Jafar Panahi has won two awards already for It Was Just an Accident.
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Tonight, award season has unofficially begun for independent films with the 2025 Gotham Awards in New York City. Nominations are selected by those not directly a part of the filmmaking process but knowledgeable about cinema, like journalists, critics, and festival curators. Final winners are chosen by filmmakers and artists directly associated with filmmaking. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another leads the pack with six nominations, followed by It Was Just an Accident and No Other Choice, earning three nominations. By the middle of the show, Jafar Panahi had already won two out of his three nominations for It Was Just an Accident. But since it’s early on in award season as a whole, it’s anyone’s game for who will take home a win and kick off the first awards winner points for the Vulture Movie Fantasy League. Outside of the competitive prizing, there will be several tributes tonight to Song Sung Blue, Sinners, Jay Kelly, Frankenstein, Hedda, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and After the Hunt.
Below, find all the winners for the 2025 Gotham Awards.
Best Feature
Bugonia
East of Wall
Familiar Touch
Hamnet
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Lurker
One Battle After Another
Sorry, Baby
The Testament of Ann Lee
Train Dreams
Best International Feature
It Was Just an Accident ⭐
No Other Choice
Nouvelle Vague
Resurrection
Sound of Falling
Best Documentary Feature
2000 Meters to Andriivka
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow ⭐
The Perfect Neighbor
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Best Director
Mary Bronstein, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Kelly Reichardt, The Mastermind
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Oliver Laxe, Sirât
Breakthrough Director
Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace
Carson Lund, Eephus
Sarah Friedland, Familiar Touch
Akinola Davies Jr., My Father’s Shadow
Harris Dickinson, Urchin
Best Original Screenplay
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Mary Bronstein
It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi ⭐
The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor
Sound of Falling, Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski
Best Adapted Screenplay
No Other Choice, Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
Pillion, Harry Lighton ⭐
Preparation for the Next Life, Martyna Majok
Train Dreams, Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
Outstanding Lead Performance
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
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
Outstanding Supporting Performance
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Indya Moore, Father Mother Sister Brother
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly
Andrew Scott, Blue Moon
Alexander Skarsgård, Pillion
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Breakthrough Performer
A$AP Rocky, Highest 2 Lowest
Sebiye Behtiyar, Preparation for the Next Life
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Abou Sangaré, Souleymane’s Story ⭐
Tonatiuh, Kiss of the Spider Woman
