Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tops with 9
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces their 2025 award winners. Earning a record nine awards, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another was named Best Film, also earning Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro) and Supporting Actress (Teyana Taylor), Best Adapted Screenplay and more. The film surpasses the previous record seven wins by 2021’s The Power of the Dog.
Rose Byrne was named Best Actress for her performance in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You; Timothée Chalamet earned Best Actor for his turn in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme.
Elsewhere among the winners, embattled Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won Best Original Screenplay for It Was Just an Accident, also named Best International Feature. A riveting true-crime documentary composed entirely of bodycam and interrogation footage, Geeta Gandbhir’s The Perfect Neighbor was named Best Documentary; Netflix also claimed the Best Animated Film category with KPop Demon Hunters.
One Battle After Another’s breakout performance from Columbia College Chicago grad Chase Infiniti earned her the organization’s Most Promising Performer Award, while Eva Victor was named the Milos Stehlik Breakthrough Filmmaker Award winner for Sorry, Baby, a 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival official selection.
The full list of 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards winners:
BEST PICTURE: One Battle After Another
BEST DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
BEST ACTOR: Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme
BEST ACTRESS: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: One Battle After Another by Paul Thomas Anderson
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: It Was Just an Accident
BEST DOCUMENTARY: The Perfect Neighbor
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: KPop Demon Hunters
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
BEST EDITING: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN: Frankenstein
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
BEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: Sinners
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
MILOS STEHLIK BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby
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