Critics’ Choice Awards 2025: Abhishek Bachchan, Diljit Dosanjh bag Best Actor nominations

The nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards 2025 were announced on Thursday. The Film Critics Guild shared a complete list of nominations across different categories in short films, documentaries and web-series. Abhishek Bachchan, Diljit Dosanjh bagged Best Actor nominations while Konkona Sen Sharma and Kani Kusruti have been nominated for Best Actress.

Abhishek, nominated for Best Actor for I Want To Talk, shared, “I am truly honored to be nominated for Best Actor for I Want To Talk by the Film Critics Guild. This film has been an incredibly special journey, and to have my performance recognized by such a respected panel of critics means a great deal to me. My gratitude to the Film Critics Guild for this recognition.”

Konkona, nominated for Best Actress for Killer Soup, shared, “To be nominated for Critics’ Choice Awards is always an honour, to be nominated for Abhishek Chaubey’s Killer Soup makes it even more special! I’m thrilled, thank you!”

Kani, nominated across three categories for her performances in Girls Will Be Girls, Poacher, and All We Imagine as Light, shared, "Being nominated in three different categories for my three different performances is a once in a lifetime honor. I am deeply humbled by this recognition; the experience feels surreal."

Here’s the full list of nominations:

Feature Films Nomination

Category: Best Film

1. All We Imagine As Light

2. Amar Singh Chamkila

3. Family

4. Girls Will Be Girls

5. Kottukkaali (The Adamant Girl)

6. Laapataa Ladies

7. Manjummel Boys

8. Padatik

9. Paradise

10. Rimdoggittanga (Rapture)

Category: Best Director

1. Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine As Light

2. Imtiaz Ali for Amar Singh Chamkila

3. Shuchi Talati for Girls Will Be Girls

4. Chidambaram for Manjummel Boys

5. Dominic Sangma for Rimdoggittanga (Rapture)

Category: Best Actor

1. Prithviraj Sukumaran for Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life)

2. Diljit Dosanjh for Amar Singh Chamkila

3. Abhishek Bachchan for I Want To Talk

4. Soori for Kottukkaali (The Adamant Girl)

5. Chandan Sen for Manikbabur Megh (The Cloud and the Man)

Category: Best Actress

1. Kani Kusruti for All We Imagine As Light

2. Preeti Panigrahi for Girls Will Be Girls

3. Anna Ben for Kottukkaali (The Adamant Girl)”

4. Darshana Rajendran for Paradise

5. Urvashi for Ullozhukku (Undercurrent)

Category: Best Supporting Actor

1. Anjan Dutt for Chaalchitra Ekhon

2. Raghav Juyal for Kill

3. Vijayaraghavan for Kishkindha Kaandam

4. Ravi Kishan for Laapataa Ladies

5. Mahendra Perera for Paradise

Category: Best Supporting Actress

1. Divya Prabha for All We Imagine As Light

2. Kani Kusruti for Girls Will Be Girls

3. Sai Abhinaya for Kottukkaali (The Adamant Girl)

4. Chhaya Kadam for Laapataa Ladies

5. Parvathy Thiruvothu for Ullozhukku (Undercurrent)

Category: Best Writing

1. Anand Ekarshi for Aattam

2. Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine As Light

3. Biplab Goswami, Sneha Desai, Divy Nidhi Sharma for Laapataa Ladies

4. Chidambaram for Manjummel Boys

5. Dominic Sangma for Rimdoggittanga (Rapture)

Category: Best Cinematography

1. Sunil K. S. for Aadujeevitham (The Goat Life)

2. Ranabir Das for All We Imagine As Light

