Predictions for the 98th Annual Academy Awards

These are my Oscar predictions. Nominees listed in whatever order the page I copied them from had them and predicted winners are in bold. Guaranteed to get 16-18 correct, no more, no less.

BEST PICTURE

Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

BEST DIRECTOR

Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

BEST ACTOR

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

BEST ACTRESS

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy
Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro
Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
One Battle after Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

BEST FILM EDITING

F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Frankenstein, Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
Kokuho, Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
Sinners, Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
The Smashing Machine, Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
The Ugly Stepsister, Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet, Max Richter
One Battle after Another, Jonny Greenwood
Sinners, Ludwig Goransson

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless; music and lyric by Diane Warren
“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters; music and lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park
“I Lied to You” from Sinners; music and lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!; music and lyric by Nicholas Pike
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams; music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyric by Nick Cave

BEST SOUND

F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt

BEST CASTING

Hamnet, Nina Gold
Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti
One Battle after Another, Cassandra Kulukundis
The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues
Sinners, Francine Maisler

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

The Secret Agent, Brazil
It Was Just an Accident, France
Sentimental Value, Norway
Sirāt, Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

This Week in Rankings

Since the last updated, I’ve written a number of essays for home video releases, most, but not all, of which have been announced: Criterion’s release of Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Cloud, Radiance’s Romancing in Thin Air (for which I scripted and narrated a video essay on the history of Johnnie To’s romances) and Imprint Asia’s edition of John Woo’s The Killer. Expect more announcements in the coming weeks, but for now, all those are available to purchase or pre-order at DiabolikDVD. 2025 also came to an end, and I wrapped it up with my annual Favorite Discoveries of the Year, Books of the Year, and Endy Award Nominees. I also wrote about Eephus for InReview Online’s End of the Year countdown.

Over at The Chinese Cinema, I reviewed Herman Yau’s A Gilded Game, Oshii Mamoru’s Angel’s Egg and The Red Spectacles, Jackie Chan’s The Shadow’s Edge and Chris Huo’s The Sixth Robber, Misumi Kenji et al’s Lone Wolf & Cub film series, Akimoto Kenichiro’s All You Need is Kill, a Clara Law Retrospective at the Metrograph, Louis Koo’s Back to the Past, Yuen Woo-ping’s Blades of the Guardians and a whole bunch of iQIYI movies (including a new Raquel Report).

I reviewed a number of films from this year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival for InReview Online: Lone Samurai, Tunnels, Fish Fists and Ambergris, and Under Current. I also appeared on a couple of podcasts, talking about Lifeline, Fulltime Killer, and Bullets Over Summer on Optimism Vaccine and Baby Assassins and then A Matter of Life and Death on the Dirty Dozen Movie Podcast.

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These are the movies I’ve watched and rewatched over the last few months, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli) – 1, 1944
A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) – 3, 1946
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) – 16, 1948
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira) – 1, 1954

The Pink Phink (Friz Freleng & Hawley Pratt) – 15, 1964
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez) – 3, 1965
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones) – 15, 1966
Scrooge (Ronald Neame) – 32, 1970

Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (Misumi Kenji) – 6, 1972
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (Misumi Kenji) – 8, 1972
Lone Wolf & Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Misumi Kenji) – 14, 1972
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (Saito Buichi) – 21, 1972
Lone Wolf & Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (Misumi Kenji) – 38, 1973
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Bill Melendez & Phil Roman) – 41, 1973
Lone Wolf & Cub: White Heaven in Hell (Kuroda Yoshiyuki) – 25, 1974

The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino) – 24, 1978
The Proud Youth (Sun Chang) – 27, 1978
The Story of Woo Viet (Ann Hui) – 7, 1981
Heroes Shed No Tears (John Woo) – 56, 1984
Angel’s Egg (Oshii Mamoru) – 16, 1985
They Say the Moon is Fuller Here (Clara Law) – 24, 1985

A Better Tomorrow (John Woo) – 4, 1986
Lady Jane (Trevor Nunn) – 39, 1986
City on Fire (Ringo Lam) – 2, 1987
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes) – 27, 1987
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner) – 36, 1987
The Red Spectacles (Oshii Mamoru) – 39, 1987
A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo) – 43, 1987

The Killer (John Woo) – 2, 1989
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (Tsui Hark) – 11, 1989
Bullet in the Head (John Woo) – 4, 1990
Farewell China (Clara Law) – 10, 1990
Once a Thief (John Woo) – 26, 1991

Full Contact (Ringo Lam) – 6, 1992
Autumn Moon (Clara Law) – 12, 1992
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg) – 32, 1993
Dead Presidents (Allen and Albert Hughes) – 50, 1995

The Odd Ones Dies (Patrick Yau) – 19, 1997
Lifeline (Johnnie To) – 23, 1997
Bullets Over Summer (Wilson Yip) – 26, 1999
Where a Good Man Goes (Johnnie To) – 30, 1999
Needing You… (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 13, 2000
The Goddess of 1967 (Clara Law) – 23, 2000

Love on a Diet (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 24, 2001
Fulltime Killer (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 40, 2001
My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 2, 2002
Turn Left, Turn Right (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 12, 2003
Love for All Seasons (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 19, 2003

