60TH ANNUAL KANSAS CITY FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
Sunday, December 21, 2025



Best Film
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Frankenstein • Netflix
Hamnet • Focus Features
It Was Just an Accident • NEON
Marty Supreme • A24
Sentimental Value • NEON
Sinners • Warner Bros. Pictures
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere • 20th Century Studios
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery • Netflix
Weapons • Warner Bros. Pictures / New Line Cinema



Robert Altman Award for Best Director
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Ari Aster – Eddington
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
Rian Johnson – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value



Best Actor
MICHAEL B. JORDAN
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon



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
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Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia



Best Supporting Actor
SEAN PENN
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery



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
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Glenn Close – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another



Best Original Screenplay
WEAPONS • Warner Bros / New Line Cinema
Written by Zach Cregger
Zach Cregger | Director
Zach Cregger, Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J. D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules | Producers
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Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor



Best Adapted Screenplay
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet – Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell
The Life of Chuck – Mike Flanagan
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar



Best Cinematography
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cinematography by Michael Bauman
Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers
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F1: The Movie – Claudio Miranda
Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
Hamnet – Lukasz Zal
Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw



Best ORIGINAL SCORE
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Composed by Ludwig Göransson
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps – Michael Giacchino
Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
Tron: Ares – Nine Inch Nails



BEST ANIMATED FILM
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS • Netflix
Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang | Directors
Michelle L.M. Wong | Producer
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Arco
The Bad Guys 2
Predator: Killer of Killers
Zootopia 2



Best Foreign Language Film
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT • NEON
Jafar Panahi | Director/Producer
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Arco
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value



Best Documentary
SECRET MALL APARTMENT •
Wheelhouse Creative
Jeremy Workman | Director/Producer
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My Mom Jayne
Orwell: 2+2=5
The Perfect Neighbor
We Best the Dream Team



Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Film
SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures
Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers
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28 Years Later
Frankenstein
Superman
Weapons

Tom Poe Award for Best LGBTQ Film
HEDDA • Amazon MGM / Orion Pictures
Nia DaCosta | Director
Nia DaCosta, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Gabrielle Nadig, Tessa Thompson | Producers
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The History of Sound
Twinless
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
The Wedding Banquet



BUSTER KEATON AWARD FOR BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE FILM
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING • Paramount Pictures
Christopher McQuarrie | Director
Christopher McQuarrie, Tom Cruise | Producers
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F1: The Movie
Nobody 2
The Running Man
Warfare

Kansas City Film Critics Circle
Best FILM:
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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Best Animated Feature:
Best Foreign Language Film:
Best Documentary:
Best Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror Film:
Best LGBT Film:
BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE FILM:
“One Battle After Another”
Paul Thomas Anderson – “One Battle After Another”
Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners”
Rose Byrne – “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Sean Penn – “One Battle After Another”
Amy Madigan – “Weapons”
“Weapons” – Zach Cregger
“One Battle After Another” – Paul Thomas Anderson
“One Battle After Another” – Michael Bauman
“Sinners” – Ludwig Göransson
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“It Was Just An Accident”
“Secret Mall Apartment”
“Sinners”
“Hedda”
“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”

ABOUT THE Kansas City Film Critics Circle
Our organization was founded by Dr. James Loutzenhiser in 1966 as the Kansas City Film Circle Awards, and is the second oldest professional film critics’ association in the United States, after the New York Film Critics Circle. As of July, 2014, the KCFCC had 26 active members representing print, radio, television and online media outlets.








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