2025 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

22nd StLFCA Awards

December 14, 2025

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Best Film:
One Battle After Another

The nominees for the 22nd St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 7, 2025. The winners were announced on December 14, 2025. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another led the nominations with fifteen, followed by Sinners with fourteen and Hamnet with eleven. ^[1] One Battle After Another was also the most awarded film with nine wins, including Best Film, Best Director (Anderson), Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn). ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Winners and nominees

Best Film One Battle After Another Runner-up: Sinners Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme The Phoenician Scheme The Secret Agent Superman Weapons Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Runner-up: Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Armando / Marcelo Alves / Fernando Best Supporting Actor Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Runner-up: Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sergio St. Carlos Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Andrew Scott – Blue Moon as Richard Rodgers Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg Best Original Screenplay Weapons – Zach Cregger Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sinners – Ryan Coogler Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor Best Animated Feature Zootopia 2 Runner-up: KPop Demon Hunters Arco Elio Ne Zha 2 Best International Feature Film It Was Just an Accident • Iran Runner-up: Sentimental Value • Norway No Other Choice • South Korea The Secret Agent • Brazil Sirāt • Spain Best Cinematography One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Runner-up: Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Best Costume Design Frankenstein – Kate Hawley Runner-up: Sinners – Ruth E. Carter Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska The Testament of Ann Lee – Małgorzata Karpiuk Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell Best Music Score One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Runner-up: The Testament of Ann Lee – Daniel Blumberg Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Hamnet – Max Richter Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Best Visual Effects Avatar: Fire and Ash – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett Runner-up: Superman – Stéphane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé, and Guy Williams F1 – Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington, Nicolas Chevallier, Eric Leven, Edward Price, and Keith Dawson Sinners – Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, and Donnie Dean Tron: Ares – David Seager, Walter García, Jeff Capogreco, Abishek Nair, Vincent Papaix, and Ross Duncan McCabe Best Comedy Film The Naked Gun Runner-up: Friendship Eephus Good Fortune The Phoenician Scheme Best Scene Sinners – Music evolution set to "I Lied to You" Runner-up: One Battle After Another – Climactic rolling hills car chase scene Hamnet – The Globe theatrical production It Was Just an Accident – Finale Weapons – The fate of Aunt Gladys Best First Feature Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby Runner-up: Emilie Blichfeldt – The Ugly Stepsister Andrew DeYoung – Friendship Drew Hancock – Companion Carson Lund – Eephus

Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Runner-up: Ryan Coogler – Sinners Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Chloé Zhao – Hamnet Best Actress Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Runner-up: Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Best Supporting Actress Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Runner-up: Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills Glenn Close – Wake Up Dead Man as Martha Delacroix Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Best Adapted Screenplay One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson; inspired by the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Runner-up: Wake Up Dead Man – Rian Johnson; based on the characters by Johnson Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro; based on the novel by Mary Shelley Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell; based on the novel by O'Farrell Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar; based on the novella by Denis Johnson Best Documentary Feature Orwell: 2+2=5 Runner-up: The Perfect Neighbor 2000 Meters to Andriivka Afternoons of Solitude Deaf President Now! Best Ensemble One Battle After Another Runner-up: Black Bag Hamnet A House of Dynamite Sinners Best Editing One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen Runner-up: A House of Dynamite – Kirk Baxter F1 – Stephen Mirrione Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sinners – Michael P. Shawver Best Production Design Frankenstein – Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau Runner-up: The Phoenician Scheme – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock Hamnet – Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton Sinners – Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne Wicked: For Good – Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales Best Music Soundtrack Sinners Runner-up: KPop Demon Hunters Marty Supreme Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Wicked: For Good Best Action Film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning F1 One Battle After Another Superman Warfare Best Horror Film Weapons Runner-up: Sinners 28 Years Later Companion Frankenstein Best Stunts Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – Wade Eastwood Runner-up: Ballerina – Stephen Dunlevy, Kyle Gardiner, Jackson Spidell, Jeremy Marinas, Jan Petřina, Domonkos Párdányi, and Kinga Kósa-Gavalda F1 – Gary Powell, Luciano Bacheta, and Craig Dolby One Battle After Another – Brian Machleit Warfare – Giedrius Nagys Best Vocal Performance Will Patton – Train Dreams as the narrator Runner-up: Arden Cho – KPop Demon Hunters as Rumi Ginnifer Goodwin – Zootopia 2 as Judy Hopps Damian Lewis – Orwell: 2+2=5 as the narrator Scarlet Sher – Weapons as the child narrator

References

1. Held, Kevin S. (December 8, 2025). "List: St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards 2025 Nominees". FOX 2 Now. Retrieved December 8, 2025.
2. Neglia, Matt (December 7, 2025). "The 2025 St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 7, 2025.
3. Anderson, Erik (December 7, 2025). "St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another', 'Sinners' Lead". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 7, 2025.
4. Anderson, Erik (December 14, 2025). "St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Awards: 'One Battle After Another' Dominates". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
5. Neglia, Matt (December 14, 2025). "The 2025 St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 15, 2025.
6. arnewsteam (December 14, 2025). "2025 St. Louis Film Critics Association Award Winners Led by 'One Battle After Another' Dominates". Awards Radar. Retrieved December 15, 2025.

External links

• Official website