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Critics Choice Film Awards 2026 Nominations
The Critic’s Choice Awards will be January 4th.

Preview:
- The 31st Annual Critics Choice Film Awards Nominations have been announced.
- ‘Sinners’ leads the pack with 17 nominations.
- The ceremony will air on E! and the USA Network in January.
After turning its box office fortunes around (and er, just being purchased), Warner Bros. is also seeing some awards success this year, with the likes of ‘Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ nabbing nominations and taking home trophies.

And now the former is leading the list of nominees for the 2026 Critics Choice Association awards.
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Also up for awards this year are the likes of ‘Hamnet’, ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Wicked: For Good,’ which have all also been getting attention during the current awards season.

Related Article:‘Anora’ Takes Home Best Picture at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards

Here’s the full list…

Critics Choice 2026: Film Nominations

BEST PICTURE

(L to R) Jayme Lawson as Pearline, Wunmi Mosaku as Annie, Michael B. Jordan as Smoke, Miles Caton as Sammie Moore, and Li Jun Li as Grace Chow, in Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Sinners,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- ‘Bugonia’
- ‘Hamnet’
- ‘Jay Kelly’
- ‘Marty Supreme’
- ‘One Battle After Another’
- ‘Sentimental Value’
- ‘Sinners’
- ‘Train Dreams’
- ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST ACTOR

Timothée Chalamet in ‘Marty Supreme’. Photo: A24.
- Timothée Chalamet – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Leonardo DiCaprio – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Joel Edgerton – ‘Train Dreams’
- Ethan Hawke – ‘Blue Moon’
- Michael B. Jordan – ‘Sinners’
- Wagner Moura – ‘The Secret Agent’
BEST ACTRESS

(L to R) Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes and Joe Alwyn as Bartholomew in director Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
- Jessie Buckley – ‘Hamnet’
- Rose Byrne – ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’
- Chase Infiniti – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Renate Reinsve – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Amanda Seyfried – ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
- Emma Stone – ‘Bugonia’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Jacob Elordi as The Creature in ‘Frankenstein’. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
- Benicio del Toro – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Jacob Elordi – ‘Frankenstein’
- Paul Mescal – ‘Hamnet’
- Sean Penn – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Adam Sandler – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Stellan Skarsgård – ‘Sentimental Value’
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Ariana Grande is Glinda in ‘Wicked For Good’, directed by Jon M. Chu.
- Elle Fanning – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Ariana Grande – ‘Wicked: For Good’
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Amy Madigan – ‘Weapons’
- Wunmi Mosaku – ‘Sinners’
- Teyana Taylor – ‘One Battle After Another’
BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS

(L to R) Shannon Gorman and Brendan Fraser in ‘Rental Family’. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
- Everett Blunck – ‘The Plague’
- Miles Caton – ‘Sinners’
- Cary Christopher – ‘Weapons’
- Shannon Mahina Gorman – ‘Rental Family’
- Jacobi Jupe – ‘Hamnet’
- Nina Ye – ‘Left-Handed Girl’
BEST DIRECTOR

Director Paul Thomas Anderson attends a special screening and Q&A of ‘One Battle After Another’. Photo Credit: Jay L. Clendenin/Shutterstock for Warner Bros. Copyright: Copyright ©2025 Jay L. Clendenin.
- Paul Thomas Anderson – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Guillermo del Toro – ‘Frankenstein’
- Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Joachim Trier – ‘Sentimental Value’
- Chloé Zhao – ‘Hamnet’
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

(L to R) George Clooney as Jay Kelly and Adam Sandler as Ron Sukenick in ‘Jay Kelly’. Cr. Peter Mountain/Netflix © 2025.
- Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Ryan Coogler – ‘Sinners’
- Zach Cregger – ‘Weapons’
- Eva Victor – ‘Sorry, Baby’
- Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier – ‘Sentimental Value’
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in ‘Train Dreams’. Cr. BBP Train Dreams. LLC. © 2025.
- Paul Thomas Anderson – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar – ‘Train Dreams’
- Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee – ‘No Other Choice’
- Guillermo del Toro – ‘Frankenstein’
- Will Tracy – ‘Bugonia’
- Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell – ‘Hamnet’
BEST CASTING AND ENSEMBLE

