Critics Awards (Film)

St. Louis Film Critics Association (StLFCA) Awards: ‘One Battle After Another’ Dominates

Erik Anderson December 14, 2025

The St. Louis Film Critics Association winners for the best in film for 2025 include One Battle After Another with a dominating nine wins. The Paul Thomas Anderson film earned wins for Best Film, Director, Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn.

Jessie Buckley won Best Actress for Hamnet and Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for Weapons, which also picked up Original Screenplay and Best Horror Film.

Here is the complete list of winners.

BEST FILM: One Battle After Another

BEST DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

BEST ACTOR: Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

BEST ACTRESS: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Madigan, Weapons

BEST ENSEMBLE: One Battle After Another

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Zach Cregger, Weapons

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another

BEST EDITING: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar: Fire and Ash

BEST COSTUME DESIGN: Kate Hawley, Frankenstein

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN: Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau, Frankenstein

BEST MUSIC SCORE: Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another

BEST SOUNDTRACK: Sinners

BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Will Patton, Train Dreams

BEST STUNTS: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

BEST FIRST FEATURE: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

BEST ACTION FILM: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

BEST COMEDY: The Naked Gun

BEST HORROR FILM: Weapons

BEST ANIMATED FILM: Zootopia 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Orwell: 2+2=5

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE: It Was Just an Accident

BEST SCENE: Music evolution set to “I Lied to You,” Sinners

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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.