Another important prize for One Battle After Another in the Oscar race

Paul Thomas Anderson’s film is a hit, while a small French animated film creates a surprise…

On the Oscar Highway.

The phenomenon One battle after another didn’t slow down and once again dominated a night of trophies.

Sunday evening, Paul Thomas Anderson’s free adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel (Vineland) reigned over the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards winning three major trophies: best film, best direction and best supporting role for Teyana Taylor.

One battle after another is part of the lineage of LAFCA darlings who became triumphant at the Oscars: Minesweepers (2009), Spotlight (2015), Moonlight (2016), Parasite (2019) or even Anora last year. The association, renowned for its adventurous tastes, nevertheless often remains aligned with future Oscar winners.

Good news for French film Amélie and the Metaphysics of Tubes by Mailys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han, who won the prize for best animated film at this 51st edition of the LAFCA Awards – ahead of the favorite of KPop Demon Hunters from Netflix – and who can now legitimately consider an Oscar nomination…

Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2025 awards

Best film
Winner: One battle after another (Warner Bros.)
Named: The Secret Agent (Neon)

Best Director
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One battle after another (Warner Bros.)
Named: Ryan Coogler, Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Main Performances
Winners: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24) and Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Appointed: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme (A24) and Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent (Neon)

Best Secondary Interpretations
Winners: Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value (Neon) and Teyana Taylor, One battle after another (Warner Bros.)
Appointed: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value (Neon) and Andrew Scott, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Screenplay
Winner: A simple accident (Neon) — Jafar Panahi
Named: Sorry, Baby (A24) — Eva Victor

Best Animated Film
Winner: Amélie and the Metaphysics of Tubes (GKids)
Named: KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)

Best Photography
Winner: Train Dreams (Netflix) — Adolpho Veloso
Named: Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Autumn Durald Arkapaw

Best Editing
Winner: Marty Supreme (A24) — Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Named: One battle after another (Warner Bros.) —Andy Jurgensen

Best Art Direction
Winner: Sinners (Warner Bros.) —Hannah Beachler
Named: Frankenstein (Netflix) — Tamara Deverell

Best Original Music
Winner: Sirāt (Neon) — Kangding Ray
Named: Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Ludwig Göransson

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: The Secret Agent (Brazil)
Named: A simple accident (France / Iran)

Best Documentary
Winner: My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow (self-distributed)
Named: The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)

New Generation Award
Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby (A24)

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
Albert Serra, Soledad Tartes (Grasshopper Films)

Special mention
Judy Kim, from the Gardena Cinema, a historic independent 800-seat theater run by the Kim family since 1976.