Oscars Watch: 2025 London Film Critics Circle Awards

46TH ANNUAL LONDON FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
Sunday, February 1, 2026
The May Fair Hotel, London, United Kingdom

BEST FILM OF THE YEAR
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures

Paul Thomas Anderson | Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers

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Hamnet • Focus Features
Marty Supreme • A24
The Mastermind • MUBI
Sentimental Value • NEON
Sinners • Warner Bros. Pictures
Sirāt • NEON
Sorry, Baby • A24
Train Dreams • Netflix
Weapons • Warner Bros. Pictures / New Line Cinema

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR

SENTIMENTAL VALUE • NEON

Joachim Trier | Director
Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Maria Ekerhovd | Producers

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It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
The Secret Agent
Sirāt

BEST DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR • Netflix

Geeta Gandbhir | Director
Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee, Geeta Gandbhir | Producers

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Cover-Up
One to One: John & Yoko
Orwell: 2+2=5
Riefenstahl

BEST ANIMATED FILM OF THE YEAR

KPOP DEMON HUNTERS • Netflix

Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang | Directors
Michelle L.M. Wong | Producer

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Arco
Elio
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER •
Warner Bros. Pictures

Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner, Sara Murphy | Producers

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Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Óliver Laxe – Sirāt
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

BEST SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

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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Hamnet – Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie & Ronald Bronstein
Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor

Best ACTOR OF THE YEAR
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MARTY SUPREME • A24

Josh Safdie | Director
Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Timothée Chalamet | Producers

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Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Josh O’Connor – The Mastermind

Best ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
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JESSIE BUCKLEY
HAMNET • Focus Features

Chloé Zhao | Director
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg | Producers

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Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

Best SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR

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
Alexander Skarsgård – Pillion

Best SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

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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Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Best BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

Robert Aramayo •
I Swear / Palestine 36

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Miles Caton – Sinners
Frank Dillane – Urchin / Harvest
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH/IRISH FILM OF THE YEAR

Pillion • A24

Harry Lighton | Director
Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton | Producers

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The Ballad of Wallis Island
Bugonia
Hamnet
I Swear

THE PHILIP FRENCH AWARD: BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH/IRISH FILMMAKER
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Harry Lighton
Pillion • A24

Lee Groombridge, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton | Producers

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Tom Basden & Tim Key – The Ballad of Wallis Island
Laura Carreira – On Falling
Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow
Harris Dickinson – Urchin

BEST BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR (for body of work)

Josh O’Connor
The Mastermind / The History of Sound /
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

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Naomi Ackie – Sorry, Baby / Mickey 17 / The Thursday Murder Club
Robert Aramayo – I Swear / Palestine 36
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
David Jonsson – Wasteman / The Long Walk

BEST YOUNG BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

Alfie Williams
28 Years Later • Sony / Columbia Pictures

Danny Boyle | Director
Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, Bernie Bellew, Danny Boyle, Alex Garland | Producers

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Scott Ellis Watson – I Swear
Ebada Hassan – Brides
Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Noah Jupe – Hamnet / The Carpenter’s Son

BEST BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM OF THE YEAR

Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites • Industria Studios

Duncan Cowles | Director
Sophie Butler, Jake Cunningham | Producers

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Two Black Boys In Paradise – Directed by Baz Sells
Leaving Ikordoru in 1999 – Directed by Rashida Seriki
I Saw The Face Of God In The Jet Wash – Directed by Mark Jenkin
Milk – Directed by Naomi Waring

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

SINNERS • Warner Bros. Pictures

Composed by Ludwig Göransson

Ryan Coogler | Director
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler | Producers

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Die My Love – Editing, Toni Froschhamer
The Ice Tower – Production Design, Julia Irribarria
Marty Supreme – Casting, Jennifer Venditti
The Mastermind – Music, Rob Mazurek
One Battle After Another – Editing, Andy Jurgensen
Sirāt – Sound Design, Laia Casanovas
Sound of Falling – Costume Design, Sabrina Krämer
Train Dreams – Cinematography, Adolpho Veloso
Weapons – Makeup and Hairstyling, Leo Satkovich, Melizah Wheat and Jason Collins

THE DILYS POWELL AWARD: EXCELLENCE IN FILM

Guillermo del Toro

THE DEREK MALCOLM AWARD FOR INNOVATION

CYNTHIA ERIVO

London Film Critics Circle

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
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BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER:
BEST BRITISH/IRISH FILM:
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER:
BEST BRITISH/IRISH PERFORMER:
BEST YOUNG IRISH PERFORMER:
BEST BRITISH/IRISH SHORT FILM:
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:

“One Battle After Another”
“Sentimental Value”
“The Perfect Neighbor”
“KPop Demon Hunters”
Paul Thomas Anderson – “One Battle After Another”
“One Battle After Another” – Paul Thomas Anderson
Jessie Buckley – “Hamnet”
Timothée Chalamet – “Marty Supreme”
Amy Madigan – “Weapons”
Sean Penn – “One Battle After Another”
Robert Aramayo – “I Swear” | “Palestine 36”
“Pillion”
Harry Lighton – “Pillion”
Josh O’Connor – “The Mastermind” | “The History of Sound” | “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery”
Alfie Williams – “28 Years Later”
“Neil Armstrong and the Langholmites”
“Sinners” – Ludwig Göransson

ABOUT THE London Film Critics Circle

The Critics’ Circle has existed since 1913 to protect cultural criticism from the censor and the despot. It was at first an offshoot of the Institute of Journalists on Fleet Street and has aways had the critics of the daily national papers as the core of its membership. The Circle views criticism as an arm of free speech and an essential ingredient of a healthy society. From small beginnings, the Circle today has 490 members shared between Theatre (117), Music (78), Film (151), Dance (57), Visual Arts (47) and Books (40). As an association, it provides numerical strength to its members, most of whom labour as unrepresented freelancers. After much philosophical debate in the 1980s, the Circle decided to become an award-giving organisation and since 1988 has presented each year the Service to Art Rosebowl to an artist of conspicuous achievement whom the President toasts by raising the Charles Dickens Goblet to him or her at the annual luncheon usually held in London. In 2015 the members voted for Dame Maggie Smith. The sections also make their own awards, some of them in ceremonies which have become siginificant social occasions. The sections hold periodic meetings to discuss their awards, propose new members, debate current issues and sometimes meet artists.