Awards Season 2025

[domino harvey]

The list above is missing Cutting Through Rocks in doc feature btw

[domino harvey]

Sinners broke the record for most Oscar nominations for a single film (16), which was previously a three-way-tie (for 14) between All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. Shame that it stinks.

At least OBAA is not far behind

Sinners - 16
One Battle - 13
Frankenstein - 9
Marty Supreme - 9
Sentimental Value - 9
Hamnet - 8
Bugonia - 4
F1 - 4
The Secret Agent - 4
Train Dreams - 4

[domino harvey]

Did Wicked really completely blank out here? There’s hope for the Oscars yet!

[beamish14]

Really awful how Testament of Ann Lee got completely shafted

[Never Cursed]

The list above is missing Cutting Through Rocks in doc feature btw

Fixed. I copied it from Deadline, so any errors are both theirs and mine for not spotting them.

Sinners broke the record for most Oscar nominations for a single film (16), which was previously a three-way-tie (for 14) between All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. Shame that it stinks.

At least OBAA is not far behind

It would have tied Sinners if it had managed the Chase Infiniti nom and if Regina Hall had gotten in instead of Wunmi Mosaku (another completely beguiling choice, not even the most memorable supporting actress in the film)

Really awful how Testament of Ann Lee got completely shafted

You can blame this on Searchlight, which completely botched their campaign for it. I honestly prefer Seyfried's performance to everyone else in the category save maybe Emma Stone's

[domino harvey]

Saw this on the awards forum, is this true: Stellan Skarsgard is the first foreign performance nominated in Best Supporting Actor?

[Never Cursed]

Saw this on the awards forum, is this true: Stellan Skarsgard is the first foreign performance nominated in Best Supporting Actor?

It appears so, though with lots of caveats (i.e., Yura Borisov doesn't count for Anora even though half his dialogue is in Russian, etc.). There are also an enormous amount of nominations for foreign performances in the Actress categories

[The Narrator Returns]

Really awful how Testament of Ann Lee got completely shafted

You can blame this on Searchlight, which completely botched their campaign for it. I honestly prefer Seyfried's performance to everyone else in the category save maybe Emma Stone's

Seyfried's great in it and it should've had a lot of below-the-line categories in the bag (they should've pushed "Hunger and Thirst" for Song). But Rose Byrne is so far and away the star of Actress for me, I know she's not getting past the Buckley buzzsaw but it's not often a fierce contender for the best performance I saw last year gets nominated. This year actually has three of those, her and Hawke and Benicio.

[domino harvey]

Saw this on the awards forum, is this true: Stellan Skarsgard is the first foreign performance nominated in Best Supporting Actor?

It appears so, though with lots of caveats (i.e., Yura Borisov doesn't count for Anora even though half his dialogue is in Russian, etc.). There are also an enormous amount of nominations for foreign performances in the Actress categories

Interesting. Best Sup Actress has La nuit Americaine so I knew that one. It doesn’t help that, as you mention, there are foreign performers in non foreign films (De Sica in the Hemingway movie comes to mind)

[domino harvey]

Wait, Avatar was nominated for Costuming?

[Never Cursed]

Really awful how Testament of Ann Lee got completely shafted

You can blame this on Searchlight, which completely botched their campaign for it. I honestly prefer Seyfried's performance to everyone else in the category save maybe Emma Stone's

Seyfried's great in it and it should've had a lot of below-the-line categories in the bag (they should've pushed "Hunger and Thirst" for Song).

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that this, like all the music for The Testament of Ann Lee, was not eligible for Song or Score, because the lyrics are from Shaker hymns not written by the composer. They were absent from both the shortlists. It would upset me more had Blumberg not just won an Oscar

[willoneill]

We've reached peak Diane-Warren-perennial-nomination for Best Song because this year her nominated song is from a movie about ... Diane Warren. (Also, what the hell is Viva Verdi!?)

They need to dump this bullshit category, which ironically would give them more legitimate leeway to schedule musical performances from the year's actually popular movie songs.

[willoneill]

Wait, Avatar was nominated for Costuming?

Just noticed this as well. I would've thought that'd be offensive to the costume designer's guild, but then aren't they the group that selects the nominees?

[Never Cursed]

They need to dump this bullshit category, which ironically would give them more legitimate leeway to schedule musical performances from the year's actually popular movie songs.

Sure, the Diane Warren stranglehold sucks, but the presumptive winner was actually one of the most popular songs in the US in 2025, and remains exactly as popular in 2026. It may be terrible, but assuming it wins, it'd probably be the winner with the most cultural awareness among the general American population since either "City of Stars" or "Let It Go."

