2025 National Society of Film Critics Awards

Winners

Best Picture

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sinners
3. ''The Secret Agent''

Best Director

1. Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
2. Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
3. Richard Linklater – Blue Moon and ''Nouvelle Vague''

Best Actor

1. Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
2. Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
3. Michael B. Jordan – ''Sinners''

Best Actress

1. Kathleen Chalfant – Familiar Touch
2. Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
3. Renate Reinsve – ''Sentimental Value''

Best Supporting Actor

1. Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
2. Delroy Lindo – Sinners
3. Stellan Skarsgård – ''Sentimental Value''

Best Supporting Actress

1. Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
2. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
3. Wunmi Mosaku – ''Sinners''

Best Screenplay

1. Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
2. Robert Kaplow – Blue Moon
3. Kleber Mendonça Filho – ''The Secret Agent''

Best Cinematography

1. Autumn Durald Arkapaw – Sinners
2. Adolpho Veloso – Train Dreams
3. Michael Bauman – ''One Battle After Another''

Best Film Not in the English Language

1. The Secret Agent
2. It Was Just an Accident
3. ''Sentimental Value''

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
2. The Perfect Neighbor
3. ''Orwell: 2+2=5''

Best Experimental Film

• ''Morning Circle''

Film Heritage Award

• Cinema Tropical, "for its tireless efforts to distribute, program and promote Latin American cinema in the U.S."
• The Film Desk, "for releasing key movies from all over the world, in 35mm prints and on home video, and publishing books that have enriched the public's knowledge of cinema."
• Ken and Flo Jacobs, "an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema."

Special Award for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution

• ''Landmarks''