Don Shanahan
The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) announces winners of their 2025 OFCS Awards, including technical awards, Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement honors for industry leaders and icons, and the organization’s top 10 non-US released films of the year. 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 led with 10 award wins including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Score and more. Films taking home single awards include Frankenstein, Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby, The Perfect Neighbor, and Weapons.
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).
In addition to the top film honors, the Online Film Critics Society recognizes the work and contributions of several professionals and organizations with their annual Special Achievement and Lifetime Achievement Awards. OFCS members—including Film Obsessive lead editors Tina Kakadelis and Don Shanahan—are invited to nominate recipients of both awards, for achievements they deem worthy of these recognitions. 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 2025 OFCS Awards 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 is:
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
Best Animated Feature
KPop Demon Hunters
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Best Actor
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Best Actress
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Best Ensemble & Casting
Sinners
Best Original Screenplay
Sinners
Best Adapted Screenplay
One Battle After Another
Best Editing
One Battle After Another
Best Cinematography
Sinners
Best Original Score
Sinners
Best Production Design
Sinners
Best Costume Design
Sinners
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Frankenstein
Best Sound
Sinners
Best Visual Effects
Sinners
Best Choreography (Dance & Stunt)
Sinners
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)
About the Online Film Critics Society
Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is a professional association for online film journalists, historians, and scholars with a mission to further the growth of an informed film audience, to promote awareness of the Internet as a source of news and commentary, to provide a forum for the OFCS members to communicate and discuss ideas about journalism and cinema, and to encourage a high standard of journalism across the online media. 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 2025 OFCS Awards annually honor traditional categories including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Actress, among others. The Online Film Critics Society explores the nature of film from historical, sociological, political, emotional, technical, and other perspectives and appreciates film as a medium for art and a mode of entertainment. Learn more at www.ofcs.org
