The Film Critics Guild announced the winners of the Critics' Choice Awards 2025, on March 25. The star-studded ceremony was attended by Javed Akhtar, Richa Chadha, Payal Kapadia, Kani Kusruti, Varun Sobti, Divya Dutta, Parvathy and Anna Ben among others.
Actor-singer, Diljit Dosanjh won the Best Actor award for his performance in Netflix's Amar Singh Chamkila, beating out Abhishek Bachchan who was nominated for I Want To Talk. Darshana Rajendran won the Best Actress award for her role in Paradise.
Ravi Kishan bagged the Best Supporting Actor, for Laapataa Ladies and Kani Kusruti earned the Best Supporting Actress for her stellar performance in Girls Will Be Girls.
During his acceptance speech, Diljit expressed his heartfelt gratitude and said, “Thank you to the Film Critics Guild for this award, bohot bohot shukriya for considering me worthy of this honour.'' He dedicated this award to Amar Singh Chamkila and director Imtiaz Ali, for bringing this beautiful film to life. ''I just had the chance to be a part of it—it was entirely Imtiaz sir라이브 바카라 hard work. A big thank you to the entire cast and crew of the film,'' he added.
In the Web Series category, Prime Video's Poacher won big by bagging six awards- Best Web Series, Best Actress award for Nimisha Sajayan, Best Director for Richie Mehta, Best Supporting Actor for Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Best Supporting Actress for Kani Kusruti and also for Best Writing.
Barun Sobti won Best Actor for his performance in Raat Jawaan Hai.
The Short Films category was dominated by Obur. It won the Best Short Film and other awards. Harish Khanna won Best Actor for Jal Tu Jalaal Tu, Jyoti Dogra clinched the Best Actress award for Taak (Tracker).
All We Imagine As Light shone in the Feature Film category, by earning three awards- Best Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography.
A new category was introduced this year, Best Documentary, which honoured exceptional feature-length documentary films. Nocturnes bagged award for powerful storytelling.
Have a look at the full winners list of Critics' Choice Awards 2025
Short Film Category:
Best Short Film: Obur
Best Director: Faraz Ali for Obur
Best Actor: Harish Khanna for Jal Tu Jalaal Tu
Best Actress: Jyoti Dogra for Taak (Tracker)
Best Writing: Faraz Ali for Obur
Best Cinematography: Anand Bansal for Obur
Documentary Category:
Best Documentary: Nocturnes
Web Series Category:
Best Web Series: Poacher
Best Director: Richie Mehta for Poacher
Best Actor: Barun Sobti for Raat Jawaan Hai
Best Actress: Nimisha Sajayan for Poacher
Best Supporting Actor: Dibyendu Bhattacharya for Poacher
Best Supporting Actress: Kani Kusruti for Poacher
Best Writing: Richie Mehta, Gopan Chidambaran, Suprotim Sengupta, Amrita Bagchi for Poacher
Feature Film Category:
Best Film: All We Imagine As Light
Best Director: Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine As Light
Best Actor: Diljit Dosanjh for Amar Singh Chamkila
Best Actress: Darshana Rajendran for Paradise
Best Supporting Actor: Ravi Kishan for Laapataa Ladies
Best Supporting Actress: Kani Kusruti for Girls Will Be Girls
Best Writing: Anand Ekarshi for Aattam
Best Cinematography: Ranabir Das for All We Imagine As Light
Best Editing: Shivkumar V. Panicker for Kill
Gender Sensitivity Award
Girls Will Be Girls
