Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2025

38th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 11, 2025
Site	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Highlights
Best Picture	TBA
Most awards	TBD
Most nominations	One Battle After Another / Sinners (12)
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The nominees for 38th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 9, 2025. ^[1] One Battle After Another and Sinners received the most nominations with twelve, followed by Marty Supreme with seven. Meanwhile, Frankenstein , and Train Dreams each received five nominations. The winners will be announced on December 11, 2025.

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 38th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:

Awards

Best Film	Best Director
It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams	Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Mona Fastvold – The Testament of Ann Lee Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Best Actor	Best Actress
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando / Fernando (adult)	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love as Grace Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Tessa Thompson – Hedda as Hedda Gabler
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sergio St. Carlos Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustov Borg	Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Nina Hoss – Hedda as Eileen Lovborg Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value Agnes Borg Pettersen Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie It Was Just an Accident - Jafar Panahi Sinners – Ryan Coogler Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor	Hamnet – Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, & Lee Ja-hye One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Train Dreams – Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar Wake Up Dead Man – Rian Johnson
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary Film
Arco Boys Go to Jupiter Kpop Demon Hunters Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	Cover-Up My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow The Perfect Neighbor Predators Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Best Foreign Language Film
It Was Just an Accident (France) No Other Choice (South Korea) The Secret Agent (Brazil) Sentimental Value (Norway) Sirāt (Spain)
Best Editing	Best Cinematography
28 Years Later – Jon Harris F1 – Stephen Mirrione & Patrick J. Smith Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie No Other Choice – Kim Sang-bum & Kim Ho-bin One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen	Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
Best Original Score	Best Costume Design
The Mastermind – Rob Mazurek One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Sinners – Ludwig Göransson The Testament of Ann Lee – Daniel Blumberg Train Dreams – Bryce Dessner	Frankenstein – Kate Hawley Hedda – Lindsay Pugh Sinners – Ruth E. Carter The Testament of Ann Lee – Malgorzata Karpiuk Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell
Best Art Direction / Production Design	Best Use of Visual Effects
Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Phoenician Scheme Sinners	Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein Mickey 17 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Sinners
Milos Stehlik Award for Breakthrough Filmmaker	Most Promising Performer
Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch Carson Lund – Eephus James Sweeney – Twinless Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby	Miles Caton – Sinners Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another Abou Sangaré – Souleymane's Story Tonatiuh – Kiss of the Spider Woman Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

Awards breakdown

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
12	One Battle After Another
	Sinners
7	Marty Supreme
5	Frankenstein
	Train Dreams
4	It Was Just an Accident
	The Testament of Ann Lee
3	Hamnet
	Hedda
	No Other Choice
	Sentimental Value
	Sorry, Baby
2	Blue Moon
	If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
	Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
	The Secret Agent

References

1. Neglia, Matt (9 December 2025). "The 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved 9 December 2025.

External links

• Official website