Critics Choice Super Awards 2025: Nominees Revealed for Genre’s Biggest Night of Mayhem

The Critics Choice Association just dropped the nominations for the 5th Annual Critics Choice Super Awards. Once again, the spotlight is rightfully on the weird, wild, and wonderfully unprestigious corners of pop culture. While the Oscars continue to pretend genre storytelling doesn’t exist (unless it’s got “Christopher Nolan” slapped on it), the Super Awards are out here celebrating the blood, sweat, capes, claws, and chaos that keep fans glued to screens. This is the ceremony that salutes not the most “important” art, but the most fun—the kind of stuff you quote, meme, and argue about online until three in the morning.

Leading the film charge are Deadpool & Wolverine and Thunderbolts, each racking up six nominations, including Best Superhero Movie. That’s right—Marvel’s mutants and misfits are still wreaking havoc in 2025, with Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds both gunning for Best Actor, while Emma Corrin pulls double duty with noms for Best Actress and Best Villain. Now, over in the horror camp, Nosferatu, Longlegs, and The Substance drip with dread, gore, and glorious weirdness. And the action category is stacked, from The Fall Guy and Monkey Man to the war-torn chaos of Alex Garland’s Civil War.

On the small screen, HBO’s The Last of Us dominates with six nominations, spreading across both superhero and horror categories (yes, the lines are blurry and we love it that way). Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey landed double acting nods, proving that fungi-fueled apocalypse drama still has legs—and heart. Genre TV is thriving across the board, with nods for Fallout, Shōgun, The Boys, Severance, and even Doctor Who, showing that franchises can be fresh if you let creatives run wild and weird.

This year’s list is stacked with the kind of talent, storytelling, and genre defiance that makes the Super Awards a glorious middle finger to the sanitized tentpoles churned out by Disney, Amazon, and the rest of the IP death cult. If you’re looking for where pop culture actually lives—sweaty, strange, stylish, and unpredictable—it’s here. Winners drop on Thursday, August 7, at 9 AM PT on CriticsChoice.com. Until then, scroll down, sharpen your opinions, and start placing your bets.

🎬 FILM NOMINATIONS

Best Action Movie

• Civil War
• The Fall Guy
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• Monkey Man
• Rebel Ridge
• Warfare

Best Actor in an Action Movie

• Tom Cruise – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• Taron Egerton – Carry-On
• Ryan Gosling – The Fall Guy
• Dev Patel – Monkey Man
• Aaron Pierre – Rebel Ridge
• Jack Quaid – Novocaine

Best Actress in an Action Movie

• Emily Blunt – The Fall Guy
• Ana de Armas – From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
• Kirsten Dunst – Civil War
• Cailee Spaeny – Civil War
• June Squibb – Thelma
• Anya Taylor-Joy – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Best Superhero Movie*

• Captain America: Brave New World
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• The People’s Joker
• Robot Dreams
• Thunderbolts
• Venom: The Last Dance

Best Actor in a Superhero Movie*

• David Harbour – Thunderbolts
• Tom Hardy – Venom: The Last Dance
• Hugh Jackman – Deadpool & Wolverine
• Anthony Mackie – Captain America: Brave New World
• Lewis Pullman – Thunderbolts
• Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool & Wolverine

Best Actress in a Superhero Movie*

• Emma Corrin – Deadpool & Wolverine
• Vera Drew – The People’s Joker
• Lady Gaga – Joker: Folie à Deux
• Jennifer Garner – Deadpool & Wolverine
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Thunderbolts
• Florence Pugh – Thunderbolts

Best Horror Movie

• Bring Her Back
• Heretic
• Longlegs
• Nosferatu
• Sinners
• The Substance

Best Actor in a Horror Movie

• Nicolas Cage – Longlegs
• David Dastmalchian – Late Night With the Devil
• Hugh Grant – Heretic
• Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
• Bill Skarsgård – Nosferatu
• Justice Smith – I Saw the TV Glow