The Shopaholics (Wai Ka-fai) – 8, 2006
Watching the Detectives (Paul Soter) – 57, 2007
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To) – 7, 2011
Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To) – 1, 2012
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) – 4, 2014
The Man Who Invented Christmas (Bharat Nalluri) – 84, 2017

Little Women (Greta Gerwig) – 1, 2019
Baby Assassins (Sakamoto Yugo) – 6, 2021
My Dear Bodyguard (Guai Ge) – 95, 2022
The Sniper: King of Snipers (Chris Huo) – 22, 2023

Eephus (Carson Lund) – 3, 2024
Pavements (Alex Ross Perry) – 2024
Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath) – 2024
Friendship (Andrew DeYoung) – 2024
Once Upon a Time in China (Qin Pengfei) – 82, 2024
The Captives (Frankie Chung) – 83, 2024
Hot Blooded Angel (Jin Xin) – 86, 2024

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson) – 3, 2025
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater) – 5, 2025
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt) – 6, 2025
Lone Samurai (Josh C. Waller) – 7, 2025
Resurrection (Bi Gan) – 9, 2025

The Sixth Robber (Chris Huo) – 11, 2025
WTO/99 (Ian Bell) – 15, 2025
Ella McKay (James L. Brooks) – 16, 2025
Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry) – 17, 2025
Blue Moon (Richard Linklater) – 21, 2025

Tunnels: Sun in the Dark (Bùi Thạc Chuyên) – 23, 2025
Honey Don’t (Ethan Coen) – 24, 2025
Fish, Fists, and Ambergris (Dương Minh Chiến) – 25, 2025
Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron) – 38, 2025
All You Need is Kill (Akimoto Kenichiro) – 41, 2025

It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) – 43, 2025
Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery (Ally Pankiw) – 45, 2025
The Shadow’s Edge (Larry Yang) – 46, 2025
Back to the Past (Louis Koo) – 48, 2025
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein) – 49, 2025

Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs) – 50, 2025
Invincible Swordsman (Luo Yiwei) – 51, 2025
Train Dreams (Clint Bently) – 52, 2025
A Gilded Game (Herman Yau) – 54, 2025
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro) – 62, 2025
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson) – 63, 2025

The Finder (Qin Pengfei) – 65, 2025
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Simon Curtis) – 70, 2025
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee) – 71, 2025
Under Current (Alan Mak) – 89, 2025
Oh. What. Fun. (Michael Showalter) – 93, 2025
Eddington (Ari Aster) – 94, 2025

Blades of the Guardians (Yuen Woo-ping) – 1, 2026
The Fly: Abyss of Mutation (Stanley Zhang) – 2, 2026

2025 Endy Awards

These are the 2025 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best movies, performances, etc of this year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the Rankings & Awards Index. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I’ve seen the movie in question. Films are presented in alphabetical order, and the winners will be announced on Oscar night. As always, the winners and nominees are subject to change as I watch more movies. And the Endy nomination goes to. . .


Best Picture:

1. Blue Fight
2. CITY the Animation
3. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
4. Lone Samurai
5. The Mastermind
6. Nouvelle Vague
7. One Battle After Another
8. Resurrection
9. Rewrite
10. Sinners

Best Director:

1. Ishidate Taichi, et al, CITY the Animation
2. Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
3. Bi Gan, Resurrection
4. Matsui Daigo, Rewrite
5. Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best Actor:

1. Kinoshita Danhi, Blue Fight
2. Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
3. Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Bullet Train Explosion
4. Shogen, Lone Samurai
5. Josh O’Connor, The Mastermind
6. Oizumi Yo, Muromachi Outsiders
7. Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague
8. Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
9. Ben Whishaw, Peter Hujar’s Day
10. Ayano Go, Sham
11. Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
12. Bao Beier, The Sixth Robber
13. Kamal Haasan, Thug Life

Best Actress:

1. Ranice Tay, Amoeba
2. Gwei Lun-mei, Dear Stranger
3. Emma Mackey, Ella McCay
4. Zhang Zifeng, Girl on Edge
5. Wen Qi, Girls on Wire
6. Liu Haocun, Girls on Wire
7. Miyazaki Yu, Glass Heart
8. Margaret Qualley, Honey Don’t
9. Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
10. Matilda Lutz, Red Sonja
11. Ikeda Elaiza, Rewrite
12. Shibasaki Ko, Sham
13. Hedwig Tam, Smashing Frank

Supporting Actor:

1. Andrew Scott, Blue Moon
2. Wang Yanhui, Deep in the Mountains
3. Marko Zaror, Diablo
4. Albert Brooks, Ella McCay
5. Yayan Ruhian, Lone Samurai
6. Aubrey Dullin, Nouvelle Vague
7. Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
8. Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
9. Peter Shinkoda, Prisoner of War
10. Robert Sheehan, Red Sonja
11. Delroy Lindo, Sinners
12. Yuen Biao, The Sixth Robber
13. Ralph Fiennes, 28 Years Later

Supporting Actress:

