Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (CFCA) 2025 Nominations: Complete list of nominees explored

On December 9, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, aka CFCA, announced its nominees for this year. The winners for Chicago Film Critics Association Awards will be revealed on December 11.

The Chicago Film Critics Association Awards have nominated forty two movies for its nineteen different categories. Popular hits of this year like Leonardo DiCaprio’s One Battle After Another and Michael B. Jordan’s Sinners, have earned nominations for multiple categories of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor/Actress, Screenplay, and more.

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Sinners, One Battle After Another, and more movies have been nominated at Chicago Film Critics Association Awards

Here’s the complete rundown of nominations of Chicago Film Critics Association Awards:

BEST PICTURE

• It Was Just an Accident
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

BEST DIRECTOR

• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
• Ryan Coogler, Sinners
• Mona Fastvold, The Testament of Ann Lee
• Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme

BEST ACTOR

• 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

• Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
• Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
• Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
• Tessa Thompson, Hedda

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
• Delroy Lindo, Sinners
• Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Odessa A’Zion, Marty Supreme
• Nina Hoss, Hedda
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan, Weapons
• Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
• Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Blue Moon by Robert Kaplow
• It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi
• Marty Supreme by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
• Sinners by Ryan Coogler
• Sorry, Baby by Eva Victor

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Hamnet by Chloe Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
• No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, & Jahye Lee
• One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Train Dreams by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
• Wake Up Dead Man by Rian Johnson

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Arco
• Boys Go to Jupiter
• KPop Demon Hunters
• Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Cover-Up
• My Undesirable Friends, Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
• The Perfect Neighbor
• Predators
• Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• It Was Just an Accident
• No Other Choice
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sirat

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Frankenstein
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Phoenician Scheme
• Sinners

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Dan Laustsen, Frankenstein
• Łukasz Żal, Hamnet
• Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
• Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
• Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
• Lindsay Pugh, Hedda
• Ruth E. Carter, Sinners
• Malgorzata Karpiuk, The Testament of Ann Lee
• Paul Tazewell, Wicked: For Good

BEST EDITING

• Jon Harris, 28 Years Later
• Stephen Mirrione & Patrick J. Smith, F1: The Movie
• Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
• Kim Sang-beom & Kim Ho-bin, No Other Choice
• Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Rob Mazurek, The Mastermind
• Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
• Ludwig Goransson, Sinners
• Daniel Blumberg, The Testament of Ann Lee
• Bryce Dessner, Train Dreams

BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Frankenstein
• Mickey 17
• Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning
• Sinners

MILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER

• Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Sarah Friedland, Familiar Touch
• Carson Lund, Eephus
• James Sweeney, Twinless
• Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER

• Miles Caton, Sinners
• Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
• Abou Sangare, Souleymane’s Story
• Tonatiuh, Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

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