Hawaii Film Critics Society Award Winners

Best Picture

One Battle After Another

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

Best Supporting Actor

Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Madigan, Weapons

Best Original Screenplay

Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay

One Battle After Another

Best Editing

F1: The Movie

Best Cinematography

Sinners

Best Art Direction

Frankenstein

Best Costume Design

Frankenstein

Best Animated Film

KPop Demon Hunters

Best Documentary

Pee-wee as Himself

Best Make-Up

Frankenstein

Best Sound

F1: The Movie

Best Score

Sinners

Best Song

“I Lied to You,” Sinners

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Action Movie

F1: The Movie

Best Stunt Work

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Best New Filmmaker

Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

Best First Film

Sorry, Baby

Best Overlooked Film

Rental Family

Best Vocal / Motion Capture Performance

(TIE) Oona Chaplin, Avatar: Fire and Ash and Sam Rockwell, The Bad Guys 2 

Best Animal Performance

Indy the dog, Good Boy

Best Horror Film

Weapons

Best Comic Book Movie

Superman

Best Foreign Language Film

Sentimental Value

Best Underrated Film

The Life of Chuck

Best Hawaiian Film

Lahaina Rising, dir. Matty Schweitzer (Maui)

The Ha’aheo Award (Pride in Achievement for Film, TV, or Theater)

Chief of War

The Jason “Phormat” David Award celebrating originality and artistic playfulness in cinema

The Phoenician Scheme (dir. Wes Anderson)

Worst Film of 2025

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