SFBAFCC 2025 Awards

SFBAFCC Awards for Achievement in Film Categories

We are pleased to announce the nominees for 2025.

Best Picture

  • Hamnet
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sinners
  • Train Dreams

Best Director

  • Hamnet- Chloé Zhao
  • It Was Just An Accident – Jafar Panahi
  • One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier
  • Sinners – Ryan Coogler

Best Original Screenplay

  • Sinners – Ryan Coogler
  • Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
  • Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor
  • It Was Just An Accident – Jafar Panahi
  • Weapons – Zach Cregger

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Bugonia
  • Hamnet
  • No Other Choice
  • One Battle After Another
  • Train Dreams

Best Actor

  • Leonardo Dicaprio – One Battle After Another
  • Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
  • Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
  • Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
  • Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best Actress

  • 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
  • Paul Mescal – Hamnet
  • Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
  • Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

  • Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
  • Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
  • Amy Madigan – Weapons
  • Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
  • Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Best Animated Feature

  • Arco
  • Elio
  • KPop Demon Hunters
  • Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain
  • Zootopia 2

Best International Feature Film

  • It Was Just An Accident
  • No Other Choice
  • The Secret Agent
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sirat

Best Documentary Feature

  • The Alabama Solution
  • Come See Me In The Good Light
  • Orwell: 2+2=5
  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • Riefenstahl

Best Cinematography

  • Frankenstein
  • Hamnet
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sinners
  • Train Dreams

Best Production Design

  • Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell
  • Hamnet – Fiona Crombie
  • Marty Supreme – Jack Fisk
  • One Battle After Another – Florencia Martin
  • Sinners – Hannah Beachler

Best Film Editing

  • A House Of Dynamite – Kirk Baxter
  • F1 – Stephen Mirrione
  • Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
  • One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen
  • Sinners – Michael P. Shawver

Best Original Score

  • Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix
  • Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
  • One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
  • Sinners – Ludwig Göransson
  • Train Dreams – Bryce Dessner

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

  • Brother Verses Brother
  • The Encampments
  • Happyend
  • Twinless

Marlon Riggs Award

  • TBD