32nd annual cadet film awards 2025

top 10 films of 2025

1. One Battle After Another
2. Sirât
3. Predator: Badlands
4. Weapons
5. Sinners
6. The Voice of Hind Rajab
7. Hamnet
8. Sentimental Value
9. Marty Supreme
10. A House of Dynamite

best director
Chloe Zhao – Hamnet
Kathryn Bigelow – A House of Dynamite
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Dan Trachtenberg – Predator: Badlands
Oliver Laxe – Sirât
Kaouther Ben Hania – The Voice of Hind Rajab

best actor
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia
Russell Crowe – Nuremberg
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Timothee Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Dwayne Johnson – The Smashing Machine

best actress
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Tessa Thompson – Hedda
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another
Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
Saja Kilani – The Voice of Hind Rajab

best supporting actor 
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Paul Mescal – Hamnet
Gabriel Basso – A House of Dynamite
Stellan Skarsgard – Sentimental Value
Miles Caton – Sinners
Josh O’Connor – Wake Up Dead Man

best supporting actress
Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Zoe Winters – Materialists
Teyana Taylor – Once Battle After Another
Tania Maria – The Secret Agent
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan – Weapons

best casting
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sirât
Wake Up Dead Man
Weapons

best ensemble
One Battle After Another
Materialists
The Secret Agent
Sinners
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Wake Up Dead Man

best adapted screenplay
Bugonia
Hamnet
Hedda
One Battle After Another
Predator: Badlands
Wake Up Dead Man

best original screenplay
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Weapons

best film not in the english language
It Was Just an Accident – France
No Other Choice – South Korea
The Secret Agent – Brazil
Sentimental Value – Norway
Sirât – Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab – Tunisia

best animated film
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba
KPop Demon Hunters
Zootopia 2

best original score
Laura Karpman – Captain America: Brave New World
Volker Bertelmann – A House of Dynamite
Daniel Lopatin – Marty Supreme
Sarah Schancher & Benjamin Wallfisch – Predator: Badlands
Kangding Ray – Sirât
Nathan Johnson – Wake Up Dead Man

best original song or track (vocal or instrumental)
“Still Chasing” – Laura Karpman (Captain America: Brave New World)
“Golden” – EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Teddy, 24 & Ido (KPop Demon Hunters)
“Dek of the Yautja” – Sarah Schachner (Predator: Badlands)
“Found Family” – Alex Somers & Jónsi (Rental Family)
“I Lied to You” – Raphael Saadiq & Ludwig Göransson (Sinners)
“Sirât” – Kangding Ray (Sirât)

best cinematography
28 Years Later
One Battle After Another
Predator: Badlands
Sinners
Sirât
Train Dreams

best film editing
F1
A House of Dynamite
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Perfect Neighbor
Weapons

best production design
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Predator: Badlands
The Secret Agent
Wicked: For Good

best costume design
Frankenstein
Hedda
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Secret Agent
Sinners
The Testament of Ann Lee

best makeup and hairstyling
Kokuho
Predator: Badlands
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister
Wicked: For Good
Weapons

best sound
28 Days Later
Anemone
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Sinners
Sirât
Wicked: For Good

best visual effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Black Phone 2
The Lost Bus
Jurassic World Rebirth
Predator: Badlands
Sinners

best documentary
Children No More
Mr Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

best feature directorial debut
Scarlett Johansson – Eleanor the Great
Eva Victor – Sorry Baby
Michael Shanks – Together

best breakthrough performer
Oona Chaplin – Avatar: Fire and Ash
Madeleine McGraw – Black Phone 2
Jacobi Jupe – Hamnet
Odessa A’zion – Marty Supreme
Miles Caton – Sinners
Saja Kilani – The Voice of Hind Rajab

best australian film
Together

best poster
Bugonia
The Conjuring: Last Rites
Eddington
Sirât
Together
Wake Up Dead Man

best scene
The play’s final moments – Hamnet
The ending – It Was Just an Accident
The chase – One Battle After Another
I Lied to You – Sinners
The bathroom – Together
The phone call – Wake Up Dead Man

Please note that eligibility periods and category placements may not be 100% accurate, and is in the sole discretion of the writer to do as he wishes. Thanks.