Sinners Named Best Picture by San Diego Film Critics Society

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has been named Best Picture by the San Diego Film Critics Society. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, and Best Use of Music.

Winners in bold below.

Best Picture
HAMNET
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
MARTY SUPREME
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (runner-up)
SINNERS

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Ryan Coogler, SINNERS
Yorgos Lanthimos, BUGONIA (runner-up)
Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Chloé Zhao, HAMNET

Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet, MARTY SUPREME
Leonardo DiCaprio, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Joel Edgerton, TRAIN DREAMS (runner-up)
Michael B. Jordan, SINNERS
Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT

Best Actress (tie)
Jessie Buckley, HAMNET
Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
Renate Reinsve, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Emma Stone, BUGONIA
Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY

Best Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Jacob Elordi, FRANKENSTEIN
Sean Penn, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (runner-up)
Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Jeffrey Wright, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST

Best Supporting Actress
Odessa A’zion, MARTY SUPREME
Nina Hoss, HEDDA (runner-up)
Amy Madigan, WEAPONS
Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS
Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Best Comedic Performance
Will Arnett, IS THIS THING ON?
Molly Gordon, OH, HI! (runner-up)
Liam Neeson, THE NAKED GUN
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, ETERNITY
Tim Robinson, FRIENDSHIP

Best Youth Performance (For a performer under the age of 18)
Cary Christopher, WEAPONS
Shannon Mahina Gorman, RENTAL FAMILY
Jacobi Jupe, HAMNET (runner-up)
Alfie Williams, 28 YEARS LATER
Nina Ye, LEFT-HANDED GIRL

Best Original Screenplay
Ryan Coogler, SINNERS
Zack Cregger, WEAPONS
David Koepp, BLACK BAG (runner-up)
Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (runner-up)
Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, TRAIN DREAMS
JT Mollner, THE LONG WALK
Maggie O’Farrell, Chloe Zhao, HAMNET
Will Tracy, BUGONIA

Best First Feature (Director)
Drew Hancock, COMPANION
Scarlett Johanson, ELEANOR THE GREAT
Ben Leonberg, GOOD BOY
Kristen Stewart, THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER (runner-up)
Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY

Best Documentary
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN
BILLY JOEL: AND SO IT GOES (runner-up)
JOHN CANDY: I LIKE ME
ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5
PREDATORS

Best Animated Film
ELIO
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS
LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN (runner-up)
PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS
ZOOTOPIA 2

Best Foreign Language Film
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
LEFT-HANDED GIRL
THE SECRET AGENT
SENTIMENTAL VALUE (runner-up)
SIRĀT

Best Editing
Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, MARTY SUPREME
Barry Alexander Brown, Allyson C. Johnson, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST
Affonso Goncalves, Chloe Zhao, HAMNET
Andy Jurgensen, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (runner-up)
Stephen Mirione, Patrick J. Smith, F1: THE MOVIE

Best Cinematography
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, SINNERS
Michael Bauman, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (runner-up)
Dan Laustsen, FRANKENSTEIN
Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS
Lukasz Zal, HAMNET

Best Production Design
Hannah Bleachler, Monique Champagne, SINNERS (runner-up)
Cara Brower, Stella Fox, HEDDA
Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton, HAMNET
Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, FRANKENSTEIN
Kasra Farahani, Jille Azis, THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (runner-up)

Best Visual Effects
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (runner-up)
FRANKENSTEIN (runner-up)
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
SUPERMAN

Best Costume Design
Alexandra Byrne, THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
Ruth E. Carter, SINNERS (runner-up)
Kate Hawley, FRANKENSTEIN (runner-up)
Paul Tazewell, WICKED: FOR GOOD
Malgosia Turzanska, HAMNET

Best Sound Design
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
F1: THE MOVIE (runner-up)
FRANKENSTEIN
SINNERS
WARFARE

Best Use of Music
HEDDA (runner-up)
K-POP DEMON HUNTERS
MARTY SUPREME
SINNERS
SIRAT

Best Stunt Choreography
BALLERINA: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
SINNERS (runner-up)
SUPERMAN

Best Ensemble
BLACK BAG
JAY KELLY
THE LONG WALK
SINNERS (runner-up)
WEAPONS

Breakthrough Performance
Chase Infiniti, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Special Award for Body of Work
Josh O’Connor, WAKE UP DEAD MAN, THE MASTERMIND, THE HISTORY OF SOUND, REBUILDING

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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