The 29th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2025, were announced on January 26, 2026, by the Online Film Critics Society.
The nominations were announced on January 12, 2026. Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners led the nominations with sixteen, followed by One Battle After Another with thirteen, Marty Supreme with nine and Sentimental Value with eight.
Four new categories were introduced this year—Best Ensemble & Casting, Best Makeup & Hairstyling, Best Sound Design, and Best Choreography (Dance & Stunt).
Winners and nominees
{| class="wikitable" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Picture ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Director |- | valign="top" | One Battle After Another Sinners Sentimental Value It Was Just an Accident The Secret Agent Marty Supreme Weapons No Other Choice Hamnet Train Dreams | valign="top" | Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Chloé Zhao – Hamnet |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Actor ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Actress |- | valign="top" | Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões | valign="top" | Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Supporting Actor ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Supporting Actress |- | valign="top" | Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg | valign="top" | Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Animated Feature ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Film Not in the English Language |- | valign="top" | KPop Demon Hunters Arco Elio Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2 | valign="top" | Sentimental Value It Was Just an Accident No Other Choice The Secret Agent Sirāt |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Documentary ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Debut Feature |- | valign="top" | The Perfect Neighbor 2000 Meters to Andriivka The Alabama Solution Cover-Up Orwell: 2+2=5 | valign="top" | Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby Andrew DeYoung – Friendship Carson Lund – Eephus Charlie Polinger – The Plague Kristen Stewart – The Chronology of Water |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Original Screenplay ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Adapted Screenplay |- | valign="top" | Sinners – Ryan Coogler It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Weapons – Zach Cregger | valign="top" | One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Bugonia – Will Tracy Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Lee Ja-hye Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Cinematography ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Editing |- | valign="top" | Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso | valign="top" | One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen F1 – Stephen Mirrione Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie No Other Choice – Kim Sang-bum and Kim Ho-bin Sinners – Michael P. Shawver |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Ensemble & Casting ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Original Score |- | valign="top" | Sinners Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | valign="top" | Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Sirāt – Kangding Ray |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Costume Design ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Production Design |- | valign="top" | Sinners – Ruth E. Carter Frankenstein – Kate Hawley Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska Marty Supreme – Miyako Bellizzi Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell | valign="top" | Sinners – Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Hamnet – Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton Marty Supreme – Jack Fisk and Adam Willis Wicked: For Good – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Makeup & Hairstyling ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Choreography (Dance & Stunt) |- | valign="top" | Frankenstein – Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey Sinners – Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry The Ugly Stepsister – Anne Cathrine Sauerberg and Thomas Foldberg Weapons – Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, and Jason Collins Wicked: For Good – Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, and Laura Blount | valign="top" | Sinners – Andy Gill Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Wade Eastwood One Battle After Another – Brian Machleit The Testament of Ann Lee – Celia Rowlson-Hall Wicked: For Good – Christopher Scott |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Sound Design ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Visual Effects |- | valign="top" | Sinners – Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco, and David V. Butler Avatar: Fire and Ash – Brent Burge, Alexis Feodoroff, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers, and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle F1 – Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, and Gareth John One Battle After Another – José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor Sirāt – Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas, and Amanda Villavieja | valign="top" | Sinners – Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean 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 Superman – Stéphane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, and Guy Williams
Special awards
Lifetime Achievement Awards Colleen Atwood Walter Murch Jack Nicholson Steven Spielberg Vittorio Storaro
Special Achievement Awards Film Workers for Palestine, for drawing attention to the ethical compromises being made within the film industry and fighting for organizations to support Palestine and acknowledge the current genocide Green Film, for developing and certifying sustainability criteria to be adopted to reduce the environmental impact of an audiovisual production to a minimum but without slowing down the cast and crew's work
Non-U.S. Releases Aki (dir. Darlene Naponse, Canada) Copper (dir. Nicolás Pereda, Mexico) The Good Sister (dir. Sarah Miro Fischer, Germany) Home Sweet Home (dir. Frelle Petersen, Denmark) Levers (dir. Rhayne Vermette, Canada) Meadowlarks (dir. Tasha Hubbard, Canada) Nino (dir. Pauline Loquès, France) Phantoms of July (dir. Julian Radlmaier, Germany) Punku (dir. J. D. Fernández Molero, Peru) Two Pianos (dir. Arnaud Desplechin, France)
Films with multiple nominations and awards
+ Nominations Film 16 Sinners 13 One Battle After Another 9 Marty Supreme 8 Sentimental Value 7 Frankenstein Hamnet 4 It Was Just an Accident No Other Choice Weapons Wicked: For Good 3 F1 The Secret Agent Sirāt Train Dreams 2 Avatar: Fire and Ash Bugonia The Testament of Ann Lee
+ Awards Film 10 Sinners 5 One Battle After Another
References
External links
2025 Awards (29th Annual) at ofcs.org