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Frankenstein
A collage of the film's characters and settings.
Release poster
Directed byGuillermo del Toro
Screenplay byGuillermo del Toro
Based onFrankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDan Laustsen
Edited byEvan Schiff
Music byAlexandre Desplat
Production
companies
  • Double Dare You
  • Demilo Films
  • Bluegrass 7
Distributed byNetflix
Release dates
  • August 30, 2025 (2025-08-30) (Venice)
  • October 17, 2025 (2025-10-17) (United States)
  • November 7, 2025 (2025-11-07) (Netflix)
Running time
150 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$120 million[2]
Box office$480,678[3]

Frankenstein is a 2025 American Gothic science fiction film produced, written, and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley. The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz in supporting roles. The story follows the life of Frankenstein, an egotistical scientist whose experiment in creating new life results in dangerous consequences.

Del Toro had long imagined a faithful Frankenstein film as a "dream project". This was initially in development for Universal Pictures, with del Toro casting frequent collaborator Doug Jones as the Creature, and Bernie Wrightson being considered for the monster's design. However, Universal suspended the project in relation to its planned Dark Universe franchise. Netflix revived the project in 2023, with Elordi instead portraying the Creature. Filming took place from February to September 2024. Wrightson had died in 2017, and the illustrated compilation Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein was a key inspiration for the film's look.

Frankenstein premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2025. It had a limited theatrical release in the United States from October 17 and was globally released on November 7 on Netflix. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named it as one of the top ten films of 2025.[4][5] It received five nominations at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama.

Plot

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Prelude

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In 1857, the Horisont, a Royal Danish Navy ship sailing for the North Pole, is trapped in the ice. Alerted to an explosion in the distance, Captain Anderson and his men discover a gravely injured Victor Frankenstein. Upon bringing him aboard, the crew are attacked by a Creature who demands Victor's surrender; Captain Anderson uses a blunderbuss to sink the Creature into the icy water. Victor explains that he is the Creature's maker, and recounts its creation.

Part I: Victor's Tale

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Victor's mother dies giving birth to his younger brother William, who becomes the favorite of their aristocratic father, a renowned surgeon. Grieving his mother and hardened by his father's abuse, Victor becomes a brilliant, arrogant surgeon, obsessed with "curing" death through science. In 1855, Victor is expelled from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for reanimating corpses, which a disciplinary tribunal denounces as sacrilege.

Arms merchant Henrich Harlander offers Victor unlimited funding and an isolated tower to continue his experiments. Enlisting William's assistance in building his laboratory, Victor becomes smitten with William's fiancée Elizabeth, Harlander's niece, who declines his advances.

When an impatient Harlander demands results, Victor harvests body parts from hanged criminals and soldiers killed in the ongoing Crimean War. He fashions a large creature to reanimate, preparing to harness lightning to send electric currents through the lymphatic system. As a storm approaches, Harlander reveals he is dying of syphilis and demands his brain be put into the Creature. Victor refuses, and Harlander falls to his death attempting to sabotage the experiment. Victor electrifies the Creature, but it seemingly fails to reanimate.

The following morning, Victor finds the Creature alive. Chaining it in the cellar, he marvels at the Creature's immense strength and rapid healing, but can only teach it to speak one word: "Victor." Frustrated, Victor imitates his father's cruel discipline, enraging the Creature. Arriving with William, Elizabeth questions Victor's treatment and bonds with the Creature, teaching him to speak her name. Victor lies to William that the Creature killed Harlander and sends them away, setting fire to his lab with the Creature inside. Hearing the Creature cry out his name, Victor has a change of heart and attempts to reenter the tower, but it explodes, grievously wounding his leg.

As Victor tells his story, the Creature boards the ship, confronts the captain, and reveals his side of the story.

