Major Critics
11th Critics Choice Documentary Awards (2026)
(Awards: Nov. 8, 2026 / Nominations: Oct. 13, 2026)
Best Documentary
14th
Everest: The Other Side
Everybody to Kenmure Street
The History of Concrete
Musk
Naza
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Remake
You Can See Everything
Best Archival Documentary
Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert
Making Marie Antoinette
Man on the Run
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Remake
Best Biographical Documentary
Avedon
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Lorne
Marty, Life Is Short
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Musk
Best Historical Documentary
14th
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Rehearsals for a Revolution
SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of
Soul Patrol
Turning Point: Generation 9/11
Best Music Documentary
Earth Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That’s the Weight of the World)
Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert
Man on the Run
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger
Peter Asher: Everywhere Man
Sara Bareilles: Good Grief
Best Political Documentary
14th
American Doctor
Ask E. Jean
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Musk
Naza
Union Town
Best Science/Nature Documentary
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
Ghost Elephants
Lion
Nuisance Bear
Secrets of the Bees
Time and Water
Best Sports Documentary
The Dynasty: UConn Huskies
Everest: The Other Side
Give Me the Ball!
Rafa
Standout: The Ben Kjar Story
Tyson
Best True Crime Documentary
Baby Doe
Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story
The Idaho Murders
A Killer Story
Lost Women of Alaska
Murder in Glitterball City
Best Short Documentary
The Baddest Speechwriter of All
A Derailment
Escalation
Miller Night Football
Oh Whale
The Second Life of Freddie Nole
A Short Documentary About a Giant Pencil
They’re Here
Best Director (Documentary)
Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor – Naza
Felipe Bustos Sierra – Everybody to Kenmure Street
Ava DuVernay – 14th
Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim – You Can See Everything
Ross McElwee – Remake
Orlando von Einsiedel – The Cycle of Love
Best Music Score (Documentary)
14th
Everest: The Other Side
Lion
Nuisance Bear
Time and Water
You Can See Everything
Best Editing (Documentary)
14th
Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert
Everybody to Kenmure Street
The History of Concrete
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
You Can See Everything
Best Cinematography (Documentary)
The Cycle of Love
Everest: The Other Side
Lion
Nuisance Bear
The Python Hunt
You Can See Everything
Best First Documentary Feature
David Graves – Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Baz Luhrmann – Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert
Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman – Nuisance Bear
Xander Robin – The Python Hunt
Poh Si Teng – American Doctor
John Wilson – The History of Concrete
Best Narration (Documentary)
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
The History of Concrete
Lorne
Nuisance Bear
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Remake
Major Festivals
76th Berlin Film Festival (2026)
(Open: Feb. 12, 2026 / Close: Feb. 22, 2026)
Golden Bear
Yellow Letters
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize (2nd Place)
Salvation
Silver Bear Jury Prize (3rd Place)
Queen at Sea
Silver Bear for Best Director
Grant Gee – Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
Sandra Hüller – Rose
Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance
Anna Calder-Marshall – Queen at Sea
Tom Courtenay – Queen at Sea
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Nina Roza
Golden Bear for Best Short Film
Someday
Silver Bear for Best Short Film
A Woman’s Place
Main Competition
At the Sea
Dao
Dust
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Flies
Home Stories
In a Whisper
Josephine
The Loneliest Man in Town
My Wife Cries
A New Dawn
Nightborn
Nina Roza
Queen at Sea
Rose
Rosebush Pruning
Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars
Salvation
Yellow Letters
We Are All Strangers
Wolfram
Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird)
Short Film Competition
An Accident
Chuuraa
Cosmonauts
Flim Flam
Graft Versus Host
Henry Is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep
Incident on the Mountain
Les Juifs Riches
Kleptomania
Kontrewers
Miriam
Shot Reverse Shot
Someday a Child
Souls of Fouta
Stallion and a Crystal Ball
Taxi Moto
Time to Go
Unidentified Nonflying Objects (UNO)
With a Kind Regard
A Woman’s Place Is Everywhere
Yuragim
79th Cannes Film Festival (2026)
(Open: May. 12, 2026 / Close: May. 23, 2026)
Palme d’Or
Fjord
Grand Prix
Minotaur
Prix du Jury
The Dreamed Adventure
Best Director
Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo – The Black Ball
Pawel Pawlikowski – Fatherland
Camera d’Or (Best First Film)
Ben’Imana
Best Actor
Emmanuel Macchia – Coward
Valentin Campagne – Coward
Best Actress
Virginie Efira – All of a Sudden
Tao Okamoto – All of a Sudden
Best Screenplay
A Man of His Time
Palme d’Or du Court Métrage (Best Short Film)
For the Opponents
Competition
All of a Sudden
Another Day
The Beloved
The Birthday Party
Bitter Christmas
The Black Ball
Coward
The Dreamed Adventure
Fatherland
Fjord
Gentle Monster
Hope
A Man of His Time
The Man I Love
Minotaur
Moulin
Nagi Notes
Paper Tiger
Parallel Tales
Sheep in the Box
The Unknown
A Woman’s Life
Short Films
The Dreams Is a Snail
The End
A Few Things Happening by a River
For the Opponents
Fresh Cut
The Last Spring
Nobody Said Anything
Sisters’ Swim
Spiritus Sanctus
Thunder Platoon
49th Sundance Film Festival (2026)
(Open: Jan. 22, 2026 / Close: Feb. 1, 2026)
Grand Jury Prize U.S. Dramatic
Josephine
Audience Award U.S. Dramatic
Josephine
Directing Award U.S. Dramatic
Josef Kubota Wladyka – Ha-chun, Shake Your Booty!
