The 2025 Gotham Awards nominations have officially launched awards season with a lineup that celebrates both artistic daring and studio muscle. Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” leads with six nominations, followed by A24’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” with four, and Neon’s Cannes-winning duo “It Was Just an Accident” and “No Other Choice” with three each.
Below is the full list of key nominations:
Best Feature
• Bugonia (Focus Features)
• East of Wall (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Familiar Touch (Music Box Films)
• Hamnet (Focus Features)
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
• Lurker (MUBI)
• One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
• Sorry, Baby (A24)
• The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)
• Train Dreams (Netflix)
Best International Feature
• It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi (NEON)
• No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook (NEON)
• Nouvelle Vague (Netflix)
• Resurrection (Janus Films)
• Sound of Falling (MUBI)
Best Director
• Mary Bronstein – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
• Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident (NEON)
• Kelly Reichardt – The Mastermind (MUBI)
• Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
• Oliver Laxe – Sirât (NEON)
Breakthrough Director
• Constance Tsang, Blue Sun Palace (Dekanalog)
• Carson Lund, Eephus (Music Box Films)
• Sarah Friedland, Familiar Touch (Music Box Films)
• Akinola Davies Jr., My Father’s Shadow (MUBI)
• Harris Dickinson, Urchin (1-2 Special)
Best Original Screenplay
• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – Mary Bronstein (A24)
• It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi (NEON)
• The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho (NEON)
• Sorry, Baby – Eva Victor (A24)
• Sound of Falling – Louise Peter, Mascha Schilinski (MUBI)
Best Adapted Screenplay
• No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-Mi, Jahye Lee, Don McKellar (NEON)
• One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros.)
• Pillion – Harry Lighton (A24)
• Preparation for the Next Life – Martyna Majok (Amazon MGM/Orion)
• Train Dreams – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar (Netflix)
Outstanding Lead Performance
• Jessie Buckley – Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Lee Byung-hun – No Other Choice (NEON)
• Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
• Sopé Dìrísù – My Father’s Shadow (MUBI)
• Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Jennifer Lawrence – Die My Love (MUBI)
• Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent (NEON)
• Josh O’Connor – The Mastermind (MUBI)
• Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight)
• Tessa Thompson – Hedda (Amazon MGM/Orion)
Outstanding Supporting Performance
• Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
• Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value (NEON)
• Indya Moore – Father Mother Sister Brother (MUBI)
• Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Adam Sandler – Jay Kelly (Netflix)
• Andrew Scott – Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Alexander Skarsgård – Pillion (A24)
• Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value (NEON)
• Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Breakthrough Performer
• A$AP Rocky – Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
• Sebiye Behtiyar – Preparation for the Next Life (Amazon MGM/Orion)
• Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
• Abou Sangaré – Souleymane’s Story (Kino Lorber)
• Tonatiuh – Kiss of the Spider Woman (Lionsgate/Roadside)
The Gotham Awards ceremony will be held on December 1, 2025, at Cipriani Wall Street, with Tribute Awards going to Noah Baumbach, Tessa Thompson, the cast of Sinners, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
I still have a few of these films and performances left to catch up on but I can already feel this awards season taking shape. The Gotham list always sets the first pulse, and this year’s mix of names feels especially alive. I can’t wait to dive deeper and see which of these titles truly hold up when the lights go down.