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The 2025 Critics Choice Awards Will Air on E!: All the Details!
The American-Canadian Critics Choice Association is putting down their popcorn.
Indeed, the 2025 Critics Choice Awards film nominations were announced Dec. 12. and the categories are stacked with the most pop-u-lar titles that have had movie-lovers flocking to the theaters ahead of the event on Sunday, Jan. 12 on E!.
Wicked and Conclave are both defying gravity, taking the lead for most nominations with 11 nods each, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Acting Ensemble. And it seems pink does indeed go good with green, with Cynthia Erivo recognized for Best Actress and Ariana Grande for Best Supporting actress—while on the Conclave front, Ralph Fiennes nabbed the Best Actor nomination.
For the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards—hosted by comedian Chelsea Handler for the third consecutive year—competition is certainly stiff. Dune: Part Two and Emilia Pérez followed the frontrunners closely with 10 nominations each—both contributing to the Best Picture category, along with other titles A Complete Unknown, Anora, The Brutalist, Nickel Boys, Sing Sing and The Substance.
But it wasn’t Timothée Chalamet’s time on the desert planet Arrakis that earned him a nomination for Best Actor, but rather his depiction of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. And Selena Gomez naturally boasted her musical abilities with a Best Song nomination for “Mi Camino,” which featured in her musical comedy thriller Emilia Pérez.
Other notable mentions include Anora and The Substance, with seven nods each. Mikey Madison earned her first Critics Choice nomination in the Best Actress category for her thought-provoking performance as a young sex worker from Brooklyn. And her Russian costar Yura Borisov celebrated the same accomplishment for Best Supporting Actor.
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And the Critics Choice Association previously revealed its television nominees on Dec. 5, with the most binge-worthy shows stacking each category. FX’s Shogun led the pack with six nominations, with Abbot Elementar, Disclaimer, Hacks, The Diplomat, The Penguin and What We Do in the Shadows all earning four nominations each.
Now, keep reading to see all of the films nominated at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards…
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BEST PICTURE
A Complete Unknown
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
The Substance
Wicked
BEST ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Hugh Grant – Heretic
BEST ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Angelina Jolie – Maria
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Elliott Heffernan – Blitz
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass
Izaac Wang – Didi
Alisha Weir – Abigail
Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Anora
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Saturday Night
Sing Sing
Wicked
BEST DIRECTOR
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker – Anora
Edward Berger – Conclave
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Jon M. Chu – Wicked
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two
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BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sean Baker – Anora
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox – Wicked
Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley – Sing Sing
RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
Peter Straughan – Conclave
Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu
Alice Brooks – Wicked
Lol Crawley – The Brutalist
Stéphane Fontaine – Conclave
Greig Fraser – Dune: Part Two
Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia – The Brutalist
Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – Wicked
Suzie Davies – Conclave
Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu
Arthur Max, Jille Azis, Elli Griff – Gladiator II
Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau – Dune: Part Two
BEST EDITING
Sean Baker – Anora
Marco Costa – Challengers
Nick Emerson – Conclave
David Jancso – The Brutalist
Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two
Hansjörg Weißbrich – September 5
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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
BEST COMEDY
A Real Pain
Deadpool & Wolverine
Hit Man
My Old Ass
Saturday Night
Thelma
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
All We Imagine as Light
Emilia Pérez
Flow
I’m Still Here
Kneecap
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
BEST SONG
“Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl – Miley Cyrus
“Compress / Repress” – Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
“El Mal” – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille
“Harper and Will Go West” – Will & Harper – Kristen Wiig
“Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot – Maren Morris
“Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez – Selena Gomez
BEST SCORE
Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers
Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two
The 2025 Critics Choice Awards ceremony airs live Sunday, Jan. 12, at 7 p.m. ET on E! and streams next day on Peacock.
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