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2025 ballot for Daniel Waters

Best Picture

  • Sound of Falling 19
  • One Battle After Another 13
  • Bugonia 12
  • Sinners 11
  • Sirāt 10
  • Sister Midnight 9
  • Hamnet 8
  • Twinless 7
  • Parthenope 6
  • Sketch 5

Best Director

  • Mascha Schilinski, Sound of Falling 19
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another 13
  • Ryan Coogler, Sinners 12
  • Oliver Laxe, Sirāt 11
  • Karan Kandhari, Sister Midnight 10
  • Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia 9
  • Chloé Zhao, Hamnet 8
  • Richard Linklater, Nouvelle Vague 7
  • Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope 6
  • Carson Lund, Eephus 5

Best Actress

  • Emma Stone, Bugonia 19
  • Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 13
  • Radhika Apte, Sister Midnight 12
  • Jessie Buckley, Hamnet 11
  • Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby 10
  • Sally Hawkins, Bring Her Back 9
  • Ella Øverbye, Dreams 8
  • Andrea Bræin Hovig, Love 7
  • Lea Myren, The Ugly Stepsister 6
  • Liz Larsen, The Baltimorons 5

Best Actor

  • Jesse Plemons, Bugonia 19
  • Sergi López, Sirāt 13
  • Dylan O'Brien, Twinless 12
  • Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon 11
  • Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams 10
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another 9
  • Michael B. Jordan, Sinners 8
  • Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague 7
  • Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice 6
  • Théodore Pellerin, Lurker 5

Best Supporting Actor

  • Tim Key, The Ballad of Wallis Island 19
  • John Glover, The Home 13
  • David Jonsson, The Long Walk 12
  • Billy Crudup, Jay Kelly 11
  • Andrew Scott, Blue Moon 10
  • Delroy Lindo, Sinners 9
  • Jack O'Connell, Sinners 8
  • Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein 7
  • Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another 6
  • Sean Penn, One Battle After Another 5

Best Supporting Actress

  • Alicia Vikander, The Assessment 19
  • Jade Croot, Rabbit Trap 13
  • Mariam Afshari, It Was Just an Accident 12
  • Zoey Deutch, Nouvelle Vague 11
  • Nina Hoss, Hedda 10
  • Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another 9
  • Amy Madigan, Weapons 8
  • Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners 7
  • Kirsten Dunst, Roofman 6
  • Tânia Maria, The Secret Agent 5

Best Screenplay

  • Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another 19
  • Will Tracy, Bugonia 13
  • James Sweeney, Twinless 12
  • Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet 11
  • Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident 10
  • Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man 9
  • Seth Worley, Sketch 8
  • Dag Johan Haugerud, Dreams 7
  • Andrew DeYoung, Friendship 6
  • Michael Angelo Covino & Kyle Marvin, Splitsville 5

Best Scene

  • Escaping family photograph, Sound of Falling 19
  • Memento mommy, 28 Years Later 13
  • Besties brawl, Splitsville 12
  • Rock (blues, jazz, hip-hop) of ages, Sinners 11
  • When kids attack, Weapons 10
  • Snowman, The Naked Gun 9
  • Hamster, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 8
  • Louise, Wake Up Dead Man 7
  • Meeting mentor's son, Parthenope 6
  • Exit the tapeworm, The Ugly Stepsister 5

Top Ten List

  • 1. Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
  • 2. Sound of Falling
  • 3. One Battle After Another
  • 4. Bugonia
  • 5. Sinners
  • 6. World Series, Game 7
  • 7. Sirat
  • 8. Sister Midnight
  • 9. Twinless
  • 10. Daniel Waters Visits The Severin Cellar

