Critics’ Alternative Awards 2026 Winners

The Critics’ Alternative Awards ceremony is lastly right here and ScreenRant will likely be reporting the winners dwell all through the evening.

2025 was an thrilling 12 months for films and TV. From Depraved: For Good to Frankenstein and Severance to The Morning Present, this 12 months’s contenders are all greater than deserving of their nominations.

Chelsea Handler will likely be internet hosting the Critics’ Alternative Awards on January 4, 2026, at 7:00 PM ET and 4:00 PM PT.

Try the nominees under:

Greatest Comedy

The Ballad of Wallis Island (Focus Options)

Eternity (A24)

Friendship (A24)

“The Bare Gun” (Paramount) (WINNER)

The Phoenician Scheme (Focus Options)

Splitsville (Neon)

Greatest Overseas Movie

Belén (Amazon MGM Studios)

It Was Simply an Accident (Neon)

Left-Handed Lady (Netflix)

No Different Alternative (Neon)

The Secret Agent (Neon) (WINNER)

Sirāt (Neon)

Greatest Younger Actor/Actress

Everett Blunck – The Plague (Unbiased Movie Firm)

Miles Caton – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Cary Christopher – Weapons (Warner Bros.)

Shannon Mahina Gorman – Rental Household (Searchlight Footage)

Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet (Focus Options)

Nina Ye – Left-Handed Lady (Netflix)

Greatest Supporting Actor in a Drama Collection

Patrick Ball – The Pitt (HBO Max)

Billy Crudup – The Morning Present (Apple TV)

Ato Essandoh – The Diplomat (Netflix)

Wooden Harris – Without end (Netflix)

Tom Pelphrey – Process (HBO Max)

Tramell Tillman – Severance (Apple TV)

Greatest Image

Bugonia (Focus Options)

Frankenstein (Netflix)

Hamnet (Focus Options)

Jay Kelly (Netflix)

Marty Supreme (A24)

One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Sentimental Worth (Neon)

Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Practice Goals (Netflix)

Depraved: For Good (Common Footage)

Greatest Actor

Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme (A24)

Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Joel Edgerton – Practice Goals (Netflix)

Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon (Sony Footage Classics)

Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent (Neon)

Greatest Actress

Jessie Buckley – Hamnet (Focus Options)

Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)

Chase Infiniti – One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Worth (Neon)

Amanda Seyfried – The Testomony of Ann Lee (Searchlight Footage)

Emma Stone – Bugonia (Focus Options)

Greatest Supporting Actor

Benicio del Toro – One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein (Netflix)

Paul Mescal – Hamnet (Focus Options)

Sean Penn – One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly (Netflix)

Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Worth (Neon)

Greatest Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning – Sentimental Worth (Neon)

Ariana Grande – Depraved: For Good (Common Footage)

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Worth (Neon)

Amy Madigan – Weapons (Warner Bros.)

Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Teyana Taylor – One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Greatest Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Ryan Coogler – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein (Netflix)

Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme (A24)

Joachim Trier – Sentimental Worth (Neon)

Chloé Zhao – Hamnet (Focus Options)

Greatest Casting and Ensemble

Nina Gold – Hamnet (Focus Options)

Douglas Aibel, Nina Gold – Jay Kelly (Netflix)

Jennifer Venditti – Marty Supreme (A24)

Cassandra Kulukundis – One Battle After One other (Warner Bros.)

Francine Maisler – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Tiffany Little Canfield, Bernard Telsey – Depraved: For Good (Common Footage)

Greatest Costume Design

Kate Hawley – Frankenstein (Netflix)]

Malgosia Turzanska – Hamnet (Focus Options)

Lindsay Pugh – Hedda (Amazon MGM Studios)

Colleen Atwood, Christine Cantella – Kiss of the Spider Girl (Lionsgate/Roadside Points of interest)

Ruth E. Carter – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Paul Tazewell – Depraved: For Good (Common Footage)

Greatest Hair and Make-up

Hair and Make-up Crew – 28 Years Later (Sony Footage)

Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey – Frankenstein (Netflix)

Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox, Mia Neal – The Smashing Machine (A24)

Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, Jason Collins – Weapons (Warner Bros.)

Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, Laura Blount – Depraved: For Good (Common Footage)

Greatest Visible Results

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett – Avatar: Fireplace and Ash (twentieth Century Studios)

Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Worth, Keith Dawson – F1 (Apple Authentic Movies)

Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell – Frankenstein (Netflix)

Alex Wuttke, Ian Lowe, Jeff Sutherland, Kirstin Corridor – Mission: Not possible – The Remaining Reckoning (Paramount Footage)

Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean – Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, Man Williams – Superman (Warner Bros.)

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