‘One Battle After Another’, Sirāt, ‘Endless Cookie’ Lead Toronto Film Critics Association’s Awards

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After scored the four top prizes at the Toronto Film Critics Association’s annual awards including Best Picture.

The film also won Best Director along with Best Adapted Screenplay for Anderson, and Outstanding Supporting Performance for Benicio del Toro.

del Toro shared Outstanding Supporting Performance award with Nina Hoss for Nia DaCosta’s Hedda.

The Outstanding Lead Performance award was a shared honor, with Rose Byrne receiving the award for Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, along with Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon.

The Allan King Documentary Award went to Ryan White’s Come See Me in the Good Light; Sophy Romvari won Best First Feature for Blue Heron; Best International Feature went to Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt; and the Animated Feature award went to Endless Cookie by Seth and Peter Scriver.

TFCA members voted at a live meeting on Sunday, December 7, 2025. They will present these awards, along with the Rogers Best Canadian Film and Rogers Best Canadian Documentary, on Monday, March 2, 2026, at a gala held at Toronto’s Omni King Edward Hotel.

The nominees for Rogers Best Canadian Film are Romvari’s Blue Heron; Nirvanna: the Band the Show the Movie from Matthew Johnson; and David Cronenberg’s sci-fi horror The Shrouds.

The nominees for Rogers Best Canadian Documentary are Endless Cookie; Virginia Tangvald’s Ghosts of the Sea; and Jean-François Poisson’s Who Killed the Montreal Expos?

2025 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards winners and runners-up

Rogers Best Canadian Feature nominees
Blue Heron, directed by Sophy Romvari (Blue Fox Entertainment)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, directed by Matthew Johnson (Elevation Pictures)
The Shrouds, directed by David Cronenberg (Sphere Films)

Rogers Best Canadian Documentary nominees
Endless Cookie, directed by Seth Scriver & Pete Scriver (Mongrel Media)
Ghosts of the Sea, directed by Virginia Tangvald (National Film Board of Canada)
Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, directed by Jean-François Poisson (Netflix)

Best Picture
One Battle After Another, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros.)
Runners-up: Hamnet, dir. Chloé Zhao (NBC Universal); Sinners, dir. Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros.)

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Runners-up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners (Warner Bros.); Oliver Laxe, Sirāt (Elevation Pictures)

Best Original Screenplay
Ryan Cooogler, Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Runners-up: Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein (Elevation Pictures); Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt (Elevation Pictures)

Adapted Screenplay
One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros.)
Runners-up: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet (NBC Universal); Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Jayhe Lee; No Other Choice (Elevation Pictures)

Outstanding Lead Performance
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (VVS Films); Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Mongrel Media)
Runners-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (NBC Universal); Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Michael B. Jordan, Sinners (Warner Bros.); Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent (Elevation Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Performance
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Nina Hoss, Hedda (Amazon Studios)
Runners-up: Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein (Netflix); Amy Madigan, Weapons (Warner Bros.); Sean Penn, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.); Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value (Elevation Pictures)

Breakthrough Performance
Abou Sangaré, Souleymane’s Story (Kino Lorber)
Runners-up: Miles Caton, Sinners (Warner Bros.); Chase Infinti, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)

Outstanding Lead Performance in a Canadian Film
Joan Chen, Montreal, My Beautiful (Filmoption International)
Runners-up: Deragh Campbell, Measures for a Funeral (Vortex Media); Vincent Cassel, The Shrouds (Sphere Films)

Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Canadian Film
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Sweet Angel Baby (Vortex Media)
Runners-up: Charlotte Aubin, Montreal, My Beautiful (Filmoption International); Troy Kotsur, In Cold Light (Elevation Pictures)

Allan King Documentary Award
Come See Me in the Good Light, dir. Ryan White (Apple Original Films)
Runners-up: Orwell: 2+2=5, dir. Raoul Peck (Elevation Pictures); The Tale of Silyan, dir. Tamara Kotevska (Sherry Media Group/National Geographic Documentary Films)

Best Animated Feature
Endless Cookie, dir. Seth Scriver, Pete Scriver (Mongrel Media)
Runners-up: KPop Demon Hunters, dir. Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans (Netflix); Space Cadet, dir. Kid Koala (Les Films Opale)

Best International Feature
Sirāt, dir. Oliver Laxe (Elevation Pictures)
Runners-up: It Was Just an Accident, dir. Jafar Panahi (Elevation Pictures); The Secret Agent, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho (Elevation Pictures)

Best First Feature
Blue Heron, dir. Sophy Romvari (Blue Fox Entertainment)
Runners-up: Eephus, dir. Carson Lund (Vortex Media); Sorry Baby, dir. Eva Victor (VVS Films)