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The New York Film Critics Circle announced the winners of their 2025 awards this morning on Twitter, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s opus One Battle After Another took the top prize, with star Benicio Del Toro winning Best Supporting Actor. Josh Safdie and co-writer Ronald Bronstein won the Best Screenplay award for Marty Supreme, and Neon’s The Secret Agent took home two prizes for Best Actor and Best International Feature.Â
The NYFCC Awards are chosen by a group of critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and qualifying online general interest publications. Last year, The Brutalist won Best Film, and Ramell Ross won Best Director.
Read on for the complete list of winners below, and if you’re as obsessed with awards as we are, make sure to check our Awards Leaderboard and new Awards Tour Podcast to keep up to date on buzz and accolades for the best movies of the 2025/2026 awards season.
Film:Â One Battle After Another
Director: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Actor: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, Â One Battle After Another
Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan, Weapons
Screenplay: Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, Marty Supreme
Animated Film:Â KPop Demon Hunters
Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners
Non-Fiction Film: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
International Film: The Secret Agent
First Film: Carson Lund’s Eephus
Student Prizes:Â London Xhudo (Undergraduate, NYU) and Tan Zhiyuan (Graduate, The New School)
Special Prizes:Â Museum of Moving Image, Screen Slate