Ratings

  • 100 Nights of Hero 3.0
  • 28 Years Later 3.5
  • 40 Acres 3.0
  • The Accountant ² 2.0
  • The Actor 2.5
  • Afternoons of Solitude 3.5
  • After the Hunt 2.0
  • The Age of Disclosure 2.5
  • The Alabama Solution 3.0
  • All of You 3.0
  • The Alto Knights 2.0
  • The Amateur 2.5
  • Americana 2.0
  • Anaconda 3.0
  • Anemone 2.5
  • Anniversary 2.5
  • Another Simple Favor 1.0
  • Apocalypse in the Tropics 3.5
  • April 3.5
  • Architechton 3.0
  • Arco 3.0
  • Ash 2.5
  • The Assessment 3.5
  • Atropia 2.5
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash 3.0
  • The Bad Guys 2 2.5
  • Bad Shabbos 2.0
  • The Balconettes 2.5
  • Ballad of a Small Player 2.0
  • The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire 2.5
  • The Ballad of Wallis Island 3.5
  • Ballerina 3.0
  • The Baltimorons 3.0
  • Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything 3.0
  • Being Maria 2.0
  • Belén 3.0
  • Beyond the Gaze: Jule Campbell's Swimsuit Issue 2.5
  • A Big Bold Beautiful Journey 2.5
  • Black Bag 3.5
  • Black Phone 2 3.0
  • Black Tea 2.0
  • BLKNWS®: Terms & Conditions 3.5
  • Blue Moon 3.5
  • Blue Sun Palace 3.5
  • Bob Trevino Likes It 2.5
  • Bone Lake 3.0
  • Bonjour Tristesse 3.5
  • Borderline 2.0
  • Boys Go to Jupiter 3.0
  • Breakdown: 1975 3.0
  • Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy 3.0
  • Bring Her Back 3.0
  • Bring Them Down 3.0
  • Bugonia 4.0
  • Captain America: Brave New World 2.0
  • The Carpenter's Son 1.0
  • Caught by the Tides 3.5
  • Caught Stealing 2.5
  • Chain Reactions 3.5
  • Chainsaw Man: The Movie—Reze Arc 3.0
  • Chaos: The Manson Murders 1.5
  • The Choral 2.5
  • Christmas Karma 0.0
  • Christy 2.5
  • The Chronology of Water 2.5
  • Cleaner 2.0
  • Cloud 3.5
  • Clown in a Cornfield 3.0
  • The Code 2.5
  • Coexistence, My Ass! 2.5
  • Come Closer 3.0
  • Come See Me in the Good Light 3.5
  • Companion 3.0
  • The Conjuring: Last Rites 2.5
  • Cover-Up 3.0
  • Dangerous Animals 2.5
  • Dark Nuns 3.0
  • The Day the Earth Blew Up 2.5
  • D(e)ad 2.0
  • Dead Mail 2.5
  • Dead Man's Wire 3.0
  • Dead of Winter 2.0
  • Death of a Unicorn 2.0
  • Deathstalker 3.0
  • Den of Thieves: Pantera 2.5
  • Descendent 2.5
  • Desert of Namibia 3.0
  • Diciannove 2.5
  • Die My Love 2.0
  • Disney's Snow White 3.0
  • Doc Program A: Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 2.5
  • Doc Program B: Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 2.5
  • Dog Man 2.0
  • Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight 2.5
  • Dracula 3.0
  • Dreams 4.0
  • Drop 3.0
  • Dust Bunny 3.5
  • Eat the Night 3.0
  • Echo Valley 2.5
  • Eddington 3.5
  • Eden 2.0
  • Eenie Meanie 2.0
  • Eephus 3.5
  • Eleanor the Great 1.5
  • The Electric State 0.0
  • Elio 3.0
  • Ella McCay 1.0
  • The Empire 3.0
  • Eric LaRue 2.5
  • Eternity 3.0
  • Everything's Going to Be Great 2.0
  • Ex-Husbands 2.5
  • F1 3.0
  • Fackham Hall 2.5
  • Fairyland 2.5
  • Familiar Touch 3.5
  • The Fantastic 4: First Steps 3.0