Screenwriting
Take Me Home
Editing
Barbara Forever
Grand Jury World Cinema Dramatic
Shame and Money
Audience Award World Cinema Dramatic
Hold Onto Me
Directing Award World Cinema Dramatic
Andrius Blaževičius – How to Divorce During a War
Grand Jury Prize U.S. Documentary
Nuisance Bear
Grand Jury World Cinema Documentary
To Hold a Mountain
Audience Award U.S. Documentary
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Audience Award World Cinema Documentary
One in a Million
Directing Award World Cinema Documentary
Itab Azzam, Jack Macinnes – One in a Million
Directing Award U.S. Documentary
J.M. Harper – Soul Patrol
Grand Jury Short Film
The Baddest Speechwriter of All
Short Film, Nonfiction
The Boys and the Bees
Short Film, Animation
Living with a Visionary
Short Film, Short Fiction
Crisis Actor
Short Film, International Fiction
Jazz Infernal
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Bedford Park
Carousel
The Friend’s House Is Here
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Hot Water
Josephine
The Musical
Run Amok
Take Me Home
Union County
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Big Girls Don’t Cry
Extra Geography
Filipiñana
Hold Onto Me
How to Divorce During the War
The Huntress
Lady
Levitating
Shame and Money
Tell Me Everything
U.S. Documentary Competition
American Doctor
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Barbara Forever
Joybubbles
The Lake
Nuisance Bear
Public Access
Seized
Soul Patrol
Who Killed Alex Odeh?
World Documentary Competition
All About the Money
Birds of War
Closure
Everybody to Kenmure Street
Hanging by a Wire
Kikuyu Land
One in a Million
Sentient
Silenced
To Hold a Mountain
Short Film, Nonfiction Competition
The Baddest Speechwriter of All
The Boys and the Bees
The Chimney Sweeper
Going Sane: The Rise and Fall of the Center for Feeling Therapy
The Home of the Brave
Luigi
Some Kind of Refuge
Still Standing
Tuktuit: Caribou
Short Film, Animation Competition
1981
The Bird’s Placebo
Busy Bodies
Cabbage Daddy
Homemade Gatorade
Hugs
The Gnawer of Rocks
Living with a Visionary
Once in a Body
Paper Trail
Sorrow Doesn’t Sleep at Night
Um
Short Film, Short Fiction Competition
Albatross
Balloon Animals
Birdie
Callback
The Creature of Darkness
Crisis Actor
Don’t Tell Mama
Gender Studies
The Oracle
Pankaja
Prime
Radiant Frost
Seniors
Stairs
Taga
Together Forever
Short Film, International Fiction Competition
Agnes
Blue Heart
Candy Bar
Faux Bijoux
Fruit (Buah)
How Brief
I’m Glad You’re Dead Now
Ivar
Jazz Infernal
The Liars
Marga en el DF
Norheimsund
O’Sey Balamma
¡Pika!
Sauna Sickness
Without Kelly
The Worm
53rd Telluride Film Festival (2026)
(Open: Sep. 4, 2026 / Close: Sep. 7, 2026)
Main Program
Act 3
Alpha Gang
Avedon
La Bola Negra
Bucking Fastard
Burgundy
Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff
Club Kid
The Debut
The Disciple
Elsinore
Everest: The Other Side
Fatherland
Fjord
Gentle Monster
The Idiot(s)
Ink
The Liberation
A Long Winter
Making Marie Antoinette
The Man I Love
Minotaur
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
The Only Living Pickpockets in New York
Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes
Rehearsals for a Revolution
Rose
The Row
The Story of Documentary Film
Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing
Tender Loving Care
Tenzing
The Unknown
Wild Horse Nine
Short Film Program
A Dance Through Time
The Buffalo Miracle
Love, Rendered
Maybe Tomorrow
The Revolution Against Death
Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon
A Song for the Snow Lion
Witt v. Air Force
51st Toronto International Film Festival (2026)
(Open: Sep. 10, 2026 / Close: Sep. 20, 2026)
People’s Choice Award
La Bola Negra
People’s Choice Award, First Runner Up
I Play Rocky
People’s Choice Award, Second Runner Up
Being Heumann
People’s Choice Award, Documentaries
Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been
People’s Choice Award, Documentaries, First Runner Up
Black Sunflowers
People’s Choice Award, Documentaries, Second Runner Up
The Ultra Runner
Gala Presentation
All About Corinne
Always Lalisa
The Assassin(s)
Atonement
Babies
Being Heumann
Bunker
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Evil Genius
Girl Group
It’s My Time
The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd
Man in Motion: The Rick Hansen Story
Misty Green
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
Onwards and Sideways
Prima Facie
Pretenders
Run Terry Run
Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor
A Talent for Murder
Tenzing
Up Against It
Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend
Special Presentation
The Age of Goodbyes
All of a Sudden
All That She Wants
Alpha Gang
Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo
