Florida Film Critics Awards – ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘No Other Choice Win Top Honors’

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another took the top honors at the Florida Film Critics Circle’s 2025 awards winning six awards, including Best Picture along with supporting actor awards for Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor.

Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice won Best Director and tied with Grand Tour for Best International Film.

Other performance honors went to Josh O’Connor, awarding him Best Actor for Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind; and Rose Byrne received Best Actress for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

Other film awards went to Sabbath Queen for Best Documentary, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain won Best Animated Film; and Best First Feature went to Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby.

The Golden Orange, awarded to outstanding contributions to film by a Floridian, went to River of Grass, Sasha Wortzel’s poetic documentary about the Everglades.

Florida Film Critics Circle 2025 Winners

Best Picture
One Battle After Another
Runner-up: No Other Choice

Best Actor
Josh O’Connor (The Mastermind)
[No clear runner-up]

Best Actress
Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)

Best Supporting Actress
Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Runner-up: Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners)

Best Supporting Actor
Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)
Runner-up: David Jonsson (The Long Walk)

Best Ensemble
Sinners
Runner-up: One Battle After Another

Best Director
Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice)
Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

Best Original Screenplay
It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Runner-up: Rent Free (Fernando Andrés & Tyler Rugh)

Best Adapted Screenplay:
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, based on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland)
Runner-up: No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Lee Ja-hye, based on Donald Westlake’s The Ax)

Best Cinematography
Resurrection (Dong Jingsong)
Runner-up: Sinners (Autumn Durald Arkapaw)

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Runner-up: Frankenstein

Best Editing
One Battle After Another (Andy Jurgensen)
Runner-up: Die My Love (Toni Froschhammer)

Best Art Direction/Production Design
Resurrection
Runner-up: Frankenstein

Best Original Score
Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)
Runner-up: The Mastermind (Rob Mazurek)

Best Documentary
Sabbath Queen
Runner-up: BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

Best International Film
TIE: Grand Tour & No Other Choice

Best Animated Film
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Runner-up: 100 Meters

Best First Feature
Sorry, Baby
Runner-up: Eephus

Pauline Kael Breakout Award
Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)
Runner-up: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Golden Orange
River of Grass

Florida Film Critics Circle 2025 Nominees

Best Picture
Grand Tour
The Mastermind
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Actor
Lee Byung-hun (No Other Choice)
Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme)
Leonardo Dicaprio (One Battle After Another)
Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Josh O’Connor (The Mastermind)

Best Actress
Crista Alfaiate (Grand Tour)
Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)
Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love)
Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy)

Best Supporting Actress
Rita Cortese (Most People Die On Sundays)
Amy Madigan (Weapons)
Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners)
Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)
Mia Threapleton (The Phoenician Scheme)

Best Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another)
Jacques Develay (Misericordia)
David Jonsson (The Long Walk)
Delroy Lindo (Sinners)
Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

Best Ensemble
Eephus
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Director
Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Bi Gan (Resurrection)
Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind)
Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)
Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice)

Best Original Screenplay
The Astronaut Lovers (Marco Berger)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Rent Free (Fernando Andrés & Tyler Rugh)
Sentimental Value (Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Bugonia (Will Tracy, based on Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet!)
Hamnet (Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell, based on O’Farrell’s Hamnet)
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Liane-Cho Han, Aude Py, Maïlys Vallade & Eddine Noël, based on Amélie Nothomb’s The Character of Rain)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Lee Ja-hye, based on Donald Westlake’s The Ax)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, based on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland)

Best Cinematography
Grand Tour (Gui Liang, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Rui Poças)
One Battle After Another (Michael Bauman & Paul Thomas Anderson)
Resurrection (Dong Jingsong)
Sinners (Autumn Durald Arkapaw)
Sirāt (Mauro Herce)

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
No Other Choice
Resurrection
Sinners

Best Editing
Die My Love (Toni Froschhammer)
No Other Choice (Kim Sang-bum Kim & Ho-bin)
Marty Supreme (Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie)
One Battle After Another (Andy Jurgensen)
Sinners (Michael P. Shawver)

Best Art Direction/Production Design
Frankenstein
The Phoenician Scheme
Resurrection
The Secret Agent
Sinners

Best Original Score
The Mastermind (Rob Mazurek)
One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)
Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)
Sirāt (Kangding Ray)
Resurrection (M83)

Best Documentary
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
The Perfect Neighbor
Predators
River of Grass
Sabbath Queen

Best International
Grand Tour
It Was Just An Accident
No Other Choice
Resurrection
The Secret Agent
Sirāt

Best Animated Feature
100 Meters
Arco
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best First Film
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
Eephus
Lurker
Sorry, Baby
The Ugly Stepsister

Best Breakout
Miles Caton (Sinners)
Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)
Jacobi Jupe (Hamnet)
Théodore Pellerin (Lurker)
Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

Best Golden Orange
River of Grass
No Sleep Till