91ST Annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Best Film
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
Best Director
Jafar Panahi
It Was Just An Accident • NEON
Philippe Martin, Jafar Panahi | Producers
Best Actor
Wagner Moura
THE SECRET AGENT • NEON
Kirk Jones | Director
Piers Tempest, Kirk Jones, Georgia Bayliff | Producers
Best Actress
Rose Byrne
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You • A24
Mary Bronstein | Director
Sara Murphy, Ryan Zacarias, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Eli Bush, Conor Hannon, Richie Doyle | Producers
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Madigan
WEAPONS • Warner Bros/New Line Cinema
Zach Cregger | Director
Zach Cregger, Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J. D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules | Producers
Best Screenplay
Marty Supreme • A24
Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Josh Safdie | Director
Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Timothée Chalamet | Producers
Best Animated Film
KPop Demon Hunters • Netflix
Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang | Directors
Michelle L.M. Wong | Producer
Best Cinematography
Sinners • Warner Bros. Pictures
Cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
Best Non-Fiction Film
My Undesirable Friends: Part I –
Last Air in Moscow • Self-Distributed
Julia Loktev | Director/Producer
Best International Film
THE SECRET AGENT • NEON
Kleber Mendonça Filho | Director
Emilie Lesclaux, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Brent Travers | Producers
Best First Film
Eephus • Music Box Films
Carson Lund | Director
Carson Lund, Tyler Taormina, Michael Basta, David Entin | Producers
SPECIAL AWARD
Screen Slate
SPECIAL AWARD
Museum of the Moving Image
STUDENT PRIZES
London Xhudo
(Undergraduate, NYU)
&
Tan Zhiyuan
(Graduate, The New School)
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
BEST NON-FICTION:
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:
BEST FIRST FILM:
“One Battle After Another”
Jafar Panahi – “It Was Just an Accident”
Wagner Moura – “The Secret Agent”
Rose Byrne – “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Benicio Del Toro – “One Battle After Another”
Amy Madigan – “Weapons”
“Marty Supreme” – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“Sinners” – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow”
“The Secret Agent”
“Eephus”
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
The New York Film Critics Circle is an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honor excellence in U.S. and world cinema.
Founded in 1935, the Circle’s membership includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and qualifying online general-interest publications. Every year in December the organization meets in New York to vote on awards for the previous calendar year’s films.
Among the categories: best picture, director, screenplay, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, cinematography, animated film, and best first feature. Special standalone awards are also given to individuals and organizations that have made substantial contributions to the art of cinema, including producers, directors, actors, writers, critics, historians, film restorers, and service organizations.
The Circle’s awards are often viewed as harbingers of the Oscar nominations, which are announced each February. The Circle’s awards are also viewed, perhaps more accurately, as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring aesthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures.
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