My 2025 Skandies ballot

Title of the post pretty much says it all, and the photo is my favorite film of the year, with my favorite Supporting Male performance in the foreground. These were my votes for the Skandies, an annual film-critic poll in which I've participated since the late 1990s. You vore for your top 10 in eight categories, seven of them following the Oscar categories (though there is only one Screenplay category for both original and adapted), with the eighth being Best Scene of the year. I've left off the points for now, but will add them in a few days when the final results are unveiled and it becomes public information, but these picks are in 1-10 order.

SCENE "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent", Live Action Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2025 Walking in on his routine, Is This Thing On? Japanese newsreel, Marty Supreme Racial shooting at the camp, Train Dreams Final sequence, The Mastermind Snowman, The Naked Gun Besties brawl, Splitsville Papillon Nuit at the casino, Reflection in a Dead Diamond Rock (blues, jazz, hip-hop) of ages, Sinners Stopping for gas, The Secret Agent