1. Margaret Qualley, Blue Moon
2. Non, Bullet Train Explosion
3. Alana De La Rossa, Diablo
4. Ni Ni, Dongji Rescue
5. Ma Yili, Girl on Edge
6. Seohyun, Holy Night: Demon Hunters
7. Zhuang Dafei, Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
8. Zoey Deutsch, Nouvelle Vague
9. Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
10. Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
11. Shu Qi, Resurrection
12. Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
13. Hailie Steinfeld, Sinners


Original Screenplay:

1. Deep in the Mountains
2. Fool Time
3. Resurrection
4. Sinners
5. A Useful Ghost

Adapted Screenplay:

1. CITY the Animation
2. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
3. Muromachi Outsiders
4. One Battle After Another
5. Rewrite

English Language Film:

1. In the Lost Lands (Paul WS Anderson)
2. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
3. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Shifty (Adam Curtis)
5. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Non-English Language Film:

1. CITY the Animation (Ishidate Taichi, et al)
2. Lone Samurai (Josh C. Waller)
3. Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
4. Resurrection (Bi Gan)
5. Rewrite (Matsui Daigo)

Non-Fiction Feature Film:

1. Fool Time (Jon Bois)
2. Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery (Ally Pankiw)
3. Shifty (Adam Curtis)
4. Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)
5. WTO/99 (Ian Bell)

Animated Film:

1. All You Need is Kill (Akimoto Kenichiro)
2. CITY the Animation (Ishidate Taichi, et al)
3. Predator: Killer of Killers (Dan Trachtenberg)
4. Ordinary Life (Mizushiri Yoriko)

Unseen Film:

1. Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
2. Girl (Shu Qi)
3. Retro (Karthik Subbaraj)
4. What Does that Nature Say to You (Hong Sangsoo)
5. You are the Best (Jiang Wen)


Film Editing:

1. CITY the Animation
2. Shifty
3. Sinners
4. WTO/99
5. Videoheaven

Cinematography:

1. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
2. The Mastermind
3. Nouvelle Vague
4. Resurrection
5. Sinners

Art Direction:

1. The Mastermind
2. Muromachi Outsiders
3. Resurrection
4. Sinners
5. Tunnels: Sun in the Dark

Costume Design:

1. In the Lost Lands
2. The Mastermind
3. One Battle After Another
4. Red Sonja
5. Sinners

Make-Up and Hair:

1. Blue Fight
2. In the Lost Lands
3. Lone Samurai
4. Resurrection
5. Sinners


Music:

1. Ella McCay
2. Glass Heart
3. The Mastermind
4. Nouvelle Vague
5. One Battle After Another
6. Resurrection
7. Sinners

Choreography:

1. Blue Fight
2. Fish, Fists, and Ambergris
3. Lone Samurai
4. Muromachi Outsiders
5. The Sixth Robber

Sound:

1. Avatar: Fire and Ash
2. Glass Heart
3. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
4. Resurrection
5. Sinners

Sound Editing:

1. Avatar: Fire and Ash
2. Bullet Train Explosion
3. Dongji Rescue
4. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
5. Sinners

Visual Effects:

1. Avatar: Fire and Ash
2. Bullet Train Explosion
3. Dongji Rescue
4. Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants
5. Resurrection

The Best Older Movies I Saw in 2025 (For the First Time)

An annual tradition here at The End, this is a look at my favorite film discoveries of the year, any movie more than a few years old that I saw for the first time this year. Previous years include: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021,  2020,  2019,  2018,  2017,  2016,  2015,  2014,  2013,  2012,  2011,  2010,  2009,  2008,  2007, and 2006. I watched somewhere around 240 films this year, but only a sixth or so of them qualified for this list. Here are 30 of my favorites.

1. Girl Students’ Dormitory (Shi Shujun, 1983)
2. Seventh Code (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2013)
3. Angel’s Egg (Oshii Mamoru, 1985)
4. Scenes of City Life (Yuan Muzhi, 1935)
5. The Bullet Train (Sato Junya, 1975)
6. Killer Constable (Kuei Chi-hung, 1980)
7. The Cat (Lam Nai-choi, 1992)
8. Love Hotel (Somai Shinji, 1985)
9. Bright Future (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2002)
10. Blood on Wolf Mountain (Fei Mu, 1936)


11. Evil Cat (Dennis Yu, 1987)
12. Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 1998)
13. The Red Spectacles (Oshii Mamoru, 1987)
14. Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, 1975)
15. License to Live (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 1998)
16. Long Promised Road (Brent Wilson, 2021)
17. National Customs (Zhu Shilin & Luo Mingyou, 1935)
18. The Man Who Invented Christmas (Bharat Nalluri, 2017)
19. Queen of Triads (Venus Keung, 2021)
20. I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times (Don Was, 1995)


21. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky, 2012)
22. Confucius (Fei Mu, 1940)
23. Female Special Police Officer (Zhang Zhen, 2022)
23. 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013)
24. Final Destination 3 (James Wong, 2006)
25. Enter the Girl Dragon (Ram Gopal Varma, 2022)
26. Conan the Barbarian (Marcus Nispel, 2011)
27. David Lynch: The Art Life (Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Rick Barnes, & Jon Nguyen, 2016)
29. Scrooge (Ronald Neame, 1970)
30. The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)

Books of 2025

These are the books I finished reading in 2025.

