2025 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
| 51st LAFCA Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | December 7, 2025 |
| Highlights | |
| Best Picture | One Battle After Another |
The 51st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2025. The awards were announced on December 7, 2025. Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another led the awards with three wins, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Performance (Teyana Taylor).[1][2][3]
The winners were honored at the association's annual banquet in the Biltmore Hotel on January 10, 2026. On October 22, 2025, it was announced that American filmmaker Philip Kaufman would be honored with the Career Achievement Award.[4]
Winners
- Best Film:
- One Battle After Another
- Runner-up: The Secret Agent
- One Battle After Another
- Best Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
- Runner-up: Ryan Coogler – Sinners
- Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
- Best Lead Performance:
- Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
- Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
- Runner-up: Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
- Runner-up: Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
- Best Supporting Performance:
- Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
- Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
- Runner-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
- Runner-up: Andrew Scott – Blue Moon
- Best Screenplay:
- Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
- Runner-up: Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby
- Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
- Best Cinematography:
- Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams
- Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw – Sinners
- Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams
- Best Editing:
- Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
- Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen – One Battle After Another
- Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
- Best Music Score:
- Kangding Ray – Sirāt
- Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson – Sinners
- Kangding Ray – Sirāt
- Best Production Design:
- Hannah Beachler – Sinners
- Runner-up: Tamara Deverell – Frankenstein
- Hannah Beachler – Sinners
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- The Secret Agent
- Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident
- The Secret Agent
- Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
- Best Animation:
- New Generation Award:
- Career Achievement Award:
- The Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Award:
- Albert Serra – Afternoons of Solitude
- Thom Andersen (for his body of work)
- Special Citation:
- Judy Kim of Gardena Cinema, a historic 800-seat, single-screen movie palace that has operated as an independent cinema and beacon of community since the Kim family took ownership in 1976
References
- ^ Davis, Clayton (December 7, 2025). "'One Battle After Another' Wins Big at LA Film Critics with Best Picture, Ethan Hawke and Rose Byrne Take Lead Acting Prizes". Variety. Retrieved December 7, 2025.
- ^ Garner, Glenn (December 7, 2025). "'One Battle After Another' Wins Best Film at Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2025 Awards — Full Winners List". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 7, 2025.
- ^ Zilko, Christian (December 7, 2025). "Los Angeles Film Critics Association Names 'One Battle After Another' Best Picture of 2025 (Winners List)". IndieWire. Retrieved December 7, 2025.
- ^ "Los Angeles Film Critics Association Selects Philip Kaufman for Career Achievement Award" (Press release). Los Angeles Film Critics Association. October 22, 2025. Retrieved December 8, 2025.