One Battle After Another won Best Feature at the 31st annual Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night, after Paul Thomas Anderson pulled off an upset for Best Director and won Best Adapted Screenplay for the Warner Bros thriller.
Timothée Chalamet won Best Actor for A24’s Marty Supreme, and Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Focus Features’ Hamnet. Best Supporting Actor and Actress went to Jacob Elordi for Netflix’s Frankenstein and Amy Madigan of Warner Bros’ Weapons.
Warner Bros‘ Sinners came in with a leading 17 nominations, and Ryan Coogler’s blockbuster took home a co-leading four statuettes on Sunday: Best Original Screenplay, Young Actor or Actress (Miles Caton), Score and the inaugural Casting and Ensemble prize. Netflix’s Frankenstein also won four CCAs: Best Supporting Actor for Jacob Elordi, along with Costume Design, Hair & Makeup and Production Design.
Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters won two for Best Animated Feature and Song, and Apple’s F1 also took a pair for Best Sound and Editing. Neon’s The Secret Agent won Best Foreign Film.
Other film winners included 20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash, Netflix’s Train Dreams and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and The Naked Gun. Four Best Picture nominees — Wicked: For Good, Sentimental Value, Jay Kelly and Bugonia — were shut out.
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On the TV side, The Pitt won Best Drama Series, and the HBO Max hospital show’s Noah Wyle and Katherine LaNasa took the respective Best Actor and Supporting Actress prizes.
Apple TV’s The Studio took Best Comedy Series, following up on its Emmy win in September. The show’s Seth Rogen and Ike Barinholtz won Best Actor and Supporting Actor, respectively.
Jean Smart kept her Hacks awards momentum going with Best Actress in a Comedy for the HBO Max series.
Rhea Seehorn won Best Actress in a Drama Series for Apple TV’s freshman Pluribus.
Netflix’s Adolescence led all small-screen programs four wins for Best Limited Series, Stephen Graham for Best Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie and Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty for Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively.
After its tumultuous, newsmaking year, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! won Best Talk Show.
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Sarah Snook won Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie for Peacock’s All Her Fault. Other TV winners included Comedy Central’s South Park, Netflix’s Squid Game, ABC’s Abbott Elementary, NBC’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special, Peacock’s Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Netflix won a dozen CCAs — seven for film and five for TV — to lead all distributors and networks/platforms, followed by Warner Bros with eight. HBO/Max and Apple TV were next with five each.
Chelsea Handler is back for a fourth consecutive stint as host of the ceremony from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, and she lauded the late Rob Reiner as “the nicest man in Hollywood.” The Critics Choice Association added four new categories for its 2026 trophy show: Best Sound, Best Stunt Design and Best Casting & Ensemble on the movie side and Best Variety Series among the TV categories.
Here are the winners at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards:
Motion Pictures
BEST PICTURE
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme (A24)
BEST ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet (Focus Features)
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Ryan Coogler – Sinners (Warner Bros.)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Madigan – Weapons (Warner Bros.)
BEST CASTING AND ENSEMBLE
Francine Maisler – Sinners (Warner Bros.)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Secret Agent (Neon)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
BEST COMEDY
The Naked Gun (Paramount)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau – Frankenstein (Netflix)
BEST EDITING
Stephen Mirrione – F1 (Apple Original Films)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Kate Hawley – Frankenstein (Netflix)
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey – Frankenstein (Netflix)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett – Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th Century Studios)
BEST SOUND
Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John – F1 (Apple Original Films)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams (Netflix)
BEST SONG
“Golden” – Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, Teddy – KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
BEST SCORE
Ludwig Göransson – Sinners (Warner Bros.)
BEST STUNT DESIGN
Wade Eastwood – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount Pictures)
BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS
Miles Caton – Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Television
BEST DRAMA SERIES
The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST COMEDY SERIES
The Studio (Apple TV)
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus (Apple TV)
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Noah Wyle – The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)
BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Seth Rogen – The Studio (Apple TV)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Tramell Tillman – Severance (Apple TV)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Katherine LaNasa – The Pitt (HBO Max)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Ike Barinholtz – The Studio (Apple TV)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Janelle James – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
BEST LIMITED SERIES
Adolescence (Netflix)
BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Sarah Snook – All Her Fault (Peacock)
BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Stephen Graham – Adolescence (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Owen Cooper – Adolescence (Netflix)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Erin Doherty – Adolescence (Netflix)
BEST ANIMATED SERIES
South Park (Comedy Central)
BEST TALK SHOW
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
BEST VARIETY SERIES
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO Max)
BEST COMEDY SPECIAL
SNL50: The Anniversary Special (NBC)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
Squid Game (Netflix)
BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock)