The 21st Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2025, were announced on December 18, 2025. The nominations were announced on December 10, 2025.
Expansion The categories of Best Visual Effects and Best Remake / Franchise Film were introduced this year. The five recipients of the Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award were announced with the winners of the rest of the categories.
Statistics Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller One Battle After Another led the nominations with twelve, followed by Ryan Coogler's period supernatural horror film Sinners with eleven, and Frankenstein and Marty Supreme with eight each.
One Battle After Another received the most awards with five, including Best Film, followed by Sinners with three.
Indy the Dog, from the supernatural horror film Good Boy, received a special award "for a uniquely realized performance in the field of animal acting".
Winners and nominees The winners are listed first and in boldface.
Best Film Best Director One Battle After Another Sinners Marty Supreme Sentimental Value Weapons The Secret Agent The Testament of Ann Lee Frankenstein Train Dreams Bugonia Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value Best Actor Best Actress Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson 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 Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature David Jonsson – The Long Walk as Peter "Pete" McVries Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier Sinners – Ryan Coogler Weapons – Zach Cregger | valign="top" | One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Bugonia – Will Tracy and Jang Joon-hwan Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, Lee Ja-hye, and Donald E. Westlake Train Dreams – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, and Denis Johnson |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Animated Film ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Documentary |- | valign="top" | KPop Demon Hunters Arco Elio Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2 The Perfect Neighbor Come See Me in the Good Light The Librarians Orwell: 2+2=5 Predators Best International Film Best First Film The Secret Agent It Was Just an Accident No Other Choice Sentimental Value Sirāt Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor The Chronology of Water – Kristen Stewart Eephus – Carson Lund Friendship – Andrew DeYoung The Plague – Charlie Polinger |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Cinematography ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Editing |- | valign="top" | Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso | valign="top" | One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen F1: The Movie – Stephen Mirrione Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sinners – Michael P. Shawver Weapons – Joe Murphy |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Original Score ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%"| Best Ensemble |- | valign="top" | Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood The Testament of Ann Lee – Daniel Blumberg Tron: Ares – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross | valign="top" | Sinners The Long Walk Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Best Stunt Work Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Ballerina F1: The Movie One Battle After Another Sinners Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Varang Arden Cho / Ejae – KPop Demon Hunters as Rumi Stephen Lang – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Colonel Miles Quaritch Will Patton – Train Dreams as the narrator Zoe Saldaña – Avatar: Fire and Ash as Neytiri Best Visual Effects Best Remake / Franchise Film Avatar: Fire and Ash F1: The Movie Frankenstein Sinners Superman Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 28 Years Later Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein Superman The Robert R. "Bobby" McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award Best Austin Film 2025 Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme Miles Caton – Sinners Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another Maggie Kang – KPop Demon Hunters Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby Blue Moon (dir. Richard Linklater) The American Southwest (dir. Ben Masters) Man Goes on Rant (dir. Peter Curtis Pardini) Nouvelle Vague (dir. Richard Linklater) The Toxic Avenger (dir. Macon Blair) |- ! style="background:#EEDD82; width:50%" colspan="2" | The Dual Threat Special Award |- | colspan="2"| Elle Fanning – Predator: Badlands Theo James – The Monkey Michael B. Jordan – Sinners Diego Luna / Tonatiuh / Jennifer Lopez – Kiss of the Spider Woman Dylan O'Brien – Twinless Robert Pattinson – Mickey 17 Rosamund Pike / Matthew Rhys – Hallow Road
References
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