1. McTeague: A Story of San Francisco – Frank Norris
2. Northanger Abbey – Jane Austin
3. A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
4. Cuba Libre – Elmore Leonard
5. Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
6. Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
7. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
8. A Heart Divided (Legends of the Condor Heroes #4) – Louis Cha
9. Algorithm of the Night – AS Hamrah
10. Who Wrote the Bible? – Richard Elliott Friedman
11. Repertory Movie Theaters of New York City – Ben Davis
12. The Secret Origins of the Bible – Tim Callahan
13. Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys: How Deep Is the Ocean? – Paul Williams
14. Fab Four FAQ 2.0: The Beatles’ Solo Years, 1970-1980 – Robert Rodriguez

These are the books I read but did not finish in 2025.

1. The Dying Grass – William T. Vollman
2. The Plum in the Golden Vase #1 – The Gathering – David Tod Roy (Translator)
3. Dream of the Red Chamber #1 – The Golden Days – Cao Xueqin
4. The Confidence-Man – Herman Melville
5. Your Name Here – Helen DeWitt & Ilya Gridneff
6. The Path to Power – Robert Caro
7. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
8. The Great Game – Peter Hopkirk
9. The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
10. Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
11. Deadhouse Gates – Steven Erikson
12. The Broken Seals (Outlaws of the March #1) – Luo Guanzhong
13. James Joyce – Richard Ellman
14. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities – Jonathan Rosenbaum
15. The Novel: An Alternative History 1600-1800 – Steven Moore
16. Shadow Ticket – Thomas Pynchon
17. The Olde Curiosity Shop – Charles Dickens
18. The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
19. Dickens – Peter Ackroyd
20. The Book of J – Harold Bloom
21. The Victorian State of Mind – Walter E. Houghton

    This Week in Rankings

    Since the last update, I wrapped up my festival coverage for the year with reviews of Matsui Daigo’s Rewrite (my favorite film of the year so far), Miike Takashi’s Sham, Honeko Akebane’s Bodyguards, and Holy Night: Demon Hunters from the Fantasia Film Festival, Amoeba from the Toronto Film Festival, and Dear Stranger from Busan. Most of the rest of my reviews of new movies were for films with limited theatrical runs or which went straight-to-video, including Dongji Rescue, Prisoner of War, Affinity and Diablo, and Red Sonja (at Seattle Screen Scene). Reviews of older movies consist of Linda, Linda, Linda, and Evil Cat and The Cat. I also wrote about three Japanese TV series: Baby Assassins Everyday!, Glass Heart and CITY the Animation. Additionally, I served on the Best International Short Film jury at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, which was pretty wild.

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    These are the movies I’ve watched and rewatched over the last few months, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

    It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez) – 1, 1966
    Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack) – 15, 1975
    Reds (Warren Beatty) – 3, 1981
    Red Sonja (Richard Fleischer) – 58, 1985
    Evil Cat (Dennis Yu) – 52, 1987

    The Cat (Lam Nai-choi) – 26, 1992
    Cure (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 4, 1997
    Pulse (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 11, 2001
    Gosford Park (Robert Altman) – 15, 2001
    Bright Future (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 18, 2002
    28 Days Later (Danny Boyle) – 50, 2002

    Linda Linda Linda (Yamashita Nobuhiro) – 1, 2005
    Runnin’ Down a Dream (Peter Bogdanovich) – 24, 2007
    28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) – 76, 2007
    Moneyball (Bennett Miller) – 21, 2011
    Conan the Barbarian (Marcus Nispel) – 55, 2011

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chobsky) – 73, 2012
    Seventh Code (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 8, 2013
    Creepy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 35, 2016
    Downton Abbey (Michael Engler) – 103, 2019
    Baby Assassins (Sakamoto Yugo) – 13, 2021
    Downton Abbey: A New Era (Simon Curtis) – 96, 2022

    Baby Assassins: 2 Babies (Sakamoto Yugo) – 4, 2023
    Baby Assassins Everyday! (Sakamoto Yugo) – 4, 2024
    Baby Assassins: Nice Days (Sakamoto Yugo) – 9, 2024
    Cloud (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 18, 2024

    CITY the Animation (Ishidate Taishi) – 2, 2025
    Fool Time (Jon Bois) – 10, 2025
    Red Sonja (MJ Bassett) – 11, 2025
    Amoeba (Tan Siyou) – 18, 2025
    Ordinary Life (Mizushiri Yoriko) – 19, 2025
    Water Sports (Whammy Alcazaran) – 20, 2025

    Glass Heart (Goto Kotaro and Kakimoto Kensaku) – 21, 2025
    Dongji Rescue (Guan Hu & Fei Zhenxiang) – 24, 2025
    Through Your Eyes (Nelson Yeo) – 25, 025
    Diablo (Ernesto Díaz Espinoza) – 26, 2025
    A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow) – 27, 2025

    Scorigami (Jon Bois) – 29, 2025
    Ali (Adnan Al Rajeev) – 31, 2025
    28 Years Later (Danny Boyle) – 32, 2025
    Weapons (Zach Cregger) – 33, 2025
    Ballerina (Len Wiseman) – 34, 2025
    Prisoner of War (Louis Mandylor) – 36, 2025
    Mr. Scorsese (Rebecca Miller) – 42, 2025