Part II: The Creature's Tale

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The Creature breaks his chains and escapes the explosion. Wandering the woods, he is shot at by hunters and later takes shelter in the mill gears of their farm. Observing the family through the walls, the Creature grows attached and secretly helps the family by providing them with large supplies of firewood and building a pen for their sheep. The family thank their unseen benefactor as the "Spirit of the Forest."

When the rest of the family leaves for the winter, the Creature befriends their blind patriarch, who teaches him to read and speak fluently. Struggling to remember his past, the Creature journeys to the ruins of the laboratory and discovers the truth about his creation, and the address to Victor's estate. He returns to the farm to find the blind man being attacked by wolves; the Creature fights them off and comforts his dying friend. The hunters return and, mistaking the Creature for the blind man's killer, shoot him dead; though he later revives.

Realizing he cannot die and will spend eternity alone, the Creature confronts Victor on the night of William and Elizabeth's wedding, asking he create a companion for him. Victor, fearing the possibility of the creature reproducing, adamantly refuses; and the Creature attacks him. Overhearing the commotion, Elizabeth arrives and embraces the creature upon seeing him. Victor attempts to shoot the Creature, but inadvertently shoots Elizabeth instead. William attempts to rush the Creature but is mortally wounded; as he dies, he calls Victor the true "monster". The Creature carries Elizabeth to a cave where she dies. Victor pursues the Creature to the Arctic. In a confrontation, the Creature attempts to destroy himself with a stick of dynamite but fails.

A remorseful Victor and the Creature reconcile, addressing each other as "father" and "son", before Victor succumbs to his injuries. The Creature uses his strength to free the ship from the ice. Captain Anderson decides to abandon his own reckless pursuit and sail back homeward. Alone, the Creature reaches out to embrace the sunlight as Victor once taught him.

Cast

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  • Oscar Isaac as Baron Victor Frankenstein, a surgeon who plans to create life from death
  • Jacob Elordi as the Creature, a monstrous creation of Victor Frankenstein
  • Mia Goth as:
    • Lady Elizabeth Harlander, William's fiancée, for whom Victor has feelings
    • Baroness Claire Frankenstein, Victor's late mother, who died giving birth to William
  • Felix Kammerer as William Frankenstein, Victor's younger brother and Elizabeth's fiancé
  • David Bradley as the Blind Man, a blind old man who befriends the Creature
  • Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson, the head of a Royal Danish Navy expedition to the North Pole
  • Charles Dance as Baron Leopold Frankenstein, Victor's strict, oppressive father and a renowned physician
  • Christoph Waltz as Henrich Harlander,[6] Elizabeth's uncle and a wealthy arms manufacturer who funds Victor's experiments
  • Kyle Gatehouse as the Young Hunter, the unnamed son of the Blind Man
  • Lauren Collins as Alma, the Young Hunter's wife
  • Sofia Galasso as Anna-Maria, the granddaughter of the blind man and the daughter of the Young Hunter
  • Ralph Ineson as Professor Krempe,[7] a professor who oversees the hearing of Victor
  • Burn Gorman as an executioner from whom Victor obtains the remains of deceased criminals

Production

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Development

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In 2007, Guillermo del Toro said that a project which he "would kill to make" would be a faithful "Miltonian tragedy" version of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, citing Frank Darabont's "pretty much perfect" script for Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.[8] In January 2008, he revealed that he was then in the process of crafting drawings which he hoped to use as a basis for the world of the film, and that, additionally, he had begun taking script notes but stopped once the WGA strike occurred.[9] The following month, del Toro said of his vision:

What I'm trying to do is take the myth and do something with it, but combining elements of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein without making it just a classical myth of the monster. The best moments in my mind of Frankenstein, of the novel, are yet to be filmed [...] The only guy that has ever nailed for me the emptiness, not the tragic, not the Miltonian dimension of the monster, but the emptiness is Christopher Lee in the Hammer films, where he really looks like something obscenely alive. Boris Karloff has the tragedy element nailed down but there are so many versions, including that great screenplay by Frank Darabont that was ultimately not really filmed.[10][11]

