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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Arco
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value

Best Documentary

SECRET MALL APARTMENT •
Wheelhouse Creative

Jeremy Workman | Director/Producer


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


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


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


F1: The Movie
Nobody 2
The Running Man
Warfare

Kansas City Film Critics Circle

Best FILM:
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Best Cinematography:
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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