Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Presenting the 2025 JEFFREYAWARD Nominees




You know the drill... and if you don't you should.

We're throwing our hat into the ring for another award season, presenting the Third JEFFREYAWARDS nominees.

 These will cover the best, funniest, scariest, most interesting, and in some cases worst, of 2024 in movies.

That said, let's get to it.

(UPDATE: WINNERS INCLUDED)

            

BEST LIVE ACTION MOVIE

Challengers

Conclave

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Hit Man

Hundreds of Beavers

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

The Substance

Wicked

 





BEST ANIMATED MOVIE

Flow

Inside Out 2

Look Back

Memoir of a Snail

Piece by Piece

Robot Dreams

That Christmas

Transformers One

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

 



BEST LEAD ACTOR

Eddie Murphy, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

Glen Powell, Hit Man

Jesse Plemons, Kinds of Kindness

Ralph Finnes, Conclave

Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool & Wolverine

 




BEST LEAD ACTRESS

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked

Daisy Ridley, Young Woman & The Sea

Demi Moore, The Substance

Mikey Madison, Anora

Zendaya, Challengers

 





BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Chris Hemsworth, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Denzel Washington, Gladiator 2

Hugh Jackman, Deadpool & Wolverine

Javier Bardem, Dune Part Two

Tom Hardy, The Bikeriders

 

      

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Adriana Arjona, Hit Man

Ariana Grande, Wicked

Emma Corrin, Deadpool & Wolverine

Margaret Qualley, The Substance

Zendaya, Dune Part Two

 



BEST VOICE ACTOR

Ben Whitehead, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Kevin Durand, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Pedro Pascal, The Wild Robot

Peter Dinklage, Wicked

Steve Carell, Despicable Me 4

 




BEST VOICE ACTRESS

Amy Poehler, Inside Out 2

Lupita Nyong'o, The Wild Robot

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, IF

Sarah Snook, Memoir of a Snail

Scarlett Johansson, Transformers One

 




BEST COMEDY

Anora

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

Deadpool & Wolverine

Didi

The Fall Guy

Hit Man

Hundreds of Beavers

Kinds of Kindness

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Three More

 



BEST ACTION SEQUENCES

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

The Beekeeper

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part Two

The Fall Guy

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Gladiator 2

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Monkey Man

 



BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE

Deadpool & Wolverine

The Garfield Movie

Robot Dreams

 



THE MVBRAT AWARD: BEST HORROR MOVIE

Abigail

Alien: Romulus

The First Omen

I Saw the TV Glow

In a Violent Nature

Longlegs

MaXXXine

Nosferatu

A Quiet Place: Day One

The Substance

 





BEST SOUND

Challengers

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Wicked

 



BEST SCORE

Challengers

Dune Part Two

The Substance

Wicked

The Wild Robot

 



BEST SONG

"Double Life," Despicable Me 4 (Pharrell Williams)

"Harper & Will Go West," Will & Harper (Kristen Wiig)

"I Want You Forever," The Book of Clarence (Jeymes Samuel, D'Angelo, Jay-Z)

"Kiss the Sky," The Wild Robot (Maren Morris)

"Piece by Piece," Piece by Piece (Pharrell Williams)

 




BEST SET DESIGN

Dune Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Gladiator 2

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

 





BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Gladiator 2

Wicked

 



BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part Two

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Twisters

 



BEST MAKEUP

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part Two

The Substance

Wicked

 



BEST ENSEMBLE

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune Part Two

Inside Out 2

Piece by Piece

Wicked

 



BEST PERFORMANCE IN A BAD MOVIE

Hugh Grant, Unfrosted

Kevin Conroy, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Part 3

Kingsley Ben-Adir, Bob Marley: One Love

Peter Dinklage, The Thicket

Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez

 



CONGRATS 2 THE WINNERS & LOSERS

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