The Midnight Critics Circle (MCC) have announced their winners representing the best in film for 2025. Here are this year’s winners…
Best Picture: Marty Supreme (Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident)
Best Director: Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident (Runner-up: Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme)
Best Actor: Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme Runner-up: Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon)
Best Actress: Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Runner-up: Jessie Buckley – Hamnet)
Best Supporting Actor: Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man (Runner-up: Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value)
Best Supporting Actress: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value (Runner-up: Mariam Afshari – It Was Just an Accident)
Best Original Screenplay: Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident (Runner-up: Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (Runner-up: Park Chan-wook, Don McKellar, Lee Kyoung-mi & Lee Ja-hye – No Other Choice)
Best Animated Film: Zootopia 2 (Runner-up: Dog Man)
Best Documentary Film: Pavements (Runner-up: Apocalypse in the Tropics)
Best International Film: It Was Just an Accident (Runner-up: Sentimental Value)
Best Ensemble: Sentimental Value (Runner-up: It Was Just an Accident)
Best Casting: Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident Runner-up: Jennifer Venditti – Marty Supreme)
Best Cinematography: Dong Jingsong – Resurrection (Runner-up: Autumn Durald Arkapaw – Sinners)
Best Editing: Andy Jurgensen – One Battle After Another (Runner-up: Kim Sang-bum & Kim Ho-bin – No Other Choice)
Best Production Design: Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau – Frankenstein (Runner-up: Tu Nan & Liu Qiang – Resurrection)
Best Costume Design: Kate Hawley – Frankenstein (Runner-up: Lindsay Pugh – Hedda)
Best Makeup/Hairstyling: 28 Years Later (Runner-up: Frankenstein)
Best Original Score: Ludwig Göransson – Sinners Runner-up: Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme)
Best Original Song: “I Lied to You” from Sinners (Runner-up: “Clothed by the Sun” from The Testament of Ann Lee)
Best Sound: Sirāt (Runner-up: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)
Best Visual Effects: Avatar: Fire and Ash (Runner-up: Mickey 17)
Best Choreography and Stunts: Splitsville (Runner-up: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning)
Best First Feature: Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby (Runner-up: Aimee Kuge – Cannibal Mukbang)
Best Breakthrough Performance: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value (Runner-up: Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby)
Lifetime Achievement: Jafar Panahi
Midnight Diamond (Recognizes under-appreciated but quality films that are looked down upon and mocked due to their less serious nature): Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
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