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
