2025 National Society of Film Critics Awards

The 60th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on January 3, 2026, honored the best in film for 2025.^[1][2][3]

Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller film One Battle After Another won the most awards with four, including Best Picture and Best Director.^[1] One Battle After Another became the fourth film in history to sweep the quartet of Best Picture prizes from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle, and, now, the National Society of Film Critics, joining Schindler's List (1993), L.A. Confidential (1997) and The Social Network (2010).^[3][4][5]

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:

1. One Battle After Another (57)
2. Sinners (29)
3. The Secret Agent (27)

1. Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (54)
2. Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident (48)
3. Richard Linklater – Blue Moon / Nouvelle Vague (39)

1. Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon (57)
2. Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent (43)
3. Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (36)

1. Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch (45)
2. Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (39)
3. Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value (37)

1. Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another (54)
2. Delroy Lindo – Sinners (37)
3. Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value (30)

1. Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another (56)
2. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value (47)
3. Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners (41)

1. Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident (53)
2. Robert Kaplow – Blue Moon (50)
3. Kleber Mendonça Filho – The Secret Agent (40)

1. Autumn Durald Arkapaw – Sinners (50)
2. Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams (36)
3. Michael Bauman – One Battle After Another (29)

1. The Secret Agent (58)
2. It Was Just an Accident (57)
3. Sentimental Value (38)

1. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (56)
2. The Perfect Neighbor (22)
3. Orwell: 2+2=5 (18)

• Morning Circle (Basma al-Sharif)

• Cinema Tropical, "for its tireless efforts to distribute, program and promote Latin American cinema in the U.S."
• The Film Desk, "for releasing key movies from all over the world, in 35mm prints and on home video, and publishing books that have enriched the public's knowledge of cinema."
• Ken and Flo Jacobs, "an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema."

• Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)

• Official website