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. Eddington (dir: Ari Aster)

  4. Sirāt (dir: Oliver Laxe)

  5. The Naked Gun (dir: Akiva Schaffer)

  6. Train Dreams (dir: Clint Bentley)

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

  8. Bugonia (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)

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

Paul Thomas Anderson directs Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another

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

Adrien Brody in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist

Best Lead Performance:
Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love
Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest

Mikey Madison in Sean Baker’s Anora

3. Liam Neeson, The Naked Gun
4. Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
5. Dakota Johnson, Materialists
6. Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
7. Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
8. Joaquin Phoenix, Eddington
9. Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
10. Michael Fassbender, Black Bag

Billy Crudup in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly

Best Supporting Performance:
Billy Crudup, Jay Kelly
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Teyana Taylor and Leonardo DiCaprio in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

3. Nina Hoss, Hedda
4. Amy Madigan, Weapons
5. Delroy Lindo, Sinners
6. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
7. A$AP Rocky, Highest 2 Lowest
8. Tânia Maria, The Secret Agent
9. Austin Abrams, Weapons
10. Michael Cera, The Phoenician Scheme

Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison in Sean Baker’s Anora

Best Original Screenplay
The Secret Agent — Kleber Mendonça Filho
2. Eddington — Ari Aster
3. Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
4.
5.

Léa Seydoux and George MacKay in Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast

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.

Alessandro Nivola and Adrien Brody in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist

Best Cinematography
Bugonia — Robbie Ryan
2. One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman
3. Bonjour Tristesse — Maximilian Pittner
4. The Secret Agent — Evgenia Alexandrova
5.

Margaret Qualley in The Substance

Best Original Score
One Battle After Another — Jonny Greenwood
2. Bugonia — Jerskin Fendrix
3. Black Bag — David Holmes
4. Sirāt — David Kangding Ray
5.

Cailee Spaeny in Alex Garland’s Civil War

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

Angelina Jolie in Pablo Larraín’s Maria

Best Production Design
Hamnet — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
2. Highest 2 Lowest — Mark Friedberg and Lisa Scoppa
3. Sinners — Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne
4. Mickey 17 — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
5. Bugonia — James Price and Prue Howard

Angelina Jolie in Pablo Larraín’s Maria

Best Costume Design
Ballad of a Small Player — Lisy Christl
2. Hamnet — Malgosia Turzanska
3.
4.
5.

Mike Cheslik’s Hundreds of Beavers

Best Visual Effects
Hundreds of Beavers
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Twisters
4. Better Man
5. Civil War

Kirsten Dunst in Alex Garland’s Civil War

Best Sound
One Battle After Another
2. F1
3.
4.
5.

Demi Moore in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Weapons
2. One Battle After Another
3. Sinners
4. The Smashing Machine
5. 28 Years Later

Best Documentary Feature
Secret Mall Apartment
2.
3.

Best Animated Feature
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2.
3.

Best Limited Series
1.
2.
3.

Best Documentary Series

Best First Feature:
Andrew DeYoung, Friendship

Best Ensemble Cast:
The Secret Agent

Best First Feature: Lily Collias (pictured) in India Donaldson’s Good One

Best Ensemble: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (directed by Mohammad Rasoulof) starring (in alphabetical order) Reza Akhlanghirad, Niousha Akhshi, Soheila Golestani, Setareh Maleki (pictured, right), Mahsa Rostami (pictured, left) and Misagh Zare (pictured, center)

RECAP

W I N S :

One Battle After Another — 6,
Anora — 2, The Beast — 2, Civil War — 2, Maria — 2, The Substance — 2, Emilia Pérez — 1, Good One — 1, Hundreds of Beavers — 1, Inside Out 2 — 1, Kinds of Kindness – 1, No Other Land — 1, Ren Faire — 1, Ripley — 1, The Seed of the Sacred Fig — 1

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

The Brutalist — 10,
Good One — 5, Nosferatu — 5, Anora — 4, The Beast — 4, Challengers — 4, Civil War — 4, The Substance — 4, Dune: Part Two — 3, Emilia Pérez — 3, Evil Does Not Exist — 3, Kinds of Kindness — 3, Maria — 3, La Chimera — 2, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World — 2, I’m Still Here — 2, Inside Out 2 — 2, No Other Land — 2, The Outrun — 2, Problemista — 2, The Promised Land — 2, Queer — 2, Saturday Night — 2, Seed of the Sacred Fig — 2, Wicked — 2