(L to R) Jonathan Bailey is Fiyero and Ariana Grande is Glinda in ‘Wicked For Good’, directed by Jon M. Chu.
- Nina Gold – ‘Hamnet’
- Douglas Aibel, Nina Gold – ‘Jay Kelly’
- Jennifer Venditti – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Cassandra Kulukundis – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Francine Maisler – ‘Sinners’
- Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Director/Producer Joseph Kosinski (eye to viewfinder) on the set of Apple Original Films’ ‘F1’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Photo by Scott Garfield. Courtesy Warner Bros Pictures / Apple Original Films. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- Claudio Miranda – ‘F1’
- Dan Laustsen – ‘Frankenstein’
- Łukasz Żal – ‘Hamnet’
- Michael Bauman – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw – ‘Sinners’
- Adolpho Veloso – ‘Train Dreams’
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

(L to R) Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing and H.E.R.B.I.E in 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios’ ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios. © 2025 20th Century Studios / © and ™ 2025 Marvel.
- Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis – ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
- Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – ‘Frankenstein’
- Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton – ‘Hamnet’
- Jack Fisk, Adam Willis – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne – ‘Sinners’
- Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST EDITING

Rebecca Ferguson as Captain Olivia Walker in ‘A House of Dynamite’. Photo:. Eros Hoagland/Netflix © 2025.
- Kirk Baxter – ‘A House of Dynamite’
- Stephen Mirrione – ‘F1’
- Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Andy Jurgensen – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Viridiana Lieberman – ‘The Perfect Neighbor’
- Michael P. Shawver – ‘Sinners’
BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Mia Goth as Elizabeth in Frankenstein. Photo: Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
- Kate Hawley – ‘Frankenstein’
- Malgosia Turzanska – ‘Hamnet’
- Lindsay Pugh – ‘Hedda’
- Colleen Atwood, Christine Cantella – ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’
- Ruth E. Carter – ‘Sinners’
- Paul Tazewell – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

Dwayne Johnson stars in ‘The Smashing Machine’. Photo: A24.
- Flora Moody, John Nolan – ‘28 Years Later’
- Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey – ‘Frankenstein’
- Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry – ‘Sinners’
- Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox, Mia Neal – ‘The Smashing Machine’
- Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, Jason Collins – ‘Weapons’
- Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, Laura Blount – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

David Corwnswet as Superman in DC Studios’ and Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Superman’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved. TM & © DC.
- Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett – ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’
- Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, Keith Dawson – ‘F1’
- Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell – ‘Frankenstein’
- Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, Kirstin Hall – ‘’Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
- Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean – ‘Sinners’
- Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, Guy Williams – ‘Superman’
BEST STUNT DESIGN

Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ from Paramount Pictures and Skydance. Photo: Paramount Pictures.
- Stephen Dunlevy, Kyle Gardiner, Jackson Spidell, Jeremy Marinas, Jan Petřina, Domonkos Párdányi, Kinga Kósa-Gavalda – ‘Ballerina’
- Gary Powell, Luciano Bacheta, Craig Dolby – ‘F1’
- Wade Eastwood – ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
- Brian Machleit – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Andy Gill – ‘Sinners’
- Giedrius Nagys – ‘Warfare’
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

‘Kpop Demon Hunters’. ©2025 Netflix.
BEST COMEDY

(L to R) Mia Threapleton as Liesl and Benicio Del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda in director Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Wagner Moura in ‘The Secret Agent.’ Photo: Neon.
- ‘It Was Just an Accident’
- ‘Left-Handed Girl’
- ‘No Other Choice’
- ‘The Secret Agent’
- ‘Sirāt’
- ‘Belén’
BEST SONG

Miles Caton as Sammie Moore in Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Sinners,’ a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- “Drive” – Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, Blake Slatkin – ‘F1’
- “Golden” – Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, Teddy – ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
- “I Lied to You” – Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson – ‘Sinners’
- “Clothed by the Sun” – Daniel Blumberg – ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
- “Train Dreams” – Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner – ‘Train Dreams’
- “The Girl in the Bubble” – Stephen Schwartz – ‘Wicked: For Good’
BEST SCORE

Leonardo Di Caprio as Bob Ferguson in ‘One Battle After Another.’ A Warner Bros. Pictures Release. Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures.
- Hans Zimmer – ‘F1’
- Alexandre Desplat – ‘Frankenstein’
- Max Richter – ‘Hamnet’
- Daniel Lopatin – ‘Marty Supreme’
- Jonny Greenwood – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Ludwig Göransson – ‘Sinners’
BEST SOUND

Directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s ‘Warfare’. Photo: A24.
- Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John – ‘F1’
- Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Greg Chapman – ‘Frankenstein’
- Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor – ‘One Battle After Another’
- Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco, David V. Butler – ‘Sinners’
- Laia Casanovas – ‘Sirāt’
- Mitch Low, Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner – ‘Warfare’
When will the Critics Choice Awards be on TV this year?

