| 2025 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards |
| Best Film |
| One Battle After Another | |
| Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere | |
| Marty Supreme | |
| Sentimental Value | |
| Hamnet | |
| Wake Up Dead Man | |
| It Was Just an Accident | |
| Frankenstein | |
| Sinners | |
| Weapons |
| Best Director |
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Paul Thomas Anderson
One Battle After Another |
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Ryan Coogler
Sinners |
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Rian Johnson
Wake Up Dead Man |
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Ari Aster
Eddington |
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Joachim Trier
Sentimental Value |
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Guillermo del Toro
Frankenstein |
| Best Actor |
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Michael B. Jordan
Sinners |
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Timothée Chalamet
Marty Supreme |
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Ethan Hawke
Blue Moon |
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Joel Edgerton
Train Dreams |
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Leonardo DiCaprio
One Battle After Another |
| Best Actress |
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Rose Byrne
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You |
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Emma Stone
Bugonia |
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Jessie Buckley
Hamnet |
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Jennifer Lawrence
Die My Love |
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Renate Reinsve
Sentimental Value |
| Best Supporting Actor |
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Sean Penn
One Battle After Another |
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Benicio Del Toro
One Battle After Another |
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Jacob Elordi
Frankenstein |
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Delroy Lindo
Sinners |
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Josh O'Connor
Wake Up Dead Man |
| Best Supporting Actress |
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Amy Madigan
Weapons |
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Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners |
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Teyana Taylor
One Battle After Another |
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Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Sentimental Value |
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Glenn Close
Wake Up Dead Man |
| Best Adapted Screenplay |
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One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson |
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Train Dreams
Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley |
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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Chloé Zhao |
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Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro |
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The Life of Chuck
Mike Flanagan |
| Best Original Screenplay |
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Weapons
Zach Cregger |
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Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor |
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Sinners
Ryan Coogler |
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Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt |
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Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein |
| Best Cinematography |
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One Battle After Another
Michael Bauman |
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F1: The Movie
Claudio Miranda |
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Sinners
Autumn Durald Arkapaw |
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Hamnet
Lukasz Zal |
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Frankenstein
Dan Laustsen |
| Best Original Score |
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Sinners
Ludwig Göransson |
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Michael Giacchino |
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Tron: Ares
Nine Inch Nails |
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One Battle After Another
Jonny Greenwood |
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Frankenstein
Alexandre Desplat |
| Best Foreign Film |
| It Was Just an Accident (Iran) | |
| No Other Choice (South Korea) | |
| Sentimental Value (Norway) | |
| The Secret Agent (Brazil) | |
| Arco (France) |
| Best Documentary |
| Secret Mall Apartment | |
| The Perfect Neighbor | |
| Orwell: 2+2=5 | |
| My Mom Jayne | |
| We Beat the Dream Team |
| Best Animated Film |
| KPop Demon Hunters | |
| Arco | |
| Zootopia 2 | |
| Predator: Killer of Killers | |
| The Bad Guys 2 |
| Vincent Koehler Award for Outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film |
| Sinners | |
| Frankenstein | |
| Superman | |
| 28 Years Later | |
| Weapons |
| Tom Poe Award for Best LGBT Film |
| Hedda | |
| The Wedding Banquet | |
| Twinless | |
| Wake Up Dead Man | |
| The History of Sound |
| Buster Keaton Award for Best Stunt Ensemble Film |
| Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | |
| The Running Man | |
| F1: The Movie | |
| Nobody 2 | |
| Warfare |