2025 Clapper Staff Awards Nominations

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For the fifth year in a row, the Clapper staff have come together to vote in nominees for 9 different categories, celebrating the best of film in 2024! Each staff member was allowed to pick 5 nominees on a ranked ballot with the final nominees being the top 5 with the total combined scores. If there is a category with more than 5 nominees, that means there was a tie in points. Winners will be announced on January 15th!

Best Supporting Actor:

- Adam Pearson (A Different Man)

- Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw the TV Glow)

- Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)

- Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)

- Nicholas Hoult (The Order)

Best Supporting Actress:

- Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson)

- Joan Chen (Dìdi)

- Margaret Qualley (The Substance)

- Olivia Colman (Wicked Little Letters)

- Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door)

Best Actor:

- Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)

- Daniel Craig (Queer)

- Jesse Plemons (Kinds of Kindness)

- Justice Smith (I Saw the TV Glow)

- Nicholas Hoult (Juror #2)

Best Actress:

- Demi Moore (The Substance)

- Ilinca Manolache (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World)

- Lily Rose-Depp (Nosferatu)

- Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths)

- Mikey Madison (Anora)

Best Ensemble Cast:

- Conclave

- It’s What’s Inside

- Megalopolis

- Nosferatu

- The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Original Screenplay:

- Anora

- The Brutalist

- Challengers

- I Saw the TV Glow

- Memoir of a Snail

- The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay:

- Conclave

- Nosferatu

- The Order

- Queer

- The Room Next Door

Best Director:

- Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

- George Miller (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga)

- Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow)

- Luca Guadagnino (Challengers)

- Sean Baker (Anora)

Best Picture:

- Anora

- Challengers

- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

- I Saw the TV Glow

- The Substance

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