Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2025

24th WAFCA Awards
Date	December 7, 2025 (2025-12-07)
Highlights
Best Film	Sinners
Best Director	Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Best Actor	Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Best Actress	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
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The 24th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 7, 2025. ^[1] The nominations were announced on December 6, 2025. ^[2]

Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners led the nominations with thirteen apiece, followed by Hamnet with nine and Marty Supreme with eight. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Ultimately, Sinners dominated with a record-breaking ten wins (the most awards ever earned by a single film in the organization's history), followed by One Battle After Another with three. Additionally, Coogler achieved a rare sweep of Best Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. ^{[1] [4] [5] [6]}

Winners and nominees

Ryan Coogler, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay winner

Michael B. Jordan, Best Actor winner

Jessie Buckley, Best Actress winner

Benicio del Toro, Best Supporting Actor winner

Teyana Taylor, Best Supporting Actress winner

Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Ludwig Göransson, Best Original Score winner

Miles Caton, Best Youth Performance winner

The winners are listed first and in boldface.

Best Film	Best Director
Sinners Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sentimental Value	Ryan Coogler – Sinners Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best Actor	Best Actress
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore 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	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare 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 Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg
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 Gustav Borg	Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good as Galinda "Glinda" Upland Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Sinners – Ryan Coogler It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Weapons – Zach Cregger	One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Bugonia – Will Tracy Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary
KPop Demon Hunters Arco Elio Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	The Perfect Neighbor Come See Me in the Good Light The Librarians Orwell: 2+2=5 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Cinematography
Sentimental Value (Norway) It Was Just an Accident (Iran) Left-Handed Girl (Taiwan) No Other Choice (South Korea) The Secret Agent (Brazil)	Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
Best Editing	Best Original Score
F1 – Stephen Mirrione (TIE) Sinners – Michael P. Shawver (TIE) Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Affonso Gonçalves Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen	Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Hamnet – Max Richter Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
Best Production Design	Best Ensemble
Sinners – Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Kasra Farahani and Jille Azis Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Hamnet – Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton Wicked: For Good – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales	Sinners Hamnet It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Wake Up Dead Man
Best Youth Performance	Best Voice Performance
Miles Caton – Sinners as Samuel "Sammie" Moore Cary Christopher – Weapons as Alex Lilly Shannon Mahina Gorman – Rental Family as Mia Kawasaki Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet as Hamnet Shakespeare Nina Ye – Left-Handed Girl as I-Jing Mason Thames – How to Train Your Dragon as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III	Arden Cho – KPop Demon Hunters as Rumi Jason Bateman – Zootopia 2 as Nick Wilde Ginnifer Goodwin – Zootopia 2 as Judy Hopps Yonas Kibreab – Elio as Elio Solís Ke Huy Quan – Zootopia 2 as Gary De'Snake
Best Stunts	Best Motion Capture Performance
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning F1 One Battle After Another Sinners Superman	Zoe Saldaña – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Neytiri Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Varang Stephen Lang – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Colonel Miles Quaritch Sigourney Weaver – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Kiri Sam Worthington – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Jake Sully
Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC
A House of Dynamite Anniversary Captain America: Brave New World Nuremberg Thunderbolts*

Multiple nominations and wins

The following films received multiple nominations: Nominations Film 13 One Battle After Another Sinners 9 Hamnet 8 Marty Supreme 7 Sentimental Value 5 Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein 4 It Was Just an Accident Zootopia 2 3 Train Dreams Weapons Wicked: For Good 2 Elio F1 KPop Demon Hunters Left-Handed Girl

The following films received multiple awards: Wins Film 10 Sinners 3 One Battle After Another 2 KPop Demon Hunters

References

1. Anderson, Erik (December 7, 2025). "Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): 'Sinners' Dominates with 10 Wins". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 11, 2025.
2. Anderson, Erik (December 6, 2025). "Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another', 'Sinners' Score 13 Each". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 7, 2025.
3. Neglia, Matt (December 6, 2025). "The 2025 Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 7, 2025.
4. arnewsteam (December 7, 2025). "'Sinners' Takes Home Ten Prizes at the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards". Awards Radar. Retrieved December 11, 2025.
5. Hopson, Travis (December 8, 2025). "DC Film Critics Name 'Sinners' Best Movie of 2025, Wins Ten Awards Total". Punch Drunk Critics. Retrieved December 11, 2025.
6. Flatt, Jason (December 8, 2025). "The Washington Area Film Critics Association Announces 2025 WAFCA Awards". But Why Tho?. Retrieved December 11, 2025.

External links

• The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association