San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2025

30th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
30th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Date	December 15, 2025
Site	San Diego, California, U.S.
Highlights
Best Picture	Sinners
Most awards	Sinners
Most nominations	Sinners (12)

The 30th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2025.^[1]

The nominations were announced on December 12, 2025. Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners led the nominations with twelve, followed by One Battle After Another with eleven and Hamnet with nine.^[2]^[3]^[4] Sinners also led the winners with a total of four wins, followed by It Was Just an Accident and Weapons with two each.^[1]^[5]^[6]

Winners and nominees

Jessie Buckley and Rose Byrne, Best Actress winners

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

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

References

^ ^a ^b "2025 San Diego Film Critics Society Award Winners". San Diego Film Critics Society. December 15, 2025. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
^ Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2025). "San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another' and 'Sinners' Lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2025). "The 2025 San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
^ arnewsteam (December 12, 2025). "San Diego Film Critics Society Nominations Announced". Awards Radar. Retrieved December 12, 2025.
^ Neglia, Matt (December 15, 2025). "The 2025 San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
^ Anderson, Erik (December 15, 2025). "San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Awards: 'Sinners' Tops in Picture, Director, and Actor". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

External links

Official Site

[SDFCS-1] "2025 San Diego Film Critics Society Award Winners". San Diego Film Critics Society. December 15, 2025. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

[2] Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2025). "San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another' and 'Sinners' Lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 12, 2025.

[3] Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2025). "The 2025 San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 12, 2025.

[4] rnewsteam (December 12, 2025). "San Diego Film Critics Society Nominations Announced". Awards Radar. Retrieved December 12, 2025.

[5] Neglia, Matt (December 15, 2025). "The 2025 San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

[6] Anderson, Erik (December 15, 2025). "San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Awards: 'Sinners' Tops in Picture, Director, and Actor". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

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