It’s the best film but doesn’t have the best or runner-up screenplay? These selections don’t quite make sense.

Awards Tallies

(4) Sinners
(2) It Was Just an Accident, One Battle After Another, Weapons
(1) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Black Bag, Eternity, Frankenstein, Good Boy, Hamnet, The History of Sound, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, The Mastermind, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Orwell: 2+2=5, Rebuilding, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby, Train Dreams, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knvies Out Mystery, Warfare, Wicked: For Good

The Awards

Best Picture

Sinners (Runner-Up: One Battle After Another)

Best Animated Film

KPop Demon Hunters (Runner-Up: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain)

Best Director

Ryan Coogler – Sinners (Runner-Up: Yorgos Lanthimos – Bugonia)

Best Actor

Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (Runner-Up: Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams)

Best Actress

TIE:
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Supporting Actor

Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value (Runner-Up: Sean Penn – One Battle After Another)

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Madigan – Weapons (Runner-Up: TIE: Nina Hoss – Hedda, Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners)

Best Original Screenplay

It Was Just an Accident (Runner-Up: Black Bag)

Best Adapted Screenplay

One Battle After Another (Runner-Up: Bugonia)

Best Editing

Marty Supreme (Runner-Up: One Battle After Another)

Best Cinematography

Train Dreams (Runner-Up: One Battle After Another)

Best Production Design

Frankenstein (Runner-Up: TIE: The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Sinners)

Best Costume Design

Wicked: For Good (Runner-Up: TIE: Frankenstein, Sinners)

Best Sound Design

Warfare (Runner-Up: F1: The Movie)

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash (Runner-Up: The Fantastic Four: First Steps)

Best Foreign Language Film

It Was Just an Accident (Runner-Up: Sentimental Value)

Best Documentary

Orwell: 2+2=5 (Runner-Up: Billy Joel: And So It Goes)

Best First Feature

Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby (Runner-Up: Kristen Stewart – The Chronology of Water)

Best Use of Music

Sinners (Runner-Up: Hedda)

Best Stunt Choreography

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Runner-Up: Sinners)

Best Youth Performance

Cary Christopher – Weapons (Runner-Up: Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet)

Best Ensemble

Black Bag (Runner-Up: Sinners)

Best Comedic Performance

Da’Vine Joy Randolph – Eternity (Runner-Up: Molly Gordon – Oh, Hi!)

Breakthrough Performance

Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another

Special Award for Body of Work

Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, The Mastermind, The History of Sound, Rebuilding

Special Award for Best Animal Performance

Indy the Dog – Good Boy

San Diego Film Critics Society Data

First Awards: 1996 (30)