Frankenstein and Sinners were the big winners at the Hollywood Creative Alliance‘s Astra Creative Arts Awards with three wins each. The awards celebrate the below-the-line crafts for film in 2025.
The group’s other awards, The Astra Film Awards, will be held on January 9, 2026.
Winners in bold below.
Best Casting
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery — Bret Howe and Mary Vernieu (Netflix)
One Battle After Another — Cassandra Kulukundis (Warner Bros.)
Jay Kelly — Douglas Aibel and Nina Gold (Netflix)
Sinners — Francine Maisler (Warner Bros.)
Marty Supreme — Jennifer Venditti (A24)
Sentimental Value — Yngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman (Neon)
Best Cinematography
Train Dreams — Adolpho Veloso (Netflix)
Sinners — Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Warner Bros.)
Frankenstein — Dan Lausten (Netflix)
Marty Supreme — Darius Khondji (A24)
Hamnet — Lukasz Zal (Focus Features)
One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman (Warner Bros.)
Best Costume Design
Frankenstein — Kate Hawley (Netflix)
Hedda — Lindsay Pugh (Amazon MGM)
Hamnet — Małgosia Turzańska (Focus Features)
The Testament of Ann Lee — Małgorzata Karpiuk (Searchlight)
Wicked: For Good — Paul Tazewell (Universal)
Sinners — Ruth E. Carter (Warner Bros.)
Best Film Editing
One Battle After Another — Andy Jurgensen (Warner Bros.)
Marty Supreme — Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein (A24)
No Other Choice — Kim Sang-Beom and Kim Ho-Bin (Neon)
Sinners — Michael P. Shawver (Warner Bros.)
Wicked: For Good — Myron Kerstein (Universal)
Sentimental Value — Olivier Bugge Coutté (Neon)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Frankenstein — Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey (Netflix)
Kiss of the Spider-Woman — Scott Barnes (Roadside)
Sinners — Siân Richards, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry (Warner Bros.)
Waltzing with Brando — Erica Villanueva (Iconic Events Releasing)
Weapons — Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat, and Jason Collins (Warner Bros.)
Wicked: For Good — Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier, and Laura Blount (Universal)
Best Marketing Campaign
Good Fortune (Lionsgate)
Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Superman (Warner Bros.)
The Long Walk (Lionsgate)
Weapons (Warner Bros.)
Wicked: For Good (Universal)
Best Production Design
The Phoenician Scheme — Adam Stockhausen & Anna Pinnock (Focus Features)
Hedda — Cara Brower and Stella Fox (Amazon MGM)
Hamnet — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (Focus Features)
Sinners — Hannah Bleacher and Monique Champagne (Warner Bros.)
Wicked: For Good — Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales (Universal)
Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell (Netflix)
Best Second Unit Director
One Battle After Another — Adam Somner (Warner Bros.)
The Accountant 2 — Fernando Funan Chien (Amazon MGM)
The Long Walk — Hadie DeJesus (Lionsgate)
Weapons — Townson Wells (Warner Bros.)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — Wade Eastwood (Paramount)
Best Sound
Frankenstein — Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Greg Chapman (Production Sound MIxer) (Netflix)
KPop Demon Hunters — Michael Babcock, Tony Lamberti, Jeff Sawyer, Katie Halliday, Chris Diebold, Trevor Gates (Netflix)
One Battle After Another — José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor (Warner Bros.)
Sinners — Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker, Felipe Pacheco, and David V. Butler (Warner Bros.)
The Long Walk — Jeremy Peirson, Thomas Jones, Jeffrey Murias, Jeremy Peirson, and Carlos Sanches (Lionsgate)
Wicked: For Good — Nancy Nugent Title, John Marquis, Andy Nelson, Simon Hayes and Jack Dolman (Universal)
Best Stunts
Frankenstein (Netflix)
How to Train Your Dragon (Universal)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Paramount)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Superman (Warner Bros.)
The Accountant 2 (Amazon MGM)
Best Stunt Coordinator
Wicked: For Good — Andrei Nazarenko (Universal)
Sinners — Andy Gill (Warner Bros.)
Frankenstein — Eli Zagoudakis & Marshall Virtue (Netflix)
Dead Man’s Wire — Frank Blake (Row K)
Bugonia — Thom Khoury Williams (Focus)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning — Wade Eastwood (Paramount)
Best Visual Effects
Black Phone 2 (Universal) — Ivan Moran
Frankenstein (Netflix) — Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets and, José Granell
How to Train Your Dragon (Universal) — Christian Manz, Glen McIntosh, Andy Kind, and Terry Palmer
Jurassic World: Rebirth (Universal) — David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, Simone Coco, and Neil Corbould
Superman (Warner Bros.) — Stephane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, and Guy Williams
Wicked: For Good (Universal) — Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Anthony Smith, Dale Newton, and Paul Corbould
