Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2025

19th Houston Film Critics Society Awards
Date	January 20, 2026 (2026-01-20)
Location	Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston, Texas
Presented by	Houston Film Critics Society
Website	houstonfilmcritics.com
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The 19th Houston Film Critics Society Awards will be announced on January 20, 2026, at the Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston (MATCH) in Texas. ^[1]

The nominations were announced on January 11, 2025, with Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners leading with fourteen nominations, followed by One Battle After Another with thirteen. ^{[2] [3]} The category for Best Casting was introduced.

Winners and nominees

Winners will be listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams Weapons	Chloé Zhao – Hamnet Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões	Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue as Claire Sardina Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg	Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good as Galinda "Glinda" Upland Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Best Screenplay	Best Animated Feature
Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Wake Up Dead Man – Rian Johnson Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sinners – Ryan Coogler	KPop Demon Hunters Arco The Bad Guys 2 Ne Zha 2 Zootopia 2
Best Documentary Feature	Best Foreign Language Feature
The Alabama Solution Cover-Up My Mom Jayne Orwell: 2+2=5 The Perfect Neighbor	The Secret Agent (Brazil) It Was Just an Accident (France) No Other Choice (South Korea) Sentimental Value (Norway) Sirāt (Spain)
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin F1 – Hans Zimmer One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Sinners – Ludwig Göransson	"Golden" – KPop Demon Hunters "I Lied to You" – Sinners "Last Time (I Seen the Sun)" – Sinners "Our Love" – The Ballad of Wallis Island "Train Dreams" – Train Dreams
Best Cinematography	Best Visual Effects
Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw F1 – Claudio Miranda Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman	Avatar: Fire and Ash F1 Frankenstein Sinners Superman
Best Ensemble	Best Stunt Coordination Team
One Battle After Another Marty Supreme Sentimental Value Sinners Wake Up Dead Man	Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Ballerina F1 One Battle After Another Sinners
Best Casting	Texas Independent Film Award
Sinners – Francine Maisler One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti Hamnet – Nina Gold Frankenstein – Robin D. Cook	Ick – Joseph Kahn The Librarians – Kim A. Snyder Luv Ya Bum! – Sam Wainwright Douglas, David Hartstein and Andrew Alden Miller Selena y Los Dinos – Isabel Castro The Senior – Rod Lurie

References

1. "'Sinners' Leads Houston Film Critics Nominations". Houston Film Critics Society . January 11, 2026. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
2. Neglia, Matt (January 11, 2026). "The 2025 Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) Nominations". NextBestPicture. Retrieved January 12, 2026.
3. Anderson, Erik (January 11, 2026). "Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS) Nominations: 'Sinners' Leads with 20". Awards Watch. Retrieved January 12, 2026.

External links

• Official website