Awards Season 2025

[TechnicolorAcid]

My ballot was actually pretty easy to compile this year and I think the only real challenges I had were with selecting Best Actor or Best Supporting Actress.

Spoiler

Best Picture - One Battle After Another

Best Director - Paul Thomas Anderson

Best Actor - Michael B. Jordan

Best Actress - Jessie Buckley

Best Supporting Actor - Sean Penn

Best Supporting Actress - Amy Madigan

Best Original Screenplay - Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay - One Battle After Another

Best Casting - Sinners

Best Original Song - Golden

Best Original Score - Sinners

Best Cinematography - One Battle After Another

Best Production Design - Frankenstein

Best Costume Design - Frankenstein

Best Makeup and Hairstyling - Frankenstein

Best Editing - One Battle After Another

Best Sound - F1

Best Visual Effects - Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best International Feature - Sentimental Value

Best Documentary - The Perfect Neighbor

Best Animated Feature - KPop Demon Hunters

Best Animated Short - Butterfly

Best Documentary Short - All the Empty Rooms

Best Live-Action Short - Two People Exchanging Saliva

[Never Cursed]

This is a bad omen.

[knives]

For a good ceremony? I’m having a ball.

[ryannichols7]

Conan is cooking so far

[aox]

The Godfather is incredible, but Pacino is so miscast... Has anyone ever said that?

Maybe you're joking, but the producer and studio head said that even before the film was made.

I knew the studio was against Pacino, which is why I added the second part of the sentence involving Duvall. Sorry for the bad example, I guess. Maybe Jack Nicholson being miscast in Chinatown? Would The Wrestler win Best Casting for Mickey Rourke, while losing everything else? To me, this just seems like an internal industry award because I am not sure how an audience is supposed to engage with it. I might argue best Stunt Team/Producers deserve a spot at the main ceremony before casting, but I would be open to all points of view.

[therewillbeblus]

The Hamnet joke in the opening monologue was fabulous

[beamish14]

Burger King needs to earn my trust again after what they put me through.

“Tell them Marty sent you.”-TURDS

[ryannichols7]

OBAA sweep begins? great win in casting

[domino harvey]

I haven’t seen Madigan’s film but her win is truly the result of unexpected audience response and authentic momentum. Even if it turns out she and/or the movie sucks, this is on principle the kind of thing this award should reward more often

Everyone was certain Sinners was getting casting, right? That’s gotta be a great sign

[therewillbeblus]

Yeah it was being called a shoe-in

[domino harvey]

2.63% odds at GoldDerby lol

[domino harvey]

When was the last tie, when Zero Dark Thirty and something else won a tech award (Sound maybe)?

[domino harvey]

Thank god. How embarrassing would it be for posterity if Penn hadn’t won for one of the best performances of all time?

[ryannichols7]

PTA finally winning, we knew it was coming but that took way too long

Penn not showing up is hilarious

[domino harvey]

Hopkins was the last acting winner to not show up (and even though it was an upset, the expected winner wasn’t going to be there either…)

[beamish14]

PTA finally winning, we knew it was coming but that took way too long

Penn not showing up is hilarious

I couldn’t imagine him coming with what is happening now in Iran

[beamish14]

Nice segue from Graham Greene to Val Kilmer using Michael Apted’s Thunderheart

[beamish14]

Per The NY Times, Penn likely went to Ukraine


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/movi ... scars.html

[domino harvey]

30 minutes between awards might be an Oscar record

[ryannichols7]

armageddon moment would've been Woody Allen coming out to do Diane Keaton's in memoriam

[domino harvey]

Wow, the Perfect Neighbor did not win!

[knives]

(Honestly I’m glad because that was a really bad movie)

[domino harvey]

OBAA lost cinematography…

[ryannichols7]

I'm still feeling good about OBAA winning picture and director, especially after it's editing and casting wins

[GaryC]

Autumn Durald Arkapaw is only the fourth woman to be nominated for Best Cinematography and is now the first to have won. This was the last category open to both sexes to have a female nominee.

Shooting in large format (65mm Ultra Panavision and IMAX 15/70) doesn't necessarily give you an unfair advantage, but Oppenheimer won two years ago and The Brutalist (VistaVision, like One Battle After Another) did last year.