The Online Film Critics Society Announces Its 2025 Award Winners

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.