{"id":336352,"date":"2025-12-08T05:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336352\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T05:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T05:11:13","slug":"washington-dc-area-film-critics-association-wafca-sinners-dominates-with-10-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/336352\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA): \u2018Sinners\u2019 Dominates with 10 Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765170672_813_image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115324\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>After picking up 13 nominations from the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), Sinners turned 10 of them into wins, including Best Film, Best Director and Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler and Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>One Battle After Another, which had also earned 13 nominations, took home three wins: Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress for Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor, respectively, and Adapted Screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>Jessie Buckley picked up her second Best Actress win for Hamnet; she won earlier in the week from <a href=\"https:\/\/awardswatch.com\/atlanta-film-critics-circle-afcc-one-battle-after-another-dominates-with-7-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Atlanta critics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the complete list of winners.<\/p>\n<p>Best Film: Sinners<\/p>\n<p>Best Director: Ryan Coogler, Sinners<\/p>\n<p>Best Actor: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners<br \/>Best Actress: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet<br \/>Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another<br \/>Best Supporting Actress: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another<\/p>\n<p>Best Original Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Sinners<br \/>Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another<\/p>\n<p>Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters<br \/>Best Documentary: The Perfect Neighbor<br \/>Best Foreign Language Film: Sentimental Value<\/p>\n<p>Best Ensemble: Sinners<\/p>\n<p>Best Youth Performance: Miles Caton, Sinners<br \/>Best Voice Performance: Arden Cho, KPop Demon Hunters<br \/>Best Motion Capture Performance: Zoe Salda\u00f1a, Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/p>\n<p>Best Cinematography: Sinners<br \/>Best Editing (tie): F1 and Sinners<br \/>Best Production Design: Sinners<br \/>Best Score: Sinners<br \/>Best Stunts: Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/p>\n<p>Joe Barber Award for Best Portrayal of Washington, DC: A House of Dynamite<\/p>\n<p>                         <a href=\"https:\/\/awardswatch.com\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Erik Anderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Erik Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765170673_691_640dbaee8068636c57e88c13ff0ad9f2441c5d08b3ff189348937c8debae0f8d\"  class=\"avatar avatar-250 photo\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\"\/><\/a> Erik Anderson is the founder\/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/awardswatch.com\" class=\"url\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Erik Anderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Erik Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765170673_691_640dbaee8068636c57e88c13ff0ad9f2441c5d08b3ff189348937c8debae0f8d\"  class=\"avatar avatar-250 photo\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\"\/><\/a>Latest posts by Erik Anderson (<a href=\"https:\/\/awardswatch.com\/author\/erikanderson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">see all<\/a>)                              <\/p>\n<p>\t\tContinue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After picking up 13 nominations from the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), Sinners turned 10 of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-336352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}