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