One Criterion Forum Award After Another (2025)

[TechnicolorAcid]

Nominating for Best Cover:



Nominating for Best Release:

The Ogre of Athens (Radiance)

Love and Crime (88 Films)

Peter Ibbetson (Indicator)

Underworld Beauty (Radiance)

A Chinese Odyssey (Shout Factory)

Peking Opera Blues (Shout Factory)

The Killer (Shout Factory)

Performance (Criterion)

Choose Me (Criterion)

The Eel (Radiance)

The Bloody Lady (Arbelos)

Up! (Severin)

The Iron Rose (Indicator)

Wonder Dogs (Kino)

The Annihilation of Fish (Milestone)

Sorcerer (Criterion)

Midnight (Criterion)

Cairo Station (Criterion)

Compensation (Criterion)

Through and Through (Radiance)

Best Box Set (and Best Release):

Zoltan Huszarik Set (Second Run)

All 3 Soviet Treasure Animation Sets from Deaf Crocodile (Especially the Forthcoming Norstein Set)

Alraune and Student of Prague Double Feature (Deaf Crocodile)

Best Upgrade:

Tommy (Shout Factory)

The Big Heat (Criterion)

Clueless (Paramount)

Sunset Boulevard (Paramount)

Women in Love (BFI)

Danger: Diabolik (Kino)

Best Discovery:

The Ogre of Athens (Radiance)

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

Best Overall Release: French Dispatch (Criterion), The Tragedy of Man (Deaf Crocodile), and Salaam Bombay! (Criterion)

Best Boxset: Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring (Criterion)

Best Cover: Oil Lamps (Second Run)

[Maltic]

NOMINATE for BEST OVERALL RELEASE:

Dirty Work (VS) SECONDED
The Canyons (VS)
A New Leaf (VS)
Sirius (Deaf Crocodile)
La Notte (Eureka)
Black Sunday (Shout)
Dust Devil (Umbrella)
City on Fire (Arrow) SECONDED
The House of Mirth (BFI)
White Nights (Radiance)
Stranger on Horseback (Kit Parker Films)
Dead of Night (Studio Canal) SECONDED
Dangerous to Know (Indicator)
Uncle Buck (Kino)

A couple are barely out yet, but we'll take a chance.

SECOND for BEST OVERALL RELEASE:

Choose Me (Criterion)
Midnight (Criterion)
Peter Ibbetson (Indicator)
The Tragedy of Man (Deaf Crocodile)

[alacal2]

Best Release

Wake In Fright (Umbrella)
Dead of Night (Studio Canal)
Quatermass 2 (Quatermass)

Best cover

Perfect Blue (All the Anime)

[criterionsnob]

NOMINATING FOR BEST RELEASE
The Wes Anderson Archive (Criterion)
Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami Early Shorts and Features (Criterion)
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (Criterion)
Chinatown (Paramount)
Pavements (Utopia)

SECONDING BEST RELEASE
Flow (Criterion)
The Inquisitor + Deadly Circuit (Radiance)

[andyli]

NOMINATING FOR BEST RELEASE
The Wes Anderson Archive (Criterion)
Eclipse Series 47: Abbas Kiarostami Early Shorts and Features (Criterion)
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring (Criterion)
Chinatown (Paramount)
Pavements (Utopia)

SECONDING BEST RELEASE
Flow (Criterion)
The Inquisitor + Deadly Circuit (Radiance)

Chinatown isn't from this year... or unless you are nominating the beautiful reissue cover.

[criterionsnob]

I picked it up in January. Maybe it’s the reissue.

[Finch]

Nominating for BEST RELEASE:

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure 4K (Criterion)
Angel's Egg 4K (Umbrella)
Jean Vigo 4K (Curzon)

Seconding for BEST RELEASE:

Nomad + My Heart is That Eternal Rose (Radiance)
Sahara (Indicator)
Winchester '73 (Criterion)
City on Fire (Arrow)

Seconding for best upgrade:

Je t’aime je t’aime (Radiance)
Wake in Fright 4K (Umbrella)
Lake Mungo 4K (Umbrella)
I Know Where I'm Going (Criterion)
The Grifters (Criterion)
High and Low (Criterion)
The Wages of Fear (Criterion)
Barry Lyndon (Criterion)
The Big Heat (Criterion)
The Brood (Second Sight)
Cure 4K (MoC)

seconding for BEST DISCOVERY
Enemy Territory (Arrow)

Best Label:
Criterion

seconding for Best Cover:
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Criterion)

[therewillbeblus]

Nominate

Best Discovery:
Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Season One (Imprint)
Deep Crimson (Criterion)
The Return of Dr. Mabuse (Eureka/MoC)

Best Thread
Eddington

Second

Best Release
Sorcerer

On Disc Supplement
"Tony Curtis’ astonishing intros from the Imprint Hitchcock sets"

[Noiretirc]

That Eddington thread is just getting started, surely!?

