San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 2025

24th SFBAFCC Awards

December 14, 2025

Best Picture:
One Battle After Another

Best Animated Feature:
KPop Demon Hunters

Best Documentary Feature:
Orwell: 2+2=5

Best International Feature Film:
It Was Just an Accident

The 24th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2025, were given on December 14, 2025.^[1]^[2]^[3] The nominations were announced on December 12, 2025, with Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another leading the nominations with eleven, followed by Sinners with nine, Sentimental Value with eight and Hamnet with seven.^[1]^[4]^[5]

One Battle After Another received the most awards with five, including Best Picture and Best Director, followed by Sinners with three. Local publicist Karen Larsen was presented with the Marlon Riggs Award.^[2]^[3]^[6]

Winners and nominees

Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Benicio del Toro, Best Supporting Actor winner

Amy Madigan, Best Supporting Actress winner

These are the nominees for the 24th SFBAFCC Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list:

Best Picture	Best Director
One Battle After Another Runner-up: Sinners Hamnet Sentimental Value Train Dreams	Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Runner-up: Ryan Coogler – Sinners Chloé Zhao – Hamnet Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon* as Lorenz Hart** Runner-up: Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões	*Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You* as Linda** Runner-up: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby as Agnes
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another* as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos** Runner-up: Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw	*Amy Madigan – Weapons* as Gladys** Runner-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Runner-up: Sinners – Ryan Coogler Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Weapons – Zach Cregger	One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Runner-up: Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar Bugonia – Will Tracy Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee
Best Animated Feature	Best Documentary Feature
KPop Demon Hunters Runner-up: Zootopia 2 Arco Elio Little Amélie or the Character of Rain	Orwell: 2+2=5 Runner-up: The Alabama Solution Come See Me in the Good Light The Perfect Neighbor Riefenstahl
Best International Feature Film	Best Cinematography
It Was Just an Accident • Iran Runner-up: Sentimental Value • Norway No Other Choice • South Korea The Secret Agent • Brazil Sirāt • Spain	Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Runner-up: Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
Best Film Editing	Best Original Score
One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen Runner-up: Sinners – Michael P. Shawver F1 – Stephen Mirrione A House of Dynamite – Kirk Baxter Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie	Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Runner-up: One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Train Dreams – Bryce Dessner
Best Production Design
Sinners – Hannah Beachler Runner-up: Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell Hamnet – Fiona Crombie Marty Supreme – Jack Fisk One Battle After Another – Florencia Martin

Special awards

Special Citation for Independent Cinema

Twinless
- Runner-up: Brother Verses Brother
  - The Encampments
  - Happyend

Marlon Riggs Award

Karen Larsen

References

1 2 "SFBAFCC 2025 Awards". San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
1 2 Anderson, Erik (December 14, 2025). "San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Awards: 'One Battle After Another', 'Sinners' Share Most Wins". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
1 2 Neglia, Matt (December 14, 2025). "The 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
↑ Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2025). "San Francisco Film Critics (SFBAFCC) Nominations: 'One Battle', 'Sinners', 'Sentimental Value' Lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
↑ Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2025). "The 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
↑ arnewsteam (December 14, 2025). "Winners Announced by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle for 2025". Awards Radar. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

External links

Official website

[SFBAFCC-1] 1 2 "SFBAFCC 2025 Awards". San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

[AwardsWatch-2] 1 2 Anderson, Erik (December 14, 2025). "San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Awards: 'One Battle After Another', 'Sinners' Share Most Wins". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

[NPB-3] 1 2 Neglia, Matt (December 14, 2025). "The 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

[4] Anderson, Erik (December 12, 2025). "San Francisco Film Critics (SFBAFCC) Nominations: 'One Battle', 'Sinners', 'Sentimental Value' Lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

[5] Neglia, Matt (December 12, 2025). "The 2025 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

[6] rnewsteam (December 14, 2025). "Winners Announced by the San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle for 2025". Awards Radar. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

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