The doors closed around 9:16AM EST in New York as voting got underway for the 2025 New York Film Critics Circle Awards. Last year, it took three hours for the org to announce their winners as they’re unveiled live as they’re selected.
The oldest critics group in the U.S. is good about being a bellwether for Oscar nominees, and sometimes winners, however, they haven’t been in sync with the Academy on Best Picture since 2011’s The Artist.
Last year’s 50-plus critics group bestowed Best Picture to Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. The movie also won Best Actor for Adrien Brody. Of the NYFCC winners that Oscars saw eye to eye with were Brody for Best Actor, Kiernan Culkin for Best Supporting Actor for Searchlight’s Real Pain, Best Screenplay for Anora, Best Animated Feature Film for Flow, and Best Documentary for No Other Land.
First award announced at 10:25 AM EST was First Film for Carson Lund’s Eephus about a grown men’s recreational baseball game which stretches to extra innings on their beloved field’s final day before demolition. The movie played Cannes Directors Fortnight in 2024. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, which won Best Director, Best Actor (Wagner Moura), the FIPRESCI Prize, and AFCAE prize at Cannes, was named Best International Film.
Benicio Del Toro gets his second New York Film Critics award after winning Best Actor in 2000 for Traffic, but in the Best Supporting Actor category this time for One Battle After Another. Del Toro wound up winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Traffic back in 2001.
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Winners as they’re announced:
Director:
Actor:
Actress:
Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Supporting Actress:
Screenplay:
Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters
Cinematography:
Non-Fiction Film: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
International Film: The Secret Agent
First Film: Carson Lund’s Eephus.