{"id":396900,"date":"2026-01-09T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396900\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:46:08","slug":"the-2025-columbus-film-critics-association-cofca-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396900\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Columbus Film Critics Association (COFCA) Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Best Film
1. One Battle After Another<\/a>
2. No Other Choice<\/a>
3. Sinners<\/a>
4. It Was Just an Accident<\/a>
5. Bugonia<\/a>
6. Wake Up Dead Man<\/a>
7. Sentimental Value<\/a>
8. Train Dreams<\/a>
9. Weapons<\/a>
10. Marty Supreme<\/a>
11. Frankenstein<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Ryan Coogler, Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man<\/a>
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident<\/a>
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Lead Performance
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/a>
Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Marty Supreme<\/a>
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another<\/a>
Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams<\/a>
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon<\/a> (WINNER)
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another<\/a>
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners<\/a>
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent<\/a>
Jesse Plemons, Bugonia<\/a>
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value<\/a>
Emma Stone, Bugonia<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Supporting Performance
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein<\/a>
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value<\/a>
Delroy Lindo, Sinners<\/a>
Amy Madigan, Weapons<\/a>
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners<\/a>
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly<\/a>
Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Sentimental Value<\/a>
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Ensemble
It Was Just an Accident<\/a>
Marty Supreme<\/a>
One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Sinners<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Wake Up Dead Man<\/a><\/p>\n

Actor of the Year (For an Exemplary Body of Work)
Josh Brolin, The Running Man<\/a>, Wake Up Dead Man<\/a>, and Weapons<\/a>
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another<\/a> and The Phoenician Scheme<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Josh O\u2019Connor, The History of Sound<\/a>, The Mastermind<\/a>, Rebuilding<\/a>, and Wake Up Dead Man<\/a> (WINNER)
Amanda Seyfried, The Housemaid<\/a> and The Testament of Ann Lee<\/a>
Emma Stone, Bugonia<\/a> and Eddington<\/a><\/p>\n

Breakthrough Film Artist
Odessa A\u2019zion, Marty Supreme<\/a> (Acting)
Miles Caton, Sinners<\/a> (Acting)
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another<\/a> (Acting) (WINNER)
Carson Lund, Eephus<\/a> (Directing and Screenwriting)
Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby<\/a> (Acting, Directing, and Screenwriting) (RUNNER-UP)<\/p>\n

Best Cinematography
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Dan Laustsen, Frankenstein<\/a>
Claudio Miranda, F1<\/a>
Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams<\/a>
\u0141ukasz \u017bal, Hamnet<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Film Editing
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme<\/a>
Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Stephen Mirrione, F1<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Joe Murphy, Weapons<\/a>
Michael P. Shawver, Sinners<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another<\/a> (WINNER)
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams<\/a>
Guillermo Del Toro, Frankenstein<\/a>
Park Chan-Wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee, No Other Choice<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Will Tracy, Bugonia<\/a>
Chlo\u00e9 Zhao and Maggie O\u2019Farrell, Hamnet<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Original Screenplay
Ryan Coogler, Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Zach Cregger, Weapons<\/a>
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, Marty Supreme<\/a>
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Score
Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein<\/a>
Ludwig G\u00f6ransson, Sinners<\/a> (WINNER)
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Daniel Lopatin, Marty Supreme<\/a>
Max Richter, Hamnet<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Documentary
Cover-Up<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Orwell: 2+2=5<\/a>
The Perfect Neighbor<\/a>
Predators<\/a> (WINNER)
Seeds<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Foreign Language Film
It Was Just an Accident<\/a> (WINNER)
No Other Choice<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
The Secret Agent<\/a>
Sentimental Value<\/a>
Sir\u00e2t<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Animated Film
Arco<\/a>
The Bad Guys 2<\/a>
Elio<\/a>
KPop Demon Hunters<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Little Am\u00e9lie or the Character of Rain<\/a> (WINNER)
Predator: Killer of Killers<\/a>
Zootopia 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Frank Gabrenya Award for Best Comedy
The Baltimorons<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Friendship<\/a>
The Naked Gun<\/a>
One of Them Days<\/a> (WINNER)
Splitsville<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Overlooked Film
The Ballad of Wallis Island<\/a>
The Baltimorons<\/a>
The Mastermind<\/a> (RUNNER-UP)
Peter Hujar\u2019s Day<\/a>
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>
Warfare<\/a> (WINNER)<\/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 Columbus Film Critics Association (COFCA) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[178161,73258,188509,88,206,178163],"class_list":{"0":"post-396900","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-cofca","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-precursor-awards-2025"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}