[therewillbeblus]

Hopefully, but there’s still been enough interesting discussion to warrant a nom

[Noiretirc]

Sorry - I didn't mean to imply that it is not worthy as is. It's great.

[Murdoch]

Best release
István Szabó: Mephisto, Colonel Redl (Redl ezredes), Hanussen + short films

Best cover

Spoiler

Best thread
Bugonia

[malachi_lui]

Best releases:

Radical Japan - Cinema and State: Nine Films by Nagisa Ōshima (Radiance)
Sorcerer (Criterion 4K)
Performance (Criterion 4K)
A Confucian Confusion / Mahjong (Criterion)
The Mother And The Whore (Criterion 4K)
King Lear (Criterion)
The Films of Hisayasu Satō (Pink Line / Vinegar Syndrome)
Hell's Angels (Criterion 4K)

Some of these are a bit lacking with the supplements, but I included them because getting these in HD/UHD anyway is a huge deal.

[domino harvey]

The first post should be updated up to this post.

Going forward:
+ Please clearly label if you are nominating or seconding
+ IMPORTANT: if a title already appears in the category you’re nominating/seconding in the first post, please do not post that title again for those categories
+ If I missed a seconded title, PM me or flag in the thread
+ Please make new posts versus editing posts— I will not see your edited post

[Maltic]

I NOMINATE The Emperor's New Groove (Disney) for BEST UPGRADE.

Btw, I tried to [strike][/strike] out the titles I had nominated as they were seconded, so that people wouldn't second again by mistake, but apparently you can't [strike] on here.

[domino harvey]

You could always color code in your earlier post to indicate a title has already been seconded (if you so desire)

[Finch]

Don't forget to add Angel's Egg 4K, Jean Vigo 4K and Pee-Wee 4K to the first post. I'd nominated them for best release (though to be fair, my wording should have been clearer).

[domino harvey]

Done!

[Maltic]

Someone would need to 'second' the nominations for them to go into the OP though, right?

Pee-Wee was nominated for BEST UPGRADE by AfterTheRain on page #1, fwiw.

I would like to second the nominations for Angel's Egg and the Vigo set (sorry, not a Pee-Wee fan [*ducks*]).

Dead of Night (Studio Canal) has been nominated+seconded for BEST RELEASE.

[domino harvey]

Someone would need to 'second' the nominations for them to go into the OP though, right?

Pee-Wee was nominated for BEST UPGRADE by AfterTheRain on page #1, fwiw.

I would like to second the nominations for Angel's Egg and the Vigo set (sorry, not a Pee-Wee fan [*ducks*]).

Dead of Night (Studio Canal) has been nominated+seconded for BEST RELEASE.

Yes, it would need to be seconded for the specific category. I’ll second it though

[Lowry_Sam]

Best Overall
Already have a lot to chose from

Best Upgrade
Il Posto/I Fidanzi (Radiance)
Jean de Florette/Manon Of The Spring (Criterion)
Brazil (Criterion)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Criterion)
Performance (Criterion)


Best Boxset
Michael Haneke (Curzon)

Best Cover
The Wages Of Fear (Criterion)


Une Femme Douce (Radiance)


The Beast To Die (Radiance)


Most Disappointing
Return To Reason: Four Films By Man Ray (Criterion)
Carnal Knowledge (Criterion)

Discovery
The Girl With A Suitcase (Radiance)
The Railroad Man (Radiance)

Best Thread
Da End of De Minimis Exemptions
Netflix to Buy Warner Brothers…?


2nd:

Overall
Eclipse 47: Kiarostami
Jean de Florette

Upgrade
The Big Heat (Criterion)
Sunset Boulevard
Danger: Diabolik


Discovery
The Ogre Of Athens

[domino harvey]

Updated. I seconded the Une femme douce cover

Starting now, I’ll be updating the main list once a week or so. If you catch anyone cheating with their claims of seconds, you have my permission to rap their knuckles lightly with a Bergman box

[colinr0380]

If it is OK I will just do my standard post this year, though I still have a few things to get to, so it may be a few weeks yet, but I would note that the two big themes of the year in discs have been Severin's tribute to the 50th anniversay of Jaws with their Italian Jaws-sploitation releases (plus the novelisation of Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws!); and that, much as 2024 worked out as a really nice physical media tribute to Vincent Price, 2025 probably belongs to William Hurt with Arrow's dual releases of 1998's Dark City and Lost In Space, and Criterion's release of Altered States and A History of Violence in the same month (plus Criterion announcing Kiss of the Spider Woman for January)

[swo17]

I nominate Kino's Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection for Best Overall Release. Who knows how much longer we'll get to enjoy projects like this from the Library of Congress?