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My Nominees: The 2025 Hollmann Awards

After 101 movies, a Top Ten, and yes, even Longlists, I present my ballot: in eighteen categories, these are the nominees for the 2025 Hollmann Awards:

Best Supporting Actress
Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen McCay
Ella McCay
Nina Hoss as Eileen Lovborg
Hedda
Wunmi Mosaku as Annie
Sinners
Carolyn Michelle Smith as Vanessa
Familiar Touch
Teyana Taylor as Perfidia Beverly Hills
One Battle After Another

Best Makeup & Hairstyling
28 Years Later
Rebecca Cole, hair and makeup supervisor
Flora Moody, hair and makeup designer
David Darby / John Nolan, special makeup effects supervisors
Caught Stealing
Jon Carter, hair department head
Judy Chin, makeup department head
Lindsay Gelfan / Rich Krusell, prosthetics artists
Frankenstein
Jordan Samuel, makeup department head
Mike Hill, prosthetic makeup effects head
Steve Newburn, prosthetics effects supervisor
Megan Many, prosthetics supervisor & key prosthetics makeup artist
Cliona Furey, hair designer
Resurrection
The Testament of Ann Lee
Ann Törjék, hair & makeup supervisor
Stephanie Pasicov, hair & makeup & prosthetics designer

Best Score
Frankenstein
Alexandre Desplat
Highest 2 Lowest
Howard Drossin
Sinners
Ludwig Göransson
The Testament of Ann Lee
Daniel Blumberg
The Ugly Stepsister
John Erik Kaada / Vilde Tuv

Best Adapted Screenplay
Hedda
Nia DaCosta
from the play by Henrik Ibsen
Highest 2 Lowest
Alan Fox
from the novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain and the sreenplay High and Low by Akira Kurosawa & Hideo Oguni & Ryûzô Kikushima and Eijirô Hisaita
The History of Sound
Ben Shattuck
from his short story original published in The Common
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson
from Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
Song Sung Blue
Craig Brewer
from the documentary by Greg Kohs

Best Original Screenplay

Blue Moon
Robert Kaplow

Eddington
Ari Aster

The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Testament of Ann Lee
Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold

Twinless
James Sweeney

Best Supporting Actor
Bobby Cannavale as Eddie
Blue Moon
Benicio del Toro as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
One Battle After Another
Richard Harmon as Erik Campbell
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim
Sinners
Jeffrey Wright as Paul Christopher
Highest 2 Lowest

Best Ensemble
Blue Moon
casting by Áine O'Sullivan / Olivia Scott-Webb
Eephus
casting by Carson Lund
Marty Supreme
Jennifer Venditti
The Secret Agent
casting by Gabriel Domingues
Sinners
casting by Francine Maisler

Best Costume Design
Frankenstein
Kate Hawley
Hedda
Lindsay Pugh
The Ice Tower
Laurence Benoit
The Secret Agent
Rita Azevedo
Sinners
Ruth E. Carter

Best Original Song

Freakier Friday - "Baby"
music and lyrics by Sarah Aarons

Highest 2 Lowest - "Highest 2 Lowest"
music and lyrics by Aiyana-Lee Anderson and Daciana-Nicole Anderson

Highest 2 Lowest - "Trunks"
music and lyrics by Rakim "A$AP Rocky" Myers

KPop Demon Hunters - "Golden"
music and lyrics by EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick

Sinners - "Pale, Pale Moon"
music and lyrics by Brittany Howard and Ludwig Göransson

Best Production Design
Bugonia
James Price, production designer
Adam A. Makin, supervising art director
Prue Howard, set decorator
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
Kasra Farahani, production designer
Nick Gottschalk, supervising art director
Jille Azis, set decorator
Frankenstein
Tamara Deverell, production designer
Brandt Gordon, supervising art director
Shane Vieau, set decorator
Resurrection
Qiang Liu, production designer
The Testament of Ann Lee
Sam Bader, production designer
Ágnes Bobor / Lörinc Boros / Csaba Lodi, art directors
Lauren Doss, set decorator

