2025: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. One Battle After Another (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)

2. The Secret Agent (dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho)

3. Magellen (dir: Lav Diaz)

4. Eddington (dir: Ari Aster)

5. Sirāt (dir: Oliver Laxe)

6. The Naked Gun (dir: Akiva Schaffer)

7. No Other Choice (dir: Park Chan-wook)

8. It Was Just an Accident (dir: Jafar Panahi)

9. Sentimental Value (dir: Joachim Trier)

10. Friendship (dir: Andrew DeYoung)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 

Best Film of the Year: One Battle After Another
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Somner
US Distributor: Warner Brothers

Best Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
2. Lav Diaz, Magellan
3. Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
4. Ari Aster, Eddington
5. Oliver Laxe, Sirāt

Best Lead Performance:
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
Son Ye-jin, No Other Choice

3. Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
4. Frank Dillane, Urchin
5. Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
6. Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest
7. Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
8. Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
9. Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
10. Dakota Johnson, Materialists

Best Supporting Performance:
Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Nina Hoss, Hedda

3. Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
4. Billy Crudup, Jay Kelly
5. Amy Madigan, Weapons
6. Delroy Lindo, Sinners
7. Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
8. Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
9. Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
10. Oona Chaplin, Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Original Screenplay
The Secret Agent — Kleber Mendonça Filho
2. Eddington — Ari Aster
3. Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
4. Sorry, Baby — Eva Victor
5. Materialists — Celine Song

Best Adapted Screenplay:
One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson
2. Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
3. The Naked Gun — Dan Gregor, Doug Mand and Akiva Schaffer
4. Bugonia — Will Tracy
5. No Other Choice — Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Lee Ja-hye, and Don McKellar

Best Cinematography
Magellan — Lav Diaz and Artur Tort
2. The Testament of Ann Lee — William Rexer
3. No Other Choice — Kim Woo-hyung
4. One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman
5. Die My Love — Seamus McGarvey

Best Original Score
One Battle After Another — Jonny Greenwood
2. Bugonia — Jerskin Fendrix
3. The Testament of Ann Lee — Daniel Blumberg
4. Black Bag — David Holmes
5. Sirāt — David Kangding Ray

Best Film Editing
Eddington — Lucian Johnston
2. One Battle After Another — Andy Jurgensen
3. 28 Years Later — Jon Harris
4. Train Dreams — Parker Laramie
5. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You — Lucian Johnston

Best Production Design
Sentimental Value — Jørgen Stangebye Larsen and Catrine Gormsen
2. Hamnet — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
3. Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau
4. Highest 2 Lowest — Mark Friedberg and Lisa Scoppa
5. Marty Supreme — Jack Fisk and Adam Wallis

Best Costume Design
Frankenstein — Kate Hawley
2. Magellan — Zues Bascon, Célia Fernandez, and Kim Perez
3. Ballad of a Small Player — Lisy Christl
4. The Testament of Anne Lee — Malgorzata Karpiuk
5. Hedda — Lindsay Pugh

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2. How to Train Your Dragon
3. Superman
4. F1
5. Predator: Badlands

Best Sound
One Battle After Another
2. F1
3. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
4. Warfare
5. Superman

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Hedda
2. Weapons
3. Sinners
4. The Smashing Machine
5. 28 Years Later

Best Documentary Feature
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions — Kahil Joseph
2. Orwell: 2+2=5 – Raoul Peck
3. Secret Mall Apartment — Jeremy Workman

Best Animated Feature
Arco — Ugo Bienvenu
2. Scarlet — Mamoru Hosoda
3. KPop Demon Hunters — Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang

Best Limited Series
1. Adolescence — Philip Barantini, Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham
2. Dying for Sex – Shannon Murphy, Chris Teague, and Nikki Boyer
3.

Best Documentary Series
Mr. Scorsese — Rebecca Miller

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Andrew DeYoung, Friendship

Best Ensemble Cast:
One Battle After Another

Best First Feature: Kate Mara and Tim Robinson (pictured) in Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship

Best Ensemble: One Battle After Another (casting by Cassandra Kulukundis); in alphabetical order Benicio del Toro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jim Downey, Tony Goldwyn, Paul Grimstad, Alana Haim, Regina Hall, Wood Harris, John Hoogenakker, Chase Infiniti, Shayna McHayle, D.W. Moffett, Sean Penn (pictured), Eric Schewig, Teyana Taylor (pictured) and Kevin Tighe

RECAP

W I N S :

One Battle After Another — 6,
Hedda — 2, Adolescence — 1, Arco — 1, Avatar: Fire and Ash — 1, BLKNWS — 1, Eddington — 1, Frankenstein — 1, Magellan — 1, Mr. Scorsese — 1, No Other Choice — 1, The Secret Agent — 1, Sentimental Value — 1, The Testament of Ann Lee — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

One Battle After Another — 11,
Sentimental Value — 5, Eddington — 4, Magellan — 4, No Other Choice — 4, The Secret Agent — 4, Testament of Ann Lee — 4, Bugonia — 3, Hedda — 3, Sirāt — 3, 28 Years Later — 2, Avatar: Fire & Ash — 2, F1 — 2, Frankenstein — 2, Friendship — 2, Hamnet – 2, Highest 2 Lowest — 2, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You — 2, Materialists — 2, The Naked Gun — 2, Sinners — 2, Superman – 2, Train Dreams — 2, Weapons — 2

the year-end project:
2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s