{"id":673262,"date":"2026-01-04T12:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673262\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:30:15","slug":"one-battle-after-another-named-best-film-by-nsfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673262\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One Battle After Another\u2019 Named Best Film By NSFC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPaul Thomas Anderson\u2019s rousing One Battle After Another<\/a> has been named the National Society of Film Critics<\/a>\u2018 Best Picture of 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe sprawling adventure drama, which has made over $205 million at the box office worldwide and appears poised to be an Oscars frontrunner, also clinched Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (for Teyana Taylor) and Best Supporting Actor (for Benicio del Toro).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe NSFC<\/a>, which comprises more than 60 of the country\u2019s most prominent film critics and was founded in 1966, held its 60th annual awards<\/a> voting meeting Saturday, Jan. 3.\u00a0Critics voted at in-person gatherings in Los Angeles and New York, and also participated virtually from across the country.<\/p>\n

\n\tView the National Society of Film Critics\u2019 full list of winners<\/a> below:<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Picture
<\/strong>One Battle After Another
Runners-up:\u00a0Sinners, The Secret Agent<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Director<\/strong>
Paul Thomas Anderson,\u00a0One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident; Richard Linklater, Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Actress<\/strong>
Kathleen Chalfant, Familiar Touch
Runners-up: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You; Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Supporting Actress<\/strong>
Teyana Taylor,\u00a0One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value; Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Actor
<\/strong>Ethan Hawke,\u00a0Blue Moon
Runners-up: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent; Michael B. Jordan, Sinners<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Supporting Actor
<\/strong>Benicio del Toro,\u00a0One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Delroy Lindo, Sinners; Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Sentimental Value<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Screenplay
<\/strong>Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Runners-up: Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon; Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho, The Secret Agent<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Film Not in the English Language
<\/strong>The Secret Agent
Runners-up:\u00a0It Was Just an Accident,\u00a0Sentimental Value<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Nonfiction Film
<\/strong>My Undesirable Friends: Part I \u2014\u00a0Last Air in Moscow
Runners-up:\u00a0The Perfect Neighbor, Orwell: 2+2=5<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Cinematography<\/strong>
Autumn Durald Arkapaw,\u00a0Sinners
Runners-up: Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams; Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Experimental Film
<\/strong>Morning Circle, Basma al-Sharif<\/p>\n

\n\tSpecial Award for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution
<\/strong>Landmarks, Lucrecia Martel<\/p>\n

\n\tFILM HERITAGE AWARDS<\/strong>
Cinema Tropical<\/strong>:\u00a0for its tireless efforts to distribute, program and promote Latin American cinema in the U.S.
The Film Desk<\/strong>:\u00a0for releasing key movies from all over the world, in 35mm prints and on home video, and publishing books that have enriched the public\u2019s knowledge of cinema.
Ken and Flo Jacobs<\/strong>:\u00a0an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s rousing One Battle After Another has been named the National Society of Film Critics\u2018 Best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[14010,77,3943,204869,204870,150003,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-673262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-national-society-of-film-critics","12":"tag-nsfc","13":"tag-one-battle-after-another","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115836841055619310","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}