Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2025

DateDecember 11, 2025

Best PictureOne Battle After Another

Most awardsOne Battle After Another (9)

38th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Date	December 11, 2025
Site	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Highlights
Best Picture	One Battle After Another
Most awards	One Battle After Another (9)
Most nominations	One Battle After Another / Sinners (12)
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The 38th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards were presented to recognize the best in film of 2025. The nominations were announced on December 9, 2025.^[1] One Battle After Another and Sinners received the most nominations with a record twelve each, followed by Marty Supreme with seven; Frankenstein and Train Dreams each earned five nominations.^[1]

Additionally, Eva Victor received the most nominations for a single individual this year (Best Original Screenplay, Most Promising Performer, and the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award) for Sorry, Baby.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The winners were announced on December 11, 2025.^[4] Winning nine awards, One Battle After Another broke the record for the most wins by any film, surpassing the previous record seven wins by The Power of the Dog in 2021. The film was named Best Film, also earning Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson), Best Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro), Best Supporting Actress (Teyana Taylor), Best Adapted Screenplay (Anderson), Most Promising Performer (Chase Infiniti) and more; Frankenstein and It Was Just an Accident followed with two wins apiece.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Awards

The winners and nominees for the 38th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards are as follows:

Best Film	Best Director
One Battle After Another It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme Sinners Train Dreams	Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Mona Fastvold – The Testament of Ann Lee Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme* as Marty Mauser** Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Marcelo Alves / Armando Solimões / Fernando Solimões	*Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You* as Linda** Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love as Grace Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee as Ann Lee Tessa Thompson – Hedda as Hedda Gabler
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another* as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos** Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustov Borg	*Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another* as Perfidia Beverly Hills** Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Nina Hoss – Hedda as Eileen Lovborg Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sinners – Ryan Coogler Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor	One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Lee Ja-hye Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar Wake Up Dead Man – Rian Johnson
Best Animated Film	Best Documentary Film
KPop Demon Hunters Arco Boys Go to Jupiter Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2	The Perfect Neighbor Cover-Up My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Predators Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Best Foreign Language Film
It Was Just an Accident (Iran) No Other Choice (South Korea) The Secret Agent (Brazil) Sentimental Value (Norway) Sirāt (Spain)
Best Cinematography	Best Editing
One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Hamnet – Łukasz Żal Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso	One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen 28 Years Later – Jon Harris F1 – Stephen Mirrione and Patrick J. Smith Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie No Other Choice – Kim Sang-bum and Kim Ho-bin
Best Costume Design	Best Original Score
Frankenstein – Kate Hawley Hedda – Lindsay Pugh Sinners – Ruth E. Carter The Testament of Ann Lee – Malgorzata Karpiuk Wicked: For Good – Paul Tazewell	One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood The Mastermind – Rob Mazurek Sinners – Ludwig Göransson The Testament of Ann Lee – Daniel Blumberg Train Dreams – Bryce Dessner
Best Art Direction / Production Design	Best Use of Visual Effects
Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Phoenician Scheme Sinners	Sinners Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein Mickey 17 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award	Most Promising Performer
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch Carson Lund – Eephus James Sweeney – Twinless	Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another Miles Caton – Sinners Abou Sangaré – Souleymane's Story Tonatiuh – Kiss of the Spider Woman Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

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