2025

Here are my personal awards for 2025. I decided to add Best Song (one of my favorite Oscar categories - hated leaving it out beforehand anyways) and Best Stunts (separated it from Best Production, as it's an onscreen performance category like acting) to these awards. All of my ballots have been updated, so I should get back to posting more ballots soon. (Updates to this post, of course, will follow.)

* = winner

BEST MOVIE:

Black Bag

It Was Just an Accident

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning*

One Battle After Another

Sirāt

BEST DIRECTOR:

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another*

Oliver Laxe, Sirāt

Christopher McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE:

Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

Brendan Fraser, Rental Family*

Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Josh O’Connor, Rebuilding

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE:

Mariam Afshari, It Was Just an Accident

Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You*

Amy Madigan, Weapons

Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee

Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

BEST SCREENPLAY:

Black Bag

It Was Just an Accident*

No Other Choice

One Battle After Another

Sinners

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The Ice Tower

Nouvelle Vague

One Battle After Another

Sirāt

The Testament of Ann Lee*

BEST EDITING:

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning*

One Battle After Another

Roofman

Sirāt

BEST MUSIC:

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

One Battle After Another

Predator: Killer of Killers

Sinners

Sirāt*

BEST SONG:

“Clothed by the Sun” from The Testament of Ann Lee

“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters

“Hand That Feeds” from Ballerina

“I Lied to You” from Sinners*

“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams

BEST PRODUCTION:

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Mickey 17

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning*

Predator: Killer of Killers

Sinners

BEST STUNTS:

Ballerina

F1

Havoc

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning*

Splitsville

BEST CAST:

Black Bag

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning*

One Battle After Another

Sentimental Value

Sinners

BEST COLLABORATION:

Rachel Brosnahan and David Corenswet, Superman

Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin, Splitsville

Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton, The Phoenician Scheme

Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, and Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague*

Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, Peter Hujar’s Day

BEST ARTIST:

Mona Fastvold, The Testament of Ann Lee

Richard Linklater, Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague

Josh O’Connor, The Mastermind, Rebuilding, and Wake Up Dead Man*

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

Dan Trachtenberg, Predator: Killer of Killers