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Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) EDA Awards: ‘Sinners’ Rises to the Top

Erik Anderson December 31, 2025

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) have chosen Sinners as the best film of 2025, also awarding Ryan Coogler Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor to Michael B. Jordan, Best Supporting Actress to Wunmi Mosaku among its wins.

Hamnet was a winner for Jessie Buckley in Best Actress and for Adapted Screenplay while Sentimental Value won Best Supporting Actor for Stellan Skarsgård and Best International Film.

In the group’s women-only categories, Chloé Zhao (Hamnet) and Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby) were among the winners as well as two awards for Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another), in Female Breakthrough Performance and Female Stunt Performance.

Here is the full list of winners.

Best Film – Sinners

Best Director – Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Actress – Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

Best Supporting Actress – Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners

Best Actor – Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

Best Supporting Actor – Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Original Screenplay – Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay – Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao, Hamnet

Best Documentary – The Perfect Neighbor

Best Animated Film – KPop Demon Hunters

Best Ensemble Cast and Casting Director – Sinners

Best Cinematography – Sinners

Best Editing – One Battle After Another

Best International Film – Sentimental Value

EDA Female Focus Awards (Presented to women only)

Best Female Director – Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

Best Female Screenwriter – Eva Victor, Sorry Baby

Best Animated/Voice Performance – Arden Cho, KPop Demon Hunters

Best Female Breakthrough Performance – Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

Best Female Stunt Performance – Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.