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. Sentimental Value (dir: Joachim Trier)

  9. Friendship (dir: Andrew DeYoung)

  10. Eephus (dir: Carson Lund; US Release Date)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 28 Years Later (dir: Danny Boyle), Black Bag (dir: Steven Soderbergh), BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions (dir: Khalil Joseph), Blue Moon (dir: Richard Linklater), Bugonia (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos), Caught by the Tides (dir: Jia Zhangke), The Chronology of Water (dir: Kristen Stewart), It Was Just an Accident (dir: Jafar Panahi), Jay Kelly (dir: Noah Baumbach), Materialists (dir: Celine Song), Peter Hujar’s Day (dir: Ira Sachs), The Phoenician Scheme (dir: Wes Anderson), Roofman (dir: Derek Cianfrance), Song Sung Blue (dir: Craig Brewer), Sorry, Baby (dir: Eve Victor), The Testament of Ann Lee (dir: Mona Fastvold), Train Dreams (dir: Clint Bentley) and Weapons (dir: Zach Cregger)

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. Lav Diaz, Magellan
3. Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
4. Ari Aster, Eddington
5. Oliver Laxe, Sirāt

Liam Neeson in Akiva Schaffer’s The Naked Gun

Best Lead Performance:
Liam Neeson, The Naked Gun
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee

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

3. Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
4. Imogen Poots, The Chronology of Water
5. Ben Whishaw, Peter Hujar’s Day
6. Denzel Washington, Highest 2 Lowest
7. Son Ye-jin, No Other Choice
8. Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
9. Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
10. Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue

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

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

Nina Hoss in Nia DaCosta’s 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

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. Sorry, Baby — Eva Victor
5. Materialists — Celine Song

Chase Infiniti and Regina Hall 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

Gael García Bernal in Lav Diaz’s Magellan

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. Peter Hujar’s Day — Alex Ashe

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

Imogen Poots in Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water

Best Film Editing
The Chronology of Water — Olivia Neergaard-Holm
2. One Battle After Another — Andy Jurgensen
3. 28 Years Later — Jon Harris
4. Eddington — Lucian Johnston
5. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You — Lucian Johnston

Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value through the decades

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

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

Best Costume Design
Frankenstein — Kate Hawley
2. Ballad of a Small Player — Lisy Christl
3. The Testament of Anne Lee — Malgorzata Karpiuk
4. Marty Supreme — Miyako Bellizzi
5. Hedda — Lindsay Pugh

Oona Chaplin in James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash

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

Richard Bellamy and Sergi López in Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt

Best Sound
Sirāt
2. The Chronology of Water
3. F1
4. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
5. No Other Choice

Tessa Thompson in Nia DaCosta’s Hedda

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

Best Documentary Feature
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions — Kahil Joseph
2.
3. Secret Mall Apartment — Jeremy Workman

Ugo Bienvenu’s Arco

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

Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty in Philip Barantini’s Adolescence

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

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

Orson Welles’ Best First Feature:
Andrew DeYoung, Friendship

Best Ensemble Cast:
Eddington

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 :

One Battle After Another — 4,
Hedda — 2, Adolescence — 1, Arco — 1, Avatar: Fire and Ash — 1, BLKNWS — 1, The Chronology of Water — 1, Eddington — 1, Frankenstein — 1, Friendship — 1, Magellan — 1, My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow — 1, The Naked Gun — 1, The Secret Agent — 1, Sentimental Value — 1, Sirāt — 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 — 9,
Eddington — 5, No Other Choice — 5, Sentimental Value — 5, The Testament of Ann Lee — 5, The Secret Agent — 4, Sirāt — 4, Bugonia — 3, Chronology of Water — 3, Hedda — 3, Magellan — 3, The Naked Gun — 3, 28 Years Later — 2, Avatar: Fire & Ash — 2, F1 — 2, Frankenstein — 2, Friendship — 2, Highest 2 Lowest — 2, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You — 2, Marty Supreme — 2, Peter Hujar’s Day — 2, Sinners — 2, Weapons — 2