‘One Battle After Another,’ Wunmi Mosaku, and ‘It Was Just an Accident’ lead 2025 Gotham Awards: See the full list of winners
Marcus James Dixon
One Battle After Another just notched its first prize in what could be a highly decorated road to the Oscars.
Paul Thomas Anderson's high-octane romp, which has been atop the Gold Derby Oscar predictions since its release in September, was the big winner at Monday's 2025 Gotham Awards, taking the top honor, Best Feature. The film came into the evening with a leading six nominations, but appeared in danger of being shut out until the final award.
The other major winner was another film that should figure into the Oscar race: Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident, which tallied a leading three awards. On the same day the Iranian director was sentenced in absentia to a prison term in his native Iran for "propaganda activites," Panahi was at New York's Cipriani Wall Street to collect trophies for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. The French-bankrolled movie, which received the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, tells the story of a small mishap that triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems.
Other Gotham champions included Harry Lighton (Pillion) for Best Adapted Screenplay, Akinola Davies Jr. (My Father's Shadow) for Best Breakthrough Director, and My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow for Best Documentary Feature.
In 2021, the Gothams did away with the traditional four acting categories (lead actor and actress, supporting actor and actress), and now only have two gender-neutral awards for Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance. Sopé Dìrísù (My Father’s Shadow) won the lead prize, while Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) claimed supporting. The Best Breakthrough Performer statuette went to Abou Sangaré (Souleymane’s Story).
The first official awards show of film season, the Gothams have tried to position themselves as a key Oscar bellwether. Since they began awarding Best Feature prizes in 2004, six movies — Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), Nomadland (2020), Moonlight (2016), Spotlight (2015), Birdman (2014), and The Hurt Locker (2009) — prevailed here before later claiming Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Two years ago, the Gotham Awards removed the spending limit on films eligible for submission. This change scraps the old $35 million budget cap, opening the door for major studio productions to compete alongside independent movies.
In between handing out competitive awards, the institute presented the inaugural Gotham Musical Tribute to Song Sung Blue's Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman; the Director Tribute to Jay Kelly's Noah Baumbach; the Spotlight Tribute to Hedda's Tessa Thompson; the Ensemble Tribute to the Sinners cast; the Vanguard Tribute to Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein; the Cultural Icon Tribute to Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere's Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper; and the Visionary Tribute to After the Hunt's Luca Guadagnino and Julia Roberts.
Note: two films that expect to be part of the ongoing awards conversation — Marty Supreme and Is This Thing On? — were not ready in time to be considered by Gotham voters. But they are both eligible at upcoming events like the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, Actor Awards, and Oscars.
Here is the complete winners list for the 2025 Gotham Awards in all 10 categories:
Best Feature
Bugonia
East of Wall
Familiar Touch
Hamnet
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Lurker
[winner] One Battle After Another
Sorry, Baby
The Testament of Ann Lee
Train Dreams
Best Director
Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
[winner] Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Kelly Reichardt, The Mastermind
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Oliver Laxe, Sirât
Best Documentary Feature
2000 Meters to Andriivka
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
[winner] My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
The Perfect Neighbor
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Best International Feature
[winner] It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
Resurrection
Sound of Falling
Best Adapted Screenplay
No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, and Don McKellar
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
[winner] Pillion, Harry Lighton
Preparation for the Next Life, Martyna Majok
Train Dreams, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best Original Screenplay
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Mary Bronstein
[winner] It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor
Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski and Louise Peter
Best Lead Performance
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Lee Byung Hun, No Other Choice
[winner] Sopé Dìrísù, My Father’s Shadow
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Josh O’Connor, The Mastermind
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
Tessa Thompson, Hedda
Best Supporting Performance
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Indya Moore, Father Mother Sister Brother
[winner] Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly
Andrew Scott, Blue Moon
Alexander Skarsgård, Pillion
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Best Breakthrough Performer
A$AP Rocky, Highest 2 Lowest
Sebiye Behtiyar, Preparation for the Next Life
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
[winner] Abou Sangaré, Souleymane’s Story
Tonatiuh, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Best Breakthrough Director
Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace
Carson Lund, Eephus
Sarah Friedland, Familiar Touch
[winner] Akinola Davies Jr., My Father's Shadow
Harris Dickinson, Urchin
IDIOTIC AWARDS doing away with the traditional 4 Acting Awards –
Best Female Lead
Best Male Lead
Best Supporting Female
Best Supporting Male……….
This is the worst thing ever to happen to the Acting Categories. It’s hard enough to choose 1 winner in a group of 5 women or men, but now the sexes all get bunched up into one category……. Same with Supporting.
The Gothams suck big time as also proven by the slew of Special Awards given to many who don’t even deserve the recognition. This is not a body to be taken seriously. I only have CONTEMPT for The Gothams,
Agreed!
Why have I never heard of the Gothem Awards. I don’t live under a rock, so it’s strange because I watch all the other awards on tv.
It’s new to me!
I don’t think OBAA winning best feature and only that is a great achievement. At best, it’s a consolation prize. If It Was Just an Accident was in the feature list, it would’ve won that too.
Also I’m putting Pillion in my adapted screenplay top 5 for Oscars.
I feel like OBAA might just lose ultimately to Hamnet and IWJAA, Hamnet might end up taking picture and IWJAA will take Director and Screenplay.
International feature might still go to Sentimental Value as it wasn’t here.
To actually win something at the Oscars, you have to lose a lot at the Gothams.
That’s my takeaway from last year’s ceremony.