Critics Awards (Film)

New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) Awards: ‘One Battle After,’ ‘Frankenstein’ and More

Erik Anderson December 31, 2025

One Battle After Another has won Best Picture from the first New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCC) awards. The film also took home awards for Paul Thomas Anderson as Best Director and Adapted Screenplay, Best Ensemble and Best Editing.

Acting wins went to Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme) as Best Actor, Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) as Best Actress, Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value) as Best Supporting Actor and Amy Madigan (Weapons) as Best Supporting Actress.

Sinners was a winner for Best Score and Original Screenplay. Frankenstein was a triple winner, taking costume design, production design and makeup. Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby) and Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another) continued their streak of breakthrough wins, for filmmaker and performance, respectively.

Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up from the 1st annual New Jersey Film Critics Circle (NJFCA).

Best Picture
Hamnet
It Was Just An Accident
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another – WINNER
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners – runner-up
Train Dreams
Weapons

Best Director
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another – WINNER
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners – runner-up

Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme – WINNER
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners – runner-up

Best Actress
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet – WINNER
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – runner-up
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another – runner-up
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value – WINNER

Best Supporting Actress
Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value – runner-up
Amy Madigan, Weapons – WINNER
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best Acting Ensemble
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another – WINNER
Sentimental Value
Sinners – runner-up
Weapons

Best Adapted Screenplay
Bugonia
Hamnet
No Other Choice – runner-up
One Battle After Another – WINNER
Train Dreams

Best Original Screenplay
It Was Just An Accident
Marty Supreme – runner-up
Sentimental Value
Sinners – WINNER
Weapons

Best Original Score
F1
Hamnet
Marty Supreme – runner-up
One Battle After Another
Sinners – WINNER

Best Original Song
“Drive,” F1
“Golden,” KPop Demon Hunters – WINNER
“I Lied to You,” Sinners – runner-up
“Last Time (I Seen the Sun),” Sinners
“Train Dreams,” Train Dreams

Best Editing
F1 – runner-up
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another – WINNER
Sinners

Best Production Design
Frankenstein – WINNER
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners – runner-up
Wicked: For Good

Best Costume Design
Frankenstein – WINNER
Hamnet
Hedda
Sinners
Wicked: For Good – runner-up

Best Hair and Makeup
Frankenstein – WINNER
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
Weapons – runner-up
Wicked: For Good

Best Sound
F1 – runner-up
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt
Warfare – WINNER

Best Animated Feature
Arco – runner-up
Elio
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
KPop Demon Hunters – WINNER
Zootopia 2

Best International Feature
It Was Just An Accident
No Other Choice – WINNER
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value – runner-up
Sirāt

Best Documentary
2000 Meters to Andriivka
Come See Me in the Good Light – runner-up
Orwell: 2+2=5
The Perfect Neighbor – WINNER
Predators

Best Cinematography
Hamnet
No Other Choice
One Battle After Another
Sinners (runner-up)
Train Dreams – WINNER

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash – WINNER
F1
Frankenstein – runner-up
Sinners
Superman

Best Stunts
F1 – runner-up
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning – WINNER
One Battle After Another
The Running Man
Sinners

Best Directorial Debut
The Chronology of Water
Friendship
Pillion – runner-up
Sorry, Baby – WINNER
The Ugly Stepsister

Best Breakthrough Performance
Miles Caton, Sinners – runner-up
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another – WINNER
Jacobi Jupe, Hamnet
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

Best Animal in A Movie
Bing the Dog, The Friend
Googoo the Meerkat, Left-Handed Girl
Indy the Dog, Good Boy – WINNER
Noochie the Cat, Sorry, Baby – runner-up
Tonic the Cat, Caught Stealing

Best LGBTQIA+ Representation
Blue Moon
Hedda
Pillion – runner-up
Plainclothes
Twinless – WINNER

Best New Jersey Representation
The Housemaid
Marty Supreme (runner-up)
Ponyboi
Presence
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – WINNER

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Erik Anderson

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.