Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) Awards: Complete list of nominees

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle has officially announced the nominees for its 60th annual awards. For the 2025 film year, official voting members selected nominees across 16 categories. The winners will be announced on December 21, 2025.

One Battle After Another and Sinners led the 2025 Kansas City Film Critics Circle nominations with nine nominations each. Frankenstein followed with seven nominations, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery has earned five.

Kansas City Film Critics Circle's official website reads:

"Our organization was founded by Dr. James Loutzenhiser in 1966 as the Kansas City Film Circle Awards, and is the second oldest professional film critics’ association in the United States, after the New York Film Critics Circle. As of July 2014, the KCFCC had 26 active members representing print, radio, television and online media outlets.

"After Dr. Loutzenhiser’s death in 2001, the membership voted unanimously to rename its annual awards in his honor. In 2005, a new award was established in memory of longtime KCFCC member Vince Koehler, honoring outstanding science fiction, fantasy, and horror films. In 2006, the group voted to honor Kansas City native Robert Altman by renaming its Best Director award after him and organizing a film festival in April 2007."

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Complete list of nominees at the 2025 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards

Best film

Frankenstein

Hamnet

It Was Just an Accident

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Weapons

Robert Altman award for best director

Paul Thomas Anderson: One Battle After Another

Ari Aster: Eddington

Ryan Coogler: Sinners

Rian Johnson: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Guillermo del Toro: Frankenstein

Joachim Trier: Sentimental Value

Best actor

Timothée Chalamet: Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio: One Battle After Another

Michael B. Jordan: Sinners

Joel Edgerton: Train Dreams

Ethan Hawke: Blue Moon

Best actress

Rose Byrne: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Jessie Buckley: Hamnet

Jennifer Lawrence: Die My Love

Renate Reinsve: Sentimental Value

Emma Stone: Bugonia

Best supporting actor

Benicio Del Toro: One Battle After Another

Jacob Elordi: Frankenstein

Delroy Lindo: Sinners

Josh O’Connor: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Sean Penn: One Battle After Another

Best supporting actress

Glenn Close: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas: Sentimental Value

Amy Madigan: Weapons

Wunmi Mosaku: Sinners

Teyana Taylor: One Battle After Another

Best original screenplay

Marty Supreme

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Sorry, Baby

Weapons

Best adapted screenplay

Frankenstein

Hamnet

The Life of Chuck

One Battle After Another

Train Dreams

Best cinematography

F1 The Movie

Frankenstein

Hamnet

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Best original score

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Frankenstein

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Tron: Ares

Best animated feature

Arco

The Bad Guys 2

KPop Demon Hunters

Predator: Killer of Killers

Zootopia 2

Best foreign language film

Arco

It Was Just an Accident

No Other Choice

The Secret Agent

Sentimental Value

Best documentary

My Mom Jayne

Orwell: 2+2=5

The Perfect Neighbor

Secret Mall Apartment

We Best the Dream Team

Vince Koehler award for best science fiction/ fantasy/ horror

28 Years Later

Frankenstein

Sinners

Superman

Weapons

Tom Poe award for best LGBTQ film

Hedda

The History of Sound

Twinless

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

The Wedding Banquet

Buster Keaton award for best stunt ensemble film

F1 The Movie

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Nobody 2

The Running Man

Warfare

For further updates, fans can keep an eye on the official Kansas City Film Critics Circle pages.

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