In a neck-and-neck race to take home the most awards doled out by the Indiana Film Journalists Association, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners edged out Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another for best film, and most total victories (6 to 5).
Here is the complete list of winners and runners-up, along with the IFJA’s top ten films of the year:
Best Picture
Winner: Sinners
Runner-up: One Battle After Another
Top 10 Films of 2025 (listed alphabetically):
Bob Trevino Likes It
Hamnet
The Life of Chuck
Marty Supreme
No Other Choice
Train Dreams
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Weapons
Best Animated Film
Winner: K-Pop Demon Hunters
Runner-up: The Legend of Hei 2
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: No Other Choice
Runner-up: Sentimental Value
Best Documentary Film
Winner: The Tenderness Tour*
Runner-up: Orwell: 2+2=5
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Runner-up: Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Mike Flanagan, The Life of Chuck
Best Director
Winner: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best Lead Performance
Winner: Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Runner-up: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best Supporting Performance
Winner: Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Amy Madigan, Weapons
Best Vocal / Motion-Capture Performance
Winner: Will Patton, Train Dreams
Runner-up: Ebon Moss-Bachrach, The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Best Ensemble Acting
Winner: Sinners
Runner-up: One Battle After Another
Best Musical Score
Winner: Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
Breakout of the Year
Winner: Chase Infiniti (performer), One Battle After Another
Runner-up: Miles Caton (performer), Sinners
Best Cinematography
Winner: Autumn Donald Arkapaw, Sinners
Runner-up: Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
Best Editing
Winner: Michael P. Shawver, Sinners
Runner-up: Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another
Best Stunt / Movement Choreography
Winner: Wade Eastwood (second-unit director / stunt coordinator), Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
Runner-up: Brian Machleit (stunt coordinator), One Battle After Another
Best Special Effects
Winner: Dennis Berardi, Ayo Burgess and Ivan Busquets (visual effects supervisors) and José Granell (miniatures / models supervisor), Frankenstein
Runner-up: Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl and Guido Wolter (visual effects supervisors) and Donnie Dean (special effects coordinator), Sinners
Original Vision Award
Winner: Good Boy
Runner-up: The Testament of Ann Lee
The Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
As a special honor, no runner-up is named for the Hoosier Award. It honors founding IFJA member and longtime NUVO Newsweekly critic Edward Johnson-Ott.
*Note: The Tenderness Tour, directed by Andie Redwine (a previous Hoosier Award winner), was named Best Documentary Film for its poignant yet unconventional portrait of disability activist and IFJA member Richard Propes. The IFJA issued the following statement regarding the film’s win:
“The IFJA held in-depth conversations about whether a documentary about one of its members should be eligible for its awards. While acknowledging the potential perception of bias, the group collectively decided the film merited selection for its exploration of the important topic of medical debt and its depiction of Hoosier locales and people usually left unseen. Richard Propes was the primary subject of an outstanding documentary but did not have a role in its production or creative choices. He abstained from discussing the film in awards deliberation or voting in the documentary category.”
About IFJA: Established in 2009 by a dedicated group of Indiana journalists, the Indiana Film Journalists Association endeavors to promote quality film criticism in the Hoosier state and support Indiana’s film industry.
For more information, visit: http://indianafilmjournalists.com
