New York Film Critics Circle Gala At TAO Downtown Manhattan This Week: Best Director, Screenplay, Actress, Actor, And More

91st Annual New York Film Critics Circle Gala at TAO Downtown on January 6, 2026

Editor’s note: Earlier last year, we also covered the Women In Film & Television Awards gala event that featured celebrity guests from a variety of filmmaking experiences, all excited to share their stories with the audience.  See below for a photo slideshow of the celebrities that attended, their families, and the award winners: 

This year’s winners are as follows:

Best Film:
One Battle After Another

Best Director:
Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

Best Screenplay:
Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, Marty Supreme

Best Actress:
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Actor:
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Madigan, Weapons

Best Supporting Actor:
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Secret Agent

Best Cinematography:
Autumn Durald, Sinners

Best Nonfiction Film:
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow

Best First Film:
Eephus

Best Animated Film:
KPop Demon Hunters

Special Award:
Screen Slate
Museum of the Moving Image

Student Scholarships:
London Xhudo (Undergraduate, NYU)
Tan Zhiyuan (Graduate, The New School)

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ABOUT THE NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is the oldest critics group in the country, and among the most prestigious. The NYFCC’s membership includes critics from daily and weekly newspapers, magazines and the web’s most respected online publications.

Every year the organization meets to vote on awards for the calendar year’s films, among the first of the major groups to pronounce its winners. Oftentimes the NYFCC’s selections pave a path for Awards Season, while other times their picks stand proudly independent from other organizations. The group’s awards dinner in early January is also considered a kick-off to a new year of glamorous events in New York City.

For information regarding the NYFCC, please visit: www.nyfcc.com.

Banner Image: NY FilmCritics Circle Gala: (L to R) Lupita Nyong’o and Wagner Moura. Images Credit – Starpix