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DiscussingFilm’s Global Film Critics Awards Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Leads with 20

Erik Anderson January 10, 2026

The nominees of DiscussingFilm’s Global Film Critics Awards nominations have been revealed and is led by Sinners with 20 nominations and One Battle After Another with 18 nominations, followed by Hamnet‘s total of 12 nominations and Frankenstein‘s 11 nominations. Coming just behind with 10 nominations are Marty Supreme and Sentimental Value, followed by No Other Choice and Wicked: For Good with 6 nominations.

See the full list of nominations for DiscussingFilm’s 2026 Global Film Critics Awards below:

BEST PICTURE

Frankenstein
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
The Secret Agent
Train Dreams

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Guillermo Del Toro – Frankenstein
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
Park Chan-wook – No Other Choice
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

BEST ACTRESS

Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia

BEST ACTOR

Lee Byung-hun – No Other Choice
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Belén
It Was Just an Accident
Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice
Resurrection
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
Sound of Falling
The Secret Agent
The Voice of Hind Rajab

BEST CASTING

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
The Secret Agent

BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE

Ballerina
F1
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Superman

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Sorry, Baby

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Resurrection
Sinners
Train Dreams

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners
The Testament of Ann Lee
Wicked: For Good

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
The Phoenician Scheme
Wicked: For Good

BEST FILM EDITING

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

BEST SOUND

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirat

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
The Ugly Stepsister
Weapons
Wicked: For Good

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Clothed by the Sun” – The Testament of Ann Lee
“Golden” – KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You” – Sinners
“Last Time (I Seen the Sun)” – Sinners
“The Girl in the Bubble” – Wicked: For Good
“Train Dreams” – Train Dreams

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
Sinners
Superman
Wicked: For Good

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

2000 Meters to Andriivka
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cover-Up
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
The Alabama Solution
The Perfect Neighbor

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Ne Zha 2
Zootopia 2

BEST INDEPENDENT FEATURE

Blue Moon
Die My Love
Eephus
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Pillion
Resurrection
Silent Friend
Sorry, Baby
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Twinless

BEST DEBUT FEATURE

Eephus
Friendship
Lurker
My Father’s Shadow
Pillion
Sorry, Baby
The Chronology of Water
The Plague
The Ugly Stepsister
Urchin

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Miles Caton – Sinners
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

BEST COMEDY FEATURE

Eternity
Friendship
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Splitsville
The Naked Gun

BEST HORROR FEATURE

28 Years Later
Bring Her Back
Frankenstein
Sinners
Together
Weapons

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Erik Anderson

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.