  • Father Mother Sister Brother 2.0
  • Fight or Flight 3.0
  • Final Destination Bloodlines 3.0
  • Folktales 3.0
  • Frankenstein 3.5
  • Franz 2.5
  • Freakier Friday 3.0
  • Freaky Tales 3.0
  • Friendship 3.5
  • The Friend 2.5
  • From Ground Zero 3.0
  • G20 2.5
  • Gazer 2.5
  • Ghost Trail 2.5
  • Good Boy 3.0
  • Goodbye June 1.5
  • Good Fortune 3.0
  • The Gorge 3.0
  • Grand Theft Hamlet 3.5
  • Grand Tour 3.0
  • Griffin in Summer 3.5
  • Hamnet 3.5
  • Happyend 3.0
  • Happy Gilmore 2 2.0
  • Harvest 2.5
  • Havoc 3.0
  • Heads of State 2.5
  • Heart Eyes 2.5
  • Hedda 2.5
  • Hell of a Summer 2.5
  • Henry Johnson 3.0
  • Hi-Five 3.5
  • Highest 2 Lowest 3.0
  • Him 2.5
  • The History of Sound 3.0
  • Holland 1.5
  • Homebound 2.5
  • The Home 3.0
  • Honey Don't! 2.5
  • Hot Milk 2.0
  • The Housemaid 3.0
  • A House of Dynamite 3.0
  • How to Train Your Dragon 3.0
  • Hurry Up Tomorrow 2.5
  • The Ice Tower 3.0
  • If I Had Legs I'd Kick You 3.5
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer 2.0
  • In Our Blood 3.0
  • In the Lost Lands 2.5
  • Invention 3.0
  • Is This Thing On? 2.0
  • It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley 3.0
  • It Was Just an Accident 3.5
  • I Wish You All the Best 2.0
  • Jane Austen Wrecked My Life 3.0
  • Jay Kelly 2.5
  • Jazzy 3.0
  • John Candy: I Like Me 3.0
  • Julie Keeps Quiet 2.5
  • Jurassic World Rebirth 2.0
  • Karate Kid: Legends 2.0
  • Keeper 3.0
  • Killing Faith 2.5
  • Kill the Jockey 2.5
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman 3.0
  • The Knife 2.5
  • Kokuho 3.5
  • Köln 75 3.0
  • KPop Demon Hunters 3.5
  • La Dolce Villa 2.5
  • La grazia 3.0
  • Last Breath 2.5
  • The Last Showgirl 2.5
  • Left Handed Girl 3.0
  • The Legend of Ochi 3.0
  • The Life of Chuck 2.5
  • Lilo & Stitch 1.0
  • Little Amélie or the Character of Rain 3.0
  • A Little Prayer 3.0
  • Little Trouble Girls 3.5
  • Live Action Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 2.5
  • The Long Walk 3.5
  • The Lost Bus 2.5
  • Love 3.5
  • Love, Brooklyn 2.5
  • Love Hurts 1.0
  • Love Me 1.5
  • The Luckiest Man in America 2.5
  • Lurker 3.5
  • M3GAN 2.0 3.0
  • Magazine Dreams 2.5
  • The Man in My Basement 2.5
  • Marcello mio 2.0
  • Marty Supreme 3.0
  • The Mastermind 3.0
  • Materialists 3.0
  • Megadoc 3.0
  • Mickey 17 3.0
  • A Minecraft Movie 2.5
  • Misericordia 3.5
  • Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning 3.0
  • The Monkey 2.0
  • Mountainhead 3.0
  • My Daughter Is a Zombie 2.5
  • My Dead Friend Zoe 2.0
  • My Father's Shadow 3.0
  • My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow 4.0
  • The Naked Gun 3.0
  • Ne Zha 2 3.0
  • A Nice Indian Boy 3.0
  • Night Call 3.0
  • Nobody 2 1.5
  • No Other Choice 3.5
  • A Normal Family 3.0
  • Nouvelle Vague 3.5
  • Novocaine 2.5
  • Now You See Me Now You Don't 2.5
  • Nuremberg 1.5
  • O'Dessa 2.5
  • Oh, Hi! 2.0
  • The Old Guard 2 1.0
  • Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy 3.0
