2026: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

  1. The Odyssey (dir: Christopher Nolan)

  2. Club Kid (dir: Jordan Firstman)

  3. Fatherland (dir: Paweł Pawlikowski)

  4. Rose (dir: Markus Schleinzer)

  5. The End of Oak Street (dir: David Robert Mitchell)

  6. Paper Tiger (dir: James Gray)

  7. The Debut (dir: Jesse Eisenberg)

  8. La Bola Negra (dir: Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 

Best Film of the Year: The Odyssey
Director: Christopher Nolan
Producers: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
US Distributor: Universal

Christopher Nolan on the set of The Odyssey

Best Director:
Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey
2. Paweł Pawlikowski, Fatherland
3. Jesse Eisenberg, The Debut
4. Jordan Fristman, Club Kid
5.

Julianne Moore in Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut

Best Lead Performance:
Julianne Moore, The Debut
Emily Blunt, Disclosure Day

Emily Blunt in Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day

3. Jordan Firstman, Club Kid
4. Inde Navarrette, Obsession
5. Spike Fearn, Finding Emily
6. Anne Hathaway, The End of Oak Street AND The Odyssey
7. John Malkovich, Wild Horse Nine
8. Miles Teller, Paper Tiger
9. Tom Cruise, Digger
10. Ethan Hawke, The Weight

Samantha Morton in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Best Supporting Performance:
Samantha Morton, The Odyssey
Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Club Kid

Riz Ahmed in Digger

3. Riz Ahmed, Digger
4. Luna Wedler, Silent Friend
5. Leo Woodall, Tony
6. Robert Pattinson, The Odyssey
7. Adia, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
8. Antonio Banderas, Tony
9. Havana Rose Liu, Tuner
10. Woody Norman, The Uprising

Best Original Screenplay

2. Club Kid — Jordan Firstman
3. The Debut — Jesse Eisenberg
4. Fatherland — Paweł Pawlikowski and Hendrik Handloegten
5. Finding Emily — Rachel Hirons

Guitarricadelafuenta and Miguel Bernardeau in Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo’s La Bola Negra

Best Adapted Screenplay:
La Bola Negra —Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo
2. The Odyssey — Christopher Nolan
3. Nirvanna the Show the Band the Movie — Matt Johnson, Jay McCarrol, Matthew Miller, Jared Raab, Curt Lobb, Matt Greyson, Evan Morgan and Luca Tarantini
4. The Invite — Rashida Jones and Will McCormack

Hoyeon in Na Hong-jin’s Hope

Best Cinematography
Hope — Hong Kyung-pyo
2. Werwulf — Jarin Blaschke
3. Rose — Gerald Kerkletz
4. The Odyssey — Hoyte van Hoytema
5. Sense and Sensibility — Arnaud Potier

Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Best Original Score
The Odyssey — Ludwig Görranson
2. Werwulf
3. Hope — Michael Abels
4. I Love Boosters — Tune-Yards
5. Faces of Death — Gavin Brivik

Sandra Hüller in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland

Best Film Editing
Fatherland — Piotr Wójcik and Paweł Pawlikowski
2. The Drama — Kristoffer Borgli and Joshua Raymond Lee
3. Club Kid — Sofia Subercaseaux
4. The Odyssey — Jennifer Lame
5. The End of Oak Street — John Axelrad

Na Hong-jin’s Hope

Best Production Design
Digger
2. Hope — Lee Hwo-kyoung
3. Backrooms — Danny Vermette and Trevor Johnston
4. I Love Boosters — Christopher Glass and Lizbeth Ayala
5. Wuthering Heights — Suzie Davies and Charlotte Dirickx

Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu and Keke Palmer in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters

Best Costume Design
I Love Boosters — Shirley Kurata
2. Wuthering Heights — Jacqueline Durran
3. The Odyssey
4. Werwulf
5. Sense and Sensibility

Bill Irwin as the cyclops and Samantha Morton in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Best Visual Effects
The Odyssey
2. The End of Oak Street
3. Project Hail Mary
4. Nirvanna the Show the Band the Movie

Anne Hathaway in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Best Sound
The Odyssey
2. The End of Oak Street
3. Project Hail Mary

Cosmo Jarvis in Paul Greengrass’ The Uprising

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Werwulf
2. The Uprising
3. The Bride!
4. The Odyssey
5. Rose

Best Documentary Feature

2. You Can See Everything — Nathan Fielder
3.

Ugo Bienvenu’s Arco

Best Animated Feature
Ray Gunn — Brad Bird
2. Scarlet — Mamoru Hosoda
3. KPop Demon Hunters — Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang

S in Mike Flanagan’s Carrie

Best Limited Series
Carrie — Mike Flanagan
2. East of Eden — Zoe Kazan
3.

Best Documentary Series
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow — Julia Loktev

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Jordan Firstman, Club Kid

Best Ensemble Cast:
Digger

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

Best Ensemble: Eddington (casting director: Ellen Chenoweth); starring (in alphabetical order) William Belleau, Austin Butler, James Cady, Clifton Collins Jr., Rachel de la Torre, Elise Falanga, Matt Gomez Hidaka, Luke Goolsby, Luke Grimes, Amélie Hoeferle, Christine Hughes, Cameron Mann, David Midthunder, Deirdre O’Connell, King Orba, Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix (pictured), William Sterchi, Emma Stone and Michael Ward (pictured)

RECAP

W I N S :

The Odyssey – 6,
Club Kid — 2, Digger — 2, The Debut — 1, La Bola Negra — 1, Carrie — 1, Disclosure Day — 1, Fatherland — 1, Hope — 1, I Love Boosters — 1, Werwulf — 1, You Can See Everything — 1

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

The Odyssey — 12,