Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” has snagged another Best Picture title. The National Board of Review named the Warner Bros. release the Best Film of 2025 after it won the same honor from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Gotham Awards earlier this week. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association will have its say on. Sunday.
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“Battle” also saw Andreson win Best Director, Leonardo DiCaprio take Best Actor, Benicio Del Toro honored with Supporting Actor, and Chase Infiniti win Breakthrough Performance. Warner Bros.’ other major contender, “Sinners,” found Ryan Coogler winning Original Screenplay and Autumn Durald Arkapaw win the Cinematography prize.
Rose Byrne won Best Actress for “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas won Supporting Actress for “Sentimental Value,” while Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar won Adapted Screenplay for “Train Dreams.” Eva Victor won Best Directorial Debut for “Sorry, Baby.”
Animated Feature went to “Arco,” International Feature went to Palm d’Or winner “It Was Just An Accident,” and Best Documentary went to “Cover Up.”
The organization showed a shocking amount of Netflix love as “Jay Kelly,” “Frankenstein,” “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” and “Train Dreams” all made the organization’s top 10 list of non-independent movies (although the latter was technically one and was recognized by the Spirit Awards earlier this morning). Other titles making the top 10 list include “Rental Family,” “F1,” “Sinners,” “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” “Marty Supreme,” and the second part of the group’s Best Film for 2024, “Wicked For Good.”
“Left-Handed Girl,” “The Love That Remains,” “The Secret Agent,” “Sentimental Value,” and “Sirāt” were all selected as the Top 5 (additional) International Films. The top 10 Independent Films were a mostly quizzical group, starting with “The Baltimorons,” the horror flick “Bring Her Back,” “Father Mother Sister Brother,” “Friendship,” “Good Boy,” “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” “The Mastermind,” “Rebuilding,” “Sorry, Baby,” and “Urchin” (techincally an international film).
Surprising omissions across the board include “Bugonia,” “Hamnet,” “The Testament of Ann Lee,” “Is This Thing On?,” “Die, My Love,” “Twinless,” “Nouvelle Vague,” “Lurker,” “Springsteen: Nowhere From Here,” “One of them Days,” “Warfare,” “Hedda,” “Peter Hujar’s Day,” “The Secret Agent,” “Pillion,” “Blue Moon,” and “Weapons.”
The winners will be recognized at a gala in New York City on January 13, 2026.
A complete list of this year’s winners is as follows:
Best Film: One Battle After Another
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Best Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actress: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Best Directorial Debut: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby
Breakthrough Performance: Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Best Original Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best Adapted Screenplay: Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams
Best Animated Feature: Arco
Best International Film: It Was Just an Accident
Best Documentary: Cover-Up
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Top 10 Films (in alphabetical order)
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
Jay Kelly
Marty Supreme
Rental Family
Sinners
Train Dreams
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Wicked: For Good
TOP 5 International Films (in alphabetical order)
Left-Handed Girl
The Love That Remains
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
TOP 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Come See Me in the Good Light
My Mom Jayne
Natchez
Orwell: 2+2=5
TOP 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
The Baltimorons
Bring Her Back
Father Mother Sister Brother
Friendship
Good Boy
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
The Mastermind
Rebuilding
Sorry, Baby
Urchin
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