Rotten Tomatoes Awards: ‘Sinners’ Takes Best Movie, ‘Pillion’ Wins Best Romance, ‘Andor’ Named Best Series

Rotten Tomatoes has announced winners of its 27^th annual Rotten Tomatoes Awards, celebrating the top-reviewed movies and TV shows of 2025 as determined by critics on the Tomatometer and fans on the Popcornmeter.

This year’s Rotten Tomatoes Awards: Golden Tomato Movie winners include Sinners​ for Best Movie, Best Horror Movie and Fan Favorite Movie, One Battle After Another for Best Action & Adventure Movie, and Zootopia 2 for Best Animated Movie. Sentimental Value was a double winner as Best Drama Movie and Best International Movie while Pillion, the Alexander Skarsgård-starring BDSM rom-com, was named Best Romance Movie.

The Golden Tomato TV winners include Andor: Season 2 for Best Series and Best Returning Series, Pluribus for Best New Series, and Adolescence for Best Drama and Limited Series. 

This year also marks a major expansion of the Golden Tomato awards on the Popcornmeter, with new categories recognizing the most beloved films across several genres, including Drama, Action, Animated Movies, and Concert Movies. The complete list of Golden Tomato winners can be found below. 

For the first time ever, the Rotten Tomatoes Awards are sponsored by Avocados from Mexico, who joins the celebration with a brand new fan-voted honor, the Fresh Avocado Award, recognizing the year’s freshest takes on fan-favorite films. Fans can vote now in this category and more fan-voted categories, like “Rotten Movies We Love,” “Best Popcorn Bucket,” and more. The fan-voted category winners will be announced on January 27. 

Lastly, the Golden Year Award expands this year to further recognize the actors, filmmakers, and creatives who defined the year in entertainment, honoring those who created, worked on, or starred in some of the most impactful movies and TV shows of 2025. The Golden Year Award Winners will be announced on February 3.

The Golden Tomato winners reflect Tomatometer and Popcornmeter scores as of December 31, 2025, with lists ranked by Adjusted Score. To qualify, a movie must be released in the U.S. in 2025, and be Certified Fresh on the Tomatometer, and Verified Hot on the Popcornmeter for the fan-voted categories.

FILM CATEGORIES 

BEST MOVIE 
Sinners (Warner Bros.) 

BEST LIMITED MOVIE 
Wake Up Dead Man (Netflix) 

BEST ACTION & ADVENTURE MOVIE 
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) 

BEST ANIMATED MOVIE 
Zootopia 2 (Disney) 

BEST COMEDY MOVIE 
The Naked Gun (Paramount Pictures) 

BEST DOCUMENTARY MOVIE 
The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix) 

BEST DRAMA MOVIE 
Sentimental Value (Neon)  

BEST SCI-FI / FANTASY MOVIE 
Companion (Warner Bros.) 

BEST HORROR MOVIE 
Sinners (Warner Bros.) 

BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER MOVIE 
Black Bag (Focus Features) 

BEST INTERNATIONAL MOVIE 
Sentimental Value (Neon) 

BEST ROMANCE MOVIE 
Pillion (A24) 

BEST MUSIC MOVIE 
KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix) 

TELEVISION CATEGORIES 

BEST SERIES 
Andor: Season 2 (Disney+) 

BEST NEW SERIES 
Pluribus (Apple TV) 

BEST RETURNING SERIES 
Andor: Season 2 (Disney+) 

BEST ANTHOLOGY OR LIMITED SERIES 
Adolescence (Netflix) 

BEST ANIMATED SERIES 
Long Story Short (Netflix) 

BEST ACTION & ADVENTURE SERIES 
Reacher: Season 3 (Prime Video) 

BEST COMEDY SERIES 
The Studio (Apple TV+) 

BEST DRAMA SERIES 
Adolescence (Netflix) 

BEST MYSTERY & THRILLER SERIES 
Task (HBO) 

BEST SCI-FI / FANTASY SERIES 
Andor: Season 2 (Disney+) 

BEST HISTORICAL SERIES 
Wolf Hall: Season 2 (PBS Masterpiece) 

BEST HORROR SERIES 
Alien: Earth (FX) 

FAN FAVORITE MOVIES 

FAN FAVORITE MOVIE 
Sinners 

FAN FAVORITE ACTION MOVIE 
Superman 

FAN FAVORITE FAMILY MOVIE 
How to Train Your Dragon  

FAN FAVORITE DRAMA MOVIE 
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale 

FAN FAVORITE ANIMATED MOVIE 
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle 

FAN FAVORITE CONCERT MOVIE 
ATEEZ World Tour [Towards the Light: Will to Power] in Cinemas 

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