Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another led the nominations for the 2025 Astra Film Awards with 11 nominations, earning nods for Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, Best Director for Anderson, and four supporting nominations for Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, Sean Penn, and Benicio del Toro.
Ryan White’s Come See Me in the Good Light leads the feature film nominations for the 19th Cinema Eye Honors with six nominations including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, Direction and Unforgettable Honors for Gibson and Falley.
Zodiac Killer Project, directed by Charlie Shackleton, explores an abandoned true crime documentary about the Zodiac Killer; and in the process, deconstructs the genre, examining the public intrigue and moral complexities of true crime.
Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery will open the 48th annual Denver Film Festival, taking place October 31 – November 9, 2025, with the lineup showcasing 136 feature-length films, documentaries and shorts.
The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) announced the complete lineup, for the 12th annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, taking place May 2-8 at the city’s historic Music Box Theatre.
Overlook Film Festival unveiled the first wave of the horror film lineup for its 2025 edition, taking place April 3 – April 6 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Prytania Theatres.
Atropia directed by Hailey Gates won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Other Grand Jury prizes went to Seeds for U.S. Documentary Competition, Cactus Pears won for World Cinema Dramatic Competition, and Cutting Through Rocks won for World Cinema Documentary Competition. The NEXT Innovator Award was given to Zodiac Killer Project directed by Charlie Shackleton.
The 2025 Sundance Film Festival, taking place from January 23–February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, unveiled the lineup of 87 feature films and six episodic projects.