“One Battle After Another,” the disruptive comedy about a politically radical father looking for his daughter, claimed three trophies at the Critics Choice Awards Sunday night, including the coveted title of best picture — setting the tone for award season.
The Critics Choice Awards, which traditionally airs after the Golden Globes, provided a subtle glimpse at what films and television shows will be favored ahead of the more prestigious Academy Awards and Golden Globes in the coming weeks.
Supernatural horror film “Sinners” led the night with 17 nods and capturing four wins — a tie with Guillermo del Toro‘s adaptation of “Frankenstein,” which also earned four wins.
Following with three wins was “One Battle After Another.”
“This is really fantastic, fantastic news,” Paul Thomas Anderson, the film’s director, said as he accepted the award for best picture. “This is the best time I’ve ever had making a movie, and I feel like it shows. It’s just a testament to being with people that you love.”
“Adolescence,” the British crime drama series, led the night in television with four trophies, including a best supporting actor win for Owen Cooper, the young actor who is enjoying a winning streak for his performance on the series.
For his performance as a hungry table-tennis player in “Marty Supreme,” Timothée Chalamet claimed his first Critics Choice Award in the competitive best actor category.
Chalamet accepted the award with an uncharacteristically nervous demeanor, starting off by stumbling over his words. “I’m more nervous than I thought I’d be,” he revealed after praising his fellow nominees. He finished his message with a brief tribute to his longtime girlfriend, Kylie Jenner: “Thank you for our foundation. I love you. I couldn’t do this without you.”
The record-breaking animated Netflix show “KPop Demon Hunters” continued its winning streak, claiming an award for best song for its chart-topping track, “Golden.”
And after a controversy-shrouded fall, Jimmy Kimmel took home the award for best talk show and thanked President Donald Trump for the win.
“I want to thank our president, Donald Jennifer Trump, without whom we’d be going home empty-handed tonight,” Kimmel said while he accepted the win. “So thank you, Mr. President, for all the many ridiculous things you do each and every day.”
The award ceremony also took a moment to pay tribute to director-actor Rob Reiner, who died in December.
“Everyone in this room knows that the nicest guy in Hollywood was Rob Reiner,” the show’s host, comedian Chelsea Handler, said at the end of her monologue. “The minute you met him, he felt like an old friend.”
“It all stemmed from one basic idea: decency,” she added. “I think we can all agree that we definitely need more of that value.”
2026 Critics Choice Awards winners
Best picture
- Winner: “One Battle After Another”
- “Bugonia”
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Jay Kelly”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “Sentimental Value”
- “Sinners”
- “Train Dreams”
- “Wicked: For Good”
Best actor
- Winner: Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
- Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
- Joel Edgerton, “Train Dreams”
- Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
- Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
- Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”
Best actress
- Winner: Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”
- Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
- Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another”
- Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”
- Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee”
- Emma Stone, “Bugonia”
Best supporting actor
- Winner: Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”
- Paul Mescal, “Hamnet”
- Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
- Adam Sandler, “Jay Kelly”
- Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”
Best supporting actress
- Winner: Amy Madigan, “Weapons”
- Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”
- Ariana Grande, “Wicked: For Good”
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”
- Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners”
- Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”
Best young actor/actress
- Winner: Miles Caton, “Sinners”
- Everett Blunck, “The Plague”
- Cary Christopher, “Weapons”
- Shannon Mahina Gorman, “Rental Family”
- Jacobi Jupe, “Hamnet”
- Nina Ye, “Left-Handed Girl”
Best director
- Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
- Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
- Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”
- Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
- Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
- Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”
Best original screenplay
- Winner: Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
- Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, “Jay Kelly”
- Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
- Zach Cregger, “Weapons”
- Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”
- Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
Best adapted screenplay
- Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
- Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, “Train Dreams”
- Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don Mckellar and Jahye Lee, “No Other Choice”
- Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”
- Will Tracy, “Bugonia”
- Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, “Hamnet”
Best cinematography
- Winner: Adolpho Veloso, “Train Dreams”
- Claudio Miranda, “F1″
- Dan Laustsen, “Frankenstein”
- Łukasz Żal, “Hamnet”
- Michael Bauman, “One Battle After Another”
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw, “Sinners”
Best production design
- Winner: Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, “Frankenstein”
- Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis, “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”
- Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton, “Hamnet”
- Jack Fisk, Adam Willis, “Marty Supreme”
- Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne, “Sinners”
- Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales, “Wicked: For Good”
Best editing
- Winner: Stephen Mirrione, “F1″
- Kirk Baxter, “A House of Dynamite”
- Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
- Andy Jurgensen, “One Battle After Another”
- Viridiana Lieberman, “The Perfect Neighbor”
- Michael P. Shawver, “Sinners”
Best costume design
- Winner: Kate Hawley, “Frankenstein”
- Malgosia Turzanska, “Hamnet”
- Lindsay Pugh, “Hedda”
- Colleen Atwood, Christine Cantella, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
- Ruth E. Carter, “Sinners”
- Paul Tazewell, “Wicked: For Good”
Best hair and makeup
- Winner: Kate Hawley, “Frankenstein”
- Malgosia Turzanska, “Hamnet”
- Lindsay Pugh, “Hedda”
- Colleen Atwood, Christine Cantella, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”
- Ruth E. Carter, “Sinners”
- Paul Tazewell, “Wicked: For Good”
Best visual effects
- Winner: Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett, “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
- Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, Keith Dawson, “F1″
- Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell, “Frankenstein”
- Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, Kirstin Hall, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning”
- Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean, “Sinners”
- Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, Guy Williams, “Superman”
Best stunt design
- Winner: “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning"
- “Ballerina”
- “F1″
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
- “Warfare”
Best animated feature
- Winner: “KPop Demon Hunters”
- “Arco”
- “Elio”
- “In Your Dreams”
- “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
- “Zootopia 2″
Best comedy
- Winner: “The Naked Gun”
- “The Ballad of Wallis Island”
- “Eternity”
- “Friendship”
- “The Phoenician Scheme”
- “Splitsville”
Best foreign language film
- Winner: “The Secret Agent”
- “Belén”
- “It Was Just an Accident”
- “Left-Handed Girl”
- “No Other Choice”
- “Sirāt”
Best song
- Winner: “Golden,” Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, Ido, 24 and Teddy, “KPop Demon Hunters”
- “Drive,” Ed Sheeran, John Mayer and Blake Slatkin, “F1″
- “I Lied to You,” Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson, “Sinners”
- “Clothed by the Sun,” Daniel Blumberg, “The Testament of Ann Lee”
- “Train Dreams,” Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner, “Train Dreams”
- “The Girl in the Bubble,” Stephen Schwartz, “Wicked: For Good”
Best score
- Winner: Ludwig Göransson, “Sinners”
- Hans Zimmer, “F1″
- Alexandre Desplat, “Frankenstein”
- Max Richter, “Hamnet”
- Daniel Lopatin, “Marty Supreme”
- Jonny Greenwood, “One Battle After Another”
Best sound
- Winner: “F1″
- “Frankenstein”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
- “Sirāt”
- “Warfare”
2026 Critics Choice Awards for television
Best drama series
- Winner: “The Pitt”
- “Alien: Earth”
- “Andor”
- “The Diplomat”
- “Paradise”
- “Pluribus”
- “Severance”
- “Task”
Best actor in a drama series
- Winner: Noah Wyle, “The Pitt”
- Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise”
- Diego Luna, “Andor”
- Mark Ruffalo, “Task”
