine’
- Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, Jason Collins – ‘Weapons’
- Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, Laura Blount – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Varang (Oona Chaplin) in 20th Century Studios' 'Avatar: Fire and Ash'. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
- Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett – ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ - WINNER
- Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, Keith Dawson – ‘F1’
- Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell – ‘Frankenstein’
- Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, Kirstin Hall – ‘'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
- Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean – ‘Sinners’
- Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, Guy Williams – ‘Superman’
BEST STUNT DESIGN
Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in 'Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning' from Paramount Pictures and Skydance. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
- Stephen Dunlevy, Kyle Gardiner, Jackson Spidell, Jeremy Marinas, Jan Petřina, Domonkos Párdányi, Kinga Kósa-Gavalda – ‘Ballerina’
- Gary Powell, Luciano Bacheta, Craig Dolby – ‘F1’
- Wade Eastwood – ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ - WINNER
- Brian Machleit – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Andy Gill – ‘Sinners’
- Giedrius Nagys – ‘Warfare’
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
'Kpop Demon Hunters'. ©2025 Netflix.
- ‘Arco’
- ‘Elio’
- ‘In Your Dreams’
- ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ - WINNER
- ‘Little Amélie or the Character of Rain’
- ‘Zootopia 2’
BEST COMEDY
Liam Neeson plays Frank Drebin Jr. in 'The Naked Gun' from Paramount Pictures.
- ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’
- ‘Eternity’
- ‘Friendship’
- ‘The Naked Gun’ - WINNER
- ‘The Phoenician Scheme’
- ‘Splitsville’
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Wagner Moura in 'The Secret Agent.' Photo: Neon.
- ‘It Was Just an Accident’
- ‘Left-Handed Girl’
- ‘No Other Choice’
- ‘The Secret Agent’ - WINNER
- ‘Sirāt’
- ‘Belén’
BEST SONG
'Kpop Demon Hunters'. ©2025 Netflix.
- “Drive” – Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, Blake Slatkin – ‘F1’
- “Golden” – Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, Teddy – ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ - WINNER
- “I Lied to You” – Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson – ‘Sinners’
- “Clothed by the Sun” – Daniel Blumberg – ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
- “Train Dreams” – Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner – ‘Train Dreams’
- “The Girl in the Bubble” – Stephen Schwartz – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST SCORE
(L to R) Michael B. Jordan as Smoke, Wunami Mosaku as Annie, Hailee Steinfeld as Mary, Michael B. Jordan as Stack, Miles Caton as Sammie and Omar Benson Miller as Cornbread in Warner Bros. Pictures’ 'Sinners,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Hans Zimmer – ‘F1’
- Alexandre Desplat – ‘Frankenstein’
- Max Richter – ‘Hamnet’
- Daniel Lopatin – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Jonny Greenwood – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Ludwig Göransson – ‘Sinners’- WINNER
BEST SOUND
A scene from Apple Original Films’ 'F1', a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures / Apple Original Films. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John – ‘F1’ - WINNER
- Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Greg Chapman – ‘Frankenstein’
- Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco, David V. Butler – ‘Sinners’
- Laia Casanovas – ‘Sirāt’
- Mitch Low, Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner – ‘Warfare’
The Critic's Choice Awards will be January 4th.
