Overview
- Sinners won Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay at WAFCA, the first filmmaker triple for Ryan Coogler there since 2009 and a record 10 total wins for a single film.
- Michael B. Jordan took WAFCA Best Actor for Sinners, while Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet.
- One Battle After Another emerged as the secondary WAFCA standout with Adapted Screenplay plus supporting wins for Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor.
- KPop Demon Hunters earned WAFCA Animated Feature and a Voice Performance win for Arden Cho, with other honors including a Sinners–F1: The Movie editing tie, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning for stunts, The Perfect Neighbor for documentary, Sentimental Value for foreign film, and A House of Dynamite for the Joe Barber Award.
- AAFCA named Sinners Best Film and gave it eight awards including Director, Writing, Ensemble, Music, Best Actor (Jordan) and Supporting Actress (Wunmi Mosaku), while Tessa Thompson won Best Actress for Hedda and Damson Idris won Supporting Actor for F1.