News Release: SINNERS Leads Online Film Critics Society 2025 Awards Nominations

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON’S ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER WINS BEST PICTURE & BEST DIRECTOR AT ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY 2025 AWARDS 

Sinners tops the Awards with 10 wins and the Organization presents Special Achievement Awards to Green Film & Film Workers for Palestine

Vancouver, BC (January 26, 2026) – The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) announces winners of their top film honors of 2025, as well as 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 wins Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Editing; Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads 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.

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 Online Film Critics Society annually presents traditional awards including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Actress, among others. Founded in 1997, members of the OFCS explore the nature of film from historical, sociological, political, emotional, technical, and other perspectives, appreciating film as a medium for art and a mode of entertainment.

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 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 OFCS 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 as follows:

Best Picture

One Battle After Another (Winner)

Sinners

Sentimental Value

It Was Just an Accident

The Secret Agent

Marty Supreme

Weapons

No Other Choice

HamnetTrain 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)

Awards Tallies:

10 - Sinners

5 - One Battle After Another

1 - Frankenstein, Hamnet, KPop Demon Hunters, Sentimental Value, Sorry, Baby, The Perfect Neighbor, Weapons

The full list of awards can be found here.

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. The OFCS consists of nearly 300 members around the world; nearly one third of the organization’s membership are based outside of the United States. 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