‘One Battle After Another’ Sweeps Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another swept the the Atlanta Film Critics Circle 2025 awards earning the top film of the year honor along with Best Director, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro), Best Breakthrough Performance for Chase Infiniti, Best Ensemble, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography,

Other top winners included Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby for Best First Feature, The Perfect Neighbor for Best Documentary, and It Was Just an Accident for Best International Feature.

“2025 was another stellar year for film, including two horror sensations in Sinners and Weapons, Chloé Zhao’s heartbreaking excavation of the grief process in Hamnet, and one of the strongest crops of international films in recent memory,” said AFCC advisory board member Kyle Pinion. “But it was Paul Thomas Anderson’s crafting of a generational masterpiece in One Battle After Another that ruled the day in AFCC voters’ ballots, and rightfully so. It’s the kind of film that will last.”

Complete list of winners of Atlanta Film Critics Circle 2025 awards

BEST FILM:
One Battle After Another

TOP 10 FILMS (ranked):

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sinners
3. Weapons
4. Hamnet
5. Marty Supreme
6. It Was Just an Accident
7. No Other Choice
8. Sentimental Value
9. Train Dreams
10. The Secret Agent

BEST LEAD ACTOR:
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

BEST LEAD ACTRESS:
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Runner-up: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Runner-up: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST:
One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Sinners

BEST DIRECTOR:
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Sinners
Runner-up: Weapons

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Hamnet

BEST DOCUMENTARY:
The Perfect Neighbor
Runner-up: The Alabama Solution

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE:
It Was Just an Accident
Runner-up: No Other Choice

BEST ANIMATED FILM:
KPop Demon Hunters
Runner-up: Arco

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Sinners

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Sinners
Runner-up: One Battle After Another

BEST STUNT WORK:
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Runner-up: F1

BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE:
Arden Cho, KPop Demon Hunters
Runner-up: Jason Bateman, Zootopia 2

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

BEST FIRST FEATURE:
Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby