‘Sinners’ Dominates Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards, Wins Best Film

Sinners swept most of the major categories of the 2025 Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) annual EDA Awards, winning seven awards including Best Film, Best Director (Ryan Coogler), Best Actor (Michael B. Jordan), and Best Supporting Actress (Wunmi Mosaku).

Hamnet captured two awards for Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay, and Sentimental Value won Best International Film, along with a win for Stellan Skarsgaard for Best Supporting Actor.

Other major awards went to The Perfect Neighbor for Best Documentary and KPop Demon Hunters for Best Animated Film.

In the Eda Female Focus Awards, presented only to women, Chloe Zhao won Best Director for Hamnet, Eva Victor win Best Female Writer for Sorry, Baby and newcomer Chase Infiniti won both Best Breakthrough Performance and Best Stunt Performance for her turn in One Battle After Another.

Since 2006, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) has presented annual EDA Awards, representing professional women critics’ collective perspectives on movies and cinema culture in the movie awards arena, where female critics and critical opinion are still greatly underrepresented. AWFJ honors female creatives in non-gender specific awards categories and in unique Female Focus categories designated for women only.

“Women are still strugging for gender parity in all aspects of the film industry, which is undergoing seismic shifts in production and distribution. Unless the changes open opportunities for female filmmakers to make femme-centric films, the mainstream awards arena will continue to be dominated by men,” says AWFJ President Jennifer Merin.

“AWFJ always focuses on and supports women’s contributions in all aspects of film production, and we will continue to boost women in film not only during awards season, but throughout the year. For this awards season, we are pleased that women have won several ‘Best Of’ awards in our non-gender specific categories, but we also realize how important our ‘Female Focus’ awards are in recognizing and honoring the extraordinary work of female creatives. This year there was a female forward trend in filmmaking. AWFJ tracked more than 500 femme-helmed and/or femme-centric films made and/or distributed in 2025, but most of them were small-budget indie productions that, despite their excellence, don’t stand a chance at receiving one of the major awards– or any awards for that matter. We hope the female forward trend will continue in 2026. Meanwhile, we congratulate all of the 2025 Eda Award winners.”

Below, find the list of nominees and WINNERS of the 2025 Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) annual EDA Awards.

2025 EDA BEST OF AWARDS

BEST FILM

WINNER: SINNERS

FRANKENSTEIN
HAMNET
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
THE SECRET AGENT
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
TRAIN DREAMS

BEST DIRECTOR

WINNER: Ryan Coogler – SINNERS

Paul Thomas Anderson – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Jafar Panahi – IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Joachim Trier, – SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Chloe Zhao – HAMNET

BEST SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL

WINNER: SINNERS – Ryan Coogler

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT – Jafar Panahi
JAY KELLY – Noah Baumbach
SENTIMENTAL VALUE – Joachim Trier
SORRY BABY – Eva Victor

BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED

WINNER: HAMNET – Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao

BUGONIA – Will Tracy
FRANKENSTEIN – Guillermo del Toro
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – Paul Thomas Anderson
TRAIN DREAMS – Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

DOCUMENTARY

WINNER: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR – Geeta Gandbhir

COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT – Ryan White
MY MOM JAYNE – Mariska Hargitay
ORWELL 2+2=5 – Raoul Peck
THE LIBRARIANS – Kim A. Snyder

ANIMATED FEATURE

WINNER: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS – Chris Applehaus & Maggie Kang

ARCO – Ugo Bienvenu & Giles Cazaux
IN YOUR DREAMS – Erik Benson & Alexander Woo
LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN – Liane-Cho Jin Kuang & Mailys Vallade
ZOOTOPIA 2 – Jared Bush & Simon Howard

BEST ACTRESS

WINNER: Jessie Buckley – HAMNET

Rose Byrne – IF HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
Renate Reinsve – SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Emma Stone – BUGONIA
Tessa Thompson – HEDDA

BEST ACTRESS, SUPPORTING

WINNER: Wunmi Mosaku – SINNERS

Nina Hoss – HEDDA
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Amy Madigan – WEAPONS
Teyana Taylor ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

BEST ACTOR

WINNER: Michael B. Jordan – SINNERS

Leonardo Di Caprio – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Joel Edgerton – TRAIN DREAMS
Ethan Hawke – BLUE MOON
Wagner Moura – THE SECRET AGENT

BEST ACTOR, SUPPORTING

WINNER: Stellan Skarsgaard – SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Benicio Del Toro – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Jacob Elordi – FRANKENSTEIN
Paul Mescal – HAMNET
Sean Penn – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST & CASTING DIRECTOR

WINNER: SINNERS – Francine Maisler

HAMNET – Nina Gold & Lucy Amos
MARTY SUPREME – Jennifer Venditti
NOUVELLE VAGUE – Stéphane Batut
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – Cassandra Kulukundis

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

WINNER: SINNERS – Autumn Durald Arkapaw

FRANKENSTEIN – Dan Lausten
HAMNET – Lukasz Zal
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – Michael Bauman
TRAIN DREAMS – Adolpho Veloso

BEST EDITING

WINNER: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – Andy Jurgensen

F1: The Movie – Stephen Mirrione and Patrick J. Smith
HAMNET – Affonso Goncalves & Chloe Zhao
MARTY SUPREME – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
SINNERS – Michael P Shawver

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

WINNER: SENTIMENTAL VALUE – Joachim Trier

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT- Jafar Panahi
NO OTHER CHOICE – Park Chan Wook
SIRAT – Oliver Laxe
THE SECRET AGENT – Kleber Menonca Filho

FEMALE FOCUS AWARDS

Presented Only to Women

FEMALE FOCUS: BEST FEMALE DIRECTOR

WINNER: Chloe Zhao – HAMNET

Kathryn Bigelow – A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
Mary Bronstein – IF HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
Mona Fastwold – THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE
Eva Victor – SORRY, BABY

FEMALE FOCUS: BEST FEMALE WRITER

WINNER: Eva Victor – SORRY, BABY

Mary Bronstein – IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU
Nia DaCosta – HEDDA
Hikari & Stephen Blahut – RENTAL FAMILY
Chloe Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell – HAMNET

FEMALE FOCUS: BEST VOICED PERFORMANCE IN ANIMATED FILM

WINNER: Arden Cho – KPOP DEMON HUNTERS

Ginnifer Goodwin – ZOOTOPIA 2
Loïse Charpentier – LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN
Fortune Feimster – ZOOTOPIA 2
Zoe Saldaña – ELIO

FEMALE FOCUS: BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

WINNER: Chase Infiniti – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Odessa A’Zion – MARTY SUPREME
Teyana Taylor – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Wunmi Mosaku – SINNERS
Eva Victor – SORRY, BABY

FEMALE FOCUS: BEST STUNTS PERFORMANCE

WINNER: Chase Infiniti – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

Ana de Armas – BALLERINA
Hayley Atwell – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE THE FINAL RECKONING
Teyana Taylor – ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Pom Klementieff – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE THE FINAL RECKONING