9th Astra Film Awards

9th Astra Film Awards
Date	January 9, 2026
Official website	theastras.com
Highlights
Most nominations	One Battle After Another (10)
Television coverage
Network	KNEKT Television Network YouTube (@TheAstraAwards)
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The 9th Astra Film Awards, presented by the Hollywood Creative Alliance, are scheduled to take place on January 9, 2026. The nominations were announced on November 25, 2025. ^[1]

The action thriller film One Battle After Another led the nominations with ten, followed by the comedy drama Sentimental Value and the horror Sinners with nine. ^{[2] [3]} The ceremony is to be recorded and streamed live on KNEKT.tv and YouTube.

Ceremony information

This is the third ceremony following the rebranding to The Astra Awards by the Hollywood Creative Alliance. This year marked the introduction of genre-based categories: Picture and Acting awards were split into "Drama" and "Comedy or Musical" categories. ^[2] The old "Best Comedy" award was retired, while "Best Book to Screen Adaptation" made its debut.

Winners and nominees

Winners will be listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Best Picture – Comedy or Musical Bugonia Jay Kelly Marty Supreme No Other Choice One Battle After Another Wicked: For Good	Best Picture – Drama Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just an Accident Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams
Best Actor – Drama Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier Dwayne Johnson – The Smashing Machine as Mark Kerr Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Armando / Marcelo Alves / Fernando Dylan O'Brien – Twinless as Roman / Rocky Jeremy Allen White – Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere as Bruce Springsteen	Best Actress – Drama Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Julia Garner – Weapons as Justine Gandy Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love as Grace Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Sydney Sweeney – Christy as Christy Martin Tessa Thompson – Hedda as Hedda Gabler
Best Actor – Comedy or Musical Lee Byung-hun – No Other Choice as Yoo Man-su Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser George Clooney – Jay Kelly as Jay Kelly Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Brendan Fraser – Rental Family as Phillip Vandarploeug Jesse Plemons – Bugonia as Teddy Gatz	Best Actress – Comedy or Musical Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Cynthia Erivo – Wicked: For Good as Elphaba Thropp Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby as Agnes
Best Supporting Actor – Drama Miles Caton – Sinners as Samuel "Sammie" Moore Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as the Creature David Jonsson – The Long Walk as Peter "Pete" McVries Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg	Best Supporting Actress – Drama Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Nina Hoss – Hedda as Eileen Lovborg Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Hailee Steinfeld – Sinners as Mary Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie
Best Supporting Actor – Comedy or Musical Jonathan Bailey – Wicked: For Good as Fiyero Tigelaar Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sergio St. Carlos Josh O'Connor – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Rev. Jud Duplenticy Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw Keanu Reeves – Good Fortune as Gabriel Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick	Best Supporting Actress – Comedy or Musical Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Glenn Close – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery as Martha Delacroix Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good as Glinda Upland Regina Hall – One Battle After Another as Deandra Gwyneth Paltrow – Marty Supreme as Kay Stone Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Best Original Screenplay Jay Kelly – Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Rental Family – Hikari Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Sinners – Ryan Coogler Weapons – Zach Cregger	Best Adapted Screenplay Bugonia – Will Tracy Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi, and Lee Ja-hye One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best Book to Screen Adaptation How to Train Your Dragon Mickey 17 Superman The Housemaid The Life of Chuck The Long Walk	Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best Animated Feature Arco Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle In Your Dreams KPop Demon Hunters Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	Best Voice Over Performance Arden Cho – KPop Demon Hunters as Rumi Nick Offerman – The Life of Chuck as the narrator Will Patton – Train Dreams as the narrator Natalie Portman – Arco as Iris' mother Shakira – Zootopia 2 as Gazelle Scarlett Sher – Weapons as the narrator
Best Horror or Thriller Feature 28 Years Later Black Phone 2 Bring Her Back Final Destination: Bloodlines Together Weapons	Best Performance in a Horror or Thriller Alison Brie – Together as Millie Wilson Ethan Hawke – Black Phone 2 as the Grabber Sally Hawkins – Bring Her Back as Laura Indy the Dog – Good Boy as himself Sophie Thatcher – Companion as Iris Alfie Williams – 28 Years Later as Spike
Best Cast Ensemble Jay Kelly One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Sinners Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Wicked: For Good	Best Action or Science Fiction Feature F1 The Fantastic Four: First Steps Mickey 17 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Superman Warfare
Best Documentary Feature Cover Up It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley My Mom Jayne Orwell: 2+2=5 The Perfect Neighbor Zodiac Killer Project	Best International Feature Belén It Was Just an Accident No Other Choice Sentimental Value Sirāt The Secret Agent
Best Indie Feature Bob Trevino Likes It Die My Love Sorry, Baby The Chronology of Water Twinless Urchin	Best First Feature Bob Trevino Likes It Eleanor the Great Good Boy Sorry, Baby The Chronology of Water Twinless [a]
Best Young Performer Aidan Delbis – Bugonia as Don Ana Sophia Heger – She Rides Shotgun as Polly Huff Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet as Hamnet Shakespeare Madeleine McGraw – Black Phone 2 as Gwen Marissa Bode – Wicked: For Good as Nessarose Thropp Shannon Mahina Gorman – Rental Family as Mia Kawasaki

Honorary awards

• Artisan Spotlight Award – TBA
• Artisan Icon Award – TBA
• Breakthrough Award – TBA
• Artisan Achievement Award – TBA
• Game Changer Award – TBA
• Artisan Breakthrough Award – TBA
• Filmmaker on the Rise Award – TBA

Films with multiple nominations

The following films received multiple nominations: ^[b]

Nominations	Film
10	One Battle After Another
9	Sentimental Value
	Sinners
6	Hamnet
	Marty Supreme
	Wicked: For Good
5	Jay Kelly
	Bugonia
	Weapons
4	Frankenstein
	No Other Choice
	Train Dreams
3	Black Phone 2
	Sorry, Baby
	Rental Family
	Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2	28 Years Later
	Arco
	Bob Trevino Likes It
	Bring Her Back
	Die My Love
	Good Boy
	Hedda
	It Was Just An Accident
	KPop Demon Hunters
	Mickey 17
	Superman
	The Chronology of Water
	The Life of Chuck
	The Long Walk
	The Secret Agent
	Together
	Twinless
	Zootopia 2

See also

• 4th Astra TV Awards
• 4th Astra Creative Arts Awards
• 8th Astra Midseason Movie Awards

Notes

1. The nomination for Twinless in "Best First Feature" was revoked hours after the nominations were revealed given it was not director James Sweeney's first feature. ^[4]
2. Sources, including the official Astra Awards press release, ^[3] listed incorrect totals for nomination counts.

References

1. Prusakowski, Steven (November 25, 2025). "The 2025 Astra Film Awards Nominations Have Been Announced". Awards Radar. Retrieved November 25, 2025.
2. Alter, Ethan (November 25, 2025). "'One Battle After Another' leads Astra Film Awards nominations". GoldDerby. Retrieved November 25, 2025.
3. "The 2025 Astra Film Awards Nominations Have Been Announced". The Astra Awards Presented by The Hollywood Creative Alliance. November 25, 2025. Retrieved November 25, 2025.
4. "The Astra Awards on X". X . November 25, 2025. Retrieved November 26, 2025.

External links

• Official website