25TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE AWARDS
Monday, December 15, 2025



BEST PICTURE
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Runner-Up: Sinners • Warner Bros. Pictures
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Hamnet • Focus Features
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You • A24
It Was Just an Accident • NEON
Marty Supreme • A24
No Other Choice • NEON
Nuremberg • Sony Pictures Classics
Sentimental Value • NEON
Train Dreams • Netflix



Best Director
RYAN COOGLER
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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Runner-Up: Paul Thomas Anderson – “One Battle After Another”
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Park Chan-wook – No Other Choice
Mona Fastvold – The Testament of Ann Lee
Olivier Laxe – Sirāt
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
Lynne Ramsey – Die, My Love
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Chloe Zhao – Hamnet



Best Actor
ETHAN HAWKE
BLUE MOON • Sony Pictures Classics
Richard Linklater | Director
Mike Blizzard, John Sloss, Richard Linklater | Producers
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Runner-Up: Timothee Chalamet – Marty Supreme
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Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Sope Dirisu – My Father’s Shadow
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Lee Byung Hun – No Other Choice
Dylan O’Brien – Twinless
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia



Best Actress
JESSIE BUCKLEY
HAMNET • Focus Features
Chloé Zhao | Director
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg | Producers
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Runner-Up: Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
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Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Jennifer Lawrence – Die, My Love
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
Emma Stone – Bugonia
Sydney Sweeney – Christy
Tessa Thompson – Hedda



Best Supporting Actor
JACOB ELORDI
FRANKENSTEIN • Netflix
Guillermo del Toro | Director
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Scott Stuber | Producers
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Runner-Up: Stellan Skarsgard – Sentimental Value
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Michael Cera – The Phoenician Scheme
Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Noah Jupe – Hamnet
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Pierre Lottin – When Fall is Coming
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly
Alexander Skarsgard – Pillion



Best Supporting Actress
INGA IBSDOTTER LILLEAAS
SENTIMENTAL VALUE • NEON
Joachim Trier | Director
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Maria Ekerhovd | Producers
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Runner-Up: Amy Madigan – Weapons
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Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Glenn Close – Wake Up Dead Man
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
Regina Hall – One Battle After Another
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – Eternity
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another



Best Ensemble Cast
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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Runner-Up: One Battle After Another
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Sentimental Value
The Testament of Ann Lee
Wake Up Dead Man



Best Screenplay
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT • NEON
Written by Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi | Director/Producer
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Runner-Up: Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier
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Bugonia – Will Tracy
Hamnet – Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – Mary Bronstein
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
Twinless – James Sweeney



Best Use of Music
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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Runner-Up: Sirāt
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Hamnet
KPop Demon Hunters
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Song Sung Blue
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
The Testament of Ann Lee
Wicked: For Good



Best Cinematography
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Cinematography by Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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Runner-Up: Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
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28 Years Later – Anthony Dod Mantle
Avatar: Fire and Ash – Russell Carpenter
Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
Hamnet – Lukasz Zal
No Other Choice – Kim Woo-Hyung
One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
Sirāt – Mauro Herce
The Testament of Ann Lee – William Rexer
Wicked: For Good – Alice Brooks



DEBUT DIRECTOR
EVA VICTOR
SORRY, BABY • A24
Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins | Producers
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Runner-Up: Charlie Polinger – The Plague
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Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow
Harris Dickerson – Urchin
Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch
Scarlett Johansson – Eleanor the Great
Harry Lighton – Pillion
Carson Lund – Eephus
Kristen Stewart – The Chronology of Water
Constance Tsang – Blue Sun Palace



Breakthrough Performance
CHASE INFINITI
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Runner-Up: Miles Caton – Sinners
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Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Everett Blunck – The Plague
Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Kayo Martin – The Plague
Abou Sangare – Soulemayne’s Story
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby



Best Animated Film
ARCO • NEON
Ugo Bienvenu | Director
Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman | Producers
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Runner-Up (TIE): Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
Runner-Up (TIE): Zootopia 2
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100 Meters
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
A Magnificent Life
Predator: Killer of Killers
Scarlet



Best INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT • NEON
Jafar Panahi | Director/Producer
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Runner-Up: Sentimental Value
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Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice
Resurrection
The Secret Agent
Sirāt
Sound of Falling
The Voice of Hind Rajib
We Will Not Be Moved



Best Documentary Feature
BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS •
Rich Spirit
Kahlil Joseph | Director
Onye Anyanwu, Kahlil Joseph, David Linde, Anikah McLaren, James Shani, Steven Soderbergh | Producers
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Runner-Up: The Perfect Neighbor
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2000 Meters to Andriivka
Afternoons of Solitude
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cover-Up
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow
Pee-wee as Himself
Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk

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“One Battle After Another”
Ryan Coogler – “Sinners”
Ethan Hawke – “Blue Moon”
Jessie Buckley – “Hamnet”
Jacob Elordi – “Frankenstein”
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – “Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“It Was Just an Accident” – Jafar Panahi
“Sinners”
“Sinners” – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Eva Victor – “Sorry, Baby”
Chase Infiniti – “One Battle After Another”
“Arco”
“It Was Just an Accident”
“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions”

ABOUT THE New York Film Critics Online
The New York Film Critics Online, is an organization composed of 38 top online film critics in New York City. It has a rich mix of reviewers who have carved out original, innovative spaces on the internet for critical illumination. The group meets once a year, in December, and votes its film awards for that year.







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