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Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) Winners: ‘One Battle After Another’ and ‘Sinners’ Take Top Awards

Erik Anderson December 27, 2025

The Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) has revealed its winners for the best in film for 2025. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another was named Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro), Best Ensemble and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Sinners found love in Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Score, Song (“I Lied to You”) and Breakthrough (Miles Caton). Other acting wins went to Timothée Chalamet (Best Actor for Marty Supreme), Jessie Buckley (Best Actress for Hamnet) and Amy Madigan (Best Supporting Actress for Weapons).

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up.

Best Picture: One Battle After Another (runner-up: Sinners)

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (runner-up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners)

Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme (runner-up: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners)

Best Actress: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (runner-up: Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value)

Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another (runner-up: Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein)

Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan, Weapons (runner-up: Regina Hall, One Battle After Another)

Best Original Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Sinners (runner-up: Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (runner-up: Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams)

Best Animated Film: KPop Demon Hunters (runner-up: Arco)

Best Documentary Film: The Alabama Solution (runner-up: The Perfect Neighbor)

Best International Film: Sentimental Value (runner-up: No Other Choice)

Best Ensemble: One Battle After Another (runner-up: Sinners)

Best Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners (runner-up: Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams)

Best Production Design: Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, Frankenstein (runner-up: Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne, Sinners)

Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners (runner-up: Bryce Dessner, Train Dreams)

Best Original Song: “I Lied to You” from Sinners (runner-up: “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters)

Breakthrough Award: Miles Caton, Sinners (runner-up: Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another)

Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema: Weapons (runner-up: Bugonia)

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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.