The 31st Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2025, were announced on December 17, 2025.
One Battle After Another received the most awards with five wins, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (both for Paul Thomas Anderson), Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), and Best Supporting Actress (Teyana Taylor). Other multiple-winning films include Sinners, which won Best Cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw) and Best Musical Score (Ludwig Göransson), and Sentimental Value, which won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Supporting Actor (Stellan Skarsgård). The winners for the remaining categories were Rose Byrne for Best Actress (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You), The Perfect Neighbor for Best Documentary Film, and KPop Demon Hunters for Best Animated Film.
Winners and nominees
Category awards Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 (Best Film) to as few as 2 (Best Animated Film, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Musical Score).
{| class="wikitable" style="width="100%" |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Picture ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Director |- | valign="top" | One Battle After Another Sinners Marty Supreme Hamnet Sentimental Value Train Dreams Frankenstein Jay Kelly Bugonia It Was Just an Accident | valign="top" | Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler – Sinners Chloé Zhao – Hamnet Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Actor ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Actress |- | valign="top" | Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams as Robert Grainier | valign="top" | Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another as Willa Ferguson |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Supporting Actor ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Supporting Actress |- | valign="top" | Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw Paul Mescal – Hamnet as William Shakespeare Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly as Ron Sukenick | valign="top" | Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen Odessa A'zion – Marty Supreme as Rachel Mizler Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Documentary Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Foreign Language Film |- | valign="top" | The Perfect Neighbor 2000 Meters to Andriivka Orwell: 2+2=5 Cover-Up Come See Me in the Good Light | valign="top" | Sentimental Value • Norway It Was Just an Accident • Iran The Secret Agent • Brazil No Other Choice • South Korea Sirāt • Spain |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Animated Film ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Screenplay |- | valign="top" | KPop Demon Hunters Arco | valign="top" | One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson Sinners – Ryan Coogler |- ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Cinematography ! style="background:#EEDD82;"! style="width="50%"| Best Musical Score |- | valign="top" | Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso | valign="top" | Sinners – Ludwig Göransson Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
Special award
Russell Smith Award It Was Just an Accident (for "best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film")
References
External links Official website