Best Actress in a Horror Movie

• Lily-Rose Depp – Nosferatu
• Willa Fitzgerald – Strange Darling
• Sally Hawkins – Bring Her Back
• Demi Moore – The Substance
• Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
• Naomi Scott – Smile 2

Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie

• Alien: Romulus
• Companion
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Mickey 17
• The Wild Robot

Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie

• Austin Butler – Dune: Part Two
• Timothée Chalamet – Dune: Part Two
• David Jonsson – Alien: Romulus
• Robert Pattinson – Mickey 17
• Jack Quaid – Companion
• Miles Teller – The Gorge

Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie

• Naomi Ackie – Mickey 17
• Lupita Nyong’o – The Wild Robot
• Cailee Spaeny – Alien: Romulus
• Sophie Thatcher – Companion
• Alicia Vikander – The Assessment
• Zendaya – Dune: Part Two

Best Villain in a Movie

• Austin Butler – Dune: Part Two
• Emma Corrin – Deadpool & Wolverine
• Hugh Grant – Heretic
• Jack O’Connell – Sinners
• Lewis Pullman – Thunderbolts
• Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

📺 TELEVISION NOMINATIONS

Best Action Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• 9-1-1
• Black Doves
• The Day of the Jackal
• The Gentlemen
• Reacher
• Shōgun

Best Actor in an Action Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Sterling K. Brown – Paradise
• Theo James – The Gentlemen
• Eddie Redmayne – The Day of the Jackal
• Alan Ritchson – Reacher
• Hiroyuki Sanada – Shōgun
• Ben Whishaw – Black Doves

Best Actress in an Action Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Angela Bassett – 9-1-1
• Viola Davis – G20
• Keira Knightley – Black Doves
• Lashana Lynch – The Day of the Jackal
• Zoe Saldaña – Lioness
• Anna Sawai – Shōgun

Best Superhero Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie*

• Agatha All Along
• The Boys
• Fallout
• The Last of Us
• The Penguin
• Superman & Lois

Best Actor in a Superhero Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie*

• Charlie Cox – Daredevil: Born Again
• Colin Farrell – The Penguin
• Walton Goggins – Fallout
• Tyler Hoechlin – Superman & Lois
• Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
• Antony Starr – The Boys

Best Actress in a Superhero Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie*

• Danai Gurira – The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
• Kathryn Hahn – Agatha All Along
• Cristin Milioti – The Penguin
• Erin Moriarty – The Boys
• Ella Purnell – Fallout
• Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us

Best Horror Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire
• Evil
• From
• The Last of Us
• True Detective: Night Country
• What We Do in the Shadows

Best Actor in a Horror Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Kevin Bacon – The Bondsman
• Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows
• Mike Colter – Evil
• Michael Emerson – Evil
• Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
• Harold Perrineau – From

Best Actress in a Horror Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Natasia Demetriou – What We Do in the Shadows
• Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country
• Katja Herbers – Evil
• Melanie Lynskey – Yellowjackets
• Niecy Nash-Betts – Grotesquerie
• Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us

Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Andor
• Black Mirror
• Doctor Who
• Dune: Prophecy
• Fantasmas
• Severance

Best Actor in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Ncuti Gatwa – Doctor Who
• Walton Goggins – Fallout
• Diego Luna – Andor
• Adam Scott – Severance
• Tramell Tillman – Severance
• Julio Torres – Fantasmas

Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Adria Arjona – Andor
• Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
• Kathryn Hahn – Agatha All Along
• Britt Lower – Severance
• Cristin Milioti – Black Mirror: USS Callister: Into Infinity
• Michelle Yeoh – Star Trek: Section 31

Best Villain in a Series, Limited Series or Made-for-TV Movie

• Vincent D’Onofrio – Daredevil: Born Again
• Michael Emerson – Evil
• Colin Farrell – The Penguin
• Takehiro Hira – Shōgun
• Julianne Nicholson – Paradise
• Jesse Plemons – Black Mirror: USS Callister: Into Infinity

NOTE: Superhero categories include Comic Book, Video Game, and other genre-bending source material adaptations. For all nomination tallies by film and series, head to CriticsChoice.com.

Let the fan wars begin.

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