Tuesday, March 31, 2026

2025 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

  • F1 (Jerry Bruckheimer, Joseph Kosinski, Lewis Hamilton, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner & Brad Pitt)
  • Hamnet (Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Sam Mendes & Steven Spielberg)
  • One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Somner & Sara Murphy)
  • Sentimental Value (Maria Ekerhovd & Andrea Berentsen Ottmar)
  • Train Dreams (Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz & Michael Heimler)
Best Director
  • Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
  • Clint Bentley - Train Dreams
  • Guillermo del Toro - Frankenstein
  • Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value
  • Chloé Zhao - Hamnet

Best Lead Actor

  • Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
  • Joel Edgerton - Train Dreams
  • Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
  • Josh O'Connor - The Mastermind

Best Lead Actress

  • Jessie Buckley - Hamnet
  • Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You
  • Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value
  • Amanda Seyfried - The Testament of Ann Lee
  • Emma Stone - Bugonia

Best Supporting Actor

  • Benicio del Toro - One Battle After Another
  • Paul Mescal - Hamnet
  • Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
  • Adam Sandler - Jay Kelly
  • Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

  • Kirsten Dunst - Roofman
  • Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value
  • Ariana Grande - Wicked: For Good
  • Gwyneth Paltrow - Marty Supreme
  • Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another

Best Original Screenplay

  • Black Bag (David Koepp)
  • Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach & Emily Mortimer)
  • Marty Supreme (Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie)
  • Roofman (Derek Cianfrance & Kirt Ginn)
  • Sentimental Value (Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier)

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell; based on the novel by O'Farrell)
  • One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson; based on the novel "Vineland" by Thomas Pynchon)
  • Train Dreams (Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar; based on the novella by Denis Johnson)
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson; based on the character Benoit Blanc created by Johnson)
  • Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush; based on the characters created by Bush, Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jim Reardon, Josie Trinidad, Phil Johnston & Jennifer Lee)

Best Cast Ensemble

  • Black Bag [Carmen Cuba, casting director] (Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page, Gustaf Skarsgård & Pierce Brosnan, et. al.)
  • Jay Kelly [Douglas Aibel & Nina Gold, casting directors] (George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Grace Edwards, Jim Broadbent, Patrick Wilson, Eve Hewson & Stacy Keach, et. al.)
  • Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning [Mindy Marin, casting director] (Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Hannah Waddingham, Tramell Tillman, Nick Offerman & Angela Bassett, et. al.)
  • One Battle After Another [Cassandra Kulukundis, casting director] (Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Chase Infiniti, Wood Harris, Alana Heim, Shayna McHayle, Tony Goldwyn & Teyana Taylor, et. al.)
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery [Bret Howe & Mary Vernieu, casting directors] (Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Mila Kunis, Josh Brolin, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Thomas Haden Church & Glenn Close, et. al.)

Best Young Actor (21 or Under)

  • Miles Caton - Sinners
  • Christian Convery - Frankenstein
  • Shannon Mahina Gorman - Rental Family
  • Jacobi Jupe - Hamnet
  • Mason Thames - How To Train Your Dragon

Best Foreign Language Film

  • It Was Just An Accident [France] (Jahar Panahi)
  • Left-Handed Girl [Taiwan] (Shih-Ching Tsou)
  • No Other Choice [South Korea] (Park Chan-wook)
  • Nouvelle Vague [France] (Richard Linklater)
  • Sentimental Value [Norway] (Joachim Trier)

Best Documentary Feature

  • 2000 Meters to Andriivka (Mstylav Chernov, Raney Aronson-Rath & Michelle Mizner)
  • The Alabama Solution (Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, Alex Duran & Beth Shelburne)
  • Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus, Yoni Golijov & Olivia Streisand)
  • Orwell: 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck, George Chignell, Alex Gibney & Nick Shumaker)
  • The Perfect Neighbor (Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne & Sam Bisbee)

Best Original Score

  • F1 (Hans Zimmer)
  • Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat)
  • Hamnet (Max Richter)
  • One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood)
  • Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

Best Original Song

  • "Drive" - F1 (Ed Sheeran, Blake Slatkin & John Mayer)
  • "The Girl in the Bubble" - Wicked: For Good (Stephen Schwartz)
  • "I Lied to You" - Sinners (Ludwig Göransson & Raphael Saadiq)
  • "No Place Like Home" - Wicked: For Good (Stephen Schwartz)
  • "Train Dreams" - Train Dreams (Nick Cave & Bryce Dessner)

Best Sound Design

  • Avatar: Fire and Ash (Brent Burge, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Julian Howarth, Michael Hedges & Gary Summers)
  • F1 (Al Nelson, Gareth John, Juan Peralta & Gary A. Rizzo)
  • Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (James H. Mather, Chris Munro, Mark Taylor & Lloyd Dudley)
  • Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (Eric A. Norris, David Giammarco, Paul Massey & Tod A. Maitland)
  • Wicked: For Good (Nancy Nugent Title, John Marquis, Andy Nelson & Simon Hayes)

Best Animated Feature

  • The Bad Guys 2 (Pierre Perifel & Damon Ross)
  • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (Peter Browngardt, Alex Kirwan & Sam Register)
  • Elio (Adrian Molina, Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian & Mary Alice Drumm)
  • Little Amélie or The Character of Rain (Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Henri Magalon & Nidia Santiago)
  • Zootopia 2 (Jared Bush, Byron Howard & Yvett Merino)

Best Voice-Over Performance

  • Eric Bauza - The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
  • Danielle Brooks - The Bad Guys 2
  • Ginnifer Goodwin - Zootopia 2
  • Will Patton - Train Dreams
  • Ke Huy Quan - Zootopia 2

Best Cinematography

  • F1 (Claudio Miranda)
  • Frankenstein (Dan Lautsen)
  • Hamnet (Łukasz Żal)
  • One Battle After Another (Michael Bauman)
  • Sinners (Autumn Durald Arkapaw)
  • Train Dreams (Adolpho Zeloso)

Best Film Editing

  • F1 (Stephen Mirrione)
  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao & Affonso Gonçalves)
  • A House of Dynamite (Kirk Baxter)
  • Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning (Eddie Hamilton)
  • One Battle After Another (Andy Jurgensen)

Best Production Design

  • Frankenstein (Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau)
  • Hamnet (Fiona Crombie & Alice Felton)
  • One Battle After Another (Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino)
  • The Phoenician Scheme (Adam Stockhausen & Anna Pinnock)
  • Wicked: For Good (Nathan Crowley & Lee Sandales)

Best Costume Design

  • Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (Anna Robbins)
  • Frankenstein (Kate Hawley)
  • Hamnet (Malgosia Turzanska)
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Jenny Eagan)
  • Wicked: For Good (Paul Tazewell)

Best Makeup and Hair

  • 28 Years Later (Flora Moody & John Nolan)
  • Frankenstein (Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel & Cliona Furey)
  • Sinners (Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine & Shunika Terry)
  • The Smashing Machine (Kazu Hiro, Felix Fox & Mia Neal)
  • Wicked: For Good (Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier & Laura Blount)

Best Visual Effects

  • Avatar: Fire and Ash (Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon & Daniel Barrett)
  • F1 (Ryan Tudhope, Nikeah Forde, Robert Harrington & Eric Leven) 
  • How To Train Your Dragon (Christian Manz, Glen McIntosh, Andy Kind & Terry Palmer)
  • Jurassic World Rebirth (David Vickery, Simone Coco, Andrew Roberts & Neil Corbould)
  • Superman (Stéphane Ceretti, Enrico Damm, Stéphane Nazé & Guy Williams)

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