The Critics Choice Association revealed the winners of its 6th annual Super Awards on Thursday, August 6, 2026, publishing the full list on its official site. Prime Video's The Boys and Apple TV's Widow's Bay led television with three wins each, while Obsession, Superman, Project Hail Mary, and The Furious scored two wins apiece on the film side.
Who won on television?
The Boys converted its strong nominations showing into a winning night, as Deadline's winners list confirmed. Antony Starr took Best Actor in a Superhero Series for his performance as Homelander, adding to the show's haul in its final season cycle, and the series tied for Best Superhero Series with Spider-Noir.
Widow's Bay, the Apple TV horror comedy that has been an Emmy presence this cycle, matched The Boys with three wins of its own. Among the acting winners Deadline catalogued were Milly Alcock for Supergirl, Sterling K. Brown for Paradise, Kaitlin Olson for High Potential, and Ralph Fiennes for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.
The ceremony also kept its sense of occasion: the Critics Choice Association presented its Best Good Boy in a Horror Movie award to Indy, the dog star of Good Boy.
Which films were honored?
Per the official winners list, Superman was named Best Superhero Movie, with David Corenswet winning Best Actor in a Superhero Movie for the title role. The Furious took Best Action Movie, Obsession won Best Horror Movie, and Project Hail Mary claimed Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Movie, with Ryan Gosling winning that category's acting prize.
Charlize Theron (Apex), Amy Madigan (Weapons), Inde Navarrette (Obsession), and Emily Blunt (Disclosure Day) were among the film acting winners recognized by the association.
What did the nominations tell us?
The winners tracked closely with July's nominations. As Deadline reported when nominees were announced on July 15, 2026, Superman led all films with six nominations, while The Boys topped television with five. The nominations coverage also highlighted an eight-title tier at four nominations each, including Masters of the Universe, Weapons, Fallout, House of the Dragon, and Paradise.
The Super Awards honor genre storytelling across superhero, sci-fi/fantasy, horror, and action categories, giving fan-favorite franchises a dedicated awards-stage moment between the Emmys' summer cycle and the fall film season. For a now-wrapped series like The Boys and a horror comedy enjoying its awards-season moment like Widow's Bay, the sweep gives both casts and creative teams a named-trophy line on the record ahead of September's Emmy telecast.
For the winners, the timing is a second wind: superhero, horror, and action titles often sit outside the major-film-award conversation, and the Critics Choice Association's genre ceremony is the largest trophy stage built specifically for them. Deadline's full winners list documents every category from Best Action Movie through the special honors, all revealed on a single Thursday in August.
