New York Film Critics Circle Announce 2025 Winners
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- Published on Saturday, 06 December 2025 09:20
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The New York Film Critics Circle voted today at Film at Lincoln Center for their 2025 award-winners. The awards will be handed out during their annual ceremony on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at TAO Downtown.
One Battle After Another was awarded Best Film, Jafar Panahi was named Best Director for It Was Just an Accident; Rose Byrne was selected as Best Actress for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You; and Wagner Moura was chosen as Best Actor for The Secret Agent. KPop Demon Hunters was selected as Best Animated Film. Special Awards were given to Screen Slate and the Museum of the Moving Image. London Xhudo (Undergraduate, NYU) and Tan Zhiyuan (Graduate, The New School) were awarded the student scholarships, which this year have been increased to $3,000 each. Full list of winners available here.
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"The NYFCC is proud of the exciting slate of winners selected this year and we look forward to honoring them all at our annual gala in January," said NYFCC Chair David Ehrlich of IndieWire.
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest critics group in the country, and among the most prestigious. The NYFCC's membership includes critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the web's most respected online publications.
Every year the organization meets to vote on awards for the calendar year's films, among the first of the major groups to pronounce its winners. Oftentimes the NYFCC's selections pave a path for Awards Season, while other times their picks stand proudly independent from other organizations. The group's awards dinner in early January is also considered a kick-off to a new year of glamorous events in New York City.
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For information regarding the NYFCC, please visit: www.nyfcc.com.
Best Film:
One Battle After Another
Best Director:
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Best Screenplay:
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, Marty Supreme
Best Actress:
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Best Actor:
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Best Supporting Actor:
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Best Foreign Language Film:
The Secret Agent
Best Cinematography:
Autumn Durald, Sinners
Best Nonfiction Film:
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
Best First Film:
Eephus
Best Animated Film:
KPop Demon Hunters
Special Award:
Screen Slate
Museum of the Moving Image
Student Scholarships:
London Xhudo (Undergraduate, NYU)
Tan Zhiyuan (Graduate, The New School)
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A FULL LIST OF CURRENT NYFCC MEMBERS INCLUDE:
David Ehrlich (CHAIR)
IndieWire
David Rooney (VICE CHAIR)
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Garrett (GENERAL MANAGER)
Freelance
MEMBERS:
Sam Adams
Slate
Siddhant Adlakha
Freelance
Melissa Anderson
4Columns
Michael Atkinson
Freelance
Jason Bailey
Freelance
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
Dwight Brown
NNPA Syndication
Monica Castillo
Freelance
Kameron Austin Collins
Freelance
Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine
Kate Erbland
IndieWire
David Fear
Rolling Stone
Graham Fuller
The Arts Desk
Owen Gleiberman
Variety
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
Leah Greenblatt
Freelance
Steven D. Greydanus
Freelance
Rafer Guzman
Newsday
Lovia Gyarkye
Freelance
Jordan Hoffman
Freelance
Caryn James
BBC
Eric Kohn
Freelance
Tomris Laffly
Freelance
Ryan Lattanzio
IndieWire
Richard Lawson
Freelance
Violet Lucca
Freelance
Soraya Nadia McDonald
Andscape
Farran Nehme
Freelance
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Sheila O'Malley
Rogerebert.com
Rex Reed
New York Observer
Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
David Sims
The Atlantic
Matt Singer
ScreenCrush
Kyle Smith
The Wall Street Journal
Dana Stevens
Slate
Amy Taubin
Artforum
Peter Travers
ABC
Keith Uhlich
Freelance
Elizabeth Weitzman
TheWrap
Kelli Weston
Freelance
Stephen Whitty
Freelance
Alison Willmore
New York Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Time Magazine
Esther Zuckerman
Freelance
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For information regarding membership, please visit: http://www.nyfcc.com/membership/