Later that year, in September, the film was set up through del Toro's three-year first-look picture deal at Universal Pictures, alongside a slate of films he was announced to direct including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Slaughterhouse-Five and Drood.[12] Del Toro cited Bernie Wrightson's 1983 Frankenstein illustrations as inspiration, and said the film would not be a direct adaptation of Shelley's novel, but rather "an adventure story that involves the creature."[13][14] Del Toro wanted Wrightson to design his version of the Creature.[15]

In 2009, del Toro stated that production on Frankenstein was not likely to begin for at least four years.[16] Despite this, he had already cast frequent collaborator Doug Jones in the role of the Creature and begun initiating makeup tests with the actor.[17][18] Jones later commented that the project was shelved due to Universal's future plans for their Dark Universe franchise.[19] At Comic-Con 2010, del Toro told Collider that the story was his "favorite novel in the world".[20] In 2013, del Toro expressed public interest in casting Benedict Cumberbatch for the role of the Creature.[21] In 2014, del Toro said that he would like to do versions of both Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, and that Universal chairperson Donna Langley had approached him several times about getting it going but that he was reluctant to do so because it is his "dream project".[22]

In 2016, del Toro said of his efforts to make the film:

Frankenstein to me is the pinnacle of everything, and part of me wants to do a version of it, part of me has for more than 25 years chickened out of making it. I dream I can make the greatest Frankenstein ever, but then if you make it, you've made it. Whether it's great or not, it's done. You cannot dream about it anymore. That's the tragedy of a filmmaker. [...] You landed a 10 or you landed a 6.5 but you were at the Olympics already, and you were judged.[23]

In 2020, in an interview promoting the film Antlers (2021), del Toro stated that if he had the funding, he would make an adaptation of Frankenstein that would span two to three films due to the book's complexity and changing points of view.[24]

In 2023, the project was revived by Netflix, with whom del Toro had signed a multi-year deal to produce projects. Following the win of Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) at the 95th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, Variety revealed that he was set to write and direct the feature with Andrew Garfield, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth in early talks for potential roles.[25] In September, del Toro revealed that filming was scheduled to commence in February 2024, and that Christoph Waltz had been added to the cast.[26] In January, Jacob Elordi replaced Garfield for the role of the Creature, due to scheduling conflicts that had resulted from the SAG-AFTRA strikes.[27][28] Elordi was recommended to del Toro by a hair stylist who worked with Elordi on Priscilla (2023); previously on the set of Priscilla, Elordi had joked about having been cast in Frankenstein.[29] Del Toro had spent nine months designing the look of Garfield's Creature but they were scrapped when he departed, leaving only nine weeks for him to redesign the look for the taller Elordi.[30] Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, and Charles Dance joined the cast in undisclosed roles. Dance previously portrayed the father of Frankenstein in the 2015 film Victor Frankenstein.[28][31] In April 2024, del Toro announced Ralph Ineson had been cast in the film in a "pivotal" cameo appearance.[32]

Del Toro explained about taking his own approach to this adaptation: "What I find beautiful is that when you create a universal myth, whether it's Frankenstein, Pinocchio, Dracula, or Sherlock Holmes, the myth itself rises so far above the original material that any interpretation is equally faithful if done with sincerity, power, and personality. If you think in terms of fidelity to the canon, you would be completely paralyzed."[33]

Filming

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Principal photography began on February 12, 2024, in Toronto, and concluded on September 30.[31][34] Additional filming took place at the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Angus and Burghley House in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in September 2024.[35][36] Del Toro stated that it would not be a horror film, but an incredibly emotional story.[37]

Oscar Isaac, who plays the lead character of Frankenstein, says the film is "this very European story, but told through a very Latin American, Mexican, Catholic point-of-view. So, it was just high passion all the time".[38]

Music

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Main article: Frankenstein (soundtrack)