    A Very Straight Neck (Sora Neo) – 49, 2025
    Dear Stranger (Mariko Tetsuya) – 51, 2025
    A South-Facing Window (Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir) – 52, 2025
    Correct Me If I’m Wrong (Zhou Hao) – 54, 2025

    John Candy: I Like Me (Colin Hanks) – 55, 2025
    Thunderbolts* (Jake Schrier) – 56, 2025
    Affinity (Brandon Slagle) – 62, 2025
    The Red Banca (Nena Jane Achacoso) – 63, 2025

    This Week in Rankings

    Since the last update, festival season dominated my schedule, with coverage of Japan Cuts and the New York Asian Film Festival over at The Chinese Cinema and Fantasia and Cannes at InReview Online. I also put together a video introduction for a Tsui Hark retrospective that played at The Cinematheque in Vancouver.

    At The Chinese Cinema, I’ve reviewed Scenes of City Life and Street Angel, Bullet Train and Bullet Train Explosion, Girl Students’ Dormitory, The Old Woman with the Knife, All the Wrong Clues (…For the Right Solution), 11 Rebels, and Ghost Killer.

    Also, since it’s apparently quarter-century list season, I counted down the top Chinese Language and Non-Chinese Language films of the 2000s so far.

    You can get all those reviews and much much more by subscribing to The Chinese Cinema today for the low price of only $1/month or $10/year.

    These are the movies I’ve watched and rewatched over the last few months, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

    Scenes of City Life (Yuan Muzhi) – 4, 1935
    Street Angel (Yuan Muzhi) – 4, 1937
    Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) – 1, 1942
    Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly) – 1, 1952

    Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) – 6, 1962
    The Bullet Train (Sato Jun’ya) – 11, 1975
    All the Wrong Clues (…For the Right Solution) (Tsui Hark) – 32, 1981
    Girl Students’ Dormitory (Shi Shujun) – 5, 1983

    Love Hotel (Somai Shinji) – 16, 1985
    Working Class (Tsui Hark) – 23, 1985
    Bull Durham (Ron Shelton) – 1, 1988
    The Naked Gun (David Zucker) – 20, 1988
    Glory (Edward Zwick) – 17, 1989

    Love Letter (Iwai Shunji) – 13, 1995
    The Chinese Feast (Tsui Hark) – 41, 1995
    I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times (Don Was) – 51, 1995
    Carrotblanca (Douglas McCarthy, Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone) – 108, 1995
    Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma) – 20, 1996

    Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 23, 1998
    License to Live (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 27, 1998
    Mission: Impossible 2 (John Woo) – 24, 2000
    Final Destination (James Wong) – 42, 2000
    Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis) – 45, 2003

    Beautiful Dreamer (David Leaf) – 66, 2004
    Final Destination 3 (James Wong) – 43, 2006
    Mission: Impossible 3 (JJ Abrams) – 48, 2006
    Tom Waits: Under Review (Unknown) – 60, 2006
    The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman) – 50, 2007

    The Final Destination (David R. Ellis) – 81, 2009
    Hugo (Martin Scorsese) – 19, 2011
    Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird) – 20, 2011
    Final Destination 5 (Steven Quale) – 59, 2011
    42 (Brian Helgeland) – 73, 2013

    Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie) – 92, 2015
    Rogue One (Gareth Edwards) – 23, 2016
    Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie) – 132, 2018
    Long Promised Road (Brent Wilson) – 35, 2021
    Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie) – 73, 2023

    She Taught Me Serendipity (Ohku Akiko) – 5, 2024
    11 Rebels (Shiraishi Kazuya) – 10, 2024
    The Gesuidouz (Ugana Kenichi) – 18, 2024
    Ghost Killer (Sonomura Kensuke) – 25, 2024
    See You Tomorrow (Michimoto Saki) – 39, 2024

    Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards (Ishikawa Junichi) – 42, 2024
    Possession Street (Jack Lai) – 48, 2024
    Serpent’s Path (Kurosawa Kiyoshi) – 54, 2024
    Striking Rescue (Cheng Siyu) – 64, 2024

    Rewrite (Matsui Daigo) – 1, 2025
    Shifty (Adam Curtis) – 2, 2025
    Sinners (Ryan Coogler) – 3, 2025
    Muromachi Outsiders (Irie Yu) – 7, 2025
    Bullet Train Explosion (Higuchi Shinji) – 8, 2025

    Deep in the Mountains (Li Yongyi) – 9, 2025
    Superman (James Gunn) – 10, 2025
    Girl on Edge (Zhou Jinghao) – 11, 2025
    Thug Life (Mani Ratnam) – 12, 2025
    The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson) – 13, 2025

    Sham (Miike Takashi) – 14, 2025
    Pee Wee as Himself (Matt Wolf) – 15, 2025
    Predator: Killer of Killers (Dan Trachtenberg) – 16, 2025
    Girls on Wire (Vivian Qu) – 17, 2025
    A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke) – 18, 2025

