Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2025

24th WAFCA Awards
24th WAFCA Awards
Date	December 7, 2025
Highlights
Best Film	Sinners
Best Director	Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Best Actor	Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Best Actress	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
	← 2024; WAFCA Awards; 2026 →;

DateDecember 7, 2025

Best FilmSinners

Best DirectorRyan Coogler – Sinners

Best ActorMichael B. Jordan – Sinners

The 24th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 7, 2025.^[1] The nominations were announced on December 6, 2025.^[2]

Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners led the nominations with thirteen apiece, followed by Hamnet with nine and Marty Supreme with eight.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Ultimately, Sinners dominated with a record-breaking ten wins (the most awards ever earned by a single film in the organization's history), followed by One Battle After Another with three. Additionally, Coogler achieved a rare sweep of Best Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6]

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Best Film	Best Director
Sinners Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sentimental Value	Ryan Coogler – Sinners Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Michael B. Jordan – Sinners* as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore** Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart	*Jessie Buckley – Hamnet* as Agnes Shakespeare** Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Cynthia Erivo – Wicked: For Good as Elphaba Thropp Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another* as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos** Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg	*Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another* as Perfidia Beverly Hills** Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good as Galinda "Glinda" Upland Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Sinners – Ryan Coogler It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Weapons – Zach Cregger	One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Bugonia – Will Tracy Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary
KPop Demon Hunters Arco Elio Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	The Perfect Neighbor Come See Me in the Good Light The Librarians Orwell: 2+2=5 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Cinematography
Sentimental Value (Norway) It Was Just an Accident (Iran) Left-Handed Girl (Taiwan) No Other Choice (South Korea) The Secret Agent (Brazil)	Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
Best Editing	Best Original Score
F1 – Stephen Mirrione (TIE) Sinners – Michael P. Shawver (TIE) Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Affonso Gonçalves Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen	Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Hamnet – Max Richter Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
Best Production Design	Best Ensemble
Sinners – Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Jille Azis and Kasra Farahani Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Hamnet – Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton Wicked: For Good – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales	Sinners Hamnet It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Wake Up Dead Man
Best Youth Performance	Best Voice Performance
*Miles Caton – Sinners* as Samuel "Sammie" Moore** Cary Christopher – Weapons as Alex Lilly Shannon Mahina Gorman – Rental Family as Mia Kawasaki Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet as Hamnet Shakespeare Nina Ye – Left-Handed Girl as I-Jing Mason Thames – How to Train Your Dragon as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III	*Arden Cho – KPop Demon Hunters* as Rumi** Jason Bateman – Zootopia 2 as Nick Wilde Ginnifer Goodwin – Zootopia 2 as Judy Hopps Yonas Kibreab – Elio as Elio Solís Ke Huy Quan – Zootopia 2 as Gary De'Snake
Best Stunts	Best Motion Capture Performance
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning F1 One Battle After Another Sinners Superman	*Zoe Saldaña – Avatar: Fire and Ash* as Neytiri** Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Varang Stephen Lang – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Colonel Miles Quaritch Sigourney Weaver – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Kiri Sam Worthington – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Jake Sully
Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, D.C.
A House of Dynamite Anniversary Captain America: Brave New World Nuremberg Thunderbolts*

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v t e Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
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Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2025

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24th WAFCA Awards
Date	December 7, 2025 (2025-12-07)
Highlights
Best Film	Sinners
Best Director	Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Best Actor	Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Best Actress	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
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