  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 3.5
  • One Battle After Another 4.0
  • One of Them Days 3.0
  • One to One: John & Yoko 3.5
  • On Swift Horses 2.0
  • Opus 2.0
  • Orwell: 2+2=5 2.0
  • Paddington in Peru 3.0
  • Parthenope 3.5
  • Pavements 3.0
  • The Penguin Lessons 2.5
  • Pepe 3.0
  • The Perfect Neighbor 3.0
  • Peter Hujar's Day 3.5
  • The Phoenician Scheme 3.0
  • The Pickup 1.0
  • The Plague 3.5
  • Plainclothes 2.5
  • Play Dirty 2.0
  • The Poet 3.5
  • Pools 2.0
  • Predator: Badlands 3.5
  • Predators 3.5
  • Preparation for the Next Life 3.0
  • Presence 3.0
  • The President's Cake 3.0
  • A Private Life 2.5
  • Queens of Drama 2.5
  • Queens of the Dead 3.0
  • Rabbit Trap 2.5
  • Rats! 3.0
  • Rebuilding 3.0
  • Reflection in a Dead Diamond 3.0
  • Regretting You 2.0
  • Relay 3.0
  • Rental Family 2.0
  • Resurrection 2.5
  • Riff Raff 2.5
  • Roofman 3.5
  • Rosemead 2.0
  • The Roses 2.0
  • The Rule of Jenny Pen 2.5
  • The Running Man 3.0
  • Rust 2.5
  • Sacramento 2.5
  • Scarlet 2.5
  • The Secret Agent 3.5
  • Sentimental Value 3.0
  • Sew Torn 2.5
  • Sex 3.0
  • Shadow Force 2.5
  • Shelby Oaks 2.0
  • She Rides Shotgun 3.0
  • The Shrouds 3.5
  • Silent Night, Deadly Night 3.0
  • Sinners 4.0
  • Sirāt 4.0
  • Sister Midnight 4.0
  • Sisu: Road to Revenge 3.0
  • Sketch 3.5
  • Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Genius) 3.0
  • The Smashing Machine 2.5
  • Song Sung Blue 3.0
  • Sorry, Baby 3.5
  • Souleymane's Story 3.5
  • Sound of Falling 4.0
  • Sovereign 3.0
  • The Sparrow in the Chimney 3.5
  • Spinal Tap II: The End Continues 1.5
  • Splitsville 3.5
  • Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere 2.5
  • Stealing Pulp Fiction 1.5
  • Steve 3.0
  • Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost 3.0
  • Strange Harvest 3.0
  • Stranger Eyes 3.5
  • Suburban Fury 3.5
  • Sunfish and Other Stories on Green Lake 2.5
  • Superman 3.5
  • The Surfer 3.5
  • Suspended Time 2.0
  • Taandab 2.5
  • The Tale of Silyan 3.0
  • The Teacher 2.5
  • The Testament of Ann Lee 3.0
  • That They May Face the Rising Sun 3.5
  • The Things You Kill 3.0
  • The Threesome 3.0
  • Thunderbolts* 3.5
  • Together 3.5
  • Tornado 2.0
  • The Toxic Avenger 3.0
  • Train Dreams 3.5
  • Tron: Ares 3.0
  • The Trouble With Jessica 2.0
  • Twinless 3.5
  • The Ugly Stepsister 3.5
  • Unicorns 2.5
  • Uninvited 2.0
  • The Uninvited 3.0
  • Until Dawn 2.0
  • Urchin 2.5
  • Videoheaven 3.5
  • Violent Ends 2.5
  • Vulcanizadora 3.0
  • Wake Up Dead Man 3.5
  • Waltzing With Brando 2.0
  • Warfare 2.5
  • Weapons 3.5
  • The Wedding Banquet 2.5
  • Went up the Hill 2.0
  • We Strangers 1.5
  • When Fall Is Coming 3.0
  • Where to Land 3.5
  • Who by Fire 3.5
  • Wicked: For Good 2.5
  • Wild Diamond 3.0
  • Wolf Man 2.0
  • The Woman in Cabin 10 1.5
  • The Woman in the Yard 2.5
  • A Working Man 3.0
  • Yadang: The Snitch 3.5
  • You're Cordially Invited 2.5
  • Zodiac Killer Project 2.5
  • Zootopia 2 3.0