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Saturday, February 22, 2025

NOMINEES

41 FILMS
20 TELEVISION SERIES

TELEVISION

FILMS

TELEVISION

SERIESEPSAVAIL.SCNR
“Agatha All Along”9 eps.Disney+
“Baby Reindeer”7 eps.NetflixEp. 101, 105
“Diarra From Detroit”8 eps.BET+Ep. 101
“English Teacher”8 eps.Hulu | Disney+Ep. 102
“Erased: WW2’s Heroes Of Color”4 eps.Hulu | Disney+Ep. 103
“Expats”6 eps.Prime VideoEp. 104
“Fantasmas”6 eps.HBO MaxEp. 103
“Hollywood Black”4 eps.MGM+Ep. 101
“Mary & George”7 eps.StarzEp. 101
“Penelope”8 eps.NetflixEp. 101
“The Penguin”8 eps.HBO MaxEp. 101
“Photographer”6 eps.Hulu | Disney+Ep. 101
“Presumed Innocent”8 eps.Apple TV+
“Ren Faire”3 eps.HBO MaxEp. 103
“Ripley”8 eps.NetflixEp. 108
“Shōgun”10 eps.Hulu | Disney+Ep. 101, 108, 109
“Social Studies”5 eps.Hulu | Disney+Ep. 104
“The Sympathizer”7 eps.HBO MaxEp. 101
“Three Women”10 eps.StarzEp. 101
“Under the Bridge”8 eps.Hulu | Disney+Ep. 108

NOMINATIONS

BEST FEATURE

“Anora”
“I Saw The TV Glow”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
“The Substance”

BEST FIRST FEATURE

“Dìdi”
“In The Summers”
“Janet Planet”
“The Piano Lesson”
“Problemista”

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD

(Given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000)
**not voted on by members

“Big Boys”
“Ghostlight”
“Girls Will Be Girls”
“Jazzy”
“The People’s Joker”

BEST DIRECTOR

Ali Abbasi – “The Apprentice”
Sean Baker – “Anora”
Brady Corbet – “The Brutalist”
Alonso Ruizpalacios – “La Cocina”
Jane Schoenbrun – “I Saw the TV Glow”

BEST SCREENPLAY

Scott Beck, Bryan Woods – “Heretic”
Jesse Eisenberg – “A Real Pain”
Megan Park – “My Old Ass”
Aaron Schimberg – “A Different Man”
Jane Schoenbrun – “I Saw the TV Glow”

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Joanna Arnow – “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed”
Annie Baker – “Janet Planet”
India Donaldson – “Good One”
Julio Torres – “Problemista”
Sean Wang – “Dìdi”

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE

Amy Adams – “Nightbitch”
Ryan Destiny – “The Fire Inside”
Colman Domingo – “Sing Sing”
Keith Kupferer – “Ghostlight”
Mikey Madison – “Anora”
Demi Moore – “The Substance”
Hunter Schafer – “Cuckoo”
Justice Smith – “I Saw the TV Glow”
June Squibb – “Thelma”
Sebastian Stan – “The Apprentice”

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE

Yura Borisov – “Anora”
Joan Chen – “Dìdi”
Kieran Culkin – “A Real Pain”
Danielle Deadwyler – “The Piano Lesson”
Carol Kane – “Between the Temples”
Karren Karagulian – “Anora”
Kani Kusruti – “Girls Will Be Girls”
Brigette Lundy-Paine – “I Saw the TV Glow”
Clarence “Divine Eye” Maclin – “Sing Sing”
Adam Pearson – “A Different Man”

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

Isaac Krasner – “Big Boys”
Katy O’Brian – “Love Lies Bleeding”
Mason Alexander Park – “National Anthem”
René Pérez Joglar – “In the Summers”
Maisy Stella – “My Old Ass”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Dinh Duy Hung – “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”
Jomo Fray – “Nickel Boys”
Maria von Hausswolff – “Janet Planet”
Juan Pablo Ramírez – “La Cocina”
Rina Yang – “The Fire Inside”

BEST EDITING

Laura Colwell, Vanara Taing – “Jazzy”
Olivier Bugge Coutté, Olivia Neergaard-Holm – “The Apprentice”
Anne McCabe – “Nightbitch”
Hansjörg Weissbrich – “September 5”
Arielle Zakowski – “Dìdi”

BEST DOCUMENTARY

“Gaucho Gaucho”
“Hummingbirds”
“No Other Land”
“Patrice: The Movie”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

“All We Imagine as Light” (France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
“Black Dog” (China)
“Flow” (Latvia, France, Belgium)
“Green Border” (Poland, France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
“Hard Truths” (United Kingdom)

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD

“His Three Daughters”

Director: Azazel Jacobs
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Ensemble Cast: Jovan Adepo, Jasmine Bracey, Carrie Coon, Jose Febus, Rudy Galvan, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, Randy Ramos Jr., Jay O. Sanders

Best New Scripted Series

“Baby Reindeer”
“Diarra From Detroit”
“English Teacher”
“Fantasmas”
“Shōgun”

Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series

“Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color”
“Hollywood Black”
“Photographer”
“Ren Faire”
“Social Studies”

BEST LEAD PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Brian Jordan Alvarez – “English Teacher”
Richard Gadd – “Baby Reindeer”
Lily Gladstone – “Under the Bridge”
Kathryn Hahn – “Agatha All Along”
Cristin Milioti – “The Penguin”
Julianne Moore – “Mary & George”
Hiroyuki Sanada – “Shōgun”
Anna Sawai – “Shōgun”
Andrew Scott – “Ripley”
Julio Torres – “Fantasmas”

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Tadanobu Asano – “Shōgun”
Enrico Colantoni – “English Teacher”
Betty Gilpin – “Three Women”
Chloe Guidry – “Under the Bridge”
Moeka Hoshi – “Shōgun”
Stephanie Koenig – “English Teacher”
Patti LuPone – “Agatha All Along”
Nava Mau – “Baby Reindeer”
Ruth Negga – “Presumed Innocent”
Brian Tee – “Expats”

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Jessica Gunning – “Baby Reindeer”
Diarra Kilpatrick – “Diarra From Detroit”
Joe Locke – “Agatha All Along”
Megan Stott – “Penelope”
Hoa Xuande – “The Sympathizer”

Best Ensemble Cast in a Scripted Series

“How to Die Alone”

Ensemble Cast: Melissa DuPrey, Jaylee Hamidi, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Arkie Kandola, Elle Lorraine, Michelle McLeod, Chris “CP” Powell, Conrad Ricamora, Natasha Rothwell, Jocko Sims

Producers Award

**not voted on by members

(Honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films.)

Alex Coco
Sarah Winshall
Zoë Worth

Someone to Watch Award

**not voted on by members

(Recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition.)

Nicholas Colia – Director of “Griffin in Summer”
Sarah Friedland – Director of “Familiar Touch”
Pham Thien An – Director of “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”

Truer Than Fiction Award

**not voted on by members

(The Truer Than Fiction Award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition)

Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie – Directors of “Sugarcane”
Carla Gutiérrez – Director of “Frida”
Rachel Elizabeth Seed – Director of “A Photographic Memory”

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