2025 New York Film Critics Online Awards

The 25th New York Film Critics Online Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2025, were presented on December 15, 2025.

25th New York Film Critics Online Awards
Date	December 15, 2025 (2025-12-15)
Highlights
Best Film	One Battle After Another
Best Director	Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Most awards	Sinners (4)
Most nominations	One Battle After Another (12)

The nominations were announced on December 8, 2025. Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another led the nominations with twelve, followed by Hamnet, Sentimental Value and Sinners all with ten nods apiece.

Winners and nominees

Ryan Coogler, Best Director winner

Ethan Hawke, Best Actor winner

Jessie Buckley, Best Actress winner

Jacob Elordi, Best Supporting Actor winner

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Best Supporting Actress winner

Jafar Panahi, Best Screenplay winner

Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Best Cinematography winner

Eva Victor, Best Debut Director winner

Chase Infiniti, Best Breakthrough Performer winner

Winners are listed first and in boldface, followed by the runner-ups and nominees.

Best Picture	Best Director
One Battle After Another Runner-up: Sinners Hamnet If I Had Legs I'd Kick You It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme No Other Choice Nuremberg Sentimental Value Train Dreams	Ryan Coogler – Sinners Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Park Chan-wook – No Other Choice Mona Fastvold – The Testament of Ann Lee Oliver Laxe – Sirāt Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Lynne Ramsay – Die My Love Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Best Actor	Best Actress
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Runner-up: Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Sope Dirisu – My Father's Shadow as Folarin Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier Lee Byung-hun – No Other Choice as Yoo Man-su Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões Dylan O'Brien – Twinless as Roman / Rocky Jesse Plemons – Bugonia as Teddy Gatz	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Runner-up: Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch as Ruth Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue as Claire Sardina / "Thunder" Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love as Grace Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Sydney Sweeney – Christy as Christy Martin Tessa Thompson – Hedda as Hedda Gabler
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Runner-up: Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg Michael Cera – The Phoenician Scheme as Bjørn Lund / Bjørn Carlson Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Noah Jupe – Hamnet as Hamlet Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Pierre Lottin – When Fall Is Coming as Vincent Perrin Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick Alexander Skarsgård – Pillion as Ray	Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Runner-up: Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Glenn Close – Wake Up Dead Man as Martha Delacroix Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good as Galinda "Glinda" Upland Regina Hall – One Battle After Another as Deandra / "Lady Champagne" Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Da'Vine Joy Randolph – Eternity as Anna Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Best Screenplay	Best Ensemble Cast
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Runner-up: Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Bugonia – Will Tracy Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell If I Had Legs I'd Kick You – Mary Bronstein Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Sinners – Ryan Coogler Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar Twinless – James Sweeney	Sinners Runner-up: One Battle After Another Avatar: Fire and Ash Hamnet It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme No Other Choice Sentimental Value The Testament of Ann Lee Wake Up Dead Man
Best Cinematography	Best Use of Music
Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Runner-up: Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso 28 Years Later – Anthony Dod Mantle Avatar: Fire and Ash – Russell Carpenter Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal No Other Choice – Kim Woo-hyung One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Sirāt – Mauro Herce The Testament of Ann Lee – William Rexer Wicked: For Good – Alice Brooks	Sinners Runner-up: Sirāt Hamnet KPop Demon Hunters Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Song Sung Blue Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere The Testament of Ann Lee Wicked: For Good
Best Debut Director	Best Breakthrough Performer
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby Runner-up: Charlie Polinger – The Plague Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father's Shadow Harris Dickinson – Urchin Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch Scarlett Johansson – Eleanor the Great Harry Lighton – Pillion Carson Lund – Eephus Kristen Stewart – The Chronology of Water Constance Tsang – Blue Sun Palace	Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson Runner-up: Miles Caton – Sinners as Samuel "Sammie" Moore Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Everett Blunck – The Plague as Ben Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet as Hamnet Shakespeare Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Kayo Martin – The Plague as Jake Abou Sangaré – Souleymane's Story as Souleymane Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby as Agnes
Best Animation	Best International Feature
Arco Runner-up: Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (TIE) Runner-up: Zootopia 2 (TIE) 100 Meters Elio KPop Demon Hunters A Magnificent Life Predator: Killer of Killers Scarlet	It Was Just an Accident • Iran Runner-up: Sentimental Value • Norway Left-Handed Girl • Taiwan No Other Choice • South Korea Resurrection • China The Secret Agent • Brazil Sirāt • Spain Sound of Falling • Germany The Voice of Hind Rajab • Tunisia We Shall Not Be Moved • Mexico
Best Documentary
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Runner-up: The Perfect Neighbor 2000 Meters to Andriivka Afternoons of Solitude The Alabama Solution Come See Me in the Good Light Cover-Up My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Pee-wee as Himself Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

External links

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