On February 21st, 2025, the International Film Society Critics Association (IFSCA / @IFSCritics on Twitter), of which I am a voting member, announced their full list of nominations for the ongoing 2024-2025 awards season. Like any other film critics association, their awards celebrate the best films of the past year. The ultimate winners will be announced on March 1st, 2025, which is in just a few days. Below you can read the full list of nominated films, performers, artists, and filmmakers.
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Dev Patel – Monkey Man
Mike Cheslik – Hundreds of Beavers
Molly Manning Walker – How to Have Sex
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine As Light
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Sean Wang – Didi
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Robot Dreams
The Wild Robot
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Daughters
No Other Land
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Will & Harper
BEST ACTION FILM
Civil War
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Monkey Man
The Fall Guy
BEST HORROR / SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Dune Part Two
Heretic
I Saw the TV Glow
Nosferatu
The Substance
The Wild Robot
BEST COMEDY / MUSICAL FEATURE
A Different Man
Anora
Challengers
Hit Man
The Substance
Wicked
BEST STUNTS / CHOREOGRAPHY
Dune Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Monkey Man
The Fall Guy
The Substance
Wicked
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nosferatu
Wicked
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Nosferatu
The Brutalist
The Substance
Wicked
BEST MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Different Man
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Dune Part Two
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien Romulus
Dune Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Nosferatu
The Substance
BEST SOUND DESIGN
Challengers
Civil War
Dune Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Nosferatu
The Substance
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Challengers
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Nosferatu
The Brutalist
The Wild Robot
BEST FILM EDITING
Anora
Challengers
Conclave
Dune Part Two
The Brutalist
The Substance
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Challengers
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
The Substance
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Compress/Repress” – Challengers
“El Mal” – Emilia Perez
“Harper and Will Go West” – Will & Harper
“Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot
“Like A Bird” – Sing Sing
“Sick in the Head” – Kneecap
BEST YOUNG / YOUTH PERFORMANCE
Alisha Weir – Abigail
Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Izaac Wang – Didi
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass
Mia McKenna Bruce – How to Have Sex
Nykiya Adams – Bird
BODY OF WORK
Glen Powell – Hit Man – Twisters
Margaret Qualley – The Substance – Drive- Away Dolls – Kinds of Kindness
Nicholas Hoult – The Order – Juror #2 – Nosferatu – The Garfield Movie
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man – The Apprentice
Timothee Chalamet – Dune Part Two – A Complete Unknown
Willem Dafoe – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Kinds of Kindness — Saturday Night — Nosferatu
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Anora
Challengers
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Sing Sing
The Brutalist
EXCEEDING (ONE-INCH) BARRIERS
All We Imagine as Light
Flow
I’m Still Here
No Other Land
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Substance
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Hit Man
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
Sing Sing
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
A Different Man
Anora
A Real Pain
Challengers
The Brutalist
The Substance
BEST DIRECTOR
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Denis Villeneuve – Dune Part Two
Luca Guadagnino – Challengers
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Sean Baker – Anora
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Adam Pearson – A Different Man
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Yura Borisov – Anora
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Ariana Grande-Butera – Wicked
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley – The Substance
Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Perez
BEST LEAD ACTOR
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Daniel Craig – Queer
Hugh Grant – Heretic
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Sebastian Stan – A Different Man
BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Demi Moore – The Substance
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
Lily-Rose Depp – Nosferatu
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
Mikey Madison – Anora
BEST PICTURE
Anora
Challengers
Conclave
Dune Part Two
Nickel Boys
Nosferatu
Sing Sing
The Brutalist
The Substance
Wicked
– Article Written by Jeffrey Rex Bertelsen.
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