The 2025 Critics Choice Awards Winners

This year’s Critics Choice Awards have been handed out there were some very welcome wins here, not just the ones that have been pretty consistent winners so far like Hiroyuki Sanada, Zoe Saldana or “The Wild Robot”, but some others that haven’t won that much to date.

These include wins for Cristin Milioti, Kathy Bates, Adam Brody, Liev Schreiber, Michael Urie and Moeka Hoshi along with wins for the script for “The Substance,” the Reznor/Ross score for “Challengers,” the cinematography on “Nosferatu,” “X-Men ’97” for animated series and “Rebel Ridge” for telemovie. Jon M. Chu winning best director seems to have been the biggest shock of the night, but a welcome one for fans of the film.

“Conclave” and “Wicked” may have snagged eleven nominations each, but both only took home a few honors with the film awards fairly well spread out. Also scoring multiple award wins were “A Real Pain,” “The Substance,” “Challengers” and “Emilia Perez”. TV was dominated by “Shōgun,” “Baby Reindeer,” “Hacks,” and “The Penguin”.

Sadly some great shows like “The Diplomat,” “Slow Horses,” “Interview with the Vampire,” “Evil,” “The Old Man,” “The Boys” and “The Day of the Jackal” walked away empty handed, as did several high profile films including “A Complete Unknown,” “Nickel Boys,” “Queer,” “Gladiator II,” “Hard Truths,” “Maria” and “Sing Sing”.

The full list of winners and nominees are below:

BEST PICTURE
WINNER: “Anora”
“A Complete Unknown”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”

BEST ACTOR
WINNER: Adrien Brody – “The Brutalist”
Timothée Chalamet – “A Complete Unknown”
Daniel Craig – “Queer”
Colman Domingo – “Sing Sing”
Ralph Fiennes – “Conclave”
Hugh Grant – “Heretic”

BEST ACTRESS
WINNER: Demi Moore – “The Substance”
Cynthia Erivo – “Wicked”
Karla Sofía Gascón – “Emilia Pérez”
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – “Hard Truths”
Angelina Jolie – “Maria”
Mikey Madison – “Anora”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Kieran Culkin – “A Real Pain”
Yura Borisov – “Anora”
Clarence Maclin – “Sing Sing”
Edward Norton – “A Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce – “The Brutalist”
Denzel Washington – “Gladiator II”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER: Zoe Saldaña – “Emilia Pérez”
Danielle Deadwyler – “The Piano Lesson”
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – “Nickel Boys”
Ariana Grande – “Wicked”
Margaret Qualley – “The Substance”
Isabella Rossellini – “Conclave”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ ACTRESS
WINNER: Maisy Stella – “My Old Ass”
Alyla Browne – “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
Elliott Heffernan – “Blitz”
Izaac Wang – “Didi”
Alisha Weir – “Abigail”
Zoe Ziegler – “Janet Planet”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
WINNER: “Conclave”
“Anora”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Saturday Night”
“Sing Sing”
“Wicked”

BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: Jon M. Chu – “Wicked”
Jacques Audiard – “Emilia Pérez”
Sean Baker – “Anora”
Edward Berger – “Conclave”
Brady Corbet – “The Brutalist”
Coralie Fargeat – “The Substance”
RaMell Ross – “Nickel Boys”
Denis Villeneuve – “Dune: Part Two”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Coralie Fargeat – “The Substance”
Sean Baker – “Anora”
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – “September 5”
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – “The Brutalist”
Jesse Eisenberg – “A Real Pain”
Justin Kuritzkes – “Challengers”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Peter Straughan – “Conclave”
Jacques Audiard – “Emilia Pérez”
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox – “Wicked”
Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley – “Sing Sing”
RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – “Nickel Boys”
Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – “Dune: Part Two”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER: Jarin Blaschke – “Nosferatu”
Alice Brooks – “Wicked”
Lol Crawley – “The Brutalist”
Stéphane Fontaine – “Conclave”
Greig Fraser – “Dune: Part Two”
Jomo Fray – “Nickel Boys”

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
WINNER: Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – “Wicked”
Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia – “The Brutalist”
Suzie Davies – “Conclave”
Craig Lathrop – “Nosferatu”
Arthur Max, Jille Azis, Elli Griff – “Gladiator II”
Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau – “Dune: Part Two”

BEST EDITING
WINNER: Marco Costa – “Challengers”
Sean Baker – “Anora”
Nick Emerson – “Conclave”
David Jancso – “The Brutalist”
Joe Walker – “Dune: Part Two”
Hansjörg Weißbrich – “September 5”

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: Paul Tazewell – “Wicked”
Lisy Christl – “Conclave”
Linda Muir – “Nosferatu”
Massimo Cantini Parrini – “Maria”
Jacqueline West – “Dune: Part Two”
Janty Yates, Dave Crossman – “Gladiator II”

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
WINNER: Hair and Makeup Team – “The Substance”
Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener, Neal Scanlan – “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
Hair and Makeup Team – “Dune: Part Two”
Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount – “Wicked”
Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White – “Nosferatu”
Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, Aaron Saucier – “A Different Man”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER: Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – “Dune: Part Two”
Mark Bakowski, Pietro Ponti, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould – “Gladiator II”
Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk – “Wicked”
Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs – “Better Man”
Visual Effects Team – “The Substance”
Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke – “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER: “The Wild Robot”
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”

BEST COMEDY
WINNER: “A Real Pain” & “Deadpool & Wolverine”
“Hit Man”
“My Old Ass”
“Saturday Night”
“Thelma”

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER: “Emilia Pérez”
“All We Imagine as Light”
“Flow”
“I’m Still Here”
“Kneecap”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

