Critics Choice Awards 2025 winners: Demi Moore, Zoe Saldana, Guy Pearce, John M. Chu, Coralie Fargeat, Peter Strickland

The Critics Choice Awards ceremony took place on February 7, 2025 in Santa Monica, and for the third time the host of the ceremony was comedian Chelsea Handler at Barker Hangar. «I was the only woman hosting a late-night show, and now, after 11 years, look how far we’ve come», - she joked during the ceremony, according to E! News. «In 2025, the easiest way for a woman to get a late-night show is to ask the creators of 'Hackers' to write a fictional story about you».

Many of the nominations for prestigious awards repeat the choices from the 2025 Golden Globe Awards and the upcoming Oscars ceremony. Below are the winners in the main categories.

Karla Sofia Gascon — Emilia Peres

Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Heavy Truths

Angelina Jolie — Maria

Demi Moore — Substance — WINNER

Mikey Madison — Anora

Cynthia Erivo — Sinister

Colman Domingo — Sing-Sing

Timothée Chalamet — Total Stranger

Daniel Craig — Queer

Adrien Brody — Brutal — WINNER

Ralph Fiennes — Conclave

Hugh Grant — Heretic

Isabella Rossellini — Conclave

Anjanue Ellis-Taylor — Nickel Boys

Ariana Grande — Sinister

Margaret Qualley — Substance

Daniel Day-Lewis — Piano Lesson

Zoe Saldana — Emilia Peres — WINNER

Yura Borisov — Anora

Edward Norton — Total Stranger

Clarence McClain — Sing-Sing

Denzel Washington — Gladiator II

Kieran Culkin — Real Pain — WINNER

Guy Pearce — Brutal

Emilia Peres

Saturday Night

Anora

Conclave — WINNER

Sing-Sing

Sinister

Macy Stella — My Old Ass — WINNER

Elliott Heffernan — Blitz

Alicia Weir — Abigail

Zoe Ziegler — Janet Planet

Isaac Wang — Didi

Ayla Brown — Furiosa: Mad Max Saga

Coralie Fargeat — Substance

Edward Berger — Conclave

Denis Villeneuve — Dune: Part Two

Jacques Audiard — Emilia Peres

Jon M. Chu — Sinister — WINNER

Sean Baker — Anora

Brady Corbet — Brutal

Ramell Ross — Nickel Boys

Sean Baker — Anora

Jesse Eisenberg — Real Pain

Coralie Fargeat — Substance — WINNER

Moritz Binder, Tim Felbaum, Alex David — September 5

Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold — Brutal

Justin Kuritzkes — Challengers

Alyssa Brooks — Sinister

Greg Fraser — Dune: Part Two

Jarin Blaschke — Nosferatu — WINNER

Lol Crowley — Brutal

Stefan Fonten — Conclave

Jomo Frey — Nickel Boys

Vinny Holtzman and Dana Fox — Sinister

Jacques Audiard — Emilia Peres

Denis Villeneuve, John Spates — Dune: Part Two

Peter Straughan — Conclave — WINNER

Greg Kvedar, Clint Bentley — Sing-Sing

Ramell Ross and Joslyn Barnes — Nickel Boys

Total Stranger

Substance

Sinister

Emilia Peres

Brutal

Conclave

Nickel Boys

Anora — WINNER

Sing-Sing

Dune: Part Two

Hitman

Deadpool and Wolverine — WINNERS, tie

Real Pain — WINNER, tie

Thelma

My Old Ass

Saturday Night

Stream

Inside Out 2

Wallace and Gromit: Revenge of the Chicken

WINNER: Wild Robot

Snail Memoirs

«Beautifully So» — The Last Showgirl — Miley Cyrus

«Mi Camino» — Emilia Peres — Selena Gomez

«Squeeze/Crush» — Challengers — Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

«Harper and Will Go West» — Will and Harper — Kristen Wiig

«El Mal» — Emilia Peres — Karla Sofia