One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s dark action comedy about a self-styled revolutionary whose past catches up with him, took four top prizes at the Toronto Film Critics Association’s annual live vote.

The film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, was named Best Picture, with Anderson also winning Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Benicio del Toro earned a share of the Outstanding Supporting Performance award for his role as a community leader who hides undocumented immigrants from the authorities.

In the Outstanding Lead Performance category, the TFCA jointly awarded Rose Byrne for her performance as a psychiatrist suffering mental exhaustion courtesy of a chronically ill child and an absentee husband in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and Ethan Hawke for his portrayal of down-on-his-luck Broadway legend Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon.

Sharing del Toro’s Outstanding Supporting Performance award was Nina Hoss, who played a scheming academic who crosses paths at a debauched party with the socially ruthless title character in Nia DaCosta’s Hedda.

The TFCA also recognized Abou Sangaré with the Breakthrough Performance award for his turn as a Guinean asylum seeker in Paris in Souleymane’s Story. The character scratches out a living delivering meals while awaiting news of his immigration status.

Acclaimed Chinese actress Joan Chen was named the winner for Outstanding Performance in a Canadian Film for her work in Xiaodan He’s Montreal, My Beautiful,playing a longtime resident of Montreal who once ran a variety store with her husband but still longs to truly belong. As well, the TFCA handed out its first Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Canadian film. It went to Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, the secret love of the protagonist in Melanie Oates’ Sweet Angel Baby.

The prize for Best International Feature went to Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt, about a father and son journeying through the Moroccan desert near a war zone as they search for a daughter who has been missing for five months after disappearing at a rave.

The Allan King Documentary Award went to Ryan White’s Come See Me in the Good Light. The intimate documentary follows the struggle Colorado Poet Laureate and performer Andrea Gibson, as they navigate terminal cancer with the support of their partner, poet Megan Falley. Sophy Romvari won Best First Feature for Blue Heron, a Canadian-Hungarian drama inspired by the director’s childhood in the ’90s. The film follows a Hungarian immigrant family who relocates to Vancouver Island, where the family’s unity begins to fray.

The Animated Feature award went to Endless Cookie by Seth and Peter Scriver, a humorous, raw and surreal animated documentary about the life of the filmmakers, two-half brothers, one of whom is white and lives in Toronto, while the other Cree and living in a remote reserve in Northern Manitoba.

TFCA members voted at a live meeting on Sunday, December 7, 2025. They will present these awards, along with the prestigious Rogers Best Canadian Film and Rogers Best Canadian Documentary, on Monday, March 2, 2026, at a gala held at Toronto’s Omni King Edward Hotel.

The nominees for Rogers Best Canadian Film are Romvari’s Blue Heron; Nirvanna: the Band the Show the Movie from Matthew Johnson, a time-travel revisitation of the cult series about musical wannabes Matt and Jay; and David Cronenberg’s sci-fi horror The Shrouds, a paranoid conspiracy tale about an entrepreneur who invents a coffin that allows people to view decomposing loved ones.

The nominees for Rogers Best Canadian Documentary are the aforementioned Endless Cookie; Ghosts of the Sea, in which filmmaker Virginia Tangvald seeks the truth about her brother’s death at sea and uncovers revelations about her family; and Who Killed the Montreal Expos?, Jean-François Poisson’s investigation into the events and betrayals that led to Canada losing its first Major League Baseball franchise. Both awards carry a $50,000 cash prize from Rogers Communications. The two runners-up in each category will receive $5,000.

Three significant TFCA awards are yet to be announced. They include the Company 3 Luminary Award, which recognizes a Canadian industry figure who has made a substantial and outstanding contribution to the advancement and/or history of Canadian cinema. The Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist, named for the late, prestigious Globe & Mail critic who famously championed young film talent, recognizes an emerging Canadian talent who is positively affecting the direction of Canadian cinema. Also to be announced: the Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic Award, which carries a prize of $1,000.

The TFCA is extremely grateful to founding sponsor Rogers Communications for the Rogers Best Canadian Film and the Rogers Best Canadian Documentary. TFCA thanks returning sponsors Netflix as Dinner sponsor, Prime Video as Cocktail Reception and After Party sponsor and Air Canada as Official Airline. TFCA salutes Telefilm Canada as Telefilm Canada Emerging Critic sponsor and Company 3 as Company 3 Luminary Award Sponsor.and welcomes new sponsors McCain Foods Limited and A/V sponsor The Magen Group. The TFCA also thanks sponsors Omni King Edward Hotel and salutes stalwart supporters, G.H. Mumm Champagne, L’Eat Catering, Zoomer Magazine, The Printing House, Element Event Solutions.

The full list of 2025 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards winners and runners-up follows: