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Hawaii Film Critics Society (HFCS) Awards: ‘Sinners,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ Lead Winners List

Erik Anderson January 12, 2026

The Hawaii Film Critics Society (HFCS) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025 where One Battle After Another has won Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson.

Sinners won four awards; Best Original Screenplay. Best Cinematography, Best Score and Best Song, while Frankenstein was a triple winner with Art Direction, Costume Design and Makeup.

Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme) and Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) were the lead acting winners, Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) and Amy Madigan (Weapons) round out the supporting wins.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Here is the full list of winners.

Best Picture: One Battle After Another

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme

Best Actress: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

Best Supporting Actor: Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan, Weapons

Best Original Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters

Best Documentary: Pee-wee as Himself

Best Foreign Language Film: Sentimental Value

Best Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners

Best Editing: Stephen Mirrione, F1

Best Art Direction: Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, Frankenstein

Best Costume Design: Kate Hawley, Frankenstein

Best Makeup: Frankenstein

Best Score: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

Best Song: “I Lied to You” from Sinners

Best Sound: F1

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Stunt Work: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Best Motion Capture Performance: Oona Chaplin, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Vocal Performance: Sam Rockwell, The Bad Guys 2

Best Animal Performance: Indy the dog, Good Boy

Best New Filmmaker: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

Best First Film: Sorry, Baby

Best Action Movie: F1

Best Comic Book Movie: Superman

Best Horror Film: Weapons

Best Overlooked Film: Rental Family

Best Underrated Film: The Life of Chuck

Best Hawaiian Film: Lahaina Rising

The Ha’aheo Award (pride in achievement for film, TV, or theater): Chief of War

The Jason “Phormat” David Award (celebrating originality and artistic playfulness in cinema): The Phoenician Scheme

Worst Film of 2025: Hurry Up Tomorrow

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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.