3. Rafey Mehmood for Kill

4. Shyju Khalid for Manjummel Boys

5. Tojo Xavier for Rimdoggittanga (Rapture)

Category: Best Editing

1. Aarti Bajaj for Amar Singh Chamkila

2. Shivkumar V. Panicker for Kill

3. Vivek Harshan for Manjummel Boys

4. Srijit Mukherjee for Padatik

5. A. Sreekar Prasad for Paradise

Web Series Nominations

Category: Best Web Series

1. Brinda

2. Freedom at Midnight

3. Killer Soup

4. Poacher

5. Raat Jawaan Hai       

Category: Best Director 

1. Surya Manoj Vangala for Brinda

2. Nikkhil Advani for Freedom at Midnight

3. Abhishek Chaubey for Killer Soup

4. Richie Mehta for Poacher

5. Sumeet Vyas for Raat Jawaan Hai

Category: Best Actor

1. Mihir Godbole for Lampan

2. Ravi Kishan for Maamla Legal Hai

3. Barun Sobti for Raat Jawaan Hai

4. Kay Kay Menon for Shekhar Home

5. Tahir Raj Bhasin for Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein S2

Category: Best Actress

1. Swastika Mukherjee for Bijoya

2. Trisha Krishnan for Brinda

3. Konkona Sen Sharma for Killer Soup

4. Nimisha Sajayan for Poacher

5. Anjali Anand for Raat Jawaan Hai

Category: Best Supporting Actor

1. Rajesh Tailang for Bandish Bandits S2

2. Rajendra Chawla for Freedom at Midnight

3. Rajesh Khattar for Murder in Mahim

4. Faisal Malik for Panchayat S3

5. Dibyendu Bhattacharya for Poacher

Category: Best Supporting Actress

1. Divya Dutta for Bandish Bandits S2

2. Nidhi Bisht for Maamla Legal Hai

3. Sai Tamhankar for Manvat Murders

4. Kani Kusruti for Poacher

5. Priya Bapat for Raat Jawaan Hai

Category: Best Writing

1. Anand Tiwari, Atmika Didwania, Karan Singh Tyagi for Bandish Bandits S2

2. Surya Manoj Vangala, Padmavathi Malladi, Jay Krishna for Brinda

3. Abhinandan Gupta, Gundeep Kaur, Adwitiya Kareng Das, Divy Nidhi Sharma, Revanta Sarabhai, Ethan Taylor for Freedom at Midnight

4. Richie Mehta, Gopan Chidambaran for Poacher

5. Khyati Anand Puthran for Raat Jawaan Hai

Documentary Nominations

1. Against the Tide

2. And, Towards Happy Alleys

3. Nocturnes

4. Rhythm of a Flower (Phool Ka Channd)

5. The Midwife's Confession

Short Films Nominations

Category: Best Short Film

1. IYKYK (If You Know You Know)

2. Jal Tu Jalaal Tu

3. Obur

4. Taak (Tracker)

5. Virundhu (The Feast)

Category: Best Director 

1. Bonita Rajpurohit for (If You Know You Know)

2. Prateek Vats for Jal Tu Jalaal Tu

3. Faraz Ali Obur

4. Ajai Vishwanath Starch

5. Udit Khurana Taak (Tracker)

Category: Best Actor      

1. Kayan Dadyburjor for Halfway

2. Kumar Chheda for Halfway

3. Harish Khanna for Jal Tu Jalaal Tu

4. Aaqib Nazir Dinda for Obur

5. George Vijay for Virundhu (The Feast)

Category: Best Actress  

1. Menuka Pradhan for Crossing Borders

2. Sheeba Chaddha for Night Queen

3. Indu Sharma for Riha (Unlocked)

4. Gayatri Patel Bahl for Strach

5. Jyoti Dogra for Taak (Tracker)

Category: Best Writing

1. Bonita Rajpurohit for IYKYK (If You Know You Know)

2. Vindhya Gupta for Jooyein (Lice)

3. Faraz Ali for Obur

4. Akhil Lotlikar, Tanmay Gemini for The Slow Train

5. Rishi Chandna, Rahul Srivastava for Virundhu (The Feast)

Category: Best Cinematography

1. Kartik Parmar for Bhed Bakri Bhoot (Gote Goat Ghost)

2. Appu Prabhakar for Crossing Borders

3. Avinash Arun Dhaware for Monsoon Walk

4. Anand Bansal for Obur

5. Tarkash Mehta for Taak (Tracker)