2025 New York Film Critics Circle Award Winners

The oldest critics group in USA -it's their 91st edition- New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), announced last night their winners and let's recall that group has a solid run for being a bellwether for Oscar nominees more than winners as the last time both coincide was in 2011 with The Artist.

Perhaps this year will change as they named Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another as their top winner, a film that is industry pundits frontrunner for Oscar's Best Film. Anderson's film also collected another win in the actor supporting category for a total of 2 awards and shares the lead with The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho which won Best International Film and Best Actor for Walter Moura.

Still too-early in the awards season but there are news from two independent film awards plus one major critics' group and there are three different international film wins Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi, and The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho; data which suggests there is an open Oscar race with no clear winner in this category.

The Winners

Best Film: One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA

Best First Film: Eephus, Carson Lund, USA and France
Best International Film: The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, France, Netherlands and Germany
Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters, Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang, USA and Canada 
Best Non-Fiction Film: My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, Julie Loktev, Russia and USA

Best Director: Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi, Iran, France, Luxembourg, and USA

Best Screenplay: Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie, USA and Finland 
Best Cinematography: Sinners, Ryan Coogler, USA. Australia and Canada 

Best Actress: Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You,  Mary Bronstein, USA
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan in Weapons, Zach Cregger, USA
Best Actor: Warner Moura in The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, France, Netherlands and Germany  
Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, USA

Special Award: Museum of the Moving Image
Special Award: Screen Slate

To check winners at official site go here.