One Battle After Another Named Best Film by Philadelphia Film Critics Circle

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has been named Best Film by the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Script, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro, Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor, and Best Breakthrough Performance for Chase Infiniti.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

BEST FILM

One Battle After Another

Runner-Up: Sinners

BEST DIRECTOR

Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another

Runner-Up: Ryan Coolger – Sinners

BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet

Runner-Up: Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Michael B. Jordan – Sinners

Runner-Up: Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

​Runner-Up: Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another

Runner-Up: Delroy Lindo – Sinners

BEST ANIMATED FILM

KPop Demon Hunters

Runner-Up: Zootopia 2

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

It Was Just an Accident

Runner-Up: Sentimental Value

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Grand Theft Hamlet

Runner-Up: Orwell 2+2=5

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Sinners

Runner-Up: One Battle After Another

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another

Runner-Up: Mile Caton – Sinners

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

Charlie Polinger – The Plague

Runner-Up: Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

BEST SCRIPT

Sinners

Runner-Up: One Battle After Another

Best Score/Soundtrack

Sinners

Runner-Up: One Battle After Another

BEST ENSEMBLE

Sinners

Runner-Up: One Battle After Another

CHEESESTEAK AWARD FOR A BLOCKBUSTER THAT’S HARD TO IGNORE

Superman

Runner-up: Predator: Badlands

ELAINE MAY AWARD (a deserving person or film that brings awareness to a story from a woman’s perspective)

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

THE STEVE FRIEDMAN AWARD (a person or film that drives major public discourse on a topic or issue)

Sinners

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.

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