- Adam Scott, “Severance”
- Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman”
Best actress in a drama series
- Winner: Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus”
- Kathy Bates, “Matlock”
- Carrie Coon, “The Gilded Age”
- Britt Lower, “Severance”
- Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us”
- Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
Best supporting actor in a drama series
- Winner: Tramell Tillman, “Severance”
- Patrick Ball, “The Pitt”
- Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”
- Ato Essandoh, “The Diplomat”
- Wood Harris, “Forever”
- Tom Pelphrey, “Task”
Best supporting actress in a drama series
- Winner: Katherine LaNasa, “The Pitt”
- Nicole Beharie, “The Morning Show”
- Denée Benton, “The Gilded Age”
- Allison Janney, “The Diplomat”
- Greta Lee, “The Morning Show”
- Skye P. Marshall, “Matlock”
Best comedy series
- Winner: “The Studio”
- “Abbott Elementary”
- “Elsbeth”
- “Ghosts”
- “Hacks”
- “Nobody Wants This”
- “Only Murders in the Building”
- “The Righteous Gemstones”
Best actor in a comedy series
- Winner: Seth Rogen, “The Studio”
- Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”
- Ted Danson, “A Man on the Inside”
- David Alan Grier, “St. Denis Medical”
- Danny McBride, “The Righteous Gemstones”
- Alexander Skarsgård, “Murderbot”
Best actress in a comedy series
- Winner: Jean Smart, “Hacks”
- Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This”
- Natasha Lyonne, “Poker Face”
- Rose McIver, “Ghosts”
- Edi Patterson, “The Righteous Gemstones”
- Carrie Preston, “Elsbeth”
Best supporting actor in a comedy series
- Winner: Ike Barinholtz, “The Studio”
- Paul W. Downs, “Hacks”
- Asher Grodman, “Ghosts”
- Oscar Nuñez, “The Paper”
- Chris Perfetti, “Abbott Elementary”
- Timothy Simons, “Nobody Wants This”
Best supporting actress in a comedy series
- Winner: Janelle James, “Abbott Elementary”
- Danielle Brooks, “Peacemaker”
- Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”
- Justine Lupe, “Nobody Wants This”
- Ego Nwodim, “Saturday Night Live”
- Rebecca Wisocky, “Ghosts”
Best limited series
- Winner: “Adolescence”
- “All Her Fault”
- “Chief of War”
- “Death by Lightning”
- “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy”
- “Dope Thief”
- “Dying for Sex”
- “The Girlfriend”
Best movie made for television
- Winner: “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
- “Deep Cover”
- “The Gorge”
- “Mountainhead”
- “Nonnas”
- “Summer of ’69″
Best actor in a limited series or movie made for television
- Winner: Stephen Graham, “Adolescence”
- Michael Chernus, “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy”
- Brian Tyree Henry, “Dope Thief”
- Charlie Hunnam, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”
- Matthew Rhys, “The Beast in Me”
- Michael Shannon, “Death by Lightning”
Best actress in a limited series or movie made for television
- Winner: Sarah Snook, “All Her Fault”
- Jessica Biel, “The Better Sister”
- Meghann Fahy, “Sirens”
- Michelle Williams, “Dying for Sex”
- Robin Wright, “The Girlfriend”
- Renée Zellweger, “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy”
Best supporting actor in a limited series or movie made for television
- Winner: Owen Cooper, “Adolescence”
- Wagner Moura, “Dope Thief”
- Nick Offerman, “Death by Lightning”
- Michael Peña, “All Her Fault”
- Ashley Walters, “Adolescence”
- Ramy Youssef, “Mountainhead”
Best supporting actress in a limited series or movie made for television
- Winner: Erin Doherty, “Adolescence”
- Betty Gilpin, “Death by Lightning”
- Marin Ireland, “Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy”
- Sophia Lillis, “All Her Fault”
- Julianne Moore, “Sirens”
- Christine Tremarco, “Adolescence”
Best foreign language series
- Winner: “Squid Game”
- “Acapulco”
- “Last Samurai Standing”
- “Mussolini: Son of the Century”
- “Red Alert”
- “When No One Sees Us”
Best animated series
- Winner: “South Park”
- “Bob’s Burgers”
- “Harley Quinn”
- “Long Story Short”
- “Marvel Zombies”
- “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man”
Best talk show
- Winner: “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
- “The Daily Show”
- “Hot Ones”
- “Late Night With Seth Meyers”
- “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”
- “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen”
Best variety series
- Winner: “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
- “Conan O’Brien Must Go”
- “Saturday Night Live”
Best comedy special
- Winner: “SNL50: The Anniversary Special”
- “Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life”
- “Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian”
- “Leanne Morgan: Unspeakable Things”
- “Marc Maron: Panicked”
- “Sarah Silverman: Postmortem”