Feb 7, 2025
The 30th Critics Choice Awards were held on February 7, 2025 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. The movies "Conclave" and "Wicked" had the most nominations with 11 each, but it was "Anora" that won Best Picture. Chelsea Handler returned for the third time as host.
| Best Picture |
Anora Other Nominees: The Brutalist; A Complete Unknown; Conclave; Dune: Part Two; Emilia Pérez; Nickel Boys; Sing Sing; The Substance; Wicked |
| Best Director |
Jon M. Chu Wicked Other Nominees: Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez); Sean Baker (Anora); Edward Berger (Conclave); Brady Corbet (The Brutalist); Coralie Fargeat (The Substance); RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys); Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two) |
| Best Actor |
Adrian Brody The Brutalist Other Nominees: Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown); Daniel Craig (Queer); Colman Domingo (Sing Sing); Ralph Fiennes (Conclave); Hugh Grant (Heretic) |
| Best Actress |
Demi Moore The Substance Other Nominees: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked); Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths); Angelina Jolie (Maria); Mikey Madison (Anora) |
| Best Supporting Actor |
Kieran Culkin A Real Pain Other Nominees: Yura Borisov (Anora); Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing); Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown); Guy Pearce (The Brutalist); Denzel Washington (Gladiator II) |
| Best Supporting Actress |
Zoe Saldana Emilia Pérez Other Nominees: Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson); Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (Nickel Boys); Ariana Grande (Wicked); Margaret Qualley (The Substance); Isabella Rossellini (Conclave) |
| Best Young Actor/Actress |
Maisy Stella My Old Ass Other Nominees: Alyla Browne (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga); Elliott Heffernan (Blitz); Izaac Wang (Dìdi); Alisha Weir (Abigail); Zoe Ziegler (Janet Planet) |
| Best Acting Ensemble |
Conclave Other Nominees: Anora; Emilia Pérez; Saturday Night; Sing Sing; Wicked |
| Best Original Screenplay |
| Coralie Fargeat The Substance Other Nominees: Anora; September 5; The Brutalist; A Real Pain; Challengers |
| Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Peter Straughan Conclave Other Nominees: Emilia Pérez; Wicked; Sing Sing; Nickel Boys; Dune: Part Two |
| Best Cinematography |
Jarin Blaschke Nosferatu Other Nominees: Wicked; The Brutalist; Conclave; Dune: Part Two; Nickel Boys |
| Best Production Design |
| Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales Wicked Other Nominees: The Brutalist; Conclave; Nosferatu; Gladiator II; Dune: Part Two |
| Best Editing |
Marco Costa Oppenheimer Other Nominees: Anora; Conclave; The Brutalist; Dune: Part Two; September 5 |
| Best Costume Design |
| Paul Tazewell Wicked Other Nominees: Conclave; Nosferatu; Maria; Dune: Part Two; Gladiator II |
| Best Hair & Makeup |
| The Substance Other Nominees: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; Dune: Part Two; Wicked; Nosferatu; A Different Man |
| Best Visual Effects |
Dune: Part Two Other Nominees: Gladiator II; Wicked; Better Man; The Substance; Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes |
| Best Comedy Movie (TIE) |
Deadpool & Wolverine A Real Pain Other Nominees: Hit Man; My Old Ass; Saturday Night; Thelma |
| Best Animated Feature |
The Wild Robot Other Nominees: Flow; Inside Out 2; Memoir of a Snail; Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl |
| Best Foreign Language Film |
| Emilia Pérez France Other Nominees: All We Imagine as Light (India); Flow (Latvia); I'm Still Here (Brazil); Kneecap (Ireland); The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany) |
| Best Score |
| Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Challengers Other Nominees: Conclave; The Brutalist; The Wild Robot; Emilia Pérez; Dune: Part Two |
| Best Song |
| "El Mal" Emilia Perez Other Nominees: "Beautiful That Way" (The Last Showgirl); "Compress/ Repress" (Challengers); "Harper and Will Go West" (Will & Harper); "Kiss the Sky" (The Wild Robot); "Mi Camino" (Emilia Pérez) |