Critics Choice Awards 2025: Full list of film nominees

After announcing the list of television nominees last week, Critics Choice Awards 2025 film nominees have finally been unveiled, and things look as exciting as they should. The coveted event is set to take place on Sunday, January 12, 2024, making it one of the earliest major ceremonies of 2025.

With the disclosure of the film nominees for Critics Choice Awards 2025, two films have stood out, Wicked and Conclave, both of which have scored 11 nominations in major categories. Other successful films like Emilia Perez, Anora, and The Brutalist have also bagged multiple nominations.

Without further ado, let us go over the full list of nominations for Critics Choice Awards 2025 in the film categories.

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The complete list of film nominations for Critics Choice Awards 2025

Best Picture

• A Complete Unknown
• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Nickel Boys
• Sing Sing
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Actor

• Adrien Brody - The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
• Daniel Craig - Queer
• Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
• Hugh Grant - Heretic

Best Actress

• Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
• Angelina Jolie – Maria
• Mikey Madison – Anora
• Demi Moore – The Substance

Best Supporting Actor

• Yura Borisov – Anora
• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
• Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
• Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Supporting Actress

• Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
• Ariana Grande – Wicked
• Margaret Qualley – The Substance
• Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Young Actor/Actress

• Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Elliott Heffernan – Blitz
• Maisy Stella – My Old Ass
• Izaac Wang – Didi
• Alisha Weir – Abigail
• Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet

Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble

• Anora
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Saturday Night
• Sing Sing
• Wicked

Critics Choice Award for Best Director

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

Critics Choice Award for Best Original Screenplay

• Sean Baker – Anora
• Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5
• Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
• Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
• Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers

Critics Choice Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Cinematography

• Nosferatu
• Wicked
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Nickel Boys

Best Production Design

• The Brutalist
• Wicked
• Conclave
• Nosferatu
• Gladiator II
• Dune: Part Two

Best Editing

• Anora
• Challengers
• Conclave
• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• September 5

Best Costume Design

• Conclave
• Nosferatu
• Maria
• Wicked
• Dune: Part Two
• Gladiator II

Best Hair and Makeup

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Dune: Part Two
• The Substance
• Wicked
• Nosferatu
• A Different Man

Critics Choice Award for Best Visual Effects

• Gladiator II
• Wicked
• Dune: Part Two
• Better Man
• The Substance
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Best Animated Feature

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot

Best Comedy

• A Real Pain
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Hit Man
• My Old Ass
• Saturday Night
• Thelma

Best foreign language film

• All We Imagine as Light
• Emilia Pérez
• Flow
• I’m Still Here
• Kneecap
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Critics Choice Award for Best Song

• Beautiful That Way – The Last Showgirl – Miley Cyrus
• Compress / Repress – Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• El Mal – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille
• 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

• Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
• Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
• Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
• Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Perez
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers
• Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two

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