The 2025-26 Awards Season Thread

[ilovepaydays]

Deadline - 2025-26 Awards Season Schedule

This Friday at 11:00am ET, we’ll be kicking off with the 2026 Grammy Awards nominations. Here’s the Youtube link to the live stream.

 

[ilovepaydays]

This Friday at 11:00am ET, we’ll be kicking off with the 2026 Grammy Awards nominations. Here’s the Youtube link to the live stream.

Here’s the full list of Grammy nominees.



Good lord, the fields for Record, Album, and Song of the Year are loaded!

The Grammy Awards will be on February 1 on CBS & Paramount+.

 

[ilovepaydays]

ICYMI - The Academy’s 16th Governors Awards were last night. Tom Cruise now has an Honorary Oscar.

He still probably should have won Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for Magnolia. Did Michael Caine REALLY need a second Oscar….for The Cider House Rules?

 

[once_upon]

Well that's unfortunate choice (not Caine, but Cruise )

 

[ilovepaydays]

And…….we now have The Critics Choice Shortlists for the below the line categories!

This is potentially promising news for fans of Sinners, Frankenstein, and F1.

The Critics Choice Awards nominations will be announced on December 5. The Golden Globes Awards nominations will be announced on December 8.

 

[ilovepaydays]

And…….we now have The Critics Choice Shortlists for the below the line categories!

This is potentially promising news for fans of Sinners, Frankenstein, and F1.

The Critics Choice Awards nominations will be announced on December 5. The Golden Globes Awards nominations will be announced on December 8.

The Critics Choice Awards nominations livestream will be at noon ET. Here is the YouTube link.

 

[ilovepaydays]

The Critics Choice Awards nominations livestream will be at noon ET. Here is the YouTube link.

Here’s the full nominations list.

Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, and Train Dreams did better than I thought that they would.

WHOA! Erivo snubbed!

The Critics Choice Awards will be hosted by Chelsea Handler and will air on E! and USA Network on Sunday, January 4, 2026.

 

[Tesla]

WHOA! Erivo snubbed!

 

[ilovepaydays]

That was a shock.

I also just realized that Avatar: Fire and Ash got basically ignored. Was it not screened anywhere? And the critics apparently forgot that Sentimental Value is a foreign language film.

The Golden Globe nominations will be announced on Monday.

 

[ilovepaydays]

Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall will be announcing the nominations for the 83rd Annual Golden Globes on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025 at 8:15 a.m. ET/5:15 a.m. PT.

Here is the link to the YouTube stream for CBS News.

 

[ilovepaydays]

Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall will be announcing the nominations for the 83rd Annual Golden Globes on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025 at 8:15 a.m. ET/5:15 a.m. PT.

Here is the link to the YouTube stream for CBS News.

And here are the nominations.

Is Wicked: For Good cooked?

 

[Tesla]

And here are the nominations.

Is Wicked: For Good cooked?

At least Cynthia Erivo was nominated.

 

[ilovepaydays]

At least Cynthia Erivo was nominated.

I’m still nervous for her getting the Oscar nomination. GG has dramas and comedies/musicals broken apart and there’s six slots.

 

[ilovepaydays]

And here are the nominations.

Is Wicked: For Good cooked?

Now that I’ve had rest of the day to think about these nominations……some more thoughts:

• Marty Supreme underperformed. It really needed to also get nominated for Director (Josh Safdie) and Score (Daniel Lopatin).
• I guess Pluribus is a good show?
• The Comedy TV categories are kind of a snooze fest right now.
• The Best Podcast category is stupid, IMHO. But LOL that New Heights & the Kelce brothers didn’t get nominated.
• Frankenstein and Train Dreams are on a roll!
• If you’re from outside the U.S., you need Neon to pick up your film!
• We might end up with the most international field ever for Best Picture at the Oscars! And it’ll be totally deserved!
• I think that Wicked: For Good and Jay Kelly are in trouble.
• The Testament of Ann Lee is likely toast.

 

[ilovepaydays]

Meanwhile, over at Chalamet Land, Timothée is talking like this.

This is probably my best performance, you know, and it’s been like seven, eight years that I’ve been handing in really, really committed top-of-the-line performances. And it’s important to say it out loud because the discipline and the work ethic I’m bringing to these things — I don’t want people to take it for granted. I don’t want to take it for granted. This is really some top-level $h!t.

Is Timmy not aware of the acting legends who haven’t won an Oscar?

Harrison Ford
Ralph Fiennes
Samuel L. Jackson
Peter O’Toole
Richard Burton
Michael Keaton
Liam Neeson
Willem Dafoe
Glenn Close
Bill Murray

If Leo (OBAA) ends up beating him and winning a second Best Actor Oscar (which many people think he should have already, anyway), I will laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

Sounds like a "pick me" sort of statement if he has to do all the self-affirming publicly. I thought his publicly flacks were already getting out the quotes supporting his "amazing and daring" performance.

 

[ilovepaydays]

Sounds like a "pick me" sort of statement if he has to do all the self-affirming publicly. I thought his publicly flacks were already getting out the quotes supporting his "amazing and daring" performance.

I’ve thought Bradley Cooper had been too desperate to win an Oscar. Timothée is starting to get worse. And he’s apparently refusing to do anything in television ever again.

I’ll admit this: I still don’t understand this relationship with Kylie Jenner.

 

[jenny12]

Sounds like a "pick me" sort of statement if he has to do all the self-affirming publicly. I thought his publicly flacks were already getting out the quotes supporting his "amazing and daring" performance.

I found him amusing at first but he’s really gone too far. Bradley Cooper was down right meek compared to Timothee. He already has an amazing career and can get almost any role he wants. No need to be this desperate and entitled.

 

[vgerdes]

The thing about Timothee for me is, I don't think I've seen him in a movie I didn't like. He's picked some pretty good projects so far. He is my favorite younger actor even if I think he's a bit too full of himself as a person. And no, I don't get his relationship with Kylee either (Kris and Caitlyn Jenner as potential in-laws? Eeewwwww). But he does seem to have a type. His other serious relationships have been with Lourdes Leon and Lily-Rose Depp. While not identical, they do have a similar look.