2025 Posties!

my picks for the best in film

Presenting the 2025 Posties, my awards for the best in film! To see my ranking of all 53 eligible movies, Click Here!

1. No Other Choice

2. Blue Moon

3. Hamnet

4. Sinners

5. One Battle After Another

6. La Grazia

7. Is This Thing On?

8. Anemone

9. Ballad of a Small Player

10. Caught Stealing

1. Park Chan-wook for No Other Choice

2. Mona Fastvold for The Testament of Ann Lee

3. Ronan Day-Lewis for Anemone

4. Paolo Sorrentino for La Grazia

5. Edward Berger for Ballad of a Small Player

6. Nia DaCosta for Hedda

7. Bradley Cooper for Is This Thing On?

8. Chloé Zhao for Hamnet

9. Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another

10. Ron Howard for Eden

1. Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon

2. Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Lee Ja-hye, and Don McKellar for No Other Choice

3. Rowan Joffe, Ballad of a Small Player

4. Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man

5. Paolo Sorrentino, La Grazia

6. Will Arnett, Mark Chappell, and Bradley Cooper, Is This Thing On?

7. David Koepp, Black Bag

8. Will Tracy, Bugonia

9. Nia DaCosta, Hedda

10. Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

1. Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon

2. Lee Byung-hun in No Other Choice

3. Toni Servillo in La Grazia

4. Guillaume Marbeck in Nouvelle Vague

5. Colin Farrell in Ballad of a Small Player

6. Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another

7. Benicio del Toro in The Phoenician Scheme

8. Jackson Yee in Resurrection

9. Michael B. Jordan in Sinners

10. Josh O’Connor in Wake Up Dead Man

1. Mark Hamill in The Life of Chuck

2. Sean Penn in One Battle After Another

3. Paul Mescal in Hamnet

4. Jude Law in Eden

5. Benjamin Pajak in The Life of Chuck

6. Jacobi Jupe in Hamnet

7. Matt Smith in Caught Stealing

8. Diego Luna in Kiss of the Spider Woman

9. Josh Brolin in Wake Up Dead Man

10. Lewis Pullman in The Testament of Ann Lee

1. Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value

2. Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee

3. Alicia Vikander in The Assessment

4. Jessie Buckley in Hamnet

5. Tessa Thompson in Hedda

6. Elizabeth Olsen in The Assessment

7. Laura Dern in Is This Thing On?

8. Son Ye-jin in No Other Choice

9. Sydney Sweeney in The Housemaid

10. Vanessa Kirby in The Fantastic 4: First Steps

1. Nina Hoss in Hedda

2. Ariana Grande-Butera in Wicked: For Good

3. Teyana Taylor in One Battle After Another

4. Pamela Anderson in The Naked Gun

5. Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners

6. Vanessa Kirby in Eden

7. Mia Sara in The Life of Chuck

8. Naomie Ackie in Mickey 17

9. Zoey Deutsch in Nouvelle Vague

10. Margaret Qualley in Blue Moon

1. Black Bag

2. Eden

3. No Other Choice

4. Sentimental Value

5. Nouvelle Vague

6. Caught Stealing

7. The Testament of Ann Lee

8. The Assessment

9. Sinners

10. One Battle After Another

1. Ben Fordesman, Anemone

2. Dong Jinsong, Resurrection

3. Matthew Libatique, Is This Thing On?

4. James Friend, Ballad of a Small Player

5. Matthew Libatique, Highest 2 Lowest

6. Łukasz Żal, Hamnet

7. Dan Lausten, Frankenstein

8. Steven Soderbergh, Presence

9. Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners

10. David Chambille, Nouvelle Vague

1. The Testament of Ann Lee

2. Sinners

3. Frankenstein

4. Ballad of a Small Player

5. Is This Thing On?

6. One Battle After Another

7. The Ballad of Wallis Island

8. KPop Demon Hunters

9. A House of Dynamite

10. La Grazia

1. Hedda

2. Hamnet

3. Nouvelle Vague

4. The Phoenician Scheme

5. Resurrection

6. KPop Demon Hunters

7. Caught Stealing

8. The Testament of Ann Lee

9. Sinners

10. The Secret Agent

1. The Mastermind

2. Die My Love

3. Love Hurts

4. Zootopia 2

5. Train Dreams

6. Jay Kelly

7. Freakier Friday

8. Fackham Hall

9. Good Fortune

10. Eleanor the Great

*Please note that Snow White was not on the Oscar eligibility list, or it would be here. I suppose Disney didn’t even submit it for consideration? ‘Nuff said.

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