The New York Film Critics Circle has announced its annual awards, selecting Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “One Battle After Another” as the Best Film of 2025. The group, made up of 47 critics from New York-based outlets, has recognized outstanding achievements in film since 1935.

While “One Battle After Another” was widely expected to win, the critics made distinctive choices in other categories:

• Best Actor: Wagner Moura for “The Secret Agent”, a Brazilian film directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, which also won Best International Film.
• Best Actress: Rose Byrne for “If I Had Legs I’d Shoot You”.
• Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro for “One Battle After Another”.
• Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan for her role in the horror film “Weapons”.
• Best Director: Jafar Panahi for “It Was Just an Accident”.
• Best Screenplay: “Marty Supreme”.
• Best Animated Film: “KPop Demon Hunters” from Netflix.
• Best First Film: “Eephus”, a baseball drama by Carson Lund.
• Best Non-Fiction Film: “My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow”, which also recently won at the Gotham Awards.
• Best Cinematography: “Sinners”.

Special awards were given to the Museum of the Moving Image and Screen Slate. Student prizes went to London Xhudo (NYU) and Tan Zhiyuan (The New School).

The NYFCC is the oldest critics group in the United States. Over its 90-year history, its pick for best film has matched the Oscar winner 31 times, but only four times since 2000. The last agreement was in 2012 with “The Artist.” Last year, “The Brutalist” was named best film by the group, and four of their winners went on to win Oscars.

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