Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2025
Best Picture
Sinners
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Train Dreams
Weapons
Best Director
Ryan Coogler - Sinners
Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
Guillermo del Toro - Frankenstein
Josh Safdie - Marty Supreme
Chloé Zhao - Hamnet
Best Casting
Sinners - Francine Maisler
Frankenstein - Robin D. Cook
Hamnet - Nina Gold
Marty Supreme - Jennifer Venditti
One Battle After Another - Cassandra Kulukundis
Best Ensemble
Sinners
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Wake Up Dead Man
Best Actor
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
Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart
Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões
Best Actress
Jessie Buckley - Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare
Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda
Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue as Claire Sardina
Chase Infiniti - One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson
Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value as Nora Borg
Emma Stone - Bugonia as Michelle Fuller
Best Supporting Actor
Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein as The Creature
Benicio del Toro - One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
Delroy Lindo - Sinners as Delta Slim
Paul Mescal - Hamnet as William Shakespeare
Sean Penn - One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Madigan - Weapons as Gladys
Ariana Grande - Wicked: For Good as Galinda "Glinda" Upland
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen
Wunmi Mosaku - Sinners as Annie
Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Best Screenplay
Sinners - Ryan Coogler
Marty Supreme - Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value - Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
Wake Up Dead Man - Rian Johnson
Best Cinematography
Sinners - Autumn Durald Arkapaw
F1 - Claudio Miranda
Frankenstein - Dan Laustsen
One Battle After Another - Michael Bauman
Train Dreams - Adolpho Veloso
Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
Sinners
Superman
Best Original Score
Sinners - Ludwig Göransson
F1 - Hans Zimmer
Frankenstein - Alexandre Desplat
Marty Supreme - Daniel Lopatin
One Battle After Another - Jonny Greenwood
Best Original Song
"Golden" - KPop Demon Hunters
"I Lied to You" - Sinners
"Last Time (I Seen the Sun)" - Sinners
"Our Love" - The Ballad of Wallis Island
"Train Dreams" - Train Dreams
Best Foreign Language Feature
Sentimental Value
It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sirāt
Best Documentary Feature
The Perfect Neighbor
The Alabama Solution
Cover-Up
My Mom Jayne
Orwell: 2+2=5
Best Animated Feature
KPop Demon Hunters
Arco
The Bad Guys 2
Ne Zha 2
Zootopia 2
Best Stunt Coordination Team
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Ballerina
F1
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Texas Independent Film Award
The Librarians - Kim A. Snyder
Ick - Joseph Kahn
Luv Ya Bum! - Sam Wainwright Douglas, David Hartstein, and Andrew Alden Miller
Selena y Los Dinos - Isabel Castro
The Senior - Rod Lurie