Last night the Academy had their awards ceremony and Nouvelle Vague leads with 4 awards followed by L'Attachement with 3 and with 2 awards each L'inconnu de la grande arche, Nino, Arcon and Le Chant des forêts.
Last night was the awards ceremony which was full with very awkward moments by the ceremony host that wasn't prepared to what all of us knew will come with winners acceptance speeches. Yes there were mentions of what's happening in Palestine -which was the topic above cinema during the totality of the festival-, but there were also some mentions about Ukraine and what's happening in the USA.
I do believe that what differentiates Berlinale from Cannes and Venice is that Berlinale has always been a platform to spoke about world politics, sometimes with controversial movies and other times with the voices of filmmakers and their personal political view. It is the essence of this festival and it is imprint in its DNA. If organizers change it, the festival will change and most likely become one more of the many second-tier film festivals in the world. Sigh.
Update February 21. Last night organizers had their award ceremony and undoubtedly the best part was Céline Sciamma's acceptance speech as no matter all the political turmoil the festival had this year, she had the courage to speak her mind up and touch every political aspect the Berlinale has been always about as it is (or was?) part of its essence and differentiate point from other festivals. Brava!!!
Winners are below marked *BLUE. Decided to include the films that got a mention as nominated films, meaning there where 3 films in each category and jury selected one of them. Other awards give a money prize to nominated films but this one did not. Nominations are in *GREEN.
To check winners at official site go here.
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February 17, 2026
As festival is about to start and no changes have been made in the last days, today February 10, decided to make this post final.
A few days back the ADG announced the nominations for the 30th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, celebrating excellence in production design across theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films.
Dina Lipton, President of the Art Directors Guild says "As we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Excellence in Production Design Awards, we celebrate not just the outstanding achievements of the past year, but also three decades of visionary artistry that have defined the visual storytelling of film and television. This milestone honors the Art Directors, Illustrators, Storyboard Artists, Set Designers, Scenic and Graphic Artists and all of the creative minds who work in the art department and continue tocaptivate and inspire audiences worldwide".
Yesterday, January 27, the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) announced the nominations for outstanding achievement in writing during 2025 for film, television, streaming, news (broadcast and digital), radio/audio, and promotional categories.
As always have to recall guild rules require writers to be a guild member or under a WGA collective bargaining agreement as otherwise script becomes ineligible; that's the reason why this year screenplays for Oscar contenders Sentimental Value, Blue Moon and It Was Just an Accident were left out and the open spots were filled by Black Bag and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.
Quite different story for the adapted category as WGA's nominees exactly mirrors #Oscars2026 nominations and is almost equal to the USC's Scripter nominees as Bugonia is nor in Scripter list and Ira Sachs' Peter Hujar's Day fills the spot.
Update February 28. Last night the group had their awards ceremony and editors did not have to make a choice between the top two Oscars contenders as both got awards, Sinners in drama and One Battle After Another in comedy. Other award winners include The Perfect Neighbor in documentary and KPop Demon Hunters in animated feature.
Winners are below in *BLUE. To check winners in all categories go official site here but have to wait a while as list is not up at their site; meanwhile check this industry press article here.
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Yesterday, January 27, the American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced the nominations for the awards that recognize outstanding editing in eleven categories of film, television, documentaries and more.
Since 1951, American Cinema Editors has celebrated the best in television and feature film editing which makes them one of the longest-running awards shows in the entertainment industry.
Update February 22nd. Last night the organization had their awards ceremony and there was one truly surprising award winner! This award winner beat Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Michael B. Jordan, Ethan Hawke and Jesse Plemons!
Yes, the best Leading Actor award went to a fairly unknown newcomer, so new that also won the voted by the public Rising Star Award, Robert Aramayo! He no longer is unknown and will always be remembered for winning a BAFTA but mainly for who he beat! Great.
Media coverage can't help themselves and lost many words to discuss the swearing of John Davidson that could be heard in the two hour delay broadcast; but, he was an invited guest as he is the real man with Tourette Syndrome that Robert Aramayo portraits in I Swear by Kirk Jones. No doubt show and broadcast audiences had to become more aware of the uncontrollable illness. Sigh.
A few minuntes ago, Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman announced the nominations live from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills and surprise, there is a new record! Sinners sets the record for most nominations for a film! Previous record was 14 nominations shared by All about Eve (1950), Titatic (1997) and La La Land (2016).
Sinners with 16 nominations is followed by One Battle After Another with 13 and Sentimental Value, Frankenstein, and Marty Supreme with 9 nominations each. In the acting categories, 11 individuals are first-time nominees among them Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård, and Wagner Moura. These four individuals also conform a new record for non-English language performances, the previous record was three set in 1976.
