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, will be announced on December 18, 2025. The nominations were announced on December 10, 2025. ^[1] The categories for Best Visual Effects and Best Remake/Franchise Film were introduced. The five recipients for The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award will be announced alongside the winners for the rest of the categories. ^[2]

Paul Thomas Anderson's thriller One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler's horror film Sinners led the nominations with eleven each. Other multiple nominated films included Marty Supreme with eight and Sentimental Value with five. ^[3]

Winners and nominees

The winners will be listed first and in bold.

Best Picture	Best Director
Bugonia Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners The Testament of Ann Lee Train Dreams Weapons	Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein 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	Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda 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 Colonel Steven J. Lockjaw Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick	Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys 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 Sinners – Ryan Coogler Weapons – Zach Cregger The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier	One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson; inspired by the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar; based on the novel by Denis Johnson No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Jahye Lee; based on the novel The Ax by Donald E. Westlake Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro; based on the novel by Mary Shelley Bugonia – Will Tracy; based on the film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary
Arco Elio KPop Demon Hunters Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	Come See Me in the Good Light Orwell: 2+2=5 The Librarians The Perfect Neighbor Predators
Best International Film	Best First Film
It Was Just an Accident No Other Choice The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sirāt	Friendship – Andrew DeYoung Eephus – Carson Lund The Plague – Charlie Polinger The Chronology of Water – Kristen Stewart Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso	One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen F1 – Stephen Mirrione Sinners – Michael P. Shawver Weapons – Joe Murphy Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Best Original Score	Best Ensemble
The Testament of Ann Lee – Daniel Blumberg Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat Sinners – Ludwig Göransson One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood Tron: Ares – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross	The Long Walk Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Stunt Work	Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance
Ballerina F1 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning One Battle After Another Sinners	Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Varang Arden Cho – KPop Demon Hunters as Rumi Will Patton – Train Dreams as the narrator Zoe Saldaña – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Neytiri Stephen Lang – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Colonel Miles Quaritch
Best Visual Effects	Best Remake/Franchise Film
Avatar: Fire and Ash F1 Frankenstein Sinners Superman	Avatar: Fire & Ash Frankenstein Superman Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 28 Years Later
The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Artist Award	Best Austin Film 2024
To be announced	The American Southwest (dir. Ben Masters) Blue Moon (dir. Richard Linklater) Man Goes on Rant (dir. Peter Curtis Pardini) Nouvelle Vague (dir. Richard Linklater) The Toxic Avenger (dir. Macon Blair)

References

1. Neglia, Matt (December 10, 2025). "The 2025 Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Nominations". NextBestPicture. Retrieved December 10, 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.

External links

• Official website