The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awarded its year-end prizes for 2025, and it went to Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another.” The Warner Bros. release has now won the top prize from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Board of Review, the Gotham Awards, and, now, the premier West Coast critics’ group. Anderson also won Best Director.
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The lead performance winners went to Rose Byrne for “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Ethan Hawke or “Blue Moon.” Stellan Skarsgård and Teyana Taylor took the Supporting Performance honors or “Sentimental Value” and “One Battle After Another,” respectively.
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” won Best Film Not in the English Language and was the runner-up for both Best Picture and Lead Performance, Wagner Moura.
The documentary prize went to “My Undesirable Friends: Part 1— Last Air in Moscow,” and the Animation honor was awarded to “Little Amelie or the Character of Rain.”
This year’s winners and runners-up are as follows:
Best Director, Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Runner-up: Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”
Best Lead Performance, Winners: Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, and Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON
Runners-up: Timothée Chalamet, MARTY SUPREME, and Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT
Best Supporting Performance, Winners: Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, and Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Runners-up: Best Supporting Performance, Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, and Andrew Scott, BLUE MOON
Best Screenplay, Winner: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Runner-up: Eva Victor, SORRY, BABY
Best Documentary/Nonfiction, Winner: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
Runner-up: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
Best Film Not in the English Language, Winner: THE SECRET AGENT
Runner-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Best Animation, Winner: LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN
Runner-up: Kpop DEMON HUNTERS
Best Film Editing, Winner: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, MARTY SUPREME
Best Film Editing, Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Best Production Design, Winner: Hannah Beachler, SINNERS
Runner-up: Tamara Deverell, FRANKENSTEIN
Best Music Score, Winner: Kangding Ray, SIRĀT
Runner-up: Ludwig Göransson, SINNERS
Best Cinematography, Winner: Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS
Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, SINNERS
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