The nominations for the 98th Academy Awards have been announced! There were surprises, headscratchers, shocks, and snubs, as is always the case. Below, I’ve assembled bullet points and explanations of the biggest headliners, in my opinion, from this year’s nomination group. Let’s get to them.
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AMPAS is announcing its list of nominees for the upcoming 98th Academy Awards on the 22nd. So, yes, now is the time to fill in your final Oscars nominations predictions. This is exactly what I’ve done here. Below you’ll see what I’m predicting. The choices are ranked from one to five or one to ten, based on how confident I am that something is getting nominated, with 1 being the most confident. One thing of note: I am predicting that Sinners will break the record for most Oscar nominations (by getting 15).
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Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) — Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson.
One of the most anticipated major auteur works of 2025 has been released. Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern 1990 novel Vineland, One Battle After Another marks the 10th narrative feature from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (often abbreviated as PTA) and the first team-up with the renowned and immensely popular thespian Leonardo DiCaprio. The film follows Bob Ferguson (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), a paranoid ex-revolutionary, who has gone into hiding from the government to protect his now-teenaged daughter, Willa (played by Chase Infiniti), who has yet to fully understand what he and her mother went through when they quarreled with the government during their time as prominent members of the far-left revolutionary group the French 75, who, among other things, broke out detained immigrants from militarized detention centers. However, on the day of a school dance, it becomes clear that the government — personified by Colonel Steven Lockjaw (played by Sean Penn), who has personal reasons for seeking out Bob and Willa — has finally found them. When Lockjaw and the military’s presence becomes known, Bob goes in pursuit of his daughter, with the hope of getting to her before Lockjaw can, but he needs the assistance of the cool-headed local community leader, Sergio St. Carlos (played by Benicio Del Toro), if he is to have any chance of navigating both the chaos around him and the paranoia inside of him, as well as getting to his daughter before it’s too late.
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It’s a new year, and there is so much good cinema to look forward to in the coming twelve months. Today, I want to highlight specifically twenty-five of these films and count down to the film that I am the most excited to see in the new year. Now, granted, some of these films could theoretically be moved to 2026, but all of the films on my list are either currently listed as 2025 films or are expected to come out this year. If available, I’ll also post trailers for films, but, of course, not every film production has begun its marketing campaign. Also, if you are interested in a longer list of films that I am excited to see in 2025, then allow me to point you in the direction of my Letterboxd list, which contains 80+ films — click here to check it out! But let’s now count down from 25 to no. 1. What are the films that I am the most excited to see in 2025?
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