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Critics' Choice 2026 Winners & Nominees

The 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026) took place on January 4, 2026 (Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA, USA). One Battle After Another won Best Picture and 2 more awards. Every winner and nominee in all 12 categories is below.

All 12 categories Most wins
categories
12
nominations
72
films nominated
32
winners
9
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Venue
Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Best Picture
One Battle After Another
Headline winners

Critics' Choice 2026: The Winners

One Battle After Another won Best Picture against 9 other nominees. Paul Thomas Anderson (Best Director), Timothée Chalamet (Best Actor) and Jessie Buckley (Best Actress) took the main individual prizes.

One Battle After Another (2025) movie poster Best Picture

Best Picture

One Battle After Another

2025 · Action, Crime, Drama · Echo Score 80 · $213M worldwide

3 wins from 7 nominations at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026)

  • Best Director
  • Best Adapted Screenplay

Washed‑up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) lives in a haze of paranoia, eking out an off‑grid existence with his spirited, self‑reliant daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti). When his sinister nemesis (Sean Penn) resurfaces after sixteen years and Willa disappears, the former radical races against time to locate her, forcing both father and daughter to confront the lingering fallout of his past activism.

About One Battle After Another
Scoreboard

Critics' Choice 2026: Which Films Won the Most

One Battle After Another won 3 awards from 7 nominations. 6 films won at least once, while Sentimental Value went home empty-handed from 7 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. One Battle After Another (2025) movie poster
    One Battle After Another 3 / 7
    2025 · Action, Crime · 3 wins from 7 nominations
  2. Sinners (2025) movie poster
    Sinners 2 / 6
    2025 · Action, Drama · 2 wins from 6 nominations
  3. Hamnet (2025) movie poster
    Hamnet 1 / 6
    2025 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 6 nominations
  4. Marty Supreme (2025) movie poster
    Marty Supreme 1 / 4
    2025 · Drama, Sport · 1 win from 4 nominations
  5. Frankenstein (2025) movie poster
    Frankenstein 1 / 4
    2025 · Drama, Fantasy · 1 win from 4 nominations
  6. Weapons (2025) movie poster
    Weapons 1 / 3
    2025 · Horror, Mystery · 1 win from 3 nominations
  7. Sentimental Value (2025) movie poster
    Sentimental Value 0 / 7
    2025 · Drama · 0 wins from 7 nominations
  8. Bugonia (2025) movie poster
    Bugonia 0 / 3
    2025 · Comedy, Crime · 0 wins from 3 nominations
  9. Jay Kelly (2025) movie poster
    Jay Kelly 0 / 3
    2025 · Comedy, Drama · 0 wins from 3 nominations
  10. Train Dreams (2025) movie poster
    Train Dreams 0 / 3
    2025 · Drama · 0 wins from 3 nominations
Full results

All 12 Critics' Choice 2026 Categories: Winners & Nominees

12 categories and 72 nominations; Best Picture had the most nominees (10). The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

12 categories · 72 nominations

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Movie marathon

The Critics' Choice 2026 Best Picture Marathon

All 10 Best Picture nominees at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026), back to back: 22 hours 27 minutes.

Total running time 22h 27m 22 hours 27 minutes All 10 films
Longest
One Battle After Another 2h 50m
Shortest
Train Dreams 1h 42m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Critics' Choice 2026 Winners

Drama led with 55 nominations across 21 films and won 8. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 8 wins · 55 nominations · 15%
  2. Comedy 0 wins · 24 nominations · 0%
  3. Action 5 wins · 20 nominations · 25%
  4. Thriller 5 wins · 17 nominations · 29%
  5. Crime 3 wins · 16 nominations · 19%
  6. Horror 4 wins · 14 nominations · 29%
  7. Fantasy 1 win · 11 nominations · 9%
  8. Sci-Fi 1 win · 9 nominations · 11%
  9. History 1 win · 7 nominations · 14%
  10. Biography 1 win · 6 nominations · 17%
2026 season

How the Rest of the 2026 Awards Season Voted

The other 13 ceremonies of 2026, with the winner of each top prize. One Battle After Another also won the top prize at 4 of them.

All 2026 awards
Earlier years

Previous Critics' Choice Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Critics' Choice page has every year back to 1996.

Every Critics' Choice ceremony

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Critics' Choice 2026: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026)?

One Battle After Another (2025) won Best Picture. The other nominees were Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Train Dreams and Wicked: For Good.

About One Battle After Another

Which film won the most awards at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026)?

One Battle After Another (2025) won the most: 3 awards from 7 nominations. Sinners was next with 2 wins.

Which film had the most nominations at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026)?

One Battle After Another (2025) and Sentimental Value (2025) led with 7 nominations each.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026)?

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another. Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme. Best Actress: Jessie Buckley for Hamnet. Best Supporting Actor: Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein. Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan for Weapons.

When was the 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026)?

The 31st Critics' Choice Awards (2026) took place on January 4, 2026 (Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA, USA). The database has 12 categories and 72 nominations for it.