

The New York Film Critics Circle, or NYFCC, has announced its winners for 2025. The big winners include One Battle After Another, which won both Best Film and Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro. The Secret Agent also won two awards: Best International Film and Best Actor for Wagner Moura. Other notable winners include Jafar Panahi, who won Best Director for It Was Just an Accident. Rose Byrne won Best Actress for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for Weapons, and Best Screenplay went to Marty Supreme. Here’s the complete list of winners:
Best Film: One Battle After Another
Best Director: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Best Actor: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Best Screenplay: Marty Supreme
Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan, Weapons
Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters
Best Cinematography: Sinners
Best First Film: Eephus
Best International Film: The Secret Agent
Best Nonfiction Film: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
Special Awards: Screen Slate, Museum of the Moving Image
Student Prizes: London Xhudo (undergraduate, NYU) and Tan Zhiyuan (graduate, The New School)
The New York Film Critics Circle winners will be recognized in a celebration held in January.
