Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Go For ‘One Battle After Another,’ Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and More
The Toronto Film Critics Association has chose Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another as the best film of 2025, also awarding Anderson in Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and Benicio del Toro as the co-winner for Outstanding Supporting Performance.
Anderson has won Best Director from the TFCA four times (Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, and One Battle After Another) and screenplay three times (Magnolia, The Master, and One Battle After Another). This is his first win in adapted.
Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) and Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) shared the Outstanding Lead Performance award (a feat they also earned from Los Angeles critics at nearly the same time) with Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent) were the runners-up.
Nina Hoss (Hedda) shared the supporting win with del Toro with runners-up that included Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Amy Madigan (Weapons), Sean Penn (One Battle After Another) and Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value).
Sinners found some love in Original Screenplay and a runner-up mention for Miles Caton in Breakthrough Performance (shared with One Battle After Another’s Chase Infiniti) while more left of center choices came in for Animated Feature (Endless Cookie) and First Feature (Blue Heron).
After his Gotham win early this week, Abou Sangaré (Souleymane’s Story) won another Breakthrough Performance win today.
Sirāt was named Best International Feature and Come See Me in the Good Light won for Documentary.
Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.
Main Awards
Best Picture: One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Hamnet and Sinners
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners and Oliver Laxe, Sirāt
Outstanding Lead Performance: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Runners-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet; Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another; Michael B. Jordan, Sinners; Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Outstanding Supporting Performance: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another and Nina Hoss, Hedda
Runners-up: Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein; Amy Madigan, Weapons; Sean Penn, One Battle After Another; Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best Adapted Screenplay: One Battle After Another
Runners-up: Hamnet and No Other Choice
Best Original Screenplay: Sinners
Runners-up: Marty Supreme and Sentimental Value
Best Animated Feature: Endless Cookie
Runners-up: KPop Demon Hunters and Space Cadet
Best First Feature: Blue Heron
Runners-up: Eephus and Sorry, Baby
Allan King Documentary Award: Come See Me in the Good Light
Runners-up: Orwell 2+2=5 and The Tale of Silyan
Best International Feature: Sirāt
Runners-up: It Was Just an Accident and The Secret Agent
Breakthrough Performance: Abou Sangaré, Souleymane’s Story
Runners-up: Miles Caton, Sinners and Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Canadian Awards
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Canadian Film: Joan Chen, Montreal My Beautiful
Runners-up: Deragh Campbell, Measures for a Funeral and Vincent Cassel, The Shrouds
Best Supporting Performance in a Canadian Film: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Sweet Angel Baby
Runners-up: Charlotte Aubin, Montreal My Beautiful and Troy Kotsur, In Cold Light
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