“One Battle After Another" Wins Top Honors at 2025 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), one of the nation's most influential critics' groups, has announced the winners of its 2025 awards. The group's choices provide the first major indicators of the upcoming awards season, with Paul Thomas Anderson's
The oldest critics organization in the United States is great at predicting who will win Oscars and who will be nominated, but they and the Academy haven't been in agreement on Best Picture since 2011's The Artist.
The first award announced at 10:25 AM EST was for First Film, awarded to Carson Lund’s Eephus, a film depicting a recreational baseball game among mature men that extends into extra innings on the final day before the field’s demolition. The film was screened at the 2024 Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, which received the awards for Best Director, Best Actor (Wagner Moura), the FIPRESCI Prize, and the AFCAE Prize at Cannes, was designated as Best International Film.
Benicio Del Toro receives his second New York Film Critics Award, having previously won Best Actor in 2000 for Traffic, this time in the Best Supporting Actor category for One Battle After Another. Del Toro ultimately received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Traffic in 2001.
Current Winner announcements:
Film: One Battle After Another
Director: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Actor: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent.
Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You
Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan, Weapons
Screenplay: Marty Supreme by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein
Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters
Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners.
Non-Fiction Film: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
International Film: The Secret Agent
First Film: Carson Lund’s Eephus.