Paul Thomas Anderson’s rousing One Battle After Another has been named the National Society of Film Critics‘ Best Picture of 2025.
The sprawling adventure drama, which has made over $205 million at the box office worldwide and appears poised to be an Oscars frontrunner, also clinched Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (for Teyana Taylor) and Best Supporting Actor (for Benicio del Toro).
The NSFC, which comprises more than 60 of the country’s most prominent film critics and was founded in 1966, held its 60th annual awards voting meeting Saturday, Jan. 3. Critics voted at in-person gatherings in Los Angeles and New York, and also participated virtually from across the country.
View the National Society of Film Critics’ full list of winners below:
Best Picture
One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Sinners, The Secret Agent
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident; Richard Linklater, Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague
Best Actress
Kathleen Chalfant, Familiar Touch
Runners-up: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Best Supporting Actress
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value; Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Best Actor
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Runners-up: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent; Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Delroy Lindo, Sinners; Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best Screenplay
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Runners-up: Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon; Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
Best Film Not in the English Language
The Secret Agent
Runners-up: It Was Just an Accident, Sentimental Value
Best Nonfiction Film
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
Runners-up: The Perfect Neighbor, Orwell: 2+2=5
Best Cinematography
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
Runners-up: Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams; Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
Best Experimental Film
Morning Circle, Basma al-Sharif
Special Award for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution
Landmarks, Lucrecia Martel
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Ken and Flo Jacobs: an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema