Our third and final day of the 2025 Hollmann Awards. You've seen the Longlists, the Top Ten, the Nominees, and Parts One and Two of the winners - now, let's wrap this year up!
Best Cinematography
5. 28 Years Later
Anthony Dod Mantle
4. The Testament of Ann Lee
William Rexer
3. Realm of Satan
Gerald Kerkletz
2. Resurrection
Jingsong Dong
1. Grand Tour
Gui Liang / Sayombhu Mukdeeprom / Rui Poças
The final awards after the jump...
Best Costume Design
Frankenstein
Kate Hawley
2. The Secret Agent; 3. Sinners; 4. Hedda; 5. The Ice Tower
Almost gave the win to The Secret Agent, if just for the outfits they put Gabriel Leone in. In the end, though, I'm a sucker for something like Frankenstein, which reminded me of Bram Stoker's Dracula in its ability to serve period looks that remained filtered through the most colorful, maximalist artistic expressions. I love Baroness Frankenstein's impossibly long red veil billowing in the wind, I love Elizabeth's wedding gown subtly including the kind of wrapping we associate with Elsa Lanchester's Bride of Frankenstein, I love the Creature's increasingly, hm, not tattered, but weathered coats, clothes he has to find and adapt and make do with. And, it must be said, Oscar Isaac looks great in rumpled, unbuttoned, Byronic shirts.
Best Sound
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
2. Avatar: Fire & Ash; 3. F1; 4. No Other Choice; 5. The Secret Agent
I tell you, during the Tulkun Council, I felt the vibrations of the whale-speak in my chest, I love the way Avatar: Fire & Ash does its sound work. The Testament of Ann Lee is very deliberate with its sounds: from the very beginning, it's silence, the faintest chimes and bird-calls slowly fading into the soundtrack, until we finally get our first glimpse of...dancers in the woods? The score and the sound effects overlap and interact, the sounds of a port town like Manchester providing their own underscore to Ann Lee's walks. There are the different cries and shouts and breaths: sexual panting, mentally ill shouting, mid-labor screaming, all of them later adapted within the heaving of Shaker "confessionals." The thunk-thunk-thunk as they hit the floors and their chests in dance, the cacophony of a storm-tossed ship, the musical rhythm of Naskayuna being built.
Best Supporting Actor
I do want to take a moment to shout out Richard Harmon, who gets all the best moments in Final Destination: Bloodlines and pulls them all off expertly, from the fear in the tattoo parlor to his reaction to his mom's confession to the whole "nut check" scene. Great work. Ok, now, how to deal with having to decide between Delroy Lindo in Sinners and Jeffrey Wright in Highest 2 Lowest? Lindo, whose Delta Slim is a joy even if there is a certain world-weary wariness, too liberal with the liquor, but whose love of music is apparent in his whole body, from face to feet, who gets the best laugh lines, and makes the most moving decision? Wright, whose Paul Christopher suddenly realizes that his friend is his employer first, tries to temper his anger with his faith, every moment a choice between the instincts he grew up with and the man he has worked hard to become? With Lindo, I keep remembering his physicality, how loose he feels; with Wright, I keep remembering his stillness and the way he says "Beloved." I even thought of making it a tie - or else putting both their names and "tie" in a hat and choosing at random, so close are they together in merit...OK, I did do that, just to see what would happen, and wound up picking TIE. But I know a few of my friends hate ties, so for their sake, I'll make this choice:
Delroy Lindo
Sinners
2. DJeffrey Wright in Highest 2 Lowest; 3. Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another; 4. Richard Harmon in Final Destination: Bloodlines; 5. Bobby Cannavale in Blue Moon
Best Actress
Amanda Seyfried as Ann Lee
The Testament of Ann Lee
2. Tessa Thompson in Hedda; 3. Kathleen Chalfant in Familiar Touch; 4. Emma Mackey in Ella McCay; 5. Ma Shih-Yuan in Left-Handed Girl
You are not prepared for the power held in such a small frame. When she marches into that church and declares herself the Second Coming, when she speaks in tongues to a panel of judges and magistrates, when she squares off against cussing sailors and slave traders...or, just as impressively, when she calmly addresses her congregation with a beatific smile, tells a child that she is both their Mother and their mother's Mother, or simply dismisses any suggestion that she keep a lower profile - in these moments of strength both loudly proclaimed and quietly reinforced, Seyfried's gestures, posture, face, voice, they all make you a believer, if not a convert. That is to say, you get why people would follow this woman. To say nothing of the power of her voice and body in musical numbers, whether it's leading worship at home or on a ship, or having her own private epiphanies of "Hunger and Thirst." It's the performance that makes the case for Seyfried as among the best of her generation.
Best Motion Picture of the Year
The Testament of Ann Lee
Brady Corbet / Mona Fastvold / Andrew Morrison, producers
2. The Secret Agent; 3. Sinners; 4. Highest 2 Lowest; 5. Familiar Touch
6. Hedda; 7. Ella McCay; 8. Eephus; 9. Blue Moon; 10. Song Sung Blue
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