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Minnesota Film Critics Association (MNFCA) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Lead

Erik Anderson December 26, 2025

The Minnesota Film Critics Association (MNFCA) has announced the nominees for their 2025 annual Film Awards. This year, the MNFCA has nominated 31 different films, with Sinners and One Battle After Another leading the nominations with 15 and 14 apiece, respectively.

Winners will be announced on January 2. 2026. See full list of nominees below.

Best Picture

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another

Ryan Coogler – Sinners

Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme

Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value

Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

Best Actor

Timotheé Chalamet – Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another

Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams

Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon

Michael B. Jordan – Sinners

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley – Hamnet

Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another

Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value

Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein

Paul Mescal – Hamnet

Sean Penn – One Battle After Another

Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value

Amy Madigan – Weapons

Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners

Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Best Ensemble

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Wake Up Dead Man

Best Adapted Screenplay

Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro

Hamnet – Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell

No Other Choice – Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Park Chan-wook

One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson

Wake Up Dead Man – Rian Johnson

Best Original Screenplay

It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi

Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie

Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt

Sinners – Ryan Coogler

Weapons – Zach Cregger

Best Film Editing

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Weapons

Best Cinematography

Frankenstein

Hamnet

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Train Dreams

Best Music

Hamnet

KPop Demon Hunters

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Best Costume Design

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

Sinners

Wicked: For Good

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Frankenstein

Marty Supreme

Sinners

The Smashing Machine

Wicked: For Good

Best Production Design

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

Sinners

Wicked: For Good

Best Sound

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Warfare

Best Special Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Frankenstein

Sinners

Superman

Tron: Ares

Best Stunt Choreography

Ballerina

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Best International Feature

It Was Just an Accident – France, Iran, Luxembourg

No Other Choice – South Korea

The Secret Agent – Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands

Sentimental Value – Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

The Ugly Stepsister – Denmark, Norway, Poland, Sweden

Best Animated Feature

Arco

Dog Man

Elio

KPop Demon Hunters

Zootopia 2

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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.