New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) 2025: Complete nominees list explored

The New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) has officially announced its nominations for 2025. This year's list features multiple returning filmmakers, rising artists, and a few notable international titles.

The results of the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) awards will be officially revealed on December 15, 2025. Notably, One Battle After Another leads the nominees list with 11 nominations across directing, acting, writing, and technical categories.

Hamnet, Sentimental Value, and Sinners follow with nine nominations each at the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) 2025. Alongside beloved filmmakers such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Park Chan-wook, Ryan Coogler, and Chloé Zhao, the nominations also include multiple debuts and relatively new performers.

The New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) organization was co-founded in 2000 by Harvey S. Karten and Prairie Miller. The group consists of Internet-based film critics operating out of New York City. They meet annually to select their award winners.

Prairie Miller, Avi Offer, and Karen Benardello, among others, form the governing committee. Noted film critics, including Rex Reed, Armond White, Stephanie Zacharek, and Emanuel Levy, are among past and present members.

Notably, conversations surrounding originality and creative risks related to Artificial Intelligence are also active amid this award season. Recently, Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in One Battle After Another, stated:

"It could be an enhancement tool for a young filmmaker to do something we have never seen before. I think anything that is going to be authentically thought of as art has to come from the human being. There is no humanity to it."

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Complete list of nominees at the New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) 2025

Best Picture at the NYFCO 2025

Hamnet

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

It Was Just an Accident

Marty Supreme

No Other Choice

Nuremberg

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Train Dreams

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Best Director at the NYFCO 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another

Park Chan wook for No Other Choice

Ryan Coogler for Sinners

Mona Fastvold for The Testament of Ann Lee

Olivier Laxe for Sirāt

Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident

Lynne Ramsey for Die My Love

Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme

Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value

Chloé Zhao for Hamnet

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Best Screenplay at the NYFCO 2025

Bugonia

Hamnet

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

It Was Just an Accident

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Sorry Baby

Train Dreams

Twinless

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Best Actor at the NYFCO 2025

Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another

Sope Dirisu for My Father’s Shadow

Joel Edgerton for Train Dreams

Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon

Lee Byung Hun for No Other Choice

Dylan O’Brien for Twinless

Michael B. Jordan for Sinners

Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent

Jesse Plemons for Bugonia

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Best Actress at the NYFCO 2025

Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Jessie Buckley for Hamnet

Kathleen Chalfant for Familiar Touch

Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue

Jennifer Lawrence for Die My Love

Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value

Amanda Seyfried for The Testament of Ann Lee

Emma Stone for Bugonia

Sydney Sweeney for Christy

Tessa Thompson for Hedda

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Best Supporting Actor at the NYFCO 2025

Michael Cera for The Phoenician Scheme

Benicio Del Toro for One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein

Noah Jupe for Hamnet

Delroy Lindo for Sinners

Pierre Lottin for When Fall is Coming

Paul Mescal for Hamnet

Sean Penn for One Battle After Another

Adam Sandler for Jay Kelly

Alexander Skarsgård for Pillion

Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value

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Best Supporting Actress at the NYFCO 2025

Odessa A’zion for Marty Supreme

Glenn Close for Wake Up Dead Man

Elle Fanning for Sentimental Value

Ariana Grande for Wicked For Good

Regina Hall for One Battle After Another

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value

Amy Madigan for Weapons

Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners

Da’Vine Joy Randolph for Eternity

Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another

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Best Ensemble Cast at the NYFCO 2025

Avatar Fire and Ash

Hamnet

It Was Just an Accident

Marty Supreme

No Other Choice

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

The Testament of Ann Lee

Wake Up Dead Man

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Best Use of Music

Hamnet

KPop Demon Hunters

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Sirāt

Song Sung Blue

Springsteen Deliver Me From Nowhere

The Testament of Ann Lee

Wicked For Good

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Best Cinematography

Avatar Fire and Ash

Frankenstein

Hamnet

No Other Choice

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Sirāt

Train Dreams

The Testament of Ann Lee

28 Years Later

Wicked For Good

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Debut Director

Akinola Davies Jr. for My Father’s Shadow

Harris Dickerson for Urchin

Sarah Friedland for Familiar Touch

Scarlett Johansson for Eleanor the Great

Harry Lighton for Pillion

Carson Lund for Eephus

Charlie Polinger for The Plague

Kristen Stewart for The Chronology of Water

Constance Tsang for Blue Sun Palace

Eva Victor for Sorry Baby

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Breakthrough Performer

Odessa A’zion

Everett Blunck

Miles Caton

Chase Infiniti

Jacob Jupe

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas

Kayo Martin

Abou Sangaré

Eva Victor

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Best Animated Feature

A Magnificent Life

Arco

Elio

KPop Demon Hunters

Little Amelie or the Character of Rain

100 Meters

Predator Killer of Killers

Scarlet

Zootopia 2

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Best International Feature

It Was Just an Accident

Left Handed Girl

No Other Choice

Resurrection

The Secret Agent

Sentimental Value

Sirāt

Sound of Falling

The Voice of Hind Rajib

We Will Not Be Moved

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Best Documentary

Afternoons of Solitude

BLKNWS Terms & Conditions

Come See Me in the Good Light

Cover Up

My Undesirable Friends Part 1 - Last Air in Moscow

Pee-wee as Himself

Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk

The Perfect Neighbor

The Alabama Solution

2000 Meters to Andriivka

Congratulations to all the nominees at the 2025 New York Film Critics Online!

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