San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2025

30th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Date	December 15, 2025
Site	San Diego, California, U.S.
Highlights
Most nominations	Sinners (12)
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The 30th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards are scheduled to be announced on December 15, 2025.

The nominations were announced on December 12, 2025. ^{[1] [2]} Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners led the nominations with twelve, followed by One Battle After Another with eleven and Hamnet with nine.

Winners and nominees

Winners will be listed at the top of each list in bold, while the runner-ups and nominees for each category will be listed under them.

Best Picture	Best Director
Hamnet It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners	Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
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 Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Armando / Marcelo Alves / Fernando	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby as Agnes
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sergio St. Carlos Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg Jeffrey Wright – Highest 2 Lowest as Paul Christopher	Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Nina Hoss – Hedda as Eileen Lovborg 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
Sinners – Ryan Coogler Weapons – Zach Cregger Black Bag – David Koepp It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier	One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar The Long Walk – JT Mollner Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell Bugonia – Will Tracy
Best Ensemble	Best Comedic Performance
Black Bag Jay Kelly The Long Walk Sinners Weapons	Will Arnett – Is This Thing On? as Alex Novak Molly Gordon – Oh, Hi! as Iris Liam Neeson – The Naked Gun as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. Da'Vine Joy Randolph – Eternity as Anna Tim Robinson – Friendship as Craig Waterman
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary
Elio KPop Demon Hunters Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Predator: Killer of Killers Zootopia 2	Becoming Led Zeppelin Billy Joel: And So It Goes John Candy: I Like Me Orwell: 2+2=5 Predators
Best Foreign Language Film	Best First Feature (Director)
It Was Just an Accident • France Left-Handed Girl • Taiwan The Secret Agent • Brazil Sentimental Value • Norway Sirāt • Spain	Drew Hancock – Companion Scarlett Johansson – Eleanor the Great Ben Leonberg – Good Boy Kristen Stewart – The Chronology of Water Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso	Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Highest 2 Lowest – Barry Alexander Brown and Allyson C. Johnson Hamnet – Affonso Gonçalves and Chloé Zhao One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen F1 – Stephen Mirrione and Patrick J. Smith
Best Costume Design	Best Production Design
Frankenstein – Kate Hawley Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Alexandra Byrne Sinners – Ruth E. Carter Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell	Sinners – Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne Hedda – Cara Brower and Stella Fox Hamnet – Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Kasra Farahani and Jille Azis
Best Use of Music	Best Stunt Choreography
Hedda KPop Demon Hunters Marty Supreme Sinners Sirāt	Ballerina Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning One Battle After Another Sinners Superman
Best Sound Design	Best Visual Effects
F1 Frankenstein Sinners Avatar: Fire and Ash Warfare	Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning The Fantastic Four: First Steps Superman
Best Youth Performance (For a performer under the age of 18)
Cary Christopher – Weapons as Alex Lilly Shannon Mahina Gorman – Rental Family as Mia Kawasaki Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet as Hamnet Shakespeare Alfie Williams – 28 Years Later as Spike Nina Ye – Left-Handed Girl as I-Jing

References

1. Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2025). "The 2025 San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations". NextBestPicture. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
2. Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2025). "San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another,' 'Sinners' Lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 12, 2025.

External links

• Official Site