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‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ Win Big at 2026 Critics Choice Awards

It was a big night for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another at the 31st Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. Those two films were among the big winners at this year’s award show, which took place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. 

Sinners took home awards for Best Original Screenplay (Coogler), Best Young Performer (Miles Canton), Best Casting (Francine Maisler), and Best Score (Ludwig Göransson). As for One Battle After Another, it landed awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Anderson) and Best Adapted Screenplay.

In television, Abbott Elementary star Janelle James won Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series; Tramell Tillman of Severance was awarded Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

Hosted by Chelsea Handler, the night also featured big wins for Frankenstein and TV shows such as The Pitt and The Studio.

You can see a list for winners of the major film categories below: 

Best Picture

  • “Bugonia” (Focus Features)
  • “Frankenstein” (Netflix)
  • “Hamnet” (Focus Features)
  • “Jay Kelly” (Netflix)
  • “Marty Supreme” (A24)
  • “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.) (WINNER)
  • “Sentimental Value” (Neon)
  • “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
  • “Train Dreams” (Netflix)
  • “Wicked: For Good” (Universal Pictures)

Best Director

  • Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.) (WINNER)
  • Ryan Coogler, “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
  • Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein” (Netflix)
  • Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme” (A24)
  • Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value” (Neon)
  • Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet” (Focus Features)

Actor

  • Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme” (A24) (WINNER)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
  • Joel Edgerton, “Train Dreams” (Netflix)
  • Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon” (Sony Pictures Classics)
  • Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
  • Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent” (Neon)

Actress

  • Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet” (Focus Features) (WINNER)
  • Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (A24)
  • Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
  • Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value” (Neon)
  • Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee” (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Emma Stone, “Bugonia” (Focus Features)

Supporting Actor

  • Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
  • Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein” (Netflix)(WINNER)
  • Paul Mescal, “Hamnet” (Focus Features)
  • Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
  • Adam Sandler, “Jay Kelly” (Netflix)
  • Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value” (Neon)

Supporting Actress

  • Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value” (Neon)
  • Ariana Grande, “Wicked: For Good” (Universal Pictures)
  • Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value” (Neon)
  • Amy Madigan, “Weapons” (Warner Bros.) (WINNER)
  • Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
  • Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)

Original Screenplay

  • Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, “Jay Kelly” (Netflix)
  • Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme” (A24)
  • Ryan Coogler, “Sinners” (Warner Bros.) (WINNER)
  • Zach Cregger, “Weapons” (Warner Bros.)
  • Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby” (A24)
  • Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value” (Neon)

Young Performer

  • Everett Blunck, “The Plague” (Independent Film Company)
  • Miles Caton, “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)(WINNER)
  • Cary Christopher, “Weapons” (Warner Bros.)
  • Shannon Mahina Gorman, “Rental Family” (Searchlight Pictures)
  • Jacobi Jupe, “Hamnet” (Focus Features)
  • Nina Ye, “Left-Handed Girl” (Netflix)

See the full list of winners for the award show (THR). 

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‘‘Battle After Another’ leads Golden Globes nominations with nine’’

Paul Thomas Anderson’s politically charged “One Battle After Another” leads the nominations for the Golden Globes with nine, organizers announced Monday, as the race to the Oscars kicked into high gear.

Norwegian family dramedy “Sentimental Value” was second with eight. It is followed by period horror movie “Sinners” with seven and Shakespeare family drama “Hamnet” with six.

“Wicked: For Good” ended up with five nominations – a disappointing showing for the smash hit musical, which failed to secure a nod for best musical/comedy.

The Globes, set for January 11, are widely seen as a bellwether for the Academy Awards.

The Golden Globes offer separate awards for dramas and comedies/musicals – widening the field of stars who could walk the red carpet, and fueling the suspense.

“One Battle After Another,” which centers on an aging revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his teenage daughter (Chase Infiniti), leads the contenders in the comedy/musical categories.

The film is a rollicking ride featuring leftist radical violence, immigration raids and white supremacists.

It won a pile of nominations, including best comedy/musical picture, best director and five acting nods: DiCaprio, Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Teyana Taylor.

“Sentimental Value,” a moving story of a fractured family, won nominations for Swedish legend Stellan Skarsgard and co-star Renate Reinsve.

It is one of several foreign language films to gain traction in the main categories, along with Brazil’s “The Secret Agent” and South Korea’s “No Other Choice.”

On the drama side, past Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence (“Die, My Love”) and Julia Roberts (“After the Hunt”) will do battle with Jessie Buckley (“Hamnet”), Reinsve, Tessa Thompson (“Hedda”) and Eva Victor (“Sorry, Baby”).

Each main category will have six nominees, not five as in past years.

On the drama side, beyond the leader “Sentimental Value,” the top contenders all delve into the past.

“Sinners,” from “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler, stars Michael B. Jordan as twins in the criminal underworld who encounter a sinister force as they return home to racially segregated Mississippi in the 1930s.

The film was a runaway box office success, and both Coogler and Jordan secured nominations. It led the nods for the Critics Choice Awards on Friday with 17.

“It has so much going for it – it’s a big moneymaker, it was a culturally significant hit,” explained Davis.

“Hamnet,” from Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao, stars Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare, who tries to forge a career as a playwright while his wife Agnes – played by Buckley – contends with the perils of plague and childbirth in Elizabethan England.

Both stars earned nominations, along with Zhao.

Guillermo Del Toro’s adaptation of “Frankenstein” earned five nominations including one for Jacob Elordi as the iconic monster.

Oscar nominations are due on January 22, so the picks for the Globes will begin to map the road to the Academy Awards.

The Globes also honor the best in television, with HBO’s black comedy anthology “The White Lotus,” sci-fi office thriller “Severance” and searing teen murder saga “Adolescence” leading the contenders.

Last year’s Globes gala hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser was a hit with audiences, with more than 10 million tuning in.

Glaser will return as host of the January 11 gala in Beverly Hills. (Vanguard)