The Secret Agent and Sentimental Value are the 12th and 13th non-English language films to be nominated for both International Feature Film and Best Picture in the same year. To date, Parasite is the only film to win both International Feature Film and Best Picture.
France continues to add to its record number of nominations for International Feature Film with its 40th nomination, for It Was Just an Accident. Italy is second with 30 nominations.
Yesterday, January 20th, the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) announced its nominees in seven categories for the current year awards honoring Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing.
The CAS Award nominees highlight the outstanding contributions of sound mixers, recognizing excellence in the specialized craft of sound mixing for both motion pictures and television.
Each year, accomplished CAS members—who possess extensive expertise in the art and science of sound—review hundreds of submissions to ensure the nominees represent the highest standards of achievement in cinematic sound.
This year the festival will run from February 12 to February 22 and the Program Press Conference is scheduled to be held on January 20, 2026 and will be available to watch from 10:45 CET on Berlinale live stream and live on YouTube.
Festival Director Tricia Tuttle gives an overview of the entire festival program. She will then present the films in the Competition and the Perspectives section together with the Co-Directors of Film Programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz. Press Conference video is at post bottom.
Last night at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin the awards ceremony took place and was visually arresting but still too-much talking in the wrong places and this time, talking wasn't by winners but presenters or voices in their own languages -okay, with subtitles that seems were not available inside the room as presenters kept making it obvious they didn't understood what the voice was saying. Sigh.
Another very confusing incident for me is that show was available on TV and there I was watching and no starting just the regular annoying award related pre-shows with non-interesting interviews ... so I fell asleep (LOL). When woke a few minutes later there was no show yet, so go check Internet and noticed that some awards were already known. To make story shorter, go to EFA stream and yes, the ceremony already started and were giviging the actors awards! Obviously, I stayed with the internet live stream until the end.
Update February 26 - Last night the society had their award ceremony and below are the winners in *BLUE.
Leading the group is Avatar: Fire and Ash with seven (7) awards followed by KPop Demon Hunters with 3 awards.
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Yesterday, January 13, the Visual Effects Society (VES) announced the nominations for the 2026 edition of the awards that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and in innovation in features, animation, television, commercials, games and new media, and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on Artists who bring this work to life.
Nominees were selected by VES members worldwide over the weekend via the Society’s Global Nomination Event, which hosted 46 in-person and 14 virtual judging panels. The 60 peer-led judging panels in seven worldwide regions – Asia, Europe, India, Oceania, and three in North America – show the Society’s global reach and engagement.
Avatar: Fire and Ash is this year’s most-nominated project with ten nominations, including in the key category of Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. Among animated contenders, there is a three-way tie for top nominations with KPop Demon Hunters, Elio and Zootopia 2 each receiving five nominations.
Yesterday, January 12, the Motion Picture Sound Editors announced the nominations for the current year awards and One Battle After Another and Sinners lead with 3 nominations.
Let's recall that nominees represent the work of the world's most talented sound artists and their contribution to the past year's most outstanding feature film, television, animation, and computer entertainment productions.
The MPSE Golden Reel Awards recognize outstanding achievement in sound editing in 24 categories encompassing feature films, television, animation, computer entertainment and student work; and covers the various areas of sound editing: Dialogue, ADR, Effects, Foley and Music.
The Career Achievement Award is presented to a person whose career has made a significant impact on the sound community through exemplary work, service, or leadership. Supervising Sound Editor Mark Mangini will receive the MPSE Career Achievement Award current year.
Yesterday, January 9, the PGA announced their award nominees for motion picture and television program categories.
Guild honorees this year are the following:
David O. Selznick Achievement Award to Amy Pascal
Milestone Award to Jason Blum
Norman Lear Achievement Award to Mara Brock Akil
Worth to notice that top honor, the Darryl F. Zanuck award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, is widely regarding as one of the strongest predictors of Oscar succes as has historically correlated closely with the Best Picture Oscar winner, with 17 of the previous 22 winners going to also win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
A few minutes ago BAFTA released the annual film awards longlists that are not that long but have the films that advance to the next round of voting to define the nominees in each category. A total of 221 films were submitted for consideration.
My biggest surprise is not finding Guillermo Del Toro in the director longlist of 10, what happened? Probably the awards requirement of 5 male and 5 female nominees for the 10 in longlist has something to do; but, still believe that Guillermo Del Toro skill with Frankenstein is above Yorgos Lanthimos with Bugonia, for example.
Round Two voting opens today, Friday, January 9th and will close on Tuesday, January 20th at 18:00GMT. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 27th at 12:00 GMT via global livestream and the awards ceremony hosted by Alan Cumming on Sunday, February 22nd.
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