The Portland Critics Association (PCA) has named Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another the best film of 2025, also awarding it Best Director, Ensemble, Cinematography and Editing.

Sinners was also a multiple winner with two in Supporting Performance, Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku, as well as Best Screenplay, Score, Production Design and Visual Effects.

The Best Lead Performance wins went to three people: Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme. Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) was the runner-up there.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.

Top 10 Films

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sinners
3. Marty Supreme
4. Sorry, Baby
5. No Other Choice
6. Train Dreams
7. Frankenstein
8. The Ugly Stepsister
9. Superman
10. Weapons

Best Picture: One Battle After Another (runner-up: Sinners)

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (runner-up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners)

Best Lead Performance: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet; Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Runner-up: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

Best Supporting Performance: Delroy Lindo, Sinners; Amy Madigan, Weapons; Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Runner-up: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

Best Ensemble Cast: One Battle After Another (runner-up: Sinners)

Best Animated Feature: Predator: Killer of Killers (runner-up: Zootopia 2)

Best Documentary Feature: Orwell: 2+2=5 (runner-up: Megadoc)

Best Film Not in the English Language: No Other Choice (runner-up: The Secret Agent)

Best Comedy Feature: Eephus: (runner-up: Friendship)

Best Horror Feature: Sinners (runner-up: Weapons)

Best Science Fiction Feature: Bugonia (runner-up: Superman)

Best Screenplay: Sinners (runner-up: One Battle After Another)

Best Cinematography: One Battle After Another (runner-up: Sinners)

Best Original Score: Sinners (runner-up: One Battle After Another)

Best Costume Design: The Testament of Ann Lee (runner-up: Frankenstein)

Best Production Design: Sinners (runner-up: The Phoenician Scheme)

Best Sound Design: Warfare (runner-up: Sinners)

Best Visual Effects: Sinners (runner-up: Superman)

Best Stunts or Action Choreography: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (runner-up: Warfare)

Best Film Editing: One Battle After Another (runner-up: Marty Supreme)

Erik Anderson Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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