BEST SONG
WINNER: “El Mal” – “Emilia Pérez” – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille
“Beautiful That Way” – “The Last Showgirl” – Miley Cyrus
“Compress/ Repress” – “Challengers” – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
“Harper and Will Go West” – “Will & Harper” – Kristen Wiig
“Kiss the Sky” – “The Wild Robot” – Maren Morris
“Mi Camino” – “Emilia Pérez” – Selena Gomez

BEST SCORE
WINNER: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – “Challengers”
Volker Bertelmann – “Conclave”
Daniel Blumberg – “The Brutalist”
Kris Bowers – “The Wild Robot”
Clément Ducol & Camille – “Emilia Pérez”
Hans Zimmer – “Dune: Part Two”

BEST DRAMA SERIES
WINNER: Shōgun (FX)
The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
Evil (Paramount+)
Industry (HBO)
Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
The Old Man (FX)
Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
WINNER: Hiroyuki Sanada – Shōgun (FX)
Jeff Bridges – The Old Man (FX)
Ncuti Gatwa – Doctor Who (Disney+)
Eddie Redmayne – The Day of the Jackal (Peacock)
Rufus Sewell – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Antony Starr – The Boys (Prime Video)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
WINNER: Kathy Bates – Matlock (CBS)
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander (Starz)
Shanola Hampton – Found (NBC)
Keira Knightley – Black Doves (Netflix)
Keri Russell – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Anna Sawai – Shōgun (FX)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
WINNER: Tadanobu Asano – Shōgun (FX)
Michael Emerson – Evil (Paramount+)
Mark-Paul Gosselaar – Found (NBC)
Takehiro Hira – Shōgun (FX)
John Lithgow – The Old Man (FX)
Sam Reid – Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
WINNER: Moeka Hoshi – Shōgun (FX)
Allison Janney – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Nicole Kidman – Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+)
Skye P. Marshall – Matlock (CBS)
Anna Sawai – Pachinko (Apple TV+)
Fiona Shaw – Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

BEST COMEDY SERIES
WINNER: Hacks (HBO)
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
English Teacher (FX)
Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
St. Denis Medical (NBC)
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
WINNER: Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Brian Jordan Alvarez – English Teacher (FX)
David Alan Grier – St. Denis Medical (NBC)
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Kayvan Novak – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
WINNER: Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO)
Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Natasia Demetriou – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Bridget Everett – Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Kristen Wiig – Palm Royale (Apple TV+)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
WINNER: Michael Urie – Shrinking (Apple TV+)
Paul W. Downs – Hacks (HBO)
Asher Grodman – Ghosts (CBS)
Harvey Guillén – What We Do in the Shadows (FX)
Brandon Scott Jones – Ghosts (CBS)
Tyler James Williams – Abbott Elementary (ABC)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
WINNER: Hannah Einbinder – Hacks (HBO)
Liza Colón-Zayas – The Bear (FX)
Janelle James – Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Stephanie Koenig – English Teacher (FX)
Patti LuPone – Agatha All Along (Disney+)
Annie Potts – Young Sheldon (CBS)

BEST LIMITED SERIES
WINNER: Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
Masters of the Air (Apple TV+)
Mr Bates vs the Post Office (PBS)
The Penguin (HBO)
Ripley (Netflix)
True Detective: Night Country (HBO)
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hulu)

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
WINNER: Rebel Ridge (Netflix)
The Great Lillian Hall (HBO)
It’s What’s Inside (Netflix)
Música (Prime Video)
Out of My Mind (Disney+)
V/H/S/Beyond (Shudder)

BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
WINNER: Colin Farrell – The Penguin (HBO)
Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Tom Hollander – FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans (FX)
Kevin Kline – Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
Ewan McGregor – A Gentleman in Moscow (Paramount+)
Andrew Scott – Ripley (Netflix)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
WINNER: Cristin Milioti – The Penguin (HBO)
Cate Blanchett – Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country (HBO)
Jessica Lange – The Great Lillian Hall (HBO)
Phoebe-Rae Taylor – Out of My Mind (Disney+)
Naomi Watts – FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans (FX)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
WINNER: Liev Schreiber – The Perfect Couple (Netflix)
Robert Downey Jr. – The Sympathizer (HBO)
Hugh Grant – The Regime (HBO)
Ron Cephas Jones – Genius: MLK/X (National Geographic)
Logan Lerman – We Were the Lucky Ones (Hulu)
Treat Williams – FEUD: Capote vs. The Swans (FX)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
WINNER: Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Dakota Fanning – Ripley (Netflix)
Leila George – Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
Betty Gilpin – Three Women (Starz)
Deirdre O’Connell – The Penguin (HBO)
Kali Reis – True Detective: Night Country (HBO)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES
WINNER: Squid Game (Netflix)
Acapulco (Apple TV+)
Citadel: Honey Bunny (Prime Video)
La Máquina (Hulu)
The Law According to Lidia Poët (Netflix)
My Brilliant Friend (HBO)
Pachinko (Apple TV+)
Senna (Netflix)

BEST ANIMATED SERIES
WINNER: X-Men ’97 (Disney+)
Batman: Caped Crusader (Prime Video)
Bluey (Disney+)
Bob’s Burgers (Fox)
Invincible (Prime Video)
The Simpsons (Fox)

BEST TALK SHOW
WINNER: John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in L.A. (Netflix)
Hot Ones (YouTube)
The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
The Graham Norton Show (BBC America)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS)

BEST COMEDY SPECIAL
WINNER: Ali Wong: Single Lady (Netflix)
Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny (Hulu)
Kevin James: Irregardless (Prime Video)
Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die (HBO)
Rachel Bloom: Death, Let Me Do My Special (Netflix)
Ramy Youssef: More Feelings (HBO)

The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards are available to stream on Peacock.

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