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The Bloomies for 2025

English Language Films
Foreign Language Films

Hamnet (C. Zhao)
*Death By Lightning (M. Ross)
The Life of Chuck (M. Flanagan)
One Battle After Another (P.T. Anderson)
Blue Moon (R. Linklater)
The Testament Of Ann Lee (M. Fastvold)
*Adolescence (P. Barantini)
Lee (E. Kuras)
Bugonia (Y. Lanthimos)
Song Sung Blue (C. Brewer)
Train Dreams (C. Bentley)
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (S. Cooper)
Truth & Treason (M. Whitaker)
History of Sound (O. Hermanus)
Nuremberg (J. Vanderbilt)
Frankenstein (G. Del Toro)
The Room Next Door (P. Almodóvar)
Eephus (C. Lund)

* TV Mini-Series in which all episodes have the same director and writer. Equivalent to a long movie.
** Copyright 2019. Widely available on 2025 DVD.

**The Painted Bird (V. Marhoul)
Sentimental Value (J. Trier)
I Was A Stranger (B. Andersen)
It Was Just An Accident (J. Panahi)
There’s Still Tomorrow (P. Cortellesi)
Sirāt (O. Laxe)
The Secret Agent (K.M. Filho)
The Girl With The Needle (M. Von Horn)
Goebbels And The Führer (J. Lang)


Best

English Language Film – Hamnet

Foreign Language Film –**The Painted Bird

Director –Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

Original Screenplay Robert Kaplow (Blue Moon)

Screenplay Adaptation – Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao (Hamnet)

Cinematography –Michael Bauman (One Battle After Another)

Film Editing – One Battle After Another

Original Music Score – Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)

Actor – Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon)

Others – Hugh Jackman (Song Sung Blue); Jeremy Allen White (Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere); Jesse Plemons (Bugonia); Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another); Russell Crowe (Nuremberg); Paul Mescal (The History of Sound, Hamnet); Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value); Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme); Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo (Sinners); Robert Stadlober (Goebbels and the Führer); Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent); Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams); Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

Actress – Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

Others –Amanda Seyfried (The Testament of Ann Lee); Kate Winslet (Lee); Emma Stone (Bugonia); Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue); Amy Madigan (Weapons); Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value); Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door); Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good); Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another); Juliette Gariepy (Red Rooms); Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl); June Squibb (Eleanor the Great); Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

 
 
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