The movie world is still finding its footing in 2025’s end-of-year movie awards. That being said, when we posted our One Battle After Another review, we’d have already pegged Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark dramedy as nabbing trophies. Those feelings have been proven correct yet again, as Warner Bros’ arthouse offering has added another batch of wins to its scrapbook – with plenty of potential for more.

One Battle After Another Is The NBR’s Big Winner With 5 Awards

Already the winner of the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Film prize, as well as Best Feature at the Gotham Film Awards, the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring picture is now a five-time winner with the National Board of Review. DiCaprio was also honored as this year’s Best Actor, which you’ll find in the full list of winners:

  • Best Film:  One Battle After Another
  • Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
  • Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
  • Best Actress: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  • Best Supporting Actor: Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
  • Best Supporting Actress: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
  • Best Directorial Debut: Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby
  • Breakthrough Performance: Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
  • Best Original Screenplay: Ryan Coogler, Sinners
  • Best Adapted Screenplay: Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams
  • Best Animated Feature: Arco
  • Best International Film: It Was Just an Accident
  • Best Documentary: Cover-Up
  • Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
  • Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
  • NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

Now Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese will now appear alongside the Boogie Nights wunderkind in the history books. Of course, this is early days in the circus to come. So let’s see who else could give PTA and friends a run for their money. 

Cynthia Erivo in Wicked: For Good, Timothee Chalamet playing ping pong in Marty Supreme, and dual Michael B. Jordans in Sinners, pictured next to each other.

The National Board of Review’s Full Top Films Of 2025 List Includes Some Heavy Competition

Along with the National Board of Review’s Best Film honors comes a full field of the 10 best pictures of the year. If you thought One Battle After Another was impressive enough by winning the overall prize, prepare to see who else was presumably in the running: 

Awards handicappers will undoubtedly want to know the next fun fact I’m about to lay out. Comparing the National Board of Review’s Best Film winners against the recent history of the Oscars, the last time they predicted the ultimate Best Picture winner was in 2018. So you Marty Supreme review stans out there still have time to rev up those hype engines.

Crowning Green Book as its overall winner, it’s definitely a more controversial example of the overlap between the top film honors of the NBR and the Academy. Should history repeat itself this awards cycle, the reactions to Paul Thomas Anderson’s revolutionary picture point towards a result the public might be able to get behind.

Time will tell is One Battle After Another wins the awards season war, as we won’t know the winners of the 98th Academy Awards until March 15, 2026. The National Board of Review will be holding the gala to honor this year’s winners on January 13th; so it’s not too early to congratulate the winners of this round in the big golden horse race.

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