The 2025 Burnt Tendies

Another year of exciting movies and another year of everyone’s favorite film awards show! The rules have stayed the same as usual. 5 nominations per category. Let’s get to it!

Most Anticipated

• Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
• Eddington Ari Aster
• Mickey 17 Bong Joon Ho
• One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson – WINNER
• The Actor Duke Johnson

Best Film Score

• Daniel Blumberg The Brutalist – WINNER
• Eiko Ishibashi Evil Does Not Exist
• Hans Zimmer Dune: Part Two
• Raffertie The Substance
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Challengers

Best Supporting Actor

• Adam Pearson A Different Man
• Clarence Maclin Sing Sing – WINNER
• Guy Pearce The Brutalist
• Javier Bardem Dune: Part Two
• Jesse Plemons Civil War

Best Supporting Actress

• Cailee Spaeny Civil War
• Katy O Brian Love Lies Bleeding
• Margaret Qualley The Substance
• Rebecca Ferguson Dune: Part Two – WINNER
• Zendaya Dune: Part Two

Best Action Film

• Challengers
• Civil War
• Dune: Part Two – WINNER
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Rebel Ridge

Best Foreign Film

• Flow
• I’m Still Here
• Kneecap
• Look Back
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – WINNER

Best Horror Film

• Late Night with the Devil
• Longlegs – WINNER
• Strange Darling
• The First Omen
• The Substance

Best Comedy/Musical Film

• Anora – WINNER
• Hundreds of Beavers
• Kinds of Kindness
• Kneecap
• My Old Ass

Best Animated Film

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Look Back – WINNER
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Leading Actress

• Demi Moore The Substance
• Emma Stone Kinds of Kindness
• Florence Pugh We Live in Time
• Mikey Madison Anora – WINNER
• Pamela Anderson The Last Showgirl

Best Leading Actor

• Adrien Brody The Brutalist – WINNER
• Andrew Garfield We Live in Time
• Colman Domingo Sing Sing
• Sebastian Stan A Different Man
• Timothee Chalamet Dune: Part Two

Best Director

• Brady Corbet The Brutalist
• Denis Villeneuve Dune: Part Two – WINNER
• Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• RaMell Ross Nickel Boys
• Sean Baker Anora

Best Picture

• Dune: Part Two
• I’m Still Here
• Sing Sing
• The Brutalist – WINNER
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig