Predictions - November 2025
Post-Festivals, Pre-Precursors
Best Picture
1
One Battle After Another
Warner Bros.
--
2
Hamnet
Focus Features
--
3
Sentimental Value
Neon
--
4
Marty Supreme
A24
--
5
Sinners
Warner Bros
--
6
Wicked: For Good
Universal
--
7
It Was Just an Accident
Neon
↑ 1
8
Frankenstien
Netflix
↑ 1
9
Avatar: Fire and Ash
20th Century Studios
↑ 1
10
Jay Kelly
Netflix
↑ 4
11
Bugonia
Focus Features
--
12
Train Dreams
Netflix
NEW
13
No Other Choice
Neon
--
14
The Testament of Ann Lee
Searchlight
↑ 3
15
A House of Dynamite
Netflix
--
16
Is This Thing On?
Searchlight
↓ 4
17
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
20th Century Studios
↓ 10
18
The Secret Agent
Neon
NEW
19
Rental Family
Searchlight
NEW
20
The Smashing Machine
A24
↓ 4
Best Director
1
Paul Thomas Anderson
One Battle After Another
--
2
Chloe Zhao
Hamnet
--
3
Jafar Panahi
It Was Just an Accident
↑ 2
4
Joachim Trier
Sentimental Value
--
5
Josh Safdie
Marty Supreme
--
6
Ryan Coogler
Sinners
--
7
Park Chan-wook
No Other Choice
--
8
Guillermo del Toro
Frankenstien
--
9
Yorgos Lanthimos
Bugonia
--
10
James Cameron
Avatar: Fire and Ash
--
11
Kathryn Bigelow
A House of Dynamite
↓ 2
12
Benny Safdie
The Smashing Machine
--
13
Kleber Mendonca Filho
The Secret Agent
--
14
Jon M. Chu
Wicked: For Good
--
15
Mona Fastvold
The Testament of Ann Lee
--
Best Actress
1
Jessie Buckley
Hamnet
--
2
Renate Reinsve
Sentimental Value
--
3
Cynthia Erivo
Wicked: For Good
--
4
Amanda Seyfried
The Testament of Ann Lee
↑ 4
5
Rose Byrne
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
--
6
Emma Stone
Bugonia
↓ 2
7
Kate Hudson
Song Sung Blue
NEW
8
Chase Infiniti
One Battle After Another
↓ 2
9
Julia Roberts
After the Hunt
↓ 2
10
Laura Dern
Is This Thing On?
NEW
11
Jennifer Lawrence
Die, My Love
↓ 2
12
Rebecca Ferguson
A House of Dynamite
↓ 2
13
Eva Victor
Sorry, Baby
↓ 2
Best Actor
1
Timothee Chalamet
Marty Supreme
--
2
Leonardo DiCaprio
One Battle After Another
--
3
Ethan Hawke
Blue Moon
↑ 2
4
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners
↑ 5
5
Wagner Moura
The Secret Agent
↑ 2
6
Jesse Plemons
Bugonia
↑ 2
7
Geroge Clooney
Jay Kelly
↑ 6
8
Will Arnett
Is This Thing On?
↓ 4
9
Jeremy Allen White
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
↓ 6
10
Oscar Isaac
Frankenstien
↑ 4
11
Daniel Day-Lewis
Anemone
↓ 5
12
Joel Edgerton
Train Dreams
NEW
13
Lee Byung-Hun
No Other Choice
↓ 2
14
Dwayne Johnson
The Smashing Machine
↓ 2
15
Brendan Fraser
Rental Family
↓ 5
Supporting Actress
1
Ariana Grande
Wicked: For Good
--
2
Teyana Taylor
One Battle After Another
↑ 2
3
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Sentimental Value
--
4
Elle Fanning
Sentimental Value
↓ 2
5
Gwyneth Paltrow
Marty Supreme
↑ 1
6
Odessa A'zion
Marty Supreme
↑ 1
7
Regina Hall
One Battle After Another
↑ 2
8
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners
↑ 1
9
Amy Madigan
Weapons
↓ 4
10
Glenn Close
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Story
↑ 1
11
Emily Blunt
The Smashing Machine
↓ 3
12
Jennifer Lopez
Kiss of the Spider Woman
--
13
Hailee Steinfeld
Sinners
--
Supporting Actor
1
Sean Penn
One Battle After Another
--
2
Paul Mescal
Hamnet
--
3
Stellan Skarsgard
Sentimental Value
--
4
Benicio del Toro
One Battle After Another
↑ 2
5
Delroy Lindo
Sinners
↑ 3
6
Adam Sandler
Jay Kelly
↓ 1
7
Jacob Elordi
Frankenstien
--
8
Miles Caton
Sinners
↑ 2
9
Jeremy Strong
Sprigsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
↓ 5
10
Jonathan Bailey
Wicked: For Good
↑ 1
Best Original Screenplay
1
It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi
↑ 2
2
Sentimental Value
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
↓ 1
3
Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstien
↓ 1
4
Sinners
Ryan Coogler
↑ 1
5
Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor
↑ 3
6
Jay Kelly
Emily Mortimer, Noah Baumbach
--
7
The Testament of Ann Lee
Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet
↑ 4
8
The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonca Filho
NEW
9
Is This Thing On?
