The 31st Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 4, 2026, at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, honoring the finest achievements of filmmaking and television programming in 2025. The ceremony was broadcast on E! and USA Network, and was hosted by comedian Chelsea Handler for the fourth consecutive year.
The nominations for both the film and television categories were announced on cable's E! and USA Network's channels. Additionally, the announcement of the nominations were streamed on criticschoice.com, as well as the CCA, E!, E! Online and the USA Network's YouTube channels; the nominations were also announced on the CCA's social media channels. The livestream was hosted by television personalities Keltie Knight and Erin Lim Rhodes.
Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners led the film nominations with seventeen, followed by Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another with fourteen. For the television categories, the Netflix limited series Adolescence led the nominations with six, followed by the romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This with five.
Ceremony information For the first time, shortlists for eleven "below-the-line" categories were unveiled in November 2025. Sinners received the most mentions with thirteen, being the only film to be named on all eleven of the lists and earning across-the-board recognition in every category. Additionally, four new categories were introduced: three for film (Best Casting and Ensemble, Best Sound, and Best Stunt Design) and one for television (Best Variety Series).
Preceding the ceremony, the red carpet special LIVE from E!: Critics Choice Awards aired live from 2:00–4:00 p.m. PT/5:00–7:00 p.m. ET on both E! and USA Network. The special was hosted by Keltie Knight and Justin Sylvester, along with Will Marfuggi and Erin Lim Rhodes. Throughout the ceremony, Real Time Recap (a live format that activated on the E! Entertainment Instagram during the commercial breaks) delivered exclusive and instant content as they unfolded.
Winners and nominees
Film One Battle After Another Bugonia Frankenstein Hamnet Jay Kelly Marty Supreme Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams Wicked: For Good Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Chloé Zhao – Hamnet 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 Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good as Galinda "Glinda" Upland Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills Miles Caton – Sinners as Samuel "Sammie" Moore Everett Blunck – The Plague as Ben 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 Sinners – Francine Maisler Hamnet – Nina Gold Jay Kelly – Douglas Aibel and Nina Gold Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis Wicked: For Good – Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Ryan Coogler – Sinners Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer – Jay Kelly Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Zach Cregger – Weapons Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar – Train Dreams Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Lee Ja-hye – No Other Choice Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Will Tracy – Bugonia Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell – Hamnet Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso F1 – Claudio Miranda Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw | valign="top" width="50%"|
F1 – Stephen Mirrione A House of Dynamite – Kirk Baxter Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen The Perfect Neighbor – Viridiana Lieberman Sinners – Michael P. Shawver |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Frankenstein – Kate Hawley Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska Hedda – Lindsay Pugh Kiss of the Spider Woman – Colleen Atwood and Christine Cantella Sinners – Ruth E. Carter Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell | valign="top" width="50%"|
Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Jille Azis and Kasra Farahani Hamnet – Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton Marty Supreme – Jack Fisk and Adam Willis Sinners – Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne Wicked: For Good – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Sinners – Ludwig Göransson F1 – Hans Zimmer Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Hamnet – Max Richter Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood | valign="top" width="50%"|
"Golden" (Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, and Teddy) – KPop Demon Hunters "Clothed by the Sun" (Daniel Blumberg) – The Testament of Ann Lee "Drive" (Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, and Blake Slatkin) – F1 "I Lied to You" (Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson) – Sinners "The Girl in the Bubble" (Stephen Schwartz) – Wicked: For Good "Train Dreams" (Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner) – Train Dreams Frankenstein – Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey 28 Years Later – Flora Moody and John Nolan Sinners – Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry The Smashing Machine – Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox, and Mia Neal Weapons – Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, and Jason Collins Wicked: For Good – Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, and Laura Blount | valign="top" width="50%"|
