Critics Awards (Film)

Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): ‘Sinners’ Dominates with 10 Wins

Erik Anderson December 7, 2025

After picking up 13 nominations from the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), Sinners turned 10 of them into wins, including Best Film, Best Director and Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler and Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan.

One Battle After Another, which had also earned 13 nominations, took home three wins: Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress for Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor, respectively, and Adapted Screenplay.

Jessie Buckley picked up her second Best Actress win for Hamnet; she won earlier in the week from Atlanta critics.

Here is the complete list of winners.

Best Film: Sinners

Best Director: Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Actor: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Best Actress: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actress: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best Original Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters
Best Documentary: The Perfect Neighbor
Best Foreign Language Film: Sentimental Value

Best Ensemble: Sinners

Best Youth Performance: Miles Caton, Sinners
Best Voice Performance: Arden Cho, KPop Demon Hunters
Best Motion Capture Performance: Zoe Saldaña, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Cinematography: Sinners
Best Editing (tie): F1 and Sinners
Best Production Design: Sinners
Best Score: Sinners
Best Stunts: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC: A House of Dynamite

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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.