One Battle After Another Named Best Film by Southern Eastern Film Critics Association

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has been named Best Film by the Southern Eastern Film Critics Association. The film picked up wins for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

TOP 10 FILMS OF 2025

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Sinners
  3. Marty Supreme
  4. It Was Just an Accident
  5. Sentimental Value
  6. Hamnet
  7. Train Dreams
  8. Weapons
  9. Frankenstein
  10. The Secret Agent

Best Actor

Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

Runner-Up: Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

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

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

Runner-Up: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Madigan, Weapons

Runner-up: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best Ensemble

Sinners

Runner-Up: One Battle After Another

Best Director

Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Runner-Up: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Original Screenplay

Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Runner-Up: Joaquim Trier and Eskil Vogt, Sentimental Value

Best Adapted Screenplay

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Runner-Up: Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams

Best Documentary

The Perfect Neighbor

Runner-Up: Predators

Best Animated Film

KPop Demon Hunters

Runner-Up: Zootopia 2

Best Foreign Language Film

It Was Just an Accident

Runner-Up: Sentimental Value

Best Cinematography

Autumn Arkapaw, Sinners

Runner-Up: Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another

Best Score

Ludwig Goransson, Sinners

Runner-Up: Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another

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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