Critics Choice Awards 2026 Winners List Includes The Pitt And The Studio

BEST PICTURE

“Bugonia”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Jay Kelly”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another” — WINNER
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”
“Wicked: For Good”

BEST ACTOR

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

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

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

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

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

Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” — WINNER
Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”
Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
Joachmir Trier, “Sentimental Value”
Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, “Jay Kelly”
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
Ryan Coogler, “Sinners” — WINNER
Zach Gregger, “Weapons”
Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” — WINNER
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, “Train Dreams”
Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee, “No Other Choice”
Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”
Will Tracy, “Bugonia”
Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, “Hamnet”

BEST CASTING AND ENSEMBLE

Nina Gold, “Hamnet”
Douglas Aibel and Nina Gold, “Jay Kelly”
Jennifer Venditti, “Marty Supreme”
Cassandra Kulukundis, “One Battle After Another”
Francine Maisler, “Sinners” — WINNER
Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey, “Wicked: For Good”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Claudio Miranda, “F1”
Dan Lautsen, “Frankenstein”
Łukasz Żal, “Hamnet”
Michael Bauman, “One Battle After Another”
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, “Sinners”
Adolpho Veloso, “Train Dreams” — WINNER

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Kasra Farahani and Jille Azis, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”
Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, “Frankenstein” — WINNER
Fiona Crombia and Alice Felton, “Hamnet”
Jack Fisk and Adam Willis, “Marty Supreme”
Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne, “Sinners”
Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales, “Wicked: For Good”

BEST EDITING

Kirk Baxter, “A House of Dynamite”
Stephen Mirrione, “F1” — WINNER
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
Andy Jurgensen, “One Battle After Another”
Viridiana Lieberman, “The Perfect Neighbor”
Michael P. Shawver, “Sinners”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Kate Hawley, “Frankenstein” — WINNER
Malgosia Turzanska, “Hamnet”
Lindsay Pugh, “Hedda”
Colleen Atwood and Christine Cantella, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
Ruth E. Carter, “Sinners”
Paul Tazewell, “Wicked: For Good”

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

Flora Moody and John Nolan, “28 Years Later”
Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey, “Frankenstein” — WINNER
Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry, “Sinners”
Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox, and Mia Neal, “The Smashing Machine”
Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, and Jason Collins, “Weapons”
Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, and Laura Blount, “Wicked: For Good”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett, “Avatar: Fire and Ash” — WINNER
Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, and Keith Dawson, “F1”
Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, and José Granell, “Frankenstein”
Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, and Kirstin Hall, “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean, “Sinners”
Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, and Guy Williams, “Superman”

BEST STUNT DESIGN

Stephen Dunleavy, Kyle Gardiner, Jackson Spidell, Jeremy Marinas, Jan Petrina, Domonkos Pardanyi, and Kinga Kosa-Gavalda, “Ballerina”
Gary Powell, Luciano Bacheta, and 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

“Arco”
“Elio”
“In Your Dreams”
“KPop Demon Hunters” — WINNER
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
“Zootopia 2”

BEST COMEDY

“The Ballas of Wallis Island”
“Eternity”
“Friendship”
“The Naked Gun” — WINNER
“The Phoenician Scheme”
“Splitsville”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

“It Was Just an Accident”
“Left-Handed Girl”
“No Other Choice”
“The Secret Agent” — WINNER
“Sirāt”
“Belén”

BEST SONG

“Drive,” Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, and Blake Slatkin, “F1”
“Golden,” Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, and Teddy, “KPop Demon Hunters” — WINNER
“I Lied to You,” Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson, “Sinners”
“Clothed by the Sun,” Daniel Blumberg, “The Testament of Ann Lee”
“Train Dreams,” Nick Cave and Bryce Dressner, “Train Dreams”
“The Girl in the Bubble,” Stephen Schwartz, “Wicked: For Good”

BEST SCORE

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

Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, and Gareth John, “F1” — WINNER
Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Greg Chapman, “Frankenstein”
Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor, “One Battle After Another”
Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boedekker, Felipe Pacheco, and David V. Butler, “Sinners”
Laia Casanovas, “Sirāt”
Mitch Low, Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, and Richard Spooner, “Warfare”