One Battle After Another Rules 2025 Gotham Awards Nominations
Chase Infinity in One Battle After Another (Image credit X.com)
The Gotham Awards 2025 celebrate bold, independent storytelling as Anderson’s high-octane epic leads the pack; Mary Bronstein, Jafar Panahi, and Park Chan-wook add international flair to a diverse nominee slate.
By TRH Features Desk
Mumbai, October 28, 2025 — The 35th Annual Gotham Awards, the traditional curtain-raiser to Hollywood’s awards season, announced its 2025 nominations on Tuesday — marking a year where the line between indie spirit and studio scale has never been thinner.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s explosive epic One Battle After Another stormed the field with six nominations, including Best Feature, Best Director, and acting nods for Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor. With a budget exceeding $130 million, the film’s sweeping success positions it as a frontrunner heading into awards season.
The Gotham Film & Media Institute, which organizes the event, expanded the Best Feature category to 10 slots for the first time, showcasing 40 films and 25 performances chosen by a jury of critics, journalists, and festival curators.
Close behind, Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You earned four nominations, while Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice secured three apiece, signaling a strong international presence. Other notable contenders include Secret Agent and My Father’s Shadow (two each), with breakout mentions for Adam Sandler in Train Dreams and Jessie Buckley in an undisclosed role.
In a surprising omission, Leonardo DiCaprio was snubbed from the Best Actor race for his turn in One Battle After Another — a decision that Variety called “an eyebrow-raiser in an otherwise dominant showing.”
Jeffrey Sharp, executive director of the Gotham Institute, described this year’s slate as a showcase of “bold, original storytelling that transcends studio boundaries,” per The Hollywood Reporter.
The Gotham Awards, once reserved for films with budgets under $35 million, lifted that cap in 2023, enabling larger productions like Anderson’s to compete. The shift, praised by IndieWire for blending “big love and strong indies,” has also reignited debate about whether the ceremony can retain its independent roots in an era of hybrid film financing and streaming dominance.
The Gotham Awards ceremony will take place later this year in New York, officially launching what is shaping up to be one of Hollywood’s most unpredictable awards seasons in years.
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