‘Sinners’ ‘No Other Choice’ ‘The Tenderness Tour’ Tops Indiana Film Journalists Association Awards

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is the top winner at the Indiana Film Journalists Association end of year annual awards winning Best Film, Best Ensemble Acting, and other honors.

One Battle After Another took Runner-Up for Best Film and won five awards including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Supporting Performance for Benicio del Toro, and Chase Infiniti for both the Breakout of the Year and the Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award.

No Other Choice won Best Foreign Language Film, Good Boy was honored for Original Vision, and The Tenderness Tour directed by Andie Redwine was named Best Documentary Film for its portrait of disability activist and IFJA member Richard Propes.

In a statement IFJA members said, “The IFJA held in-depth conversations about whether a documentary about one of its members should be eligible for its awards. While acknowledging the potential perception of bias, the group collectively decided the film merited selection for its exploration of the important topic of medical debt and its depiction of Hoosier locales and people usually left unseen. Richard Propes was the primary subject of an outstanding documentary but did not have a role in its production or creative choices. He abstained from discussing the film in awards deliberation or voting in the documentary category.”

Here is the complete list of winners of 2025 Indiana Film Journalists Association awards

BEST FILM
Sinners (2025)

Runner-Up: One Battle After Another
Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
Bob Trevino Likes It
Hamnet
The Life of Chuck
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Train Dreams
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Weapons

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Winner: K-Pop Demon Hunters
Runner-Up: The Legend of Hei 2

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: No Other Choice
Runner-Up: Sentimental Value

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner: The Tenderness Tour
Runner-Up: Orwell: 2+2=5

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Ryan Coogler, Sinners (2025)
Runner-Up: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runner-Up: Mike Flanagan, The Life of Chuck

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runner-Up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners (2025)

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE
Winner: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Runner-Up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Winner: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Runner-Up: Amy Madigan, Weapons (2025)

BEST VOCAL / MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE
Winner: Will Patton, Train Dreams
Runner-Up: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Fantastic Four: First Steps

BEST ENSEMBLE ACTING
Winner: Sinners (2025)
Runner-Up: One Battle After Another

BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Winner: Ludwig Gõransson, Sinners (2025)
Runner-Up: Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another

BREAKOUT OF THE YEAR
Winner: Chase Infiniti (performer), One Battle After Another
Runner-Up: Miles Caton (performer), Sinners (2025)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Autumn Donald Arkapaw, Sinners (2025)
Runner-Up: Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another

BEST EDITING
Winner: Michael P. Shawver, Sinners (2025)
Runner-Up: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS
Winner: Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess and Ivan Busquets (visual effects supervisors) and José Granell (miniatures / models supervisor), Frankenstein (2025)
Runner-Up: Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl and Guido Wolter (visual effects supervisors) and Donnie Dean (special effects coordinator, Sinners (2025)

BEST STUNT / MOVEMENT CHOREOGRAPHY
Winner: Wade Eastwood (second-unit director / stunt coordinator), Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Runner-Up: Brian Machleit (stunt coordinator), One Battle After Another

ORIGINAL VISION
Winner: Good Boy
Runner-Up: The Testament of Ann Lee

EDWARD JOHNSON-OTT HOOSIER AWARD
Winner: Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
(As a special honor named after IFJA founding member and longtime NUVO Newsweekly critic Edward Johnson-Ott, no runner-up is named in this category.)