    Fantastic Four: First Steps (Matt Shakman) – 19, 2025
    Informant (Kim Seok) – 22, 2025
    Happy Gilmore 2 (Kyle Newacheck) – 24, 2025
    Billy Joel: And So It Goes (Jessica Levin & Susan Lacy) – 25, 2025
    Holy Night: Demon Hunters (Lim Daehee) – 26, 2025

    Becoming Led Zeppelin (Bernard MacMahon) – 27, 2025
    Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie) – 28, 2025
    Smashing Frank (Trevor Choi) – 29, 2025
    Final Destination: Bloodlines (Directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein) – 30, 2025
    The Stone (Arak Amornsupasiri and Vuthipong Sukhanindr) – 31, 2025
    Behind the Shadows (Jonathan Li and Chou Man You) – 32, 2025

    Lost Bullet 3 (Guillaume Pierret) – 34, 2025
    The Old Woman with the Knife (Min Kyudong) – 35, 2025
    So Beautiful, Wonderful, and Lovely (Okawara Megumi) – 36, 2025
    The Old Way (Fan Xiang) – 37, 2025
    Another Simple Favor (Paul Feig) – 38, 2025
    Captain America: Brave New World (Julius Onah) – 39, 2025

    This Week in Rankings

    Since the last update, 2024 ended and I listed my favorite books of the year as well as my favorite older movies I saw for the first time. I also handed out the Endy Awards for the year.

    I dusted off Seattle Screen Scene in order to review Paul WS Anderson’s In the Lost Lands. Over at InReview Online I reviewed a couple of films for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Miike Takashi’s Blazing Fists and Anselm Chan’s The Last Dance), Rendez-vous with French Cinema (Rithy Panh’s Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot), and First Look ’25 (Yamanaka Yoko’s Desert of Namibia).

    At The Chinese Cinema, I continued to explore the emergent iQIYI cinema with a look at seven films starring Raquel Xu Dongdong (The Raquel Report) and two starring Muqi Miya (The MIYA Memo), as well as two adaptations of Louis Cha’s Condor Heroes series (More Condors, More Heroes). The latter of those coincided with the release of Tsui Hark’s theatrical adaptation, Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants.

    Speaking of legendary filmmakers, I also reviewed Kitano Takeshi’s Broken Rage, Kuei Chih-hung’s Killer Constable, Donnie Yen’s The Prosecutor, and Ram Gopal Varma’s Enter the Girl Dragon, and saw a martial arts triple feature at the now-homeless Grand Illusion Cinema which included films by Chang Cheh and Lau Kar-leung. Finally, I started what I hope will be an extended exploration of Shanghai Cinema with a pair of Li Li-li movies: Fei Mu’s Blood on Wolf Mountain and National Customs, the final film made by actress Ruan Lingyu.

    You can get all those reviews and much much more by subscribing to The Chinese Cinema today for the low price of only $1/month or $10/year.

    These are the movies I’ve watched and rewatched over the last few months, and where they place on my year-by-year rankings.

    National Customs (Zhu Shilin & Luo Mingyou) – 13, 1935
    Blood on Wolf Mountain (Fei Mu) – 8, 1936
    The Old Mill (Wilfred Jackson & Graham Heid) – 6, 1937
    Confucius (Fei Mu) – 21, 940
    Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) – 1, 1941

    Bugs and Thugs (Friz Freleng) – 34, 1954
    Funny Face (Stanley Donen) – 1, 1957
    The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) – 3, 1972
    Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah) – 7, 1973
    Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse) – 11, 1973

    The Brave Archer (Chang Cheh) – 24, 1977
    The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar-leung) – 2, 1978
    Crippled Avengers (Chang Cheh) – 7, 1978
    Killer Constable (Kuei Chih-hung) – 9, 1980
    The Clones of Bruce Lee (Joseph Kong Hung & Nam Ki-nam) – 42, 1980
    Revenge of the Ninja (Sam Firstenberg) – 47, 1983

    Silverado (Lawrence Kasdan) – 23, 1985
    Blue Velvet (David Lynch) – 6, 1986
    Die Hard (John McTiernan) – 8, 1988
    Young Guns (Christopher Cain) – 55, 1988
    Cocktail (Roger Donaldson) – 69, 1988
    Wild at Heart (David Lynch) – 11, 1990

    Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai) – 1, 1994
    Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (David Mamet) – 25, 1996
    The Rock (Michael Bay) – 31, 1996
    Fat Choi Spirit (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai) – 6, 2002

    The Hours (Stephen Daldry) – 47, 2002
    The Stepford Wives (Franz Oz) – 62, 2004
    David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes, & Olivia Neergaard-Holm) – 148, 2016
    Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) – 1, 2018
    The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch) – 23, 2019

    Miss Agent (Zeng Li) – 61, 2020
    Queen of Triads (Venus Keung & Wong Jing) – 39, 2021
    The Sniper (Chris Huo) – 46, 2021
    The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Dragon Tamer (Zhu Lingfeng & Yu Diao) – 81, 2021
    Enter the Girl Dragon (Ram Gopal Varma) – 62, 2022