In January 2025, Alexandre Desplat was revealed to have composed the musical score, having previously worked with del Toro on The Shape of Water (2017) and Pinocchio (2022).[39] In a May 2025 interview, Desplat said: "Guillermo's cinema is very lyrical, and my music is rather lyrical too. So I think the music of Frankenstein will be something very lyrical and emotional. I'm not trying to write horrific music."[37]

Influences

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Del Toro said of his inspiration for making the movie: "It was a religion for me. Since I was a kid — I was raised very Catholic — I never quite understood the saints. And then when I saw Boris Karloff on the screen, I understood what a saint or a messiah looked like. So I've been following the creature since I was a kid, and I always waited for the movie to be done in the right conditions, both creatively in terms of achieving the scope that it needed for me to make it different, to make it at a scale that you could reconstruct the whole world."[40] Del Toro acknowledged James Whale's 1931 adaptation as a formative influence and his version draws also from its 1935 sequel Bride of Frankenstein.[41] Del Toro also cited Rebecca (1940) by Alfred Hitchcock, Wuthering Heights (1939) by William Wyler, Dragonwyck (1946) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Uncle Silas (1947) by Charles Frank among his cinematic inspirations and influences.[42] During a Netflix event in Los Angeles, the first footage from the film was scored to Polish composer Wojciech Kilar's score for Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula.[43]

Release

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Frankenstein landed its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2025.[44]

For its North American premiere, Frankenstein made it to the Special Presentations program of the Toronto International Film Festival,[45] where it was screened on September 8, 2025.[46] It was also presented in the Gala Presentation at the 30th Busan International Film Festival on September 18, 2025,[47][48] and as a Headline Gala of the 69th BFI London Film Festival on October 13, 2025.[49] For its Mexican premiere, it screened at the Morelia International Film Festival.[50]

The film was released in select theaters on October 17, 2025, including select screenings on 35mm and IMAX, followed by a global release on Netflix on November 7.[51] Distribution for Mexico's release in select theaters was handled by Pimienta Films.[50]

Reception

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Critical response

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Jacob Elordi has garnered critical praise for his performance as the Creature.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 356 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Finding the humanity in one of cinema's most iconic monsters, Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein is a lavish epic that gets its most invigorating volts from Jacob Elordi's standout performance."[52] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 78 out of 100, based on 58 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[53] The film has been described as Gothic romanticism, in the vein of del Toro's own Crimson Peak (2015) or such films as Neil Jordan's Interview with the Vampire (1994) and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).[54] It has also been an immediate inspiration for a number of cultural commentaries.[55]

Guillermo del Toro's lavish take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has divided critics along a spectrum of admiration. Alissa Wilkinson of The New York Times, selecting the film as a Critic's Pick, argues that del Toro's version wholeheartedly embraces the novel's profound debt to Paradise Lost while imprinting it with his signature style, transforming Shelley's literary skeleton into a distinctly del Toro tale of monstrous fathers and abandoned sons that remains faithful to the core pathos of the original text.[56] This balance between fidelity and personal vision is echoed by The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney, who describes the film as a visually sumptuous retelling that transcends horror for grand Romantic tragedy, suggesting it hews closely to the novel's tragic spirit while achieving a new cinematic scale.[57] Empire magazine's Jamie Graham awards the film four stars out of five, calling it "an unusually faithful rendition of Mary Shelley's novel" that also functions as a boldly personal Gothic romance, stitching together Shelley's themes with del Toro's signature fairy-tale and body-horror sensibilities into a sumptuous whole.[54] In a full-throated rave, Glenn Kenny of Rogerebert.com offers a perfect score, vigorously defending the adaptation's integrity, crediting del Toro for forging something nearly new from the familiar source material by keeping "philosophically faithful to Mary Shelley's novel" even as he smartly transposes its core to a more fantastical Victorian setting, thereby expanding the humanity found in the classic story.[58] A more cautious perspective comes from The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, who, while granting the film three stars out of five and admiring its narrative shift to the Creature's perspective—a key element of Shelley's multi-voiced novel—contends that its "luxurious, cod-period reverence" for a Victorian aesthetic ultimately sanitizes the tale's raw, philosophical horror, steering clear of the transgressive energy he finds in other interpretations.[59] This critique of adaptation choices is sharpened by Ava Elizabeth Jenkins at The Daily Tar Heel, who, in a mixed assessment, argues that specific character alterations from Shelley's blueprint—such as aging up Victor Frankenstein and reconfiguring Elizabeth's role—ultimately "undermined the source material's emotional weight," rendering key moments from the novel feeling unearned in what she still calls a "beautifully horrific interpretation."[60] Similarly, Peter Debruge of Variety notes that while del Toro's vision "hews closer to Mary Shelley's intentions" than most prior film adaptations, particularly in its empathetic exploration of creation and purpose, it ultimately buckles under its own weight, its structural choices and epic runtime diluting the novel's concentrated philosophical power.[61] The consensus frames del Toro's Frankenstein as a sweeping Gothic romance that prioritizes the novel's spiritual core over literal fidelity.

