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The Online Film Critics Society Announces Its 2025 Award Winners

Jason FlattBy Jason Flatt01/26/20264 Mins Read
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The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) announces its 2025 award winners, including 10 wins for Sinners and a Best Picture and Best Director victory for One Battle After Another. The two films took home the plurality of OFCS’s awards and are the only two films to recieve more than one award from the organization.

One Battle After Another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Editing. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads with 10 award wins, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Score, and more. 

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Films taking home single awards include Frankenstein, Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby, The Perfect Neighbor, and Weapons. OFCS also presents Special Achievement Awards to Green Film & Film Workers for Palestine.

The Online Film Critics Society announces its 2025 film honors.

Comprised of nearly 300 voting members from around the world who represent outlets including Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Slant, Paste Magazine, AARP, Sight & Sound, Screen Anarchy, Collider, The Film Stage, and many more, the Online Film Critics Society annually presents traditional awards including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Actress, among others.

The 2025 Online Film Critics Society Awards honor a broad list of films and creators from around the globe, including box office blockbusters and independent gems alike, for a total of more than 38 films nominated across 22 categories. New categories added this year include Best Ensemble & Casting, Best Makeup & Hairstyling, Best Sound Design, and Best Choreography (Dance & Stunt).

Receiving this year’s Special Achievement Award are Green Film for developing and certifying sustainability criteria to be adopted to reduce the environmental impact of an audiovisual production to a minimum but without slowing down the cast and crew’s work and Film Workers for Palestine for drawing attention to the ethical compromises being made within the film industry and fighting for organizations to support Palestine and acknowledge the current genocide.

Earning Lifetime Achievement Award recognition are industry titans Colleen Atwood, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg, Vittorio Storaro, and Walter Murch. The OFCS also recognizes a slate of ten international films as the best releases outside the U.S. in 2025.

The complete list of 2025 Online Film Critics Association awards winners:

Sinners (2025) ensemble cast in movie still.

Best Picture (Ranked Order)

One Battle After Another (Winner)

Sinners

Sentimental Value

It Was Just an Accident

The Secret Agent

Marty Supreme

Weapons

No Other Choice

Hamnet

Train Dreams

Kpop Demon Hunters

Best Animated Feature

KPop Demon Hunters

 

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another

 

Best Actor

Michael B. Jordan – Sinners

Jessie Buckley and Joe Alwyn in Hamnet

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley – Hamnet

 

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another

Weapons (2025) promotional image from New Line Cinemas and Warner Bros.

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Madigan – Weapons

 

Best Ensemble & Casting

Sinners

 

Best Original Screenplay

Sinners

 

Best Adapted Screenplay

One Battle After Another

Teyona Taylor in One Battle After Another

Best Editing

One Battle After Another

 

Best Cinematography

Sinners

Miles Caton in Sinners

Best Original Score

Sinners

 

Best Production Design

Sinners

 

Best Costume Design

Sinners

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) promotional still from Neflix

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Frankenstein

 

Best Sound

Sinners

 

Best Visual Effects

Sinners

 

Best Choreography (Dance & Stunt)

Sinners

Eva Victor in Sorry Baby

Best Debut Feature

Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

 

Best Film Not in the English Language

Sentimental Value

 

Best Documentary

The Perfect Neighbor

 

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Colleen Atwood

Jack Nicholson

Steven Spielberg

Vittorio Storaro

Walter Murch

 

Special Achievement Awards

Green Film 

Film Workers for Palestine 

 

Best Non-U.S. Releases (in alphabetical order)

Aki (dir. Darlene Naponse, Canada)

Copper (dir. Nicolas Pereda, Mexico)

The Good Sister (dir. Sarah Miro Fischer, Germany)

Home Sweet Home (dir. Frelle Petersen, Denmark)

Levers (dir. Rhayne Vermette, Canada)

Meadowlarks (dir. Tasha Hubbard, Canada)

Nino (dir. Pauline Loquès, France)

Phantoms of July (dir. Julian Radlmaier, Germany)

Punku (dir. J.D. Fernández Molero, Peru)

Two Pianos (dir. Arnaud Desplechin, France)


Read OFCS’s full press release here.

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