2025 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Ballot

Career Achievement
(3) Sammo Hung
(2) Yuen Woo-ping
(1) Nathaniel Dorsky

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
(3) Afternoons of Solitude
(2) Henry Fonda for President
(1) 7 Walks With Mark Brown

Douglas Edwards Special Award
(3) Nathaniel Dorsky
(2) Thom Andersen
(1) Robert Beavers

Best Cinematography
(3) Grand Tour
(2) Resurrection
(1) Sirāt

Best Music/Score
(3) Sirāt
(2) The Mastermind
(1) The Smashing Machine

Best Production Design
(3) Resurrection
(2) Grand Tour
(1) The Shrouds

Best Editing
(3) Caught by the Tides
(2) Marty Supreme
(1) My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow

Best Animation
(3) The Colors Within
(2) Scarlet
(1) Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Best Lead Performance
(5) Zhao Tao, Caught by the Tides
(4) Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
(3) Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
(2) Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague
(1) Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Best Supporting Performance
(5) Jacques Develay, Misericordia
(4) Michael Cera, The Phoenician Scheme
(3) Andrew Scott, Blue Moon
(2) Diane Kruger, The Shrouds
(1) Tom Waits, Father Mother Sister Brother

Best Screenplay
(3) Blue Moon
(2) By the Stream
(1) It Was Just an Accident

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
(3) Henry Fonda for President
(2) My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow
(1) 7 Walks With Mark Brown

Best Director
(3) Óliver Laxe, Sirāt
(2) Bi Gan, Resurrection
(1) Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

Best Picture
(3) Sirāt
(2) Caught by the Tides
(1) Grand Tour

Best Film Not in the English Language
(3) Sirāt
(2) Caught by the Tides
(1) Grand Tour

New Generation
(3) Philippe Lesage, Who by Fire
(2) Carson Lund, Eephus
(1) Sora Neo, Happyend