Directors Guild Awards 2025 Winners - The Complete List

The winners of the 77th annual DGA Awards have been announced in a ceremony hosted by Judd Apatow that took place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Sean Baker won top honors for his film "Anora", solidifying his position as the front-runner for Best Director at the Academy Awards. RaMell Ross won the Michael Apted First-Time Theatrical Feature Film prize for "Nickel Boys".

In the television categories, FX's "Shōgun" took home the Dramatic Series trophy for director Frederick E.O. Toye for the "Crimson Sky" episode. Lucia Aniello took the Comedy series award for "Hacks" ("Bulletproof" episode), while in the Limited Series race Steven Zaillian won for Netflix's "Ripley.".

Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain", "Life of Pie", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") received the guild's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Read the complete list of 2025 DGA Awards winners after the jump:

Oscar Nominations 2025 - The Complete List

The 2025 Academy Awards nominations were revealed on Thursday after voting had been extended twice because of the wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles. The musical "Emilia Pérez" leads with 13 nominations, followed closely behind by the historical epic "The Brutalist" and the box office hit "Wicked" with 10 nods apiece. Meanwhile, the Vatican thriller "Conclave" and the Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" each scored eight nominations. All five previously mentioned films are also contenders in the Best Picture category alongside "The Substance", "Anora", "Nickel Boys", "Dune: Part Two" and "I'm Still Here".

The awards ceremony will be hosted by Conan O'Brien and will be held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2nd. The Oscars will air on ABC, but for the first time, it will also be available to stream live on Hulu. It was also announced that the March telecast will "acknowledge those who fought so bravely against the wildfires".

Read the complete list of 2025 Oscar nominations after the jump.

Writers Guild Awards 2025 Nominations - The Complete List

The nominees for the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards have been revealed, and among the feature films nominated for top honors are "Anora", "Challengers", "A Complete Unknown", "Nickel Boys", "Civil War", "Dune: Part Two" and "Wicked".

Due to the WGA's eligibility rules, films like "Conclave", "Emilia Pérez", "I'm Still Here", "Inside Out 2", "The Room Next Door", "Sing Sing" and "The Wild Robot" were ruled out in the Adapted race, while in the Original Screenplay category, films like "A Different Man", "The Brutalist", "His Three Daughters", "The Substance" and "Hard Truths" were deemed ineligible.

For television, the top contenders include "The Bear", "Abbott Elementary", "Hacks", "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "What We Do in the Shadows" for the Comedy categories, while "The Boys", "The Diplomat", "Fallout", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", "Fallout" and "Shōgun" will compete for Drama trophies.

The winners will be announced on February 15th during concurrent ceremonies in New York at the Edison Ballroom and Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Read the complete list of 2025 WGA nominations after the jump.

NICKEL BOYS (2024) - Trailers, Images and Posters

"Nickel Boys" is a drama directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross (documentary "Hale County This Morning, This Evening") from a script he co-wrote alongside Joslyn Barnes ("Harvest") based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead. The cast features Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. The film opened in select theaters on December 14, 2024.

Find out more about the movie after the jump.

New Soundtracks: NICKEL BOYS (Alex Somers & Scott Alario)

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Composer:
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Total Time:
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Release Date
December 6, 2024




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Spirit Awards Nominations 2025 - The Complete List

The 40th edition of the Film Independent Spirit Awards revealed its 2025 nominations. The Best Feature line-up includes Cannes Palme d'Or winner "Anora", A24's "I Saw the TV Glow", Amazon MGM Studios' "Nickel Boys", A24's "Sing Sing" and Mubi's horror movie "The Substance". "Anora" and "I Saw the TV Glow" are tied with the most nominations, six apiece.

"Anora" is also nominated for Best Lead Performance (Mikey Madison), twice for Best Supporting Performance (Yuri Borisov and Karren Karagulian), Best Director (Sean Baker), and the Producers Award. Once again, A24 leads with 19 nominations this year (11 last year), while Netflix only scored 9 nods.

The Independent Spirit Awards will take place on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 at the Santa Monica beach. Saturday Night Live alum Aidy Bryant will once again host, and the in-person ceremony will stream live on IMDb, Film Independent YouTube channels, and across other social platforms.

Read the complete list of 2025 Sprit Awards nominations after the jump.

New Trailers: HOLD YOUR BREATH, SATURDAY NIGHT, WOLF MAN, NICKEL BOYS, WILL & HARPER and HARD TRUTHS

Today we have new trailers for:

• The horror film "Hold Your Breath" starring Emmy Award-winning actress Sarah Paulson ("The People v. O.J. Simpson"). The film is directed by filmmaking duo Karrie Crouse and William Joines in their feature directorial debut.
• Jason Reitman's historical dramedy "Saturday Night" starring Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Dylan O'Brien, Emily Fairn, Matt Wood, Lamorne Morris, Kim Matula, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Cooper Hoffman, Andrew Barth Feldman, Kaia Gerber, Tommy Dewey, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Rhys and J.K. Simmons.
• The horror film "Wolf Man" starring Christopher Abbott ("Poor Things") and Julia Garner ("Ozark"). The film is produced by Jason Blum and directed by Leigh Whannell ("The Invisible Man").
• The drama "Nickel Boys" based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead. The film is directed by filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross (the 2018 Oscar-nominated documentary "Hale County This Morning, This Evening"), and it stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
• The road-trip documentary "Will & Harper" starring Will Ferrell and his longtime friend, former SNL head writer Harper Steele
• Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh's new film "Hard Truths" starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste.

Watch all the new trailers after the jump.