{"id":384266,"date":"2026-01-01T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:30:08","slug":"the-2025-portland-critics-association-pca-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/384266\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Portland Critics Association (PCA) Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portland Critics Association (PCA<\/a>) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year\u2019s winners\u2026<\/p>\n

Best Picture
Marty Supreme<\/a>
No Other Choice<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Sorry, Baby<\/a>
Train Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Clint Bentley, Train Dreams<\/a>
Ryan Coogler, Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident<\/a>
Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice<\/a>
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Lead Performance
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a> (WINNER)
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet<\/a> (WINNER)
Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Marty Supreme<\/a> (WINNER)
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another<\/a>
Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams<\/a>
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon<\/a>
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Josh O\u2019Connor, The Mastermind<\/a>
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee<\/a>
Emma Stone, Bugonia<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Supporting Performance
Mariam Afshari, It Was Just An Accident<\/a>
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein<\/a>
Ralph Fiennes, 28 Years Later<\/a>
Delroy Lindo, Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Amy Madigan, Weapons<\/a> (WINNER)
Paul Mescal, Hamnet<\/a>
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another<\/a>
Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Sentimental Value<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Ensemble Cast
It Was Just An Accident<\/a>
Marty Supreme<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a>
Weapons<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Animated Feature
I Am Frankelda<\/a>
K-Pop Demon Hunters<\/a>
Lost in Starlight
Predator: Killer of Killers<\/a> (WINNER)
Stitch Head
Zootopia 2<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)<\/p>\n

Best Documentary Feature
Direct Action
Megadoc<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Orwell: 2+2=5<\/a> (WINNER)
Pavements<\/a>
The Perfect Neighbor<\/a>
Sly Lives!<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Film Not in the English Language
Caught by the Tides<\/a>
It Was Just An Accident<\/a>
No Other Choice<\/a> (WINNER)
The Secret Agent<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Sir\u0101t<\/a>
Sentimental Value<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Comedy Feature
Bugonia<\/a>
Eephus<\/a> (WINNER)
Friendship<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
The Naked Gun<\/a>
Sorry, Baby<\/a>
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Horror Feature
Frankenstein<\/a>
Good Boy<\/a>
The Plague<\/a>
Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
28 Years Later<\/a>
Weapons<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)<\/p>\n

Best Science Fiction Feature
Bugonia<\/a> (WINNER)
Companion<\/a>
Frankenstein<\/a>
Mickey 17<\/a>
Predator: Badlands<\/a>
Superman<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)<\/p>\n

Best Screenplay
It Was Just An Accident<\/a>
Marty Supreme<\/a>
No Other Choice<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Sorry, Baby<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Cinematography
Frankenstein<\/a>
Hamnet<\/a>
Marty Supreme<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Train Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Costume Design
Frankenstein<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Marty Supreme<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a>
Sinners<\/a>
Superman<\/a>
The Testament of Ann Lee<\/a> (WINNER)<\/p>\n

Best Film Editing
Marty Supreme<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Sinners<\/a>
Train Dreams<\/a>
28 Years Later<\/a>
Warfare<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Production Design
Frankenstein<\/a>
Hamnet<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a>
The Phoenician Scheme<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
28 Years Later<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Original Score
Marty Supreme<\/a>
The Mastermind<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Sir\u0101t<\/a>
Train Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Sound Design
F1<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a>
Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Superman<\/a>
28 Years Later<\/a>
Warfare<\/a> (WINNER)<\/p>\n

Best Stunts or Action Choreography
Mission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning<\/a> (WINNER)
One Battle After Another<\/a>
Sinners<\/a>
Thunderbolts<\/a>
28 Years Later<\/a>
Warfare<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)<\/p>\n

Best Visual Effects
The Fantastic Four: First Steps<\/a>
Frankenstein<\/a>
Predator: Badlands<\/a>
Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Superman<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Thunderbolts<\/a><\/p>\n

What do you think of the winners? Please let us know your thoughts on our X<\/a> account. Click here<\/a> for more upcoming awards season dates, here<\/a> for the most recent tally of awards season winners, here<\/a> for our precursor tracker, and here<\/a> for our current Oscar predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Critics Association (PCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,107828,97900,134,344,206573,170107],"class_list":{"0":"post-384266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-award-winners","11":"tag-awards-season","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-pca","15":"tag-precursor-awards-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}