Sinners Leads Seattle Film Critics Society Nominations

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads this year’s nominations from the Seattle Film Critics Society with a record-tying 14 nods, including Best Picture. Elsewhere, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another earned 12 nominations, while Clint Bentley’s Train Dreams scored eight nods.

Winners will be announced on December 15. Full list of nominations below.

BEST PICTURE

  • Bugonia
  • Hamnet
  • It Was Just an Accident
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sinners
  • Sorry, Baby
  • Train Dreams
  • Weapons

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Hamnet – Chloé Zhao
  • Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie
  • One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Sinners – Ryan Coogler
  • Train Dreams – Clint Bentley

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

  • Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
  • Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
  • Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
  • Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
  • Michael B. Jordan – Sinners

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

  • Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
  • Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  • Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
  • Emma Stone – Bugonia
  • Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

  • Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
  • Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
  • David Jonsson – The Long Walk
  • William H. Macy – Train Dreams
  • Sean Penn – One Battle After Another

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

  • Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
  • Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
  • Amy Madigan – Weapons
  • Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
  • Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

  • Eephus – Carson Lund
  • Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti
  • One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis
  • Sinners – Francine Maisler
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Story – Bret Howe, Mary Vernieu

BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE

  • Cary Christopher – Weapons
  • Shannon Gorman – Rental Family
  • Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
  • Jasper Thompson – The Mastermind
  • Alfie Williams – 28 Years Later

BEST SCREENPLAY

  • Marty Supreme  Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
  • One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Sinners – Ryan Coogler
  • Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor
  • Train Dreams – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar

BEST ANIMATED FILM

  • Arco – Ugo Bienvenu
  • The Colors Within – Naoko Yamada
  • KPop Demon Hunters – Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
  • Little Amélie or the Character of Rain – Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han 
  • Zootopia 2 – Jared Bush, Byron Howard

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

  • The Alabama Solution – Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman
  • Come See Me in the Good Light – Ryan White
  • Pavements – Alex Ross Perry
  • The Perfect Neighbor – Geeta Gandbhir
  • WTO/99 – Ian Bell

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

  • It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi
  • No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook
  • The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho
  • Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier
  • The Ugly Stepsister – Emilie Blichfeldt

BEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST FEATURE FILM

  • Not One Drop of Blood – Jackson Devereux, Lachlan Hinton
  • To Kill a Wolf – Kelsey Taylor
  • Train Dreams – Clint Bentley
  • Twinless – James Sweeney
  • Wolf Land (Director’s Cut) – Sarah Hoffman
  • WTO/99 – Ian Bell

BEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST SHORT FILM

  • Charlotte, 1994 – Brian Pittala
  • A Fateful Weekend – Tony Doupe
  • Shelly’s Leg – Wes Hurley
  • Songs of Black Folk – Justin Emeka, Haley Watson
  • Style: A Seattle Basketball Story – Bryan Tucker

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
  • Hamnet – Łukasz Żal
  • One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
  • Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
  • Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

  • Frankenstein – Kate Hawley
  • The Phoenician Scheme – Milena Canonero
  • Sinners – Ruth E. Carter
  • Train Dreams – Malgosia Turzanska
  • Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell

BEST FILM EDITING

  • F1: The Movie – Stephen Mirrione, Patrick J. Smith
  • Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
  • One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen
  • Reflection in a Dead Diamond – Bernard Beets
  • Sinners – Michael P. Shawver

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

  • F1: The Movie – Hans Zimmer
  • Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
  • One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
  • Sinners – Ludwig Göransson
  • Tron: Ares – Nine Inch Nails

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • Fantastic Four: First Steps – Kasra Farahani (Production Design); Jille Azis (Set Decoration)
  • Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell (Production Design); Shane Vieau (Set Decoration)
  • The Phoenician Scheme – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
  • Resurrection – Liu Qiang, Tu Nan
  • Sinners – Hannah Beachler (Production Design); Monique Champagne (Set Decoration)

BEST ACTION CHOREOGRAPHY

  • Avatar: Fire and Ash – Garrett Warren, Steve Brown, Stuart Thorp
  • From the World of John Wick: Ballerina – Stephen Dunlevy, Jackson Spindell
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning  Wade Eastwood
  • Predator: Badlands – Jacob Tomuri
  • Sinners – Andy Gill

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

  • Avatar: Fire and Ash – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett
  • F1: The Movie – Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington
  • Frankenstein – Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell
  • Predator: Badlands – Olivier Dumont, Alec Gillis, Sheldon Stopsack, Karl Rapley
  • Sinners – Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean

VILLAIN OF THE YEAR

  • Aunt Gladys – Weapons (as portrayed by Amy Madigan)
  • Col. Steven J. Lockjaw – One Battle After Another (as portrayed by Sean Penn)
  • Laura – Bring Her Back (as portrayed by Sally Hawkins)
  • Lex Luthor – Superman (as portrayed by Nicholas Hoult)
  • Remmick – Sinners (as portrayed by Jack O’Connell)

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.

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