‘Wicked,’ ‘Emilia Pérez’ among the best movie winners at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards: Full List

On February 8, 2025By Littum

Evil. Emilia Pérez and The fabric Each won three awards at the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards held at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on Friday (February 7). But none of these films took the top prize, best pic that went to Anora (which did not win other awards at night).

Jon M. Chu, the director of EvilWon the best instructor. He is the third director who wins a criticism election award for a musical after Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) and Damien Chazelle (La La Land). Chazelle also continued to win Oscar for that movie. Luhrmann and Chu were not even nominated for these films. EvilThe Award Award Awards for other critics were the best production design and best costume design.

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Emilia Pérez Won the best foreign language movie, best original song for “El Mal” and best supportive actress for Zoe Saldaña, who was led to sing “El Mal” in the film.

The fabric Won best actress for Demi Moore, best original manuscript and best hair & make-up.

Movies that received two awards were A real pain, conclave and Challengers.

“El Mal,” Co-written by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard, also won the Golden Globe Award for best original song on January 5th. With these two wins, “El Mal” seems to be the front runner in race for best original song on Oscars.

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross‘Recognized score for Challengers Won the Critics Choice Award for best original score, just as it won on the Golden Globes. But it can’t win Oscar as it wasn’t even nominated. It’s just the third film result that wins both the Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award and not even being nominated on Oscars. The first two were Howard Shores Score for The aviator and Justin Hurwitz’s score for First man.

Chelsea trades hosted the Critics Choice Awards for the third year in a row. The show was originally nominated for Sunday 12 January, but was postponed to Sunday 26 January and then exposed again due to wind-whipping fires in Los Angeles, which began on January 7. The three hour show, which included awards for both movies and TV, broadcast at. 19 EN/PT ON E!. The show will also be available to stream the next day at Peacock.

Here is the full list of nominations on the movie side for the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, with winners marked.

Best picture

A complete unknown

WINNER: Anora

Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part two

Emilia Pérez

Nickel boys

Sing Sing

The fabric

Evil

Best song

“Beautiful that way” – The last showgirl – Music by: Andrew Wyatt
Text by: Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus, Lykke Li

“Compression/suppression” – Challengers – Music by: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Text by: Trent Reznor, Luca Guadagnino

Winner: “El Mal” – Emilia Pérez – Music by: Clément Ducol, Camille
Text by: Clément Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard

“Harper and will go west” – Will & Harper – Sean Douglas, Kristen Wiig

“Kiss the Sky” – The wild robot – Music & Texts by: Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, Ali Tamposi

“MI CAMINO” – Emilia Pérez – Music & Texts by: Clément Ducol, Camille

Best score

Volker Bertelmann – Conclave

Daniel Blumberg – Brutalist

Kris Bowers – The wild robot

Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez

Winner: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers

His zimmer – Dune: Part two

Best actor ensemble

Anora

WINNER: Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Saturday night

Sing Sing

Evil

Best actor

Winner: Adrien Brody – Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet – A complete unknown

Daniel Craig – Queer

Colman Domingo – Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes – Conclave

Hugh Grant – Heretics

Best actress

Cynthia Erivo – Evil

Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez

Marianne Jean-Baptist- Hard truths

Angelina Jolie – Mary

Mikey Madison – Anora

Winner: Demi Moore – The fabric

Best supporting actor

Yura Borisov – Anora

Winner: Kieran Culkin – A true pain

Clarence MacLin – Sing Sing

Edward Norton – A complete unknown

Guy Pearce – Brutalist

Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best supportive actress

Danielle Deadwyler – The piano lesson

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor- Nickel boys

Ariana Grande – Evil

Margaret Qualley – The fabric

Isabella Rossellini – Conclave

Winner: Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best young actor/actress

Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A MAD MAX -SAGA

Elliott Heffernan – Flash

Winner: Maisy Stella – My old ass

IZAAC WANG – Didi

Alisha Weir – Abigail

Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet

Best instructor

Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez

Sean Baker – Anora

Edward Berger – Conclave

Brady Corbet – Brutalist

Winner: Jon M. Chu – Evil

Coralie Fargeat – The fabric

Ramell Ross – Nickel boys

Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part two

Best original manuscript

Sean Baker – Anora

Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5th

Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – Brutalist

Jesse Eisenberg – A true pain

Winner: Coralie Fargeat – The fabric

Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers

Best adapted manuscript

Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez

Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox – Evil

Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley – Sing Sing

Ramell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – Nickel boys

Winner: Peter Straughan – Conclave

Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part two

Best kinematography

Winner: Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu

Alice Brooks – Evil

Lol crawley – Brutalist

Stéphane Fontaine – Conclave

Greig Fraser – Dune: Part two

Jomo Fray – Nickel boys

Best production design

Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia – Brutalist

Winner: Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – Evil

Suzie Davies – Conclave

Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu

Arthur Max, Jille Azis, Elli Griff – Gladiator II

Patrice Vermette, Shane Veau – Dune: Part two

Best editing

Sean Baker – Anora

Winner: Marco Costa – Challengers

Nick Emerson – Conclave

David Jancso – Brutalist

Joe Walker – Dune: Part two

Hansjörg Weißbrich – September 5th

Best costume design

Lisy Christl – Conclave

Linda Muir – Nosferatu

Massimo Cantini Parrini – Mary

Winner: Paul Tazewell – Evil

Jacqueline West – Dune: Part two

Janty Yates, Dave Crossman – Gladiator II

Best hair and makeup

Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener, Neal Scanlan – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Hair and makeup team – Dune: Part two

Winner: Hair and makeup team – The fabric

Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount – Evil

Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White- Nosferatu

Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, Aaron Saucier – Another man

Best visual effects

Mark Bakowski, Pietro Ponti, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould – Gladiator II

Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk – Evil

Winner: Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – Dune: Part two

Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Heref, Peter Stubbs – Better man

Visual Effects Team – The fabric

Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Best animated function

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

WINNER: The wild robot

Best comedy

WINNER: A true pain

WINNER: Deadpool & Wolverine

Hit man

My old ass

Saturday night

Thelma

Best foreign language film

All we imagine as light

WINNER: Emilia Pérez

Flow

I’m still here

Kneecap

The seed of the Holy Fig

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