{"id":319683,"date":"2025-12-02T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319683\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:14:13","slug":"one-battle-it-was-just-an-accident-top-2025-gotham-awards-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/319683\/","title":{"rendered":"One Battle, It Was Just an Accident top 2025 Gotham Awards: Full list"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Battle After Another<\/a> just notched its first prize in what could be a highly decorated road to the Oscars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul Thomas Anderson’s high-octane romp, which has been atop the Gold Derby Oscar predictions since its release in September, was the big winner at Monday’s 2025 Gotham Awards<\/a>, taking the top honor, Best Feature. The film came into the evening with a leading six nominations<\/a>, but appeared in danger of being shut out until the final award. <\/p>\n

The other major winner was another film that should figure into the Oscar race: Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, which tallied a leading three awards. On the same day the Iranian director was sentenced in absentia to a prison term<\/a> in his native Iran for “propaganda activites,” Panahi was at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street to collect trophies for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. The French-bankrolled movie, which received the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, tells the story of a small mishap that triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems.<\/p>\n

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Other Gotham champions included Harry Lighton (Pillion) for Best Adapted Screenplay, Akinola Davies Jr. (My Father’s Shadow) for Best Breakthrough Director, and My Undesirable Friends: Part I \u2014 Last Air in Moscow for Best Documentary Feature.<\/p>\n

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2025 Gotham Awards: Red carpet arrival photos<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Gothams did away with the traditional four acting categories (lead actor and actress, supporting actor and actress), and now only have two gender-neutral awards for Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance. Sop\u00e9 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9 (My Father\u2019s Shadow) won the lead prize, while Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) claimed supporting. The Best Breakthrough Performer statuette went to Abou Sangar\u00e9 (Souleymane\u2019s Story).<\/p>\n

The first official awards show of film season, the Gothams have tried to position themselves as a key Oscar bellwether. Since they began awarding Best Feature prizes in 2004, six movies \u2014 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Nomadland (2020), Moonlight (2016), Spotlight (2015), Birdman (2014), and The Hurt Locker (2009) \u2014 prevailed here before later claiming Best Picture at the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, the Gotham Awards removed the spending limit on films eligible for submission. This change scraps the old $35 million budget cap, opening the door for major studio productions to compete alongside independent movies.<\/p>\n

\"JafarJafar Panahi attends the 35th Gotham Film AwardsMichael Loccisano\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

In between handing out competitive awards, the institute presented the inaugural Gotham Musical Tribute to Song Sung Blue’s Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman; the Director Tribute to Jay Kelly’s Noah Baumbach; the Spotlight Tribute to Hedda’s Tessa Thompson; the Ensemble Tribute to the Sinners cast; the Vanguard Tribute to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein; the Cultural Icon Tribute to Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’s Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper; and the Visionary Tribute to After the Hunt’s Luca Guadagnino and Julia Roberts.<\/p>\n

Note: two films that expect to be part of the ongoing awards conversation \u2014 Marty Supreme and Is This Thing On? \u2014 were not ready in time to be considered by Gotham voters. But they are both eligible at upcoming events like the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, Actor Awards, and Oscars.<\/p>\n

Here is the complete winners list for the 2025 Gotham Awards in all 10 categories:<\/p>\n

Best Feature
Bugonia
East of Wall
Familiar Touch
Hamnet
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Lurker
[winner] One Battle After Another
Sorry, Baby
The Testament of Ann Lee
Train Dreams<\/p>\n

Best Director
Mary Bronstein,\u00a0If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You
[winner] Jafar Panahi,\u00a0It Was Just an Accident
Kelly Reichardt,\u00a0The Mastermind
Paul Thomas Anderson,\u00a0One Battle After Another
Oliver Laxe,\u00a0Sir\u00e2t<\/p>\n

Best Documentary Feature\u00a0
2000 Meters to Andriivka
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
[winner] My Undesirable Friends: Part I \u2014 Last Air in Moscow
The Perfect Neighbor
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk<\/p>\n

Best International Feature
[winner] It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
Resurrection
Sound of Falling<\/p>\n

Best Adapted Screenplay
No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, and Don McKellar
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
[winner] Pillion, Harry Lighton
Preparation for the Next Life, Martyna Majok
Train Dreams, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar<\/p>\n

Best Original Screenplay
If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You, Mary Bronstein
[winner] It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho
Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor
Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter<\/p>\n

Best Lead Performance\u00a0
Jessie Buckley,\u00a0Hamnet
Rose Byrne,\u00a0If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You
Lee Byung Hun,\u00a0No Other Choice
[winner] Sop\u00e9 D\u00ecr\u00eds\u00f9,\u00a0My Father\u2019s Shadow
Ethan Hawke,\u00a0Blue Moon
Jennifer Lawrence,\u00a0Die My Love
Wagner Moura,\u00a0The Secret Agent
Josh O\u2019Connor,\u00a0The Mastermind
Amanda Seyfried,\u00a0The Testament of Ann Lee
Tessa Thompson,\u00a0Hedda<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Performance
Benicio del Toro,\u00a0One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi,\u00a0Frankenstein
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas,\u00a0Sentimental Value
Indya Moore,\u00a0Father Mother Sister Brother
[winner] Wunmi Mosaku,\u00a0Sinners
Adam Sandler,\u00a0Jay Kelly
Andrew Scott,\u00a0Blue Moon
Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd,\u00a0Pillion
Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd,\u00a0Sentimental Value
Teyana Taylor,\u00a0One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

Best Breakthrough Performer
A$AP Rocky,\u00a0Highest 2 Lowest
Sebiye Behtiyar,\u00a0Preparation for the Next Life
Chase Infiniti,\u00a0One Battle After Another
[winner] Abou Sangar\u00e9,\u00a0Souleymane\u2019s Story
Tonatiuh,\u00a0Kiss of the Spider Woman<\/p>\n

Best Breakthrough Director
Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace
Carson Lund, Eephus
Sarah Friedland, Familiar Touch
[winner] Akinola Davies Jr., My Father’s Shadow
Harris Dickinson, Urchin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Battle After Another just notched its first prize in what could be a highly decorated road to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[67194,49,48,75,26738,142037,142038,15463,18744],"class_list":["post-319683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-2026-oscars","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fyc","tag-gotham-awards","tag-if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you","tag-one-battle-after-another","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}