[The Narrator Returns]

I'd say the Barbie song beats "City of Stars" pretty easily in that department, though it seems "Golden" beats them both.

[Never Cursed]

I was looking at chart performance and I'm not sure because they never released the actual film version of "City of Stars" as a single, only a remix, and I wouldn't be surprised if a ton of people listened to the soundtrack as an album. Were the Dua Lipa and Ryan Gosling songs not way more popular than what won the award?

Speaking of, someone on Twitter just pointed out the real snub in these categories: Max Richter's awful, partially reused Hamnet score over Oneohtrix Point Never for Marty Supreme

[The Narrator Returns]

I was looking at chart performance and I'm not sure because they never released the actual film version of "City of Stars" as a single, only a remix, and I wouldn't be surprised if a ton of people listened to the soundtrack as an album. Were the Dua Lipa and Ryan Gosling songs not way more popular than what won the award?

Speaking of, someone on Twitter just pointed out the real snub in these categories: Max Richter's awful, partially reused Hamnet score over Oneohtrix Point Never for Marty Supreme

Maybe this is anecdotal but I know "What Was I Made For?" was huge on TikTok, it might be better-known as a song while "I'm Just Ken" was beloved mostly as a musical number. And yeah, if Hamnet can get in for leaning on the same score crutch as so many other movies, there's no excuse for no Daniel Blumberg.

[soundchaser]

“What Was I Made For?” got loads of radio play here, although it dropped off precipitously after its win.

I heard “Golden” three times across two stations during an hour and a half drive. It’s massive.

[dda1996a]

How did Frankenstein get nominated for cinematography is beyond me (I hate the film overall but Del-Toro has his fans + Netflix money)
The whole thing looked CGI ugly, nothing was interesting in the lighting or camera movements, just a horrid horrid film...

[klee13]

Surprised too by the absence of Jay Kelly, which seemingly had its awards montage moment bookmarked in advance.

[Never Cursed]

Both of those sound right. I'm not on TikTok and never heard the song on the radio, but can believe it was big on both

Maybe this is anecdotal but I know "What Was I Made For?" was huge on TikTok, it might be better-known as a song while "I'm Just Ken" was beloved mostly as a musical number. And yeah, if Hamnet can get in for leaning on the same score crutch as so many other movies, there's no excuse for no Daniel Blumberg.

The problem is that per the rules a certain proportion of the music has to be entirely newly written for the movie. The Academy actually just recently reduced what that proportion was following Birdman's score being deemed ineligible because of the use of a number of classical pieces in addition to Antonio Sanchez's drumming. Hamnet only reuses one Max Richter song, which makes it eligible; it just so happens that it's his most famous (and annoying) piece of music by far. The equivalent would be something like if Clint Mansell wrote an entire new score for a film and reused "Lux Aeterna" at the climax (and if you read those words and don't immediately hear the track, I invite you to Google it and be transported back in time to a Serious Film Trailer from the 2000s).

In other words, it's bullshit, but it used to be even worse.

[Maltic]

How did Frankenstein get nominated for cinematography is beyond me (I hate the film overall but Del-Toro has his fans + Netflix money)
The whole thing looked CGI ugly, nothing was interesting in the lighting or camera movements, just a horrid horrid film...

Polar Express vibes in the North Pole scenes.

[The Narrator Returns]

Surprised too by the absence of Jay Kelly, which seemingly had its awards montage moment bookmarked in advance.

I was expecting that even though I would've been overjoyed by a Sandler nom. Baumbach having one awards hit (one-and-a-half if you count Barbie) disguises the fact his sensibility is usually antithetical to what the Academy likes to vote for, where even something as sentimental and awards-ready as Jay Kelly is still too strange and prickly and unresolved for them. Not as alienating as White Noise (a little worse than it too) but the difference between its take on bad dads and their children versus Sentimental Value's wrapped-nicely-in-a-bow one says a lot for what's more palatable to them.

[eerik]

Can any Norwegian comment on the origin of Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas' surname? Lilleaas sounds very Estonian, literally means flower meadow, but I haven't seen anybody in local media claim her one of our own yet. Usually they are very quick to sniff these thing out, the tragedy of a being a small irrelevant nation.

[mfunk9786]

How did Frankenstein get nominated for cinematography is beyond me (I hate the film overall but Del-Toro has his fans + Netflix money)
The whole thing looked CGI ugly, nothing was interesting in the lighting or camera movements, just a horrid horrid film...

I loved the film, but the cinematography was perhaps its worst attribute. Can say the same about Sinners, which was also nominated.