‘One Battle After Another’ Wins Best Feature at 2025 Gotham Awards (Complete Winners List)

Going into the 35th Gotham Awards, which took place in Manhattan on Monday night, “One Battle After Another” led all nominees with a record-setting six nods. It ended the night with just one win, but it was a big one: the last award of the show, Best Feature. On stage, a surprised looking writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson seemed to allude to his film’s five previous losses and said he was not expecting to be making an acceptance speech.

The evening truly belonged to Jafar Panahi, whose “It Was Just an Accident” went three for three, taking home the ceremony’s first award, Best Original Screenplay, before picking up Best International Feature and finally, Best Director. The Iranian filmmaker, who was just sentenced to one year in prison in absentia for engaging in “propaganda activities,” was there to accept all three in person, delivering his remarks behind dark glasses, via an interpreter.

Panahi filmed his critically praised, Palme d’Or-winning drama in secret in Iran, and expressed his gratitude to everyone who risked their safety by helping him make it: “This award belongs to all people who worked for me on this film.” He also paid tribute to independent filmmakers who are not free to express themselves. (“It Was Just an Accident” is France’s Oscars submission for international feature; Panahi is currently a resident of that country.)

An early sign that the 35th Gothams might not be a “One Battle” victory march came when Harry Lighton’s “Pillion” beat Anderson for Best Adapted Screenplay. A bit later, Chase Infiniti lost Breakthrough Performer to Abou Sangaré from “Souleymane’s Story.” Then, Wunmi Mosaku from “Sinners” prevailed in the supporting performance category over Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor (who surely suffered from some vote-splitting. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn were not nominated.) Anderson’s win marked his first Gotham Award and fourth career nomination.

This year, the Best Feature category expanded from five to 10 nominees for the first time, which opened up slots for “Bugonia,” “East of Wall,” “Familiar Touch,” “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” “Lurker,” “Sorry, Baby,” “The Testament of Ann Lee,” “Train Dreams” and presumed Oscar frontrunners “One Battle” and “Hamnet.”

In the first 21 years of the Gotham Awards’ Best Feature category, its winner went on to win the Oscar for Best Picture only six times, beginning with “The Hurt Locker” in 2009 and also including “Birdman,” “Spotlight,” “Moonlight,” “Nomadland” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” The Gotham winner was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar 13 times in that stretch — not including last year, the Gothams’ Best Feature winner, “A Different Man,” was bypassed by the Academy. The only 2024 Gothams winner to repeat at the Oscars was the documentary “No Other Land.”

In addition to the competitive awards, Monday’s show also recognized a slew of previously announced honorees: Guillermo del Toro, Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac for “Frankenstein” (Vanguard Tribute); Scott Cooper and Jeremy Allen White for “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” (Cultural Icon Award); Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman for “Song Sung Blue” (Musical Tribute); Tessa Thompson for “Hedda” (Spotlight Tribute); “Jay Kelly” director Noah Baumbach (Gotham Director Tribute); the cast of “Sinners” (Ensemble Tribute) and Julia Roberts and Luca Guadagnino for “After the Hunt” (Visionary Tribute).  

Below, the complete list of winners.

The 35th Gotham Awards Winners

Best Feature
“Bugonia”
Ari Aster, Ed Guiney, Lars Knudsen, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko, Yorgos Lanthimos, Miky Lee, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, producers (Focus Features)

“East of Wall”
Kate Beecroft, Shannon Moss, Melanie Ramsayer, Lila Yacoub, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)

“Familiar Touch”
Alexandra Byer, Sarah Friedland, Matthew Thurm, producers (Music Box Films)

“Hamnet”
Nicolas Gonda, Pippa Harris, Liza Marshall, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg, producers (Focus Features)

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Richie Doyle, Conor Hannon, Sara Murphy, Josh Safdie, Ryan Zacarias, producers (A24)

“Lurker”
Galen Core, Archie Madekwe, Marc Marrie, Charlie McDowell, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Duncan Montgomery, Alex Orlovsky, Olmo Schnabel, Jack Selby, producers (MUBI)

“One Battle After Another” **WINNER
Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Somner, producers (Warner Bros. Pictures)

