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

  7. Sentimental Value (dir: Joachim Trier)

  8. Friendship (dir: Andrew DeYoung)

  9. Train Dreams (dir: Clint Bentley)

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

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. Oliver Laxe, Sirāt
5. Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

Amanda Seyfried in Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee

Best Lead Performance:
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
Jesse Plemons, Bugonia

Jesse Plemons in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia

3. Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest
4. Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
5. Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
6. Frank Dillane, Urchin
7. Son Ye-jin, No Other Choice
8. Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
9. Dakota Johnson, Materialists
10. Joaquin Phoenix, Eddington

Nina Hoss in Nia DaCosta’s Hedda

Best Supporting Performance:
Nina Hoss, Hedda
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

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

3. Billy Crudup, Jay Kelly
4. Amy Madigan, Weapons
5. Delroy Lindo, Sinners
6. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
7. Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
8. Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
9. Austin Abrams, Weapons
10. Michael Cera, The Phoenician Scheme

Wagner Moura in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent

Best Original Screenplay
The Secret Agent — Kleber Mendonça Filho
2. Eddington — Ari Aster
3. Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
4. Materialists — Celine Song
5. Black Bag — David Koepp

Benicio del Toro in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

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

Lee Byung-hun in Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice

Best Cinematography
No Other Choice — Kim Woo-hyung
2. The Testament of Ann Lee — William Rexer
3. One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman
4. Die My Love — Seamus McGarvey
5. Bonjour Tristesse — Maximilian Pittner

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

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

Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone in Ari Aster’s Eddington

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

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet

Best Production Design
Hamnet — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
2. Highest 2 Lowest — Mark Friedberg and Lisa Scoppa
3. One Battle After Another – Florencia Martin and
4. Mickey 17 — Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton
5. Bugonia — James Price and Prue Howard

Best Costume Design
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2. Hamnet — Malgosia Turzanska
3. Ballad of a Small Player — Lisy Christl
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Best Visual Effects
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Best Sound
One Battle After Another
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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
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Best Animated Feature
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Best Limited Series
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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