Jafar Panahi won multiple awards for “It Was Just an Accident,” based on his experiences as a political prisoner. The director faces a prison sentence in Iran.

Iran has sentenced acclaimed director Jafar Panahi to a year in prison and imposed a two-year travel ban on charges of “propaganda activities against the system," according to his lawyer.

Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" was named the best film of 2025 by the New York Film Critics Circle, which announced its annual awards on Tuesday. While the film went into the Tuesday meeting of the NYFCC as the presumed favorite to win,