Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2025


The 31st Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2025, were announced on December 17, 2025.
One Battle After Another received the most awards with five wins, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. Other multiple winning films were Sinners, which won Best Cinematography and Best Musical Score, and Sentimental Value, which won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Supporting Actor. The winners for the remaining categories were Rose Byrne for Best Actress, The Perfect Neighbor for Best Documentary Film, and KPop Demon Hunters for Best Animated Film.

Winners and nominees

Category awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 to as few as 2.
Best PictureBest Director

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Sinners
  3. Marty Supreme
  4. Hamnet
  5. Sentimental Value
  6. Train Dreams
  7. Frankenstein
  8. Jay Kelly
  9. Bugonia
  10. It Was Just an Accident
  • Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
  • Ryan Coogler – Sinners
  • Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
  • Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
  • Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson
  • Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser
  • Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore
  • Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart
  • Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier
  • Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda
  • Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare
  • Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg
  • Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller
  • Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg
  • Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
  • Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw
  • Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare
  • Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick
  • Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
  • Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys
  • Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen
  • Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler
  • Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie
    • Best Documentary FilmBest Foreign Language Film
  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • 2000 Meters to Andriivka
  • Orwell: 2+2=5
  • Cover-Up
  • Come See Me in the Good Light
  • Sentimental Value • Norway
  • It Was Just an Accident • Iran
  • The Secret Agent • Brazil
  • No Other Choice • South Korea
  • Sirāt • Spain
    • Best Animated FilmBest Screenplay
  • KPop Demon Hunters
  • Arco
  • One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Sinners – Ryan Coogler
    • Best CinematographyBest Musical Score
  • Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
  • Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
  • Sinners – Ludwig Göransson
  • Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat

    • Special award

    [Russell Smith Award]

    'It Was Just an Accident'''''