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