The awards ceremony will air live on E! and the USA Network on Sunday, January 4, 2026 hosted by Chelsea Handler.

Paul Mescal stars as William Shakespeare in director Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’, a Focus Features release. Credit: Agata Grzybowska / © 2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC
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Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley Starring in ‘Blue Moon’
(Left) Ethan Hawke plays Arthur Harrow in Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ on Disney+. (Right) Margaret Qualley in ‘Kinds of Kindness.’ Photo by Yorgos Lanthimos. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Preview:
- Richard Linklater has cast his next film, ‘Blue Moon’.
- Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley and Andrew Scott are all aboard.
- Linklater will film in Dublin, Ireland this summer.
While some directors would be content to rest on their laurels after a successful recent release (the Glen Powell-starring Netflix smash ‘Hit Man’), that really isn’t Richard Linklater’s style.

He already has ‘Nouvelle Vague’, about the production of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’ in the editing stage and is also still shooting footage for his decades-in-the-making film version of musical ‘Merrily We Roll Along’).

Deadline reports that the busy filmmaker has secured backing for his next movie, ‘Blue Moon’, which follows the highs and lows of a real-life songwriting partnership and has locked in an interesting cast.

Related Article: 10 Things We Learned at the ‘Hit Man’ Press Conference with Cast and Crew

What’s the story of ‘Blue Moon’?

Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley in ‘Ripley.’ Photo: Philippe Antonello/Netflix © 2023.

Written by Robert Kaplow, author of the novel ‘Me and Orson Welles’ (which inspired the Linklater film of the same name), ‘Blue Moon’ profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart –– who wrote ‘Blue Moon’ itself.

The movie is set primarily in New York’s Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of ‘Oklahoma!’, which marked Richard Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.

Who will appear in ‘Blue Moon’?

Ethan Hawke stars in ‘The Black Phone,’ directed by Scott Derrickson and opening in theaters on June 24th.

Linklater has rounded up quite the cast for this one, which will be anchored by his ninth collaboration with Ethan Hawke.

Margaret Qualley, who is in Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’, Bobby Cannavale (‘Ezra’) and Andrew Scott (star of recent Netflix drama, ‘Ripley’) are also all on for the new movie, with Linklater planning a Dublin, Ireland shoot this summer.

Who is backing ‘Blue Moon’?

(L to R) Adria Arjona as Madison, director and co-writer Richard Linkletter, co-writer Glen Powell as Gary Johnson, and director of photography Shane F. Kelly. Photo: Brian Rondel / Courtesy of Netflix.Cr. Brian Rondel / Courtesy of Netflix.

Sony Pictures Classics will be financing the film after developing it for the past few months, with parent company Sony distributing it around the world. Linklater is aboard to produce alongside Mike Blizzard and longtime manager John Sloss.

This was the official statement from Sony Pictures Classics:

“Almost a year ago, Rick, Ethan, and John reached out to us with Robert Kaplow’s amazing script ‘Blue Moon’. Helping them over the following months to bring it together has been incredibly exciting and now, on the verge of production, with this fantastic cast and crew in place and Rick at the helm, we are thrilled to finally announce it and bring the film to audiences everywhere in the world.”

Here’s what Linklater had to say:

“Robert, Ethan, and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life.”

There is no release date for ‘Blue Moon’ just yet.

(L to R) Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, director Richard Linklater and Sanjay Rao for ‘Hit Man’. Photo: Netflix.

Richard Linklater Movies:
- ‘Slacker‘ (1991)
- ‘Dazed and Confused‘ (1993)
- ‘Before Sunrise‘ (1995)
- ‘SubUrbia‘ (1996)
- ‘The Newton Boys‘ (1998)
- ‘Waking Life‘ (2001)
- ‘Tape‘ (2001)
- ‘School of Rock‘ (2003)
- ‘Before Sunset‘ (2004)
- ‘Bad News Bears‘ (2005)
- ‘A Scanner Darkly‘ (2006)
- ‘Fast Food Nation‘ (2006)
- ‘Me and Orson Welles‘ (2009)
- ‘Bernie‘ (2011)
- ‘Before Midnight‘ (2013)
- ‘Boyhood‘ (2014)
- ‘Everybody Wants Some!!‘ (2016)
- ‘Last Flag Flying‘ (2017)
- ‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette‘ (2019)
- ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood‘ (2022)
- ‘Hit Man‘ (2023)
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June 21, 2024