Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has won Best Picture at the 2025 DiscussingFilm Global Film Critic Awards. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Breakthrough Performance for Chase Infiniti.
Now in its seventh year, the DiscussingFilm Global Film Critic Awards celebrates the most noteworthy films of the year as voted by a diverse range of highly established film critics, awards pundits, and influential voices from around the globe, including journalists from notable outlets such as The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Empire, The Wrap, Little White Lies, The Independent, and Filmotomy’s very own Doug Jamieson.
Winners in bold below.
BEST PICTURE
Frankenstein
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice (3rd)
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners (2nd)
The Secret Agent
Train Dreams
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners (3rd)
Guillermo Del Toro – Frankenstein
Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
Park Chan-wook – No Other Choice (2nd)
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
BEST ACTRESS
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2nd)
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love (3rd)
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia
BEST ACTOR
Lee Byung-hun – No Other Choice
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another (2nd)
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (3rd)
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another (2nd)
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another (3rd)
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande – Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value (3rd)
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another (2nd)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Belén
It Was Just an Accident
Left-Handed Girl
No Other Choice
Resurrection
Sentimental Value
Sirāt
Sound of Falling
The Secret Agent
The Voice of Hind Rajab
BEST CASTING
Hamnet
Marty Supreme (3rd)
One Battle After Another (2nd)
Sentimental Value
Sinners
The Secret Agent
BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE
Ballerina (2nd)
F1 (3rd)
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Superman
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme (3rd)
Sentimental Value (2nd)
Sinners
Sorry, Baby
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Bugonia
Frankenstein (2nd)
Hamnet
No Other Choice (3rd)
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Resurrection
Sinners (2nd)
Train Dreams (3rd)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme (2nd)
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt (3rd)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners
The Testament of Ann Lee (3rd)
Wicked: For Good (2nd)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme (2nd)
Sinners
The Phoenician Scheme (3rd)
Wicked: For Good
BEST FILM EDITING
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice (3rd)
One Battle After Another (2nd)
Sentimental Value
Sinners
BEST SOUND
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1 (3rd)
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners (2nd)
Sirat
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
The Ugly Stepsister (3rd)
Weapons (2nd)
Wicked: For Good
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Clothed by the Sun” – The Testament of Ann Lee
“Golden” – KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You” – Sinners (2nd)
“Last Time (I Seen the Sun)” – Sinners (3rd)
“The Girl in the Bubble” – Wicked: For Good
“Train Dreams” – Train Dreams
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1 (2nd)
Frankenstein
Sinners (3rd)
Superman
Wicked: For Good
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2nd)
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cover-Up
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow (3rd)
The Alabama Solution
The Perfect Neighbor
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2nd)
Ne Zha 2 (3rd)
Zootopia 2
BEST INDEPENDENT FEATURE
Blue Moon
Die My Love
Eephus
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Pillion
Resurrection (3rd)
Silent Friend
Sorry, Baby (2nd)
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Twinless
BEST DEBUT FEATURE
Eephus
Friendship
Lurker (3rd)
My Father’s Shadow
Pillion
Sorry, Baby
The Chronology of Water
The Plague (2nd)
The Ugly Stepsister
Urchin
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Miles Caton – Sinners (2nd)
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby (3rd)
BEST COMEDY FEATURE
Eternity (3rd)
Friendship
Marty Supreme (2nd)
One Battle After Another
Splitsville
The Naked Gun
BEST HORROR FEATURE
28 Years Later
Bring Her Back
Frankenstein (3rd)
Sinners
Together
Weapons (2nd)