Accolades

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Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards January 10, 2026 Best Director Guillermo del Toro Pending [62]
American Film Institute Awards December 4, 2025 Top 10 Films Frankenstein Won[a] [5]
Astra Film Awards January 9, 2026 Best Picture – Drama Pending [63]
Best Director Guillermo del Toro Pending
Best Adapted Screenplay Pending
Best Supporting Actor – Drama Jacob Elordi Pending
Best Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
December 11, 2025 Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Nominated [64]
Best Costume Design Kate Hawley Won
Best Makeup and Hairstyling Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey Won
Best Production Design Tamara Deverell Won
Best Sound Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern, and Greg Chapman (Production Sound Mixer) Nominated
Best Stunts Frankenstein Nominated
Best Stunt Coordinator Eli Zagoudakis & Marshall Virtue Nominated
Best Visual Effects Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, and José Granell Nominated
Austin Film Critics Association December 18, 2025 Best Picture Frankenstein Pending [65]
Best Director Guillermo Del Toro Pending
Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elord Pending
Best Adapted Screenplay Guillermo del Toro Pending
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
Best Visual Effects Frankenstein Pending
Best Remake/Franchise Film Frankenstein Pending
Celebration of Cinema and Television October 24, 2025 Actor – Film Oscar Isaac Won [66]
Chicago Film Critics Association December 11, 2025 Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Nominated [67]
Best Art Direction/Best Production Design Tamara Deverell Won
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Nominated
Best Costume Design Kate Hawley Won
Best Use of Visual Effects Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess and Ivan Busquets (VFX supervisors) and José Granell Nominated
Cinema Audio Society Awards March 7, 2026 Filmmaker Award Guillermo del Toro Won [68]
Costume Designers Guild Awards February 12, 2026 Excellence in Period Film Kate Hawley Pending [69]
Critics' Choice Movie Awards January 4, 2026 Best Picture Frankenstein Pending [70]
Best Director Guillermo del Toro Pending
Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Pending
Best Adapted Screenplay Guillermo del Toro Pending
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Best Costume Design Kate Hawley Pending
Best Production Design Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Pending
Best Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
Best Hair and Make-Up Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey Pending
Best Visual Effects Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell Pending
Best Sound Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Greg Chapman Pending
Deadline Contenders November 15, 2025 Contenders Hall Of Fame Award Guillermo del Toro Honored [71]
Directors Guild of Canada November 8, 2025 Feature Film Crew Of The Year Frankenstein Won [72]
Golden Globe Awards January 11, 2026 Best Motion Picture – Drama Pending [73]
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Oscar Isaac Pending
Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Jacob Elordi Pending
Best Director Guillermo del Toro Pending
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
Gotham Awards December 1, 2025 Outstanding Supporting Performance Jacob Elordi Nominated [74][75]
Vanguard Tribute Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac, and Jacob Elordi Won
Hamilton Behind the Camera Awards November 5, 2025 Hair and Makeup Mike Hill Won [76][77]
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 19, 2025 Score – Feature Film Alexandre Desplat Nominated [78]
The Hollywood Reporter Trailblazer Awards September 19, 2025 Trailblazer Award for Sustainable Production Frankenstein Won [79]
Indiana Film Journalists Association December 15, 2025 Best Film Frankenstein Pending [80]
Best Adapted Screenplay Guillermo Del Toro Pending
Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Pending
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Best Special Effects Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess and Ivan Busquets (VFX supervisors) and José Granell Pending