F1 – Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, and Gareth John Frankenstein – Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Greg Chapman One Battle After Another – José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor Sinners – Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco, and David V. Butler Sirāt – Laia Casanovas Warfare – Mitch Low, Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, and Richard Spooner |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
Avatar: Fire and Ash – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett F1 – Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, and Keith Dawson Frankenstein – Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, and José Granell Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, and Kirstin Hall Sinners – Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean Superman – Stéphane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, and Guy Williams | valign="top" width="50%"|
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Wade Eastwood Ballerina – Stephen Dunlevy, Kyle Gardiner, Jackson Spidell, Jeremy Marinas, Jan Petřina, Domonkos Párdányi, and Kinga Kósa-Gavalda F1 – Gary Powell, Luciano Bacheta, and Craig Dolby One Battle After Another – Brian Machleit Sinners – Andy Gill Warfare – Giedrius Nagys |- | valign="top" width="50%"|
KPop Demon Hunters Arco Elio In Your Dreams Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2 The Naked Gun The Ballad of Wallis Island Eternity Friendship The Phoenician Scheme Splitsville The Secret Agent • Brazil Belén • Argentina It Was Just an Accident • Iran Left-Handed Girl • Taiwan No Other Choice • South Korea Sirāt • Spain
Television
The Pitt (HBO Max) Alien: Earth (FX) Andor (Disney+) The Diplomat (Netflix) Paradise (Hulu) Pluribus (Apple TV) Severance (Apple TV) Task (HBO Max) Noah Wyle – The Pitt as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch (HBO Max) Sterling K. Brown – Paradise as Xavier Collins (Hulu) Diego Luna – Andor as Cassian Andor (Disney+) Mark Ruffalo – Task as Tom Brandis (HBO Max) Adam Scott – Severance as Mark Scout / Mark S. (Apple TV) Billy Bob Thornton – Landman as Tommy Norris (Paramount+) Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus as Carol Sturka (Apple TV) Kathy Bates – Matlock as Madeline "Matty" Matlock / Madeline Kingston (CBS) Carrie Coon – The Gilded Age as Bertha Russell (HBO Max) Britt Lower – Severance as Helena Eagan / Helly R. (Apple TV) Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us as Ellie (HBO Max) Keri Russell – The Diplomat as Katherine "Kate" Wyler (Netflix) Tramell Tillman – Severance as Seth Milchick (Apple TV) Patrick Ball – The Pitt as Dr. Frank Langdon (HBO Max) Billy Crudup – The Morning Show as Cory Ellison (Apple TV) Ato Essandoh – The Diplomat as Stuart Hayford (Netflix) Wood Harris – Forever as Eric (Netflix) Tom Pelphrey – Task as Robbie Prendergrast (HBO Max) Katherine LaNasa – The Pitt as Dana Evans (HBO Max) Nicole Beharie – The Morning Show as Christine Hunter (Apple TV) Denée Benton – The Gilded Age as Peggy Scott (HBO Max) Allison Janney – The Diplomat as Grace Hagen Penn (Netflix) Greta Lee – The Morning Show as Stella Bak (Apple TV) Skye P. Marshall – Matlock as Olympia Lawrence (CBS) The Studio (Apple TV) Abbott Elementary (ABC) Elsbeth (CBS) Ghosts (CBS) Hacks (HBO Max) Nobody Wants This (Netflix) Only Murders in the Building (Hulu) The Righteous Gemstones (HBO Max) Seth Rogen – The Studio as Matt Remick (Apple TV) Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This as Noah Roklov (Netflix) Ted Danson – A Man on the Inside as Charles Nieuwendyk (Netflix) David Alan Grier – St. Denis Medical as Ron (NBC) Danny McBride – The Righteous Gemstones as Jesse Gemstone (HBO Max) Alexander Skarsgård – Murderbot as Murderbot (Apple TV) Jean Smart – Hacks as Deborah Vance (HBO Max) Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This as Joanne Williams (Netflix) Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face as Charlie Cale (Peacock) Rose McIver – Ghosts as Samantha "Sam" Arondekar (CBS) Edi Patterson – The Righteous Gemstones as Judy Gemstone (HBO Max) Carrie Preston – Elsbeth as Elsbeth Tascioni (CBS) Ike Barinholtz – The Studio as Sal Saperstein (Apple TV) Paul W. Downs – Hacks as Jimmy LuSaque Jr. (HBO Max) Asher Grodman – Ghosts as Trevor Lefkowitz (CBS) Oscar Nunez – The Paper as Oscar Martinez (Peacock) Chris Perfetti – Abbott Elementary as Jacob Hill (ABC) Timothy Simons – Nobody Wants This as Sasha Roklov (Netflix) Janelle James – Abbott Elementary as Ava Coleman (ABC) Danielle Brooks – Peacemaker as Leota Adebayo (HBO Max) Hannah Einbinder – Hacks as Ava Daniels (HBO Max) Justine Lupe – Nobody Wants This as Morgan Williams (Netflix) Ego Nwodim – Saturday Night Live as Various Characters (NBC) Rebecca Wisocky – Ghosts as Henrietta "Hetty" Woodstone (CBS) Adolescence (Netflix) All Her Fault (Peacock) Chief of War (Apple TV) Death by Lightning (Netflix) Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock) Dope Thief (Apple TV) Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu) The Girlfriend (Prime Video) Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock) Deep Cover (Prime Video) The Gorge (Apple TV)