Best Editing

Blue Moon
Sandra Adair

Eephus
Carson Lund

Familiar Touch
Aacharee "Ohm" Ungsriwong

The Secret Agent
Matheus Farias / Eduardo Serrano

The Testament of Ann Lee
Sofía Subercaseaux

Best Sound

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Gwendolyn Yates Whittle / Brent Burge, supervising sound editors
Gary Summers / Michael Hedges / Alexis Feodoroff, re-recording mixers
Julian Howarth, production sound mixers

F1
Benjamin A. Burtt / Kim B. Christensen / Luke Dunn Gielmuda / Scott Guitteau, sound effects editors
Gareth John, production sound mixer
Al Nelson / Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, supervising sound editors
Juan Peralta, re-recording mixer

No Other Choice
Bock-nam Ahn, production sound mixer
Eunjung Kim, re-recording mixer / sound designer / supervising sound editor
Kim Suk-won, sound supervisor

The Secret Agent
Gijs den Hartogh, sound effects editor
Jesse Enzler / Camiel Muiser, sound editors
Tijn Hazen, sound designer
Moabe Filho / Pedrinho Moreira / Julien Paschal, sound mixers
Cyril Holtz / Nathan Robert, re-recording mixer

The Testament of Ann Lee
Andy Neil, re-recording mixer / sound designer
Steve Single, re-recording mixer / sound supervisor
Markus Stemler, sound effects editor
Levente Udud, production sound mixer

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Joe Letteri / senior visual effects supervisor
Richard Baneham, visual effects supervisor
Eric Saindon / Daniel Barrett, Wētā senior supervisors
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Hugh Goodbody / Chris "Flimsy" Howes, senior special effects designers
Ian Lowe, special effects supervisor
Alex Wuttke, visual effects supervisor
Sarah Moussaif / Robin Saxen / Tobias Graa Winblad, visual effects producers
Resurrection
Chi-kit Chan / Strilen Liu, visual effects supervisors
Superman
Stephane Ceretti / Enrico Damm / Stéphane Nazé . Guy Williams, visual effects supervisors
TRON: Ares
David Seager, visual effects supervisor
Vincent Papaix / Jeff Capogreco, ILM supervisors

Best Cinematography
28 Years Later
Anthony Dod Mantle
Grand Tour
Gui Liang / Sayombhu Mukdeeprom / Rui Poças
Realm of Satan
Gerald Kerkletz
Resurrection
Jingsong Dong
The Testament of Ann Lee
William Rexer

Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser
Marty Supreme
Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart
Blue Moon
Hugh Jackman as Mike Sardina
Song Sung Blue
Wagner Moura as Armando Solimões, alias Marcelo Alves / Fernando Solimões
The Secret Agent
Denzel Washington as David King
Highest 2 Lowest

Best Actress
Kathleen Chalfant as Ruth
Familiar Touch
Ma Shih-Yuan as I-Ann
Left-Handed Girl
Emma Mackey as Ella McCay
Ella McCay
Amanda Seyfried as Ann Lee
The Testament of Ann Lee
Tessa Thompson as Hedda Gabler-Tesman
Hedda

Best Director
Ryan Coogler
Sinners
Nia DaCosta
Hedda
Mona Fastvold
The Testament of Ann Lee
Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Secret Agent
Sarah Friedland
Familiar Touch

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Familiar Touch
Alexandra Byer / Sarah Friedland / Matthew Thurm, producers
Highest 2 Lowest
Jason Michael Berman / Todd Black, producers
The Secret Agent
Emilie Lesclaux / Kleber Mendonça Filho, producers
Sinners
Ryan Coogler / Zinzi Coogler / Sev Ohanian, producers
The Testament of Ann Lee
Brady Corbet / Mona Fastvold / Joshua Horsfield / Gregory Jankilevitsch / Mark Lampert / Lillian LaSalle / Andrew Morrison / Viktória Petrányi / Klaudia Smieja, producers


35 films are nominated; The Testament of Ann Lee leads the tally with 10.

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