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Austin Film Critics Association (AFCA) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Takes 5 Wins

Erik Anderson December 18, 2025

One Battle After Another leads the way, winning 5 awards from its 12 nominations in 11 categories – including Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro).

Other acting award winners include Rose Byrne as Best Actress for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Timothée Chalamet as Best Actor for Marty Supreme, and Amy Madigan as Best Supporting Actress for Weapons.

Sinners, which garnered 11 nominations, secured wins for Best Ensemble, Best Cinematography and Best Original Score (Ludwig Göransson).

Other major awards include KPop Demon Hunters winning Best Animated Feature. The Perfect Neighbor was awarded Best Documentary, while The Secret Agent won Best International Film. The group’s new award categories of Best Visual Effects and Best Remake/Franchise Film went to Avatar: Fire and Ash and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, respectively.

Eva Victor was the recipient of the Best First Film Award for Sorry, Baby, and was also one of five recipients of this year’s Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award.

The Best Austin Film Award winner was Blue Moon (dir. Richard Linklater).

Here is the full list of winners.

AFCA Top 10 Films of 2025

One Battle After Another
Sinners
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Weapons
The Secret Agent
The Testament of Ann Lee
Frankenstein
Train Dreams
Bugonia

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan, Weapons

Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

Best Ensemble: Sinners

Best Original Screenplay: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme

Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners

Best Editing: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another

Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

Best International Film: The Secret Agent

Best Documentary: The Perfect Neighbor

Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters

Best Voice Acting/Animated/Digital Performance: Oona Chaplin, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Stuntwork: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Remake/Franchise Film: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Best First Film: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

The Robert R. “Bobby” McCurdy Memorial Breakthrough Award:

Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
Miles Caton, Sinners
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Maggie Kang, KPop Demon Hunters
Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

Special Awards:

The Dual Threat Special Award to 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), and Rosamund Pike/Matthew Rhys (Hallow Road).

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.