IndieWire Honors December 4, 2025 Wavelength Award Jacob Elordi and Mike Hill Won [81]
Los Angeles Film Critics Association December 7, 2025 Best Production Design Tamara Deverell Runner-up [82]
Michigan Movie Critics Guild December 8, 2025 Best Picture Frankenstein Nominated [83]
Best Director Guillermo Del Toro Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Nominated
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Nominated
Best Breakthrough Jacob Elordi Nominated
Middleburg Film Festival October 19, 2025 Special Achievement in Costume Design Award Kate Hawley Won [84]
National Board of Review December 3, 2025 Top 10 Films Frankenstein Won[a] [4]
Newport Beach Film Festival 22 October 2025 Outstanding Cinematography Won [85]
Maverick Award Jacob Elordi Won [86]
New York Film Critics Online December 15, 2025 Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Pending [87]
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Palm Springs International Film Festival January 3, 2026 Visionary Award Guillermo del Toro Won [88]
Phoenix Critics Circle December 11, 2025 Best Science Fiction Film Frankenstein Won [89]
Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar Isaac Nominated
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Jacob Elordi Nominated
Best Score Alexandre Desplat Nominated
Best Stunt Coordination Frankenstein Nominated
San Diego Film Critics Society December 15, 2025 Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Pending [90]
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Best Production Design Tamara Deverell Pending
Best Visual Effects Frankenstein Pending
Best Costume Design Kate Hawley Pending
Best Sound Design Frankenstein Pending
San Francisco Film Critics December 14, 2025 Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Pending [91]
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Best Production Design Tamara Deverell Pending
Best Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
San Francisco International Film Festival November 12, 2025 Sloan Science in Cinema Prize Frankenstein Won [92]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival February 8, 2026 Virtuoso Award Jacob Elordi Honored [93][94]
Savannah Film Festival October 1, 2025 Icon Award Oscar Isaac Won [95]
November 3, 2025 Audience Award Frankenstein Won [96]
Seattle Film Critics Society December 15, 2025 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Jacob Elordi Pending [97]
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Best Costume Design Kate Hawley Pending
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
Best Production Design Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Pending
Best Visual Effects Design Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess, Ivan Busquets, José Granell Pending
St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards December 14, 2025 Best Film Frankenstein Pending [98]
Best Adapted Screenplay Guillermo del Toro Pending
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Pending
Best Costume Design Kate Hawley Pending
Best Production Design Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Pending
Best Original Score Alexandre Desplat Pending
Best Horror Film Frankenstein Pending
Toronto Film Critics Association December 7, 2025 Best Actor in a Supporting Role Jacob Elordi Runner-up [99]
TIFF Tribute Awards September 7, 2025 Ebert Director Award Guillermo del Toro Honored [100]
Toronto International Film Festival September 14, 2025 People's Choice Award Frankenstein Runner-up [101]
Venice International Film Festival September 6, 2025 Golden Lion Guillermo del Toro Nominated [102]
Fanheart3 Award – Graffetta d'Oro for Best Film Frankenstein Won [103]
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association December 7, 2025 Best Supporting Actor Jacob Elordi Nominated [104]
Best Adapted Screenplay Guillermo Del Toro Nominated
Best Production Design Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Nominated
Best Cinematography Dan Laustsen Nominated
Best Score Alexandre Desplat Nominated

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Award shared with nine other films.

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