{"id":202020,"date":"2025-12-03T09:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=202020"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:55:03","slug":"nyfcc-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=202020","title":{"rendered":"NYFCC 2025 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

We met yesterday to vote on the year’s best. It’s always a somewhat grueling process, because it’s about counting, and tallying up all the blind votes. We often go into multiple rounds. But we did eventually come up with the winners. Deadline has good background context<\/a> for some of these categories and the history behind certain wins. Some of my favorites won – probably not hard to guess which ones – and some of my favorites weren’t even on other peoples’ ballots at all. This is how it always goes, I imagine, for all of us. I’m just glad Jafar Panahi is on the list! It Was Just an Accident<\/i> is the best film of the year. And not every director receives a prison sentence (yet another one) from his home country the day before he wins NYFCC’s Best Director. <\/p>\n

Best Film: <\/strong>One Battle After Another<\/em>, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson<\/p>\n

Director<\/strong>: Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident<\/em><\/p>\n

Actor<\/strong>: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent<\/em><\/p>\n

Actress<\/strong>: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You<\/em><\/p>\n

Supporting Actor<\/strong>: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another<\/em><\/p>\n

Supporting Actress<\/strong>: Amy Madigan, Weapons<\/em><\/p>\n

Screenplay<\/strong>: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme <\/em><\/p>\n

Animated Film<\/strong>: KPop Demon Hunters<\/em>, directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans<\/p>\n

Cinematography<\/strong>: Autumn Arkapaw Durald, Sinners<\/em> <\/p>\n

Non-Fiction Film:<\/strong> My Undesirable Friends: Part I \u2013 Last Air in Moscow<\/em>, directed by Julia Loktev<\/p>\n

International Film<\/strong>: The Secret Agent<\/em>, directed by Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho<\/p>\n

First Film<\/strong>: Eephus<\/em>, directed by Carson Lund<\/p>\n

Special Prizes<\/strong>: Museum of Moving Image, Screen Slate<\/p>\n

Student Prizes<\/strong>: London Xhudo (Undergraduate, NYU) and Tan Zhiyuan (Graduate, The New School)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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