Monday, January 5, 2026

“One Battle After Another” Wins 2026 Critics Choice Awards, Also Best Director, Timothee Chalamet Best Actor, Jessie Buckley Best Actress!

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I’ll start updating the Critics Choice Awards winners at 7PM Eastern. Around 500 members of the CCA vote for these awards, and they are all full time journalists — unlike some other golden awards shows.

CCA covers movies and TV. The show airs on USA Network and E! TV.

keep refreshing…

Best Picture — “One Battle After Another”

Best ActorTimothee Chalamet!

Best Actress — Jessie Buckley “Hamnet”

Best Director –– Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”

Best Foreign Language Film — “The Secret Agent”

Best Comedy Film — The Naked Gun

Best Young Actor — Miles Caton, ‘Sinners”

Best Cinematography — “Train Dreams”

Best Casting/Ensemble — “Sinners”

Best Supporting Actor — Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein” (big surprise)

Best Supporting Actress — Amy Madigan, “Weapons” (also a surprise) — note– not nominated for anything since 1986, Supporting Actress Oscar for “Twice in a Lifetime”

Best Editing/Sound — “F1”

Production Design, Hair/Makeup and Costumes — “Frankenstein”

Visual Effects — “Avatar”

Best Song — “Golden” KPop Demon Hunters

Best Animated Feature — K Pop Demon Hunters

Best Score — “Sinners”

Best Original Screenplay — “Sinners”

Best Adapted Screenplay — “One Battle After Another”

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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