2025 Movies and TV Shows
- Thread starter Wolf
- Start date
2025 Academy Awards are Sunday night March 2nd.
I've seen all the films from the major categories except for "I'm Still Here", because it's not available for renting just yet.
Here are my votes, not necessarily my predictions.
Best Picture - A Complete Unknown
This category was tight, nothing was a complete standout over the others. Anora was great. Conclave also. The Brutalist was good, but just too long. A Complete Unknown is the one that would be the most easily rewatchable.
Best Director - Sean Baker, Anora
Best Actress - Demi Moore, The Substance
Mikey Madison for Anora would be a close 2nd choice.
Best Actor - Colman Domingo, Sing Sing. He likely won't win, but gave an incredible performance. Brody and Chalamet also excellent.
Best Supporting Actress - Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Best Supporting Actor - Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Best Original Screenplay - Sean Baker, Anora
Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Straughn, Conclave
Best International Feature - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary Feature - Black Box Diaries
Best Animated Feature - can't decide between Flow and The Wild Robot. Both excellent. If I really had to vote, maybe Flow.
Best Cinematography - The Brutalist
Best Costume Design - Wicked
Best Film Editing - Wicked
Best Production Design - Nosferatu
Best Sound - A Complete Unknown
Best Visual Effects - Dune: Part Two
Best Makeup and Hairstyling - The Substance
can't really vote on the 3 short film categories as I've seen less than half of them so far
I've seen all the films from the major categories except for "I'm Still Here", because it's not available for renting just yet.
Here are my votes, not necessarily my predictions.
Best Picture - A Complete Unknown
This category was tight, nothing was a complete standout over the others. Anora was great. Conclave also. The Brutalist was good, but just too long. A Complete Unknown is the one that would be the most easily rewatchable.
Best Director - Sean Baker, Anora
Best Actress - Demi Moore, The Substance
Mikey Madison for Anora would be a close 2nd choice.
Best Actor - Colman Domingo, Sing Sing. He likely won't win, but gave an incredible performance. Brody and Chalamet also excellent.
Best Supporting Actress - Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Best Supporting Actor - Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Best Original Screenplay - Sean Baker, Anora
Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Straughn, Conclave
Best International Feature - The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary Feature - Black Box Diaries
Best Animated Feature - can't decide between Flow and The Wild Robot. Both excellent. If I really had to vote, maybe Flow.
Best Cinematography - The Brutalist
Best Costume Design - Wicked
Best Film Editing - Wicked
Best Production Design - Nosferatu
Best Sound - A Complete Unknown
Best Visual Effects - Dune: Part Two
Best Makeup and Hairstyling - The Substance
can't really vote on the 3 short film categories as I've seen less than half of them so far
You can include the nominees if you want, but out of all the movies you saw in 2024, nominated or not, what was your best picture?
When it's expanded to everything you've seen, would you still go with a complete unknown or something else?
The fifth dentist finally caved and now they all prefer Trident?
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I think I am the anti-Aaron. Of all the movies listed, I have seen 0 of them (unless I missed one somewhere).
I'm usually a mini. Aaron and I tried to see as many of the best patron knobs as possible, but this year I haven't seen any.
Conclave looks interesting and it's on peacock. I like shows about various popes when they actually had power. I really enjoyed that old Showtime show The Borgias.
I’m not even sure A Complete Unknown was my best picture of the year. Given the lack of clarity in picking best, I went with favorite. I feel like Anora is going to win, and that’s fine, it was great also.
Not sure if there’s anything outside of the nominees that was any better. Sometimes you watch a small indie film with no major stars and think this is as good as anything I saw all year…. Ghostlight (on Hulu) was excellent.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I did not realize "A Complete Unknown" was the actual name of the Bob Dylan movie. I will be seeing that one eventually.
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbert is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
I see that but I did not remember that. I just thought "I will eventually see that Bob Dylan movie".
Inside Out 2 is the only 2025 Academy Awards nominee that I saw. It was nominated for best animated film. It lost to Flow, an animated film with several animals – and none of them talk! What a novelty!
My wife wants to see Flow. I told her I'm not interested. 90 minutes of animated animals and no dialogue? No thanks.
To each his own I guess, I loved that movie. Not having dumb ass humans in it was a plus also.
Watching Titanic with your wife-to-be is kind of a bad omen.
