2026 Critics Choice Awards nominees: Complete list of all major categories

The Annual Critics Choice Awards officially kicks off the new year's award season, celebrating the best in film and television. Popular comedian Chelsea Handler will host the 2026 Critics Choice Awards ceremony, which will air live on E! and USA Network on Sunday, January 4, 2026.

The event, honoring top cinematic, televised, and streaming achievements, including four new categories this year, will take place at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

In the film categories, Sinners leads with 17 nominations, followed by One Battle After Another, which earned 14 nominations at the 2026 Critics Choice Awards. On the television side, the limited series Adolescence earned the most nominations with 6 nods, followed by the comedy series Nobody Wants This, which received 5 nominations.

Complete list of nominations for the 2026 Critics Choice Awards

Following are all the nominations for the 2026 Critics Choice Awards:

1) Best Picture

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Jay Kelly
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
Wicked: For Good

2) Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton for Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan for Sinners
Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent

3) Best Actress

Jessie Buckley for Hamnet
Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Chase Infiniti for One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value
Amanda Seyfried for The Testament of Ann Lee
Emma Stone for Bugonia

4) Best Supporting Actor

Benicio del Toro for One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein
Paul Mescal for Hamnet
Sean Penn for One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler for Jay Kelly
Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value

5) Best Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning forSentimental Value
Ariana Grande for Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan for Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners
Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another

6) Best Young Actor/Actress

Everett Blunck for The Plague
Miles Caton for Sinners
Cary Christopher for Weapons
Shannon Mahina Gorman for Rental Family
Jacobi Jupe for Hamnet
Nina Ye for Left-Handed Girl

7) Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler for Sinners
Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein
Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao for Hamnet

8) Best Original Screenplay

Noah Baumbach, Emily Mortimer for Jay Kelly
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme
Ryan Coogler for Sinners
Zach Cregger for Weapons
Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value

9) Best Adapted Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar for Train Dreams
Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar, Jahye Lee for No Other Choice
Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein
Will Tracy for Bugonia
Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell for Hamnet

10) Best Casting and Ensemble

Nina Gold for Hamnet
Douglas Aibel, Nina Gold for Jay Kelly
Jennifer Venditti for Marty Supreme
Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle After Another
Francine Maisler for Sinners
Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey for Wicked: For Good

11) Best Cinematography

Claudio Miranda for F1
Dan Laustsen for Frankenstein
Łukasz Żal for Hamnet
Michael Bauman for One Battle After Another
Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners
Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams

12) Best Production Design

Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Shane Vieau, Tamara Deverell for Frankenstein
Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton for Hamnet
Jack Fisk, Adam Willis for Marty Supreme
Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne for Sinners
Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales for Wicked: For Good

13) Best Editing

Kirk Baxter for A House of Dynamite
Stephen Mirrione for F1
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme
Andy Jurgensen for One Battle After Another
Viridiana Lieberman for The Perfect Neighbor
Michael P. Shawver for Sinners

14) Best Costume Design

Kate Hawley for Frankenstein
Malgosia Turzanska for Hamnet
Lindsay Pugh for Hedda
Colleen Atwood, Christine Cantella for Kiss of the Spider Woman
Ruth E. Carter for Sinners
Paul Tazewell for Wicked: For Good

15) Best Hair and Makeup

Flora Moody, John Nolan for 28 Years Later
Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey for Frankenstein
Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry for Sinners
Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox, Mia Neal for The Smashing Machine
Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, Jason Collins for Weapons
Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, Laura Blount for Wicked: For Good

16) Best Visual Effects

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett for Avatar: Fire and Ash
Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, Keith Dawson for F1
Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell for Frankenstein
Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, Kirstin Hall for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean for Sinners
Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, Guy Williams for Superman

17) Best Stunt Design

Stephen Dunlevy, Kyle Gardiner, Jackson Spidell, Jeremy Marinas, Jan Petřina, Domonkos Párdányi, Kinga Kósa-Gavalda for Ballerina
Gary Powell, Luciano Bacheta, Craig Dolby for F1
Wade Eastwood for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Brian Machleit for One Battle After Another
Andy Gill for Sinners
Giedrius Nagys for Warfare

18) Best Animated Feature

Arco
Elio
In Your Dreams
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

19) Best Comedy

The Ballad of Wallis Island
Eternity
Friendship
The Naked Gun
The Phoenician Scheme
Splitsville

20) Best Foreign Language Film

It Was Just an Accident
Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sirāt
Belén

21) Best Song

Drive by Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, Blake Slatkin for F1
Golden by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24, Teddy for KPop Demon Hunters
I Lied to You by Raphael Saadiq, Ludwig Göransson for Sinners
Clothed by the Sun by Daniel Blumberg for The Testament of Ann Lee
Train Dreams by Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner for Train Dreams
The Girl in the Bubble by Stephen Schwartz for Wicked: For Good

22) Best Score

Hans Zimmer for F1
Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein
Max Richter for Hamnet
Daniel Lopatin for Marty Supreme
Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another
Ludwig Göransson for Sinners

23) Best Sound

Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta, Gareth John for F1
Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, Greg Chapman for Frankenstein
Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor for One Battle After Another
Chris Welcker, Benny Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco, David V. Butler for Sinners
Laia Casanovas for Sirāt
Mitch Low, Glenn Freemantle, Ben Barker, Howard Bargroff, Richard Spooner for Warfare