San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2025

24th SFBAFCC Awards

December 14, 2025

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Best Picture:
TBA

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Best Animated Feature:
TBA

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Best Documentary Feature:
TBA

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Best International Feature Film:
TBA

The 24th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Awards winners, honoring the best in film for 2025, are scheduled to be announced on December 14, 2025.

Nominations were revealed on December 12, 2025. ^{[1] [2]} Paul Thomas Anderson's thriller One Battle After Another led the nominations with eleven, followed by Sinners with nine, Sentimental Value with eight and Hamnet with seven.

Winners and nominees

These are the nominees for the 24th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards. Winners will be listed at the top of each list in bold:

Best Picture	Best Director
Hamnet One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams	Chloé Zhao – Hamnet Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Best Actor	Best Actress
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 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 Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg	Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as 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
Sinners – Ryan Coogler Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Weapons – Zach Cregger	Bugonia – Will Tracy Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary Feature
Arco Elio KPop Demon Hunters Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	The Alabama Solution Come See Me in the Good Light Orwell: 2+2=5 The Perfect Neighbor Riefenstahl
Best International Feature Film	Best Cinematography
It Was Just an Accident • France No Other Choice • South Korea The Secret Agent • Brazil Sentimental Value • Norway Sirāt • Spain	Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
Best Film Editing	Best Original Score
F1 – Stephen Mirrione A House of Dynamite – Kirk Baxter Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen Sinners – Michael P. Shawver	Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Train Dreams – Bryce Dessner
Best Production Design
Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell Hamnet – Fiona Crombie Marty Supreme – Jack Fisk One Battle After Another – Florencia Martin Sinners – Hannah Beachler

Special awards

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

• Brother Verses Brother
• The Encampments
• Happyend
• Twinless

Marlon Riggs Award

• To be announced

References

1. Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2025). "San Francisco Film Critics (SFBAFCC) Nominations: 'One Battle,' 'Sinners,' 'Sentimental Value' Lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
2. Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2025). "The 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". NextBestPicture. Retrieved December 12, 2025.

External links

• Official website