    Lynch/Oz (Alexandre O. Philippe) – 65, 2022
    Female Special Police Officer (Zhang Zhen) – 71, 2022
    Queen of Triads 2 (Venus Keung & Wong Jing) – 87, 2022
    Queen of Triads 3 (Kam Ka-wai) – 87, 2023

    Broken Rage (Kitano Takeshi) – 7, 2024
    Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Rithy Panh) – 22, 2024
    Desert of Namibia (Yamanaka Yoko) – 27, 2024
    The Last Dance (Anselm Chan) – 46, 2024
    The Prosecutor (Donnie Yen) – 55, 2024

    Wild Agent 2: Peach Assassination (Huang He) – 57, 2024
    The Art of the Calendar (Kier-La Janisse) – 58, 2024
    Shell Girl (Wang Xia) – 61, 2024
    Sniper 2 (Shen Zhaoqing) – 65, 2024
    Cunk on Life (Al Campbell) – 67, 2024

    Blazing Fists (Miike Takashi) – 1, 2025
    Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants (Tsui Hark) – 2, 2025
    In the Lost Lands (Paul WS Anderson) – 3, 2025
    Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (Christian Gudegast) – 4, 2025
    The Legend of Condor Hero: What is love (Lin Zhenzhao) – 5, 2025
    We Beat the Dream Team (Michael Tolajian) – 6, 2025

    Predictions for the 97th Annual Academy Awards

    These are my Oscar predictions. I’m probably going to live-tweet the Endy Award winners during the ceremony again this year. Nominees listed in whatever order the page I copied them from had them, predicted winners are in bold. Guaranteed to get 16-18 correct, no more, no less.

    BEST PICTURE

    Anora
    The Brutalist
    A Complete Unknown
    Conclave
    Dune: Part Two
    Emilia Pérez
    I’m Still Here
    Nickel Boys
    The Substance
    Wicked

    BEST DIRECTOR

    Anora, Sean Baker
    The Brutalist, Brady Corbet
    A Complete Unknown, James Mangold
    Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard
    The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

    BEST ACTOR

    Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
    Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
    Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
    Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
    Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

    BEST ACTRESS

    Demi Moore, The Substance
    Mikey Madison, Anora
    Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
    Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
    Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
    Yura Borisov, Anora
    Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
    Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
    Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
    Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
    Ariana Grande, Wicked
    Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
    Isabella Rossellini, Conclave

    BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

    Anora
    The Brutalist
    A Real Pain
    September 5
    The Substance

    BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

    Conclave
    A Complete Unknown
    Emilia Pérez
    Nickel Boys
    Sing Sing

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

    The Brutalist
    Dune: Part Two
    Emilia Pérez
    Maria
    Nosferatu

    BEST FILM EDITING

    Conclave
    Anora
    The Brutalist
    Emilia Pérez
    Wicked

    BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

    Dune: Part Two
    Alien: Romulus
    Better Man
    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
    Wicked

    BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

    Wicked
    The Brutalist
    Conclave
    Dune: Part Two
    Nosferatu

    BEST COSTUME DESIGN

    Wicked
    A Complete Unknown
    Conclave
    Gladiator II
    Nosferatu

    BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

    The Substance
    A Different Man
    Emilia Pérez
    Nosferatu
    Wicked

    BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

    The Brutalist
    Conclave
    Emilia Pérez
    Wicked
    The Wild Robot

    BEST ORIGINAL SONG

    “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez
    “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
    “Like a Bird” from Sing Sing
    “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez
    “Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late

    BEST SOUND

    A Complete Unknown
    Dune: Part Two
    Emilia Pérez
    Wicked
    The Wild Robot

    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

    Flow
    Inside Out 2
    Memoir of a Snail
    Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
    The Wild Robot

    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

    No Other Land
    Black Box Diaries
    Porcelain War
    Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
    Sugarcane

    BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

    I’m Still Here
    The Girl With the Needle
    Emilia Pérez
    The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Flow

    BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

    Incident
    Death by Numbers
    I Am Ready, Warden
    Instruments of a Beating Heart
    The Only Girl in the Orchestra

    BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

    Anuja
    A Lien
    I’m Not a Robot
    The Last Ranger
    The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

    BEST ANIMATED SHORT

    Yuck!
    Beautiful Men
    In the Shadow of the Cypress
    Magic Candies
    Wander to Wonder

     

    2024 Endy Awards

    These are the 2024 Endy Awards, wherein I pretend to give out maneki-neko statues to the best movies, performances, etc of this year in film. Awards for many other years can be found in the Rankings & Awards Index. Eligibility is determined by imdb date and by whether or not I’ve seen the movie in question. Films are presented in alphabetical order, and the winners are bolded. As always, the winners and nominees are subject to change as I watch more movies. And the Endy goes to. . .


