San Diego Film Critics Society Award Winners

Best Picture

SINNERS

            Runner Up: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Director

Ryan Coogler, SINNERS

            Runner Up: Yorgos Lanthimos, BUGONIA

Best Actor

Michael B. Jordan, SINNERS

            Runner Up: Joel Edgerton, TRAIN DREAMS

Best Actress

(TIE) Jessie Buckley, HAMNET AND Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU

Best Supporting Actor

Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

            Runner Up: Sean Penn , ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Madigan, WEAPONS

            Runners Up: Nina Hoss, HEDDA, Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS

Best Comedic Performance

Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ETERNITY

            Runner Up: Molly Gordon, OH, HI!

Best Youth Performance (For a performer under the age of 18)

Cary Christopher, WEAPONS

            Runner Up: Jacobi Jupe, HAMNET

Best Original Screenplay

Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

            Runner Up: David Koepp, BLACK BAG

Best Adapted Screenplay

Will Tracy, BUGONIA

            Runner Up: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best First Feature (Director)

Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY

            Runner Up: Kristen Stewart, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER

Best Documentary

ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5

            Runner Up: BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES

Best Animated Film

K-POP DEMON HUNTERS

            Runner Up: LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN

Best Foreign Language Film

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT

            Runner Up: SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Best Editing

Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, MARTY SUPREME

            Runner Up: Andy Jurgensen, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Cinematography

Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS

            Runner Up: Michael Bauman, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Production Design

Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, FRANKENSTEIN

            Runners Up: Hannah Bleachler, Monique Champagne, SINNERS, Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis,                         THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS

Best Visual Effects

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

            Runners Up: FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, FRANKENSTEIN

Best Costume Design

Paul Tazewell, WICKED: FOR GOOD

            Runners Up: Ruth E. Carter, SINNERS, Kate Hawley, FRANKENSTEIN

Best Sound Design

WARFARE

            Runner Up: F1

Best Use of Music

SINNERS

            Runner Up: HEDDA

Best Stunt Choreography

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: FINAL RECKONING

            Runner Up: SINNERS

Best Ensemble

BLACK BAG

            Runner Up: SINNERS

Breakthrough Performance

Chase Infiniti, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Special Award for Body of Work

Josh O’Connor: WAKE UP, DEAD MAN, THE MASTERMIND, THE HISTORY OF SOUND, REBUILDING

Special Award: Best Animal Performance

Indy the Dog, GOOD BOY