Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2025

21st Austin Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 18, 2025 (2025-12-18)
Location	Austin, Texas
Presented by	Austin Film Critics Association
Website	austinfilmcritics.org
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The 21st Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2025, were announced on December 18, 2025. ^[1] The nominations were announced on December 10, 2025. ^[2] The categories of Best Visual Effects and Best Remake/Franchise Film were introduced this year. The five recipients of the Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award were announced alongside the winners of the rest of the categories. ^[2]

Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another led the nominations with twelve, followed by Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners with eleven, and Frankenstein and Marty Supreme with eight apiece. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

One Battle After Another received the most awards with five, including Best Film, followed by Sinners with three. ^{[1] [5] [6]} Indy the Dog, from the supernatural horror film Good Boy , received a special award "for a uniquely realized performance in the field of animal acting". ^[1]

Winners and nominees

The winners are listed first and in bold.

Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay winner

Timothée Chalamet, Best Actor winner

Rose Byrne, Best Actress winner

Benicio del Toro, Best Supporting Actor winner

Amy Madigan, Best Supporting Actress winner

Josh Safdie, Best Original Screenplay co-winner

Ludwig Göransson, Best Original Score winner

Oona Chaplin, Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance winner

Best Film	Best Director
One Battle After Another Sinners Marty Supreme Sentimental Value Weapons The Secret Agent The Testament of Ann Lee Frankenstein Train Dreams Bugonia	Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Best Actor	Best Actress
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson 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	Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love as Grace Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sergio St. Carlos Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature David Jonsson – The Long Walk as Peter "Pete" McVries Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick	Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Sinners – Ryan Coogler Weapons – Zach Cregger	One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Bugonia – Will Tracy and Jang Joon-hwan Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jahye Lee, and Donald E. Westlake Train Dreams – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, and Denis Johnson
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary
KPop Demon Hunters Arco Elio Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	The Perfect Neighbor Come See Me in the Good Light The Librarians Orwell: 2+2=5 Predators
Best International Film	Best First Film
The Secret Agent It Was Just an Accident No Other Choice Sentimental Value Sirāt	Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor The Chronology of Water – Kristen Stewart Eephus – Carson Lund Friendship – Andrew DeYoung The Plague – Charlie Polinger
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso	One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen F1: The Movie – Stephen Mirrione Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sinners – Michael P. Shawver Weapons – Joe Murphy
Best Original Score	Best Ensemble
Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood The Testament of Ann Lee – Daniel Blumberg Tron: Ares – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross	Sinners The Long Walk Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Stunt Work	Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Ballerina F1: The Movie One Battle After Another Sinners	Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Varang Arden Cho / EJAE – KPop Demon Hunters as Rumi Stephen Lang – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Colonel Miles Quaritch Will Patton – Train Dreams as the narrator Zoe Saldaña – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Neytiri
Best Visual Effects	Best Remake/Franchise Film
Avatar: Fire and Ash F1: The Movie Frankenstein Sinners Superman	Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 28 Years Later Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein Superman
The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award	Best Austin Film 2025
Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme Miles Caton – Sinners Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another Maggie Kang – KPop Demon Hunters Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby	Blue Moon (dir. Richard Linklater) The American Southwest (dir. Ben Masters) Man Goes on Rant (dir. Peter Curtis Pardini) Nouvelle Vague (dir. Richard Linklater) The Toxic Avenger (dir. Macon Blair)
The Dual Threat Special Award
Elle Fanning – Predator: Badlands Theo James – The Monkey Michael B. Jordan – Sinners Diego Luna/Tonatiuh/Jennifer Lopez – Kiss of the Spider Woman Dylan O'Brien – Twinless Robert Pattinson – Mickey 17 Rosamund Pike/Matthew Rhys – Hallow Road

References

1. "2025 Austin Film Critics Association Award Winners". Austin Film Critics Association. December 18, 2025. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
2. "2025 Austin Film Critics Association Award Nominations". Austin Film Critics Association. December 10, 2025. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
3. Anderson, Erik (December 10, 2025). "Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations: 'One Battle After Another', 'Sinners' Lead with 11". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
4. Neglia, Matt (December 10, 2025). "The 2025 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 10, 2025.
5. Anderson, Erik (December 18, 2025). "Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Awards: 'One Battle After Another' Takes 5 Wins". AwardsWatch. Retrieved December 18, 2025.
6. Neglia, Matt (December 18, 2025). "The 2025 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Winners". Next Best Picture. Retrieved December 18, 2025.

External links

• Official website