    Best Picture:

    1. Baby Assassins: Everyday!
    2. Broken Rage
    3. Eephus
    4. Furiosa
    5. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    6. Henry Fonda for President
    7. Pavements
    8. The Shadow Strays
    9. She Taught Me Serendipity
    10. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

    Best Director:

    1. George Miller, Furiosa
    2. Kevin Costner, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    3. Sakamoto Yugo, Baby Assassins: Everyday!
    4. Alex Ross Perry, Pavements
    5. Soi Cheang, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

    Best Actor:

    1. Eddie Peng, Black Dog
    2. Kitano Takeshi, Broken Rage
    3. Hagiwara Riku, She Taught Me Serendipity
    4. Kwon Haehyo, By the Stream
    5. Yoshioko Mutsuo, Chime
    6. Suda Masaki, Cloud
    7. Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
    8. Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
    9. Ryan Gosling, The Fall Guy
    10. Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow
    11. Nicholas Hoult, Juror #2
    12. Adam Driver, Megalopolis
    13. Josh Hartnett, Trap

    Best Actress:

    1. Mikey Madison, Anora
    2. Akari Takaishi, Baby Assassins: Everyday!
    3. Izawa Saori, Baby Assassins: Everyday!
    4. Natsuko, The Gesuidouz
    5. Zhao Tao, Caught by the Tides
    6. Yuumi Kawai, Desert of Namibia
    7. Sylvia Chang, Daughter’s Daughter
    8. Margaret Qualley, Drive-Away Dolls
    9. Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa
    10. Tanaka Makoto, See You Tomorrow
    11. Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow
    12. Aurora Ribero, The Shadow Strays
    13. Isabelle Huppert, A Traveler’s Needs

    Supporting Actor:

    1. Paul Rudd, Friendship
    2. Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
    3. Mike Faist, Challengers
    4. Philip Ng, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
    5. Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
    6. Sergio Castellitto, Conclave
    7. Stanley Tucci, Conclave
    8. Chris Hemsworth, Furiosa
    9. Joe Keery, Pavements
    10. Louis Koo, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
    11. Mimoto Masanori, Ghost Killer
    12. Emoto Tokio, Baby Assassins: Everyday!
    13. Sosuke Ikematsu, Baby Assassins: Nice Days

    Supporting Actress:

    1. Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
    2. Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
    3. Charlee Fraser, Furiosa
    4. Jena Malone, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    5. Toni Collette, Juror #2
    6. Aubrey Plaza, Megalopolis
    7. Yang Mi, Nothing Can’t Be Undone By a Hotpot
    8. Yuen Qiu, Second Life
    9. Hana Malasan, The Shadow Strays
    10. Lee Hyeyoung, A Traveler’s Needs
    11. Ita Aoi, She Taught Me Serendipity
    12. Yang Xing, The Bodyguard
    13. Sienna Miller, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One


    Original Screenplay:

    1. Eephus
    2. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    3. She Taught Me Serendipity
    4. Pavements
    5. A Traveler’s Needs

    Adapted Screenplay:

    1. Baby Assassins: Everyday!
    2. Furiosa
    3. The Killer
    4. Look Back
    5. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

    English Language Film:

    1. Eephus (Carson Lund)
    2. Furiosa (George Miller)
    3. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One (Kevin Costner)
    4. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
    5. Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)

    Non-English Language Film:

    1. Baby Assassins: Everyday! (Sakamoto Yugo)
    2. Broken Rage (Kitano Takeshi)
    3. Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
    4. She Taught Me Serendipity (Ohku Akiko)
    5. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)

    Non-Fiction Feature Film:

    1. Dahomey (Mati Diop)
    2. God Hates a Coward (Jon Bois)
    3. Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
    4. Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)
    5. The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel (Jenny Nicholson)

    Animated Feature Film:

    1. The Colors Within (Yamada Naoko)
    2. Look Back (Oshiyama Kiyotaka)
    3. Vengeance Most Fowl (Merlin Crossingham & Nick Park)

    Unseen Film:

    1. Amar Singh Chamkila (Imtiaz Ali)
    2. Ghost Killer (Sonomura Kensuke)
    3. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
    4. Malaikottai Vaaliban (Lijo Jose Pellissery)
    5. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)


    Film Editing:

    1. Caught by the Tides
    2. Furiosa
    3. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    4. Pavements
    5. The Shadow Strays

    Cinematography:

    1. She Taught Me Serendipity
    2. Escape from the 21st Century
    3. Furiosa
    4. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    5. The Shadow Strays

    Art Direction:

    1. 11 Rebels
    2. Here
    3. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    4. Megalopolis
    5. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

    Costume Design:

    1. Dead Talents Society
    2. Furiosa
    3. 11 Rebels
    4. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    5. Megalopolis

    Make-Up and Hair:

    1. Dead Talents Society
    2. Furiosa
    3. 11 Rebels
    4. The Shadow Strays
    5. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In


    Original Score:

    1. Challengers
    2. The Colors Within
    3. I Saw the TV Glow
    4. The Gesuidouz

    Adapted Score:

    1. Black Dog
    2. A Complete Unknown
    3. The Fall Guy
    4. Pavements

    Choreography:

    1. Baby Assassins: Nice Days
    2. The Bodyguard
    3. Second Life
    4. The Shadow Strays
    5. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

    Sound:

    1. Caught by the Tides
    2. Pavements
    3. Chime
    4. Eephus
    5. I Saw the TV Glow

    Sound Editing:

    1. Furiosa
    2. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter One
    3. One More Shot
    4. The Shadow Strays
    5. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

    Visual Effects:

    1. Dead Talents Society
    2. Escape from the 21st Century
    3. Furiosa
    4. Megalopolis
    5. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In