‘One Battle After Another’ Named Best Picture By National Society Of Film Critics — Full Winners List

Paul Thomas Anderson’s rousing One Battle After Another has been named nan National Society of Film Critics‘ Best Picture of 2025.

The sprawling escapade drama, which has made complete $205 cardinal astatine nan container agency worldwide and appears poised to beryllium an Oscars frontrunner, besides clinched Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (for Teyana Taylor) and Best Supporting Actor (for Benicio del Toro).

The NSFC, which comprises much than 60 of nan country’s astir salient movie critics and was founded successful 1966, held its 60th yearly awards voting gathering Saturday, Jan. 3. Critics voted astatine in-person gatherings successful Los Angeles and New York, and besides participated virtually from crossed nan country.

View nan National Society of Film Critics’ full database 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 successful nan English Language
The Secret Agent
Runners-up: It Was Just an Accident, Sentimental Value

Best Nonfiction Film
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air successful 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

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS
Cinema Tropical: for its tireless efforts to distribute, programme and beforehand Latin American cinema successful nan U.S.
The Film Desk: for releasing cardinal movies from each complete nan world, successful 35mm prints and connected location video, and publishing books that person enriched nan public’s knowledge of cinema.
Ken and Flo Jacobs: an irreplaceable, gravitational halfway of nan American avant-garde, pinch a shared creator sensibility that helped specify experimental cinema