I know what you’re wondering: why is there an article about car racing on GCR? First of all, why not? Secondly, no it’s not about Nascar. NAA is an abbreviation of Not An Accountant (that is my legal name), but it also serves as a play on words as “nah” combined with the Oscars.
The concept of this article is to do nominations for the Oscar categories but use none of the actual nominations for each category that the Oscars chose. For example, if a movie is nominated for best picture, I cannot nominate it for best picture also, but I could nominate that film for another category such as cinematography if it wasn’t nominated in that category by the Academy.
Now you may say that I can’t possibly do a great job of this because I haven’t watched the number of movies that Academy members have and therefore have big blindspots. To that I’d say that it has been well-documented that Academy members themselves often do not even watch all the movies they end up nominating. So if anything, I’m being a lot more ethical by limiting myself to movies I at least have watched and can legitimately vouch for in each category. My shortcoming will be that due to the limitations of how much I can watch and also my expertise, or lack thereof, in certain categories, I will not be doing as many categories as the Oscars. I have chosen a select few instead.
Finally, this is a companion piece to my article criticizing the Oscar nominations for 2025. One of my objectives is to try to address some of the issues I brought up in that article, most notably point 3 where I talk about the lack of genre representation. So without further ado, the nominees for the 2025 NAAscars, in alphabetical order, are:
Best Picture
A Different Man
Longlegs
Best Director
Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two
Edward Berger, Conclave
George Miller, Furiosa
Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine As Light
Robert Eggers, Nosferatu
Best Actress
Anya Taylor-Joy, Furiosa
Carolyn Bracken, Oddity
Katy M. O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Lily-Rose Depp, Nosferatu
Maika Monroe, Longlegs
Best Actor
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Hugh Grant, Heretic
Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge
Dev Patel, Monkey Man
Timothee Chalamet, Dune: Part Two
Best Supporting Actress
Kristen Stewart, Love Lies Bleeding
Chhaya Kadam, All We Imagine As Light
Divya Prabha, All We Imagine As Light
Eliza Scanlen, Caddo Lake