Will Arrnett, Mark Chappell, Bradley Cooper
↓ 5
10
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Mary Bronstien
↑ 2
11
Weapons
Zach Cregger
↓ 1
12
After the Hunt
Nora Garrett
↓ 5
13
A House of Dynamite
Noah Oppenheim
↓ 4
Best Adapted Screenplay
1
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson
--
2
Hamnet
Chloe Zhao
--
3
Frankenstien
Guillermo del Toro
↑ 2
4
Bugonia
Will Tracy
↓ 1
5
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook
↓ 1
6
Train Dreams
Greg Kewdar, Clint Bentley
↑ 2
7
Wicked: For Good
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox
NEW
8
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Story
Rian Johnson
↓ 2
9
The Smashing Machine
Benny Safdie
↑ 1
10
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Scott Cooper
↓ 3
Best Animated Feature
1
KPop Demon Hunters
--
2
Zootopia 2
--
3
Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
↑ 6
4
Arco
↓ 1
5
Elio
↓ 1
6
In Your Dreams
--
7
Scarlet
↓ 2
8
A Magnificent Life
↓ 1
9
The Bad Guys 2
↓ 1
10
Ne Zha 2
--
Best International Feature
1
It Was Just an Accident
Frace
↑ 4
2
No Other Choice
South Korea
--
3
Sentimental Value
Norway
↓ 2
4
The Secret Agent
Brazil
↓ 1
5
The President's Cake
Iraq
NEW
6
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Tunisia
↑ 3
7
Sound of Falling
Germany
↓ 1
8
Sirat
Spain
↓ 1
9
Left-Handed Girl
Taiwan
NEW
10
My Father's Shadow
United Kingdom
NEW
11
Late Shift
Switzerland
--
Best Original Score
1
One Battle After Another
Jonny Greenwood
--
2
Sinners
Ludwig Goransson
--
3
Hamnet
Max Ritcher
↑ 2
4
Frankenstien
Alexandre Desplat
↓ 1
5
Bugonia
Jerskin Fendrix
↓ 1
6
Marty Supreme
Daniel Lopatin
--
7
The Testament of Ann Lee
Daniel Blumberg
↑ 2
8
Wicked: For Good
John Powell, Stephen Schwatz
↑ 3
9
Ballad of a Small Player
Volker Bertelmann
↓ 1
10
Jay Kelly
Nicholas Britell
↓ 3
11
F1
Hans Zimmer
↓ 1
12
Sentimental Value
Haina Rani
--
Best Sound
1
F1
--
2
One Battle After Another
--
3
Sinners
--
4
Wicked: For Good
--
5
Avatar: Fire and Ash
↑ 1
6
Warfare
↑ 1
7
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
↑ 1
8
Frankenstien
↑ 1
9
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
↓ 4
10
The Testament of Ann Lee
--
11
Marty Supreme
--
12
A House of Dynamite
--
13
Superman
--
Best Production Design
1
Frankenstien
--
2
Wicked: For Good
--
3
Avatar: Fire and Ash
--
4
Hamnet
--
5
Sinners
--
6
Marty Supreme
--
7
One Battle After Another
--
8
The Testament of Ann Lee
--
9
Bugonia
--
10
Ballad of a Small Player
--
11
The Phoenician Scheme
--
Best Cinematography
1
One Battle After Another
Michael Bauman, Paul Thomas Anderson
--
2
Frankenstien
Dan Lausten
--
3
Sinners
Autumn Durald Arkapaw
--
4
Marty Supreme
Darius Khondji
--
5
Hamnet
Lukasz Zal
--
6
Ballad of a Small Player
James Friend
--
7
Bugonia
Robbie Ryan
--
8
Train Dreams
Adolpho Veloso
↑ 2
9
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Russell Carpenter
--
10
Sound of Falling
Fabian Gamper
↓ 2
11
Nouvelle Vauge
David Chambille
--
12
The Testament of Ann Lee
William Rexer
--
13
No Other Choice
Kim Woo-hyung
↑ 2
14
Wicked: For Good
Alice Brooks
↑ 2
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
1
Frankenstien
--
2
The Smashing Machine
--
3
Wicked: For Good
--
4
Hamnet
--
5
Wolf Man
↑ 3
6
Sinners
--
7
28 Years Later
--
8
Weapons
↓ 3
9
The Testament of Ann Lee
↑ 3
10
Bugonia
↓ 1
11
Marty Supreme
↓ 1
12
The Wizard of the Kremlin
↓ 1
Best Costume Design
1
Frankenstein
--
2
Wicked: For Good
↑ 1
3
Sinners
↓ 1
4
Hamnet
--
5
The Testament of Ann Lee
--
6
Marty Supreme
--
7
One Battle After Another
NEW
8
Kiss of the Spider Woman
--
9
Hedda
--
10
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
↓ 3
Best Film Editing
1
One Battle After Another
--
2
Marty Supreme
↑ 1
3
Sentimental Value
↑ 1
4
Hamnet
↑ 1
5
Sinners
↑ 1
6
No Other Choice
↓ 4
7
Bugonia
--
8
Avatar: Fire and Ash
↑ 3
9
It Was Just an Accident
↑ 3
10
The Testament of Ann Lee
↑ 4
11
Wicked: For Good
↑ 2
12
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
↓ 4
13
F1
↓ 4
14
A House of Dynamite
↓ 4
Best Visual Effects
1
Avatar: Fire and Ash
--
2
Superman
--
3
Wicked: For Good
--
4
Frankenstein
↑ 3
5
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
↑ 1
6
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
↓ 2
7
TRON: Ares
↑ 1
8
F1
↓ 3
9
Sinners
--
10
A Minecraft Movie
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