The Beloved
Bitter Christmas
La Bola Negra
Bucking Fastard
Clarissa
Closing Night
Club Kid
Coward
The Debut
Elsinore
Everest: The Other Side
Everybody Wants to Fuck Me
Faith
Le Faux Soir
Fjord
Gentle Monster
Glaxo
Good Little Soldier
Growh of the Soil
Happily Ever After
Hombre al Agua
The Housewife
I Play Rocky
The Idiot(s)
In Alaska
Ink
It Will Happen Tonight
Josephine
The Julia Set
The Liberation
A Long Winter
Look Back
Love of Your Life
The Man I Love
Minotaur
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple
Paradise Lost
Phoolan
Possible Love
The Road Not Taken
The Stunt Driver
Tender Loving Care
The Unknown
Whatcha Want
Wild Horse Nine
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
83rd Venice Film Festival (2026)
(Open: Sep. 2, 2026 / Close: Sep. 12, 2026)
Golden Lion
Woman Unknown
Grand Jury Prize
Possible Love
Special Jury Prize
NAZA
Silver Lion
Ilya Khrzhanovsky – DAU
Volpi Cup for Best Actor
John Malkovich – Wild Horse Nine
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Mathilde Arcel – Woman Unknown
Best Screenplay
A Good Little Soldier
Marcello Mastroianni Award (Best Performance by an Emerging Actor or Actress)
Malou Khebizi – A Place to Heal
In Competition
Back to Buenos Aires
A Bit Before Midnight
A Bit of Light
Bucking Fastard
Bunker
Company
DAU
The Echo Chamber
The Fire Within You
A Good Little Soldier
Ink
It Will Happen Tonight
Look Back
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
NAZA
A Place to Heal
Possible Love
Primetime
The Spiral
Wild Horse Nine
Woman Unknown
Minor Critics
7th Critics Choice Super Awards (2026)
(Awards: Jul. 15, 2026 / Nominations: Aug. 6, 2026)
Best Villain
Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash
Nicholas Hoult – Superman
Michael Johnston – Obsession
Jared Leto – Masters of the Universe
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Best Action Movie
The Furious
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Motor City
The Naked Gun
Normal
The Rip
Sisu: Road to Revenge
Best Actor in an Action Movie
Matt Damon: The Rip
Taron Egerton – Apex
Xie Miao – The Furious
Bob Odenkirk – Normal
Alan Ritchson – Motor City
Joe Taslim – The Furious
Jorma Tommila – Sisu: Road to Revenge
Best Actress in an Action Movie
Pamela Anderson – The Naked Gun
Priyanka Chopra Jonas – The Bluff
Eiza González – Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
Akari Takaishi – Ghost Killer
Charlize Theron – Apex
Samara Weaving – Over Your Dead Body
Maddie Ziegler – Pretty Lethal
Best Horror Movie
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Backrooms
The Long Walk
Obsession
Send Help
Weapons
Best Actor in a Horror Movie
Josh Brolin – Weapons
Chiwetel Ejiofor – Backrooms
Ralph Fiennes – 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Michael Johnston – Obsession
David Jonsson – The Long Walk
Jack O’Connell – 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Adam Scott – Hokum
Best Good Boy in a Horror Movie
Indy – Good Boy
Best Actress in a Horror Movie
Alison Brie – Together
Jessie Buckley – The Bride!
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Rachel McAdams – Send Help
Inde Navarrette – Obsession
Renate Reinsve – Backrooms
Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie
Bugonia
Disclosure Day
Frankenstein
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
I Love Boosters
Predator: Badlands
Project Hail Mary
Best Actor in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Ryan Gosling – Project Hail Mary
Matt Johnson – Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie
James Ortiz – Project Hail Mary
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia
Sam Rockwell – Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Best Actress in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movie
Emily Blunt – Disclosure Day
Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash
Elle Fanning – Predator: Badlands
Sandra Hüller – Project Hail Mary
Keke Palmer – I Love Boosters
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Best Superhero Movie
Demon Slayer: Kimtesu no Yaiba Infinity Castle
Exit 8
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Masters of the Universe
Supergirl
Superman
Best Actor in a Superhero Movie
David Corenswet – Superman
Nicholas Galitzine – Masters of the Universe
Edi Gathetgi – Superman
Nicholas Hoult – Superman
Kazunari Ninomiya – Exit 8
Pedro Pescal – The Fantstic Four: First Steps
Best Actress in a Superhero Movie
Milly Alcock – Supergirl
Rachel Brosnahan – Superman
Julia Garner – The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Vanessa Kirby – The Fantstic Four: First Steps
Camila Mendes – Masters of the Universe
Adeline Rudolph – Mortal Kombat II
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