The San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle

The 2025 SFBAFCC Awards — Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another — WINNER
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Best Director

• Hamnet — Chloé Zhao
• It Was Just an Accident — Jafar Panahi
• One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson — WINNER
• Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier
• Sinners — Ryan Coogler

Best Actor

• Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another
• Joel Edgerton — Train Dreams
• Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon — WINNER
• Michael B. Jordan — Sinners
• Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley — Hamnet
• Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You — WINNER
• Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone — Bugonia
• Eva Victor — Sorry, Baby

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio Del Toro — One Battle After Another — WINNER
• Jacob Elordi — Frankenstein
• Paul Mescal — Hamnet
• Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

• Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan — Weapons — WINNER
• Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners
• Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Will Tracy — Bugonia
• Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell — Hamnet
• Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKel — No Other Choice
• Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another — WINNER
• Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar — Train Dreams

Best Original Screenplay

• Ryan Coogler — Sinners
• Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value — WINNER
• Eva Victor — Sorry, Baby
• Jafar Panahi — It Was Just an Accident
• Zach Cregger — Weapons

Best Cinematography

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

Best Production Design

• Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell
• Hamnet — Fiona Crombie
• Marty Supreme — Jack Fisk
• One Battle After Another — Florencia Martin
• Sinners — Hannah Beachler — WINNER

Best Original Score

• Jerskin Fendrix — Bugonia
• Alexandre Desplat — Frankenstein
• Jonny Greenwood — One Battle After Another
• Ludwig Göransson — Sinners — WINNER
• Bryce Dessner — Train Dreams

Best Editing

• Kirk Baxter — A House Of Dynamite
• Stephen Mirrione — F1: The Movie
• Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
• Andy Jurgensen — One Battle After Another — WINNER
• Michael P. Shawver — Sinners

Best Animated Feature

• Arco
• Elio
• KPop Demon Hunters — WINNER
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Best International Feature Film

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

Best Documentary Feature

• The Alabama Solution
• Come See Me In The Good Light
• Orwell: 2+2=5 — WINNER
• The Perfect Neighbor
• Riefenstahl