{"id":386685,"date":"2026-01-04T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/386685\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:16:08","slug":"the-2025-national-society-of-film-critics-nsfc-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/386685\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 National Society Of Film Critics (NSFC) Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Society Of Film Critics (NSFC<\/a>) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year\u2019s winners\u2026<\/p>\n

Best Picture
Winner: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER <\/a>(57 points)
Runners-up: SINNERS<\/a> (29 points) & THE SECRET AGENT<\/a> (27 points)<\/p>\n

Best Director
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER<\/a> (54 points)
Runners-up: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT<\/a> (48 points) & Richard Linklater, BLUE MOON<\/a> and NOUVELLE VAGUE<\/a> (39 points)<\/p>\n

Best Actress
Winner: Kathleen Chalfant, FAMILIAR TOUCH<\/a> (45 points)
Runners-up: Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I\u2019D KICK YOU<\/a> (39 points) & Renate Reinsve, SENTIMENTAL VALUE<\/a> (37 points)<\/p>\n

Best Actor
Winner: Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON<\/a> (57 points)
Runners-up: Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT<\/a> (43 points) & Michael B. Jordan, SINNERS<\/a> (36 points)<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER<\/a> (56 points)
Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE<\/a> (47 points) & Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS<\/a> (41 points)<\/p>\n

Best Supporting Actor
\u200bWinner:\u00a0Benicio del Toro, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER<\/a> (54 points)
Runners-up: Delroy Lindo, SINNERS<\/a> (37 points) & Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, SENTIMENTAL VALUE<\/a> (30 points)<\/p>\n

Best Screenplay
Winner: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT<\/a> (53 points)
Runners-up: Robert Kaplow, BLUE MOON<\/a> (50 points) & Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho, THE SECRET AGENT<\/a> (40 points)<\/p>\n

Best Cinematography
Winner: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, SINNERS<\/a> (50 points)
Runners-up: Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS<\/a> (36 points) & Michael Bauman, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER<\/a> (29 points)<\/p>\n

Best Nonfiction Film
Winner: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I \u2014 LAST AIR IN MOSCOW<\/a> (56 points)
Runners-up: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR<\/a> (22 points) & ORWELL: 2+2=5<\/a> (18 points)<\/p>\n

Best Film Not In The English Language
Winner: THE SECRET AGENT<\/a>\u00a0(58 points)
Runners-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT<\/a> (57 points) & SENTIMENTAL VALUE<\/a> (38 points)<\/p>\n

Best Experimental Film: MORNING CIRCLE (Basma al-Sharif)<\/p>\n

Film Heritage Award: The late Ken and Flo Jacobs, an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema.<\/p>\n

Film Heritage Award: The Film Desk, for releasing key movies from all over the world, in 35mm prints and on home video, and publishing books that have enriched the public\u2019s knowledge of cinema.<\/p>\n

Film Heritage Award: Cinema Tropical, for its tireless efforts to distribute, program and promote Latin American cinema in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: LANDMARKS<\/a> (Lucrecia Martel)<\/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 National Society Of Film Critics (NSFC) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[133121,53080,49,48,75,337,164257,133122],"class_list":{"0":"post-386685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-award-winners","9":"tag-awards-season","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-nsfc","15":"tag-precursor-awards-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386685","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=386685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}