2025 San Diego Film Critics Awards

Best Picture
Winner: SINNERS
Runner Up: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Director
Winner: Ryan Coogler, SINNERS
Runner Up: Yorgos Lanthimos, BUGONIA

Best Actor
Winner: Michael B. Jordan, SINNERS
Runner Up: Joel Edgerton, TRAIN DREAMS

Best Actress
Winner: Jessie Buckley, HAMNET, Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Runner Up: Sean Penn , ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Amy Madigan, WEAPONS
Runners Up: Nina Hoss, HEDDA, Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS

Best Comedic Performance
Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ETERNITY
Runner Up: Molly Gordon, OH, HI!

Best Youth Performance (For a performer under the age of 18)
Winner: Cary Christopher, WEAPONS
Runner Up: Jacobi Jupe, HAMNET

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Runner Up: David Koepp, BLACK BAG

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Will Tracy, BUGONIA
Runner Up: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best First Feature (Director)
Winner: Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY
Runner Up: Kristen Stewart, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER

Best Documentary
Winner: ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5
Runner Up: BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES

Best Animated Film
Winner: K-POP DEMON HUNTERS
Runner Up: LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Runner Up: SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Best Editing
Winner: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, MARTY SUPREME
Runner Up: Andy Jurgensen, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Cinematography
Winner: Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS
Runner Up: Michael Bauman, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Production Design
Winner: Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, FRANKENSTEIN
Runners Up: Hannah Bleachler, Monique Champagne, SINNERS, Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis, THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

Best Visual Effects
Winner: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
Runners Up: FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, FRANKENSTEIN

Best Costume Design
Winner: Paul Tazewell, WICKED: FOR GOOD
Runners Up: Ruth E. Carter, SINNERS, Kate Hawley, FRANKENSTEIN

Best Sound Design
Winner: WARFARE
Runner Up: F1

Best Use of Music
Winner: SINNERS
Runner Up: HEDDA

Best Stunt Choreography
Winner: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FINAL RECKONING
Runner Up: SINNERS

Best Ensemble
Winner: BLACK BAG
Runner Up: SINNERS

Breakthrough Performance
Chase Infiniti, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Special Award for Body of Work
Josh O’Connor: WAKE UP, DEAD MAN, THE MASTERMIND, THE HISTORY OF SOUND, REBUILDING

Special Award: Best Animal Performance
Indy the Dog, GOOD BOY