The 30th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2025.
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. Sinners also led the winners with a total of four awards, followed by It Was Just an Accident and Weapons with two apiece.
Winners and nominees
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 | valign="top" | 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 |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%"| Best Ensemble ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%"| Best Comedic Performance |- | valign="top" | 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 | valign="top" | 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 | valign="top" | 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 |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%"| Best Costume Design ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%"| Best Production Design |- | valign="top" | 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 | valign="top" | 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 |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%"| Best Use of Music ! style="background:#EEDD82; width=50%"| Best Stunt Choreography |- | valign="top" | 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
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