And the Runner-Up Is

BEST PICTURE One Battle After Another BEST ACTOR Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier BEST DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another BEST ACTRESS Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson

Here are your winners for the above-the-line categories of 2025!

And here's the full chart of your votes through the preferential ballot simulator!

Fun fact: I've been conducting these preferential ballots since 2021, and this is the earliest a film has hit the magic number to clinch the win!

After hitting the magic number...

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is your Best Picture winner!

ROUND 7

One Battle After Another – 160
Sinners – 77
Sentimental Value – 40
The Secret Agent – 38

Hamnet eliminated; ballots redistributed as follows:

Sinners +10
Sentimental Value +8
One Battle After Another +7
The Secret Agent +4

ROUND 6

One Battle After Another – 153
Sinners – 67
The Secret Agent – 34
Sentimental Value – 32
Hamnet – 29

Marty Supreme eliminated; ballots redistributed as follows:

One Battle After Another +8
The Secret Agent +5
Sentimental Value +3
Sinners +3
Hamnet +2

ROUND 5

One Battle After Another – 145
Sinners – 64
Sentimental Value – 29
The Secret Agent – 29
Hamnet – 27
Marty Supreme – 21

Train Dreams eliminated; ballots redistributed as follows:

Hamnet +3
The Secret Agent +3
Sinners +3
Marty Supreme +2
Sentimental Value +2
One Battle After Another +1

ROUND 4

One Battle After Another – 144
Sinners – 61
Sentimental Value – 27
The Secret Agent – 26
Hamnet – 24
Marty Supreme – 19
Train Dreams – 14

Bugonia eliminated; ballots redistributed as follows:

Sentimental Value +3
Marty Supreme +2
One Battle After Another +2
Hamnet +1
Train Dreams +1

ROUND 3

One Battle After Another – 142
Sinners – 61
The Secret Agent – 26
Sentimental Value – 24
Hamnet – 23
Marty Supreme – 17
Train Dreams – 13
Bugonia – 9

Frankenstein eliminated; ballots redistributed as follows:

One Battle After Another +4
Sinners +2
Sentimental Value +1

ROUND 2

One Battle After Another – 138
Sinners – 59
The Secret Agent – 26
Hamnet – 23
Sentimental Value – 23
Marty Supreme – 17
Train Dreams – 13
Bugonia – 9
Frankenstein – 7

F1 eliminated; no ballots redistributed

Here are the raw No. 1 votes for each film:

One Battle After Another – 138
Sinners – 59
The Secret Agent – 26
Hamnet – 23
Sentimental Value – 23
Marty Supreme – 17
Train Dreams – 13
Bugonia – 9
Frankenstein – 7
F1 – 0

Now for the fun part. It's time to reveal the results of the preferential ballot!

And I'll show you exactly how it played out in this thread!

315 total ballots; 159 is the magic number

Thanks for following, everyone!

Now follow along in a new thread as I unveil the preferential ballot voting for Best Picture!

And the winner is…

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER – 2,523 points!

2. SINNERS – 2,195 points

3. SENTIMENTAL VALUE – 1,917 points

4. MARTY SUPREME – 1,873 points

5. HAMNET – 1,752 points

6. THE SECRET AGENT – 1,595 points

7. BUGONIA – 1,376 points

8. TRAIN DREAMS – 1,327 points

9. FRANKENSTEIN – 1,062 points

10. F1 – 633 points

And now, your results for Best Picture.

(I'll be revealing the preferential ballot results in a different thread)

1. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT