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Best Picture Power Rankings from
the October 31, 2025 Big Picture Podcast

1. ✔ One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet - 12/12/2025
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value - 11/07/2025
5. Frankstein - Netflix: 11/07/2025
6. Wicked for Good - 11/21/2025
7. Marty Supreme - 12/31/2025
8. It Was Just An Accident - 10/15/2025
9. Jay Kelly - Netflix: 12/05/2025
10. ✔ Bugonia


Best Picture Power Rankings from
the October 3, 2025 Big Picture Podcast

1. ✔ One Battle After Another
2. Hamnet - 12/12/2025
3. Sinners
4. Sentimental Value - 11/07/2025
5. Jay Kelly - Netflix: 12/05/2025
6. Marty Supreme - 12/31/2025
7. ✔ Bugonia
8. House of Dynamite - Netflix: 10/24/2025
9. Frankstein - Netflix: 11/07/2025
10. Wicked for Good - 11/21/2025


Best Picture Power Rankings from
the September 3, 2025 Big Picture Podcast
1. Sentimental Value
2. Hamnet
3. House of Dynamite
4. Marty Supreme
5. No Other Choice
6. It Was Just An Accident
7. ✔ One Battle After Another
8. Sinners
9. Wicked for Good
10. Jay Kelly

Gold Derby predictions as of July 18, 2024

The current Goldderby Predictions are here.

Best Picture
1. Sinners
2. Sentimental Value
3. Wicked For Good
4. ✔ One Battle After Another
5. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
6. Avatar: Fire and Ash
7. ✔ Bugonia
8. Jay Kelly
9. It Was Just an Accident
10. Marty Supreme

Best Actress
1. Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value
2. Cynthia Erivo - Wicked: For Good
3. Jessie Buckley - Hamnet
4. Julia Roberts - After the Hunt
5. Jennifer Lawrence - Die, My Love
6. ✔ Emma Stone - Bugonia

Best Actor
1. Jeremy Allen White - Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
2. Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
3. Timothee Chalamet - Marty Supreme
4. ✔ Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
5. George Clooney - Jay Kelly
6. ✔ Jesse Plemons - Bugonia
7. Colin Farrell - The Ballad of a Small Player

Best Supporting Actress
1. Ariana Grande - Wicked: For Good
2. Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value
3. ✔ Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another
4. Wunmi Mosaku - Sinners
5. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actor
1. Stellan Skarsgard - Sentimental Value
2. Jeremy Strong - Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
3. Delroy Lindo - Sinners
4. ✔ Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
5. Adam Sandler - Jay Kelly
6. Mark Hamill - The Life of Chuck
7. Andrew Garfield - After the Hunt

Best Director
1. Ryan Coogler - Sinners
2. Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value
3. Jafar Panahi - It Was Just an Accident
4. ✔ Yorgos Lanthimos - Bugonia
5. ✔ Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
6. Chloe Zhao - Hamnet
7. Josh Safdie - Marty Supreme
8. Jon M. Chu - Wicked: For Good
9. James Cameron - Avatar: Fire and Ash
10. Noah Baumbach - Jay Kelly

Adapted screenplay
1. ✔ One Battle After Another
2. ✔ Bugonia
3. Wake Up Dead Man
4. Hamnet
5. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Best original screenplay
1. Sinners
2. Sentimental Value
3. Jay Kelly
4. It Was Just an Accident
5. Marty Supreme
6. After the Hunt