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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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Best Screenplay

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT • NEON

Written by Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi | Director/Producer


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


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


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


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


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


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

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Best INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT • NEON

Jafar Panahi | Director/Producer


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


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

New York Film Critics Online

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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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