New York Film Critics Circle Winners 2025: Updating Live

The NYFCC opens the critics’ awards season with bold choices, early shocks, and a wave of momentum-setting winners updating throughout the morning.

The 2025 New York Film Critics Circle is convening in Manhattan this morning, where more than fifty of the nation’s most influential film journalists are choosing the year’s best achievements in cinema. As one of the oldest and most prestigious critics’ groups in the United States, the NYFCC has long served as both an unpredictable wildcard and an essential early pulse check on the awards season ahead.

Their selections rarely mirror the Academy’s final decisions, yet they carry enormous weight. The group gravitates toward films with emotional and thematic depth, often elevating titles that challenge form rather than follow the presumed frontrunner. Ever since the Oscars expanded to ten Best Picture nominees in 2009, only two NYFCC Best Film winners—“Carol” and “First Cow”—have missed out on Academy Award recognition in the top category. Even when their Best Film pick doesn’t go on to win the Oscar, the NYFCC often helps define the terms of the season, spotlighting early standouts and shifting momentum in unexpected directions.

The NYFCC also has a reputation for recency-driven curveballs, famously choosing “American Hustle” just one day after screening it. That willingness to be first—and to choose boldly—makes this morning’s voting especially consequential. With several major contenders still rolling out across the country, the critics’ circle now finds itself once again shaping the narrative of what matters, what resonates, and what the industry will be talking about for the next three months.

As the votes are cast and categories are announced, winners are being updated live below.

2025 NYFCC Winners (Updating Live)

Best Film:

TBD

Best Director:

TBD

Best Actor:

TBD

Best Actress:

TBD

Best Supporting Actor:

Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another”

Best Supporting Actress:

Amy Madigan, “Weapons”

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Best Screenplay:

TBD

Best Animated Film:

“KPop Demon Hunters”

Best Cinematography:

“Sinners”

Best Non-Fiction Film:

“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow”

Best International Film:

“The Secret Agent”

Best First Film:

“Eephus”