“Sorry, Baby”
Mark Ceryak, Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, producers (A24)

“The Testament of Ann Lee”
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, Joshua Horsfield, Gregory Jankilevitsch, Mark Lampert, Lillian LaSalle, Andrew Morrison, Viktória Petrányi, Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska, producers (Searchlight Pictures)

“Train Dreams”
Michael Heimler, Will Janowitz, Marissa McMahon, Ashley Schlaifer, Teddy Schwarzman (producers) (Netflix)

Best International Feature
“It Was Just an Accident” **WINNER
Philippe Martin, Jafar Panahi, producers (NEON)

“No Other Choice”
Park Chan-Wook, Alexandre Gavras, Michèle Ray Gavras, Back Jisun, producers (NEON)

“Nouvelle Vague”
Laurent Pétin, Michèle Pétin, producers (Netflix)

“Resurrection”
Charles Gillibert, Yang Lele, Shan Zuolong, producers (Janus Films)

“Sound of Falling”
Lucas Schmidt, Maren Schmitt, producers (MUBI)

Best Documentary Feature
“2000 Meters to Andriivka”
Mstyslav Chernov, director; Raney Aronson-Rath, Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner, producers (PBS)

“BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions”
Kahlil Joseph, director; Onye Anyanwu, Kahlil Joseph, David Linde, Anikah McLaren, James Shani, Steven Soderbergh, producers (Rich Spirit)

“My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow” **WINNER
Julia Loktev, director; Julia Loktev, producer (self-distributed)

“The Perfect Neighbor”
Geeta Gandbhir, director; Sam Bisbee, Geeta Gandbhir, Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne, producers (Netflix)

“Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”
Sepideh Farsi, director; Javad Djavahery, Sepideh Farsi, producers (Kino Lorber)

Best Director
Mary Bronstein, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (A24)
Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident” (NEON)**WINNER
Kelly Reichardt, “The Mastermind” (MUBI)
Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Oliver Laxe, “Sirât” (NEON)

Breakthrough Director
Constance Tsang, “Blue Sun Palace” (MUBI)
Carson Lund, “Eephus” (Music Box Films)
Sarah Friedland, “Familiar Touch” (Music Box Films)
Akinola Davies Jr., “My Father’s Shadow” (MUBI) **WINNER
Harris Dickinson, “Urchin” (1-2 Special)

Best Original Screenplay
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Mary Bronstein (A24)
“It Was Just an Accident,” Jafar Panahi (NEON) **WINNER
“The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonça Filho (NEON)
“Sorry, Baby,” Eva Victor (A24)
“Sound of Falling,” Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski (MUBI)

Best Adapted Screenplay
“No Other Choice,” Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar (NEON)
“One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros. Pictures)
“Pillion,” Harry Lighton (A24) **WINNER
“Preparation for the Next Life,” Martyna Majok (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
“Train Dreams,” Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar (Netflix)

Outstanding Lead Performance
Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet” (Focus Features)
Lee Byung-hun, “No Other Choice” (NEON)
Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” (A24)
Sopé Dìrísù, “My Father’s Shadow” (MUBI) **WINNER
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Jennifer Lawrence, “Die My Love” (MUBI)
Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent” (NEON)
Josh O’Connor, “The Mastermind” (MUBI)
Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee” (Searchlight Pictures)
Tessa Thompson, “Hedda” (Orion Pictures/Amazon/MGM Studios)

Outstanding Supporting Performance
Benicio del Toro, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein” (Netflix)
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value” (NEON)
Indya Moore, “Father Mother Sister Brother” (MUBI)
Wunmi Mosaku, “Sinners” (Warner Bros. Pictures)**WINNER
Adam Sandler, “Jay Kelly” (Netflix)
Andrew Scott, “Blue Moon” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Alexander Skarsgård, “Pillion” (A24)
Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value” (NEON)
Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Breakthrough Performer
A$AP Rocky, “Highest 2 Lowest” (A24)
Sebiye Behtiyar, “Preparation for the Next Life” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Abou Sangaré, “Souleymane’s Story” (Kino Lorber) **WINNER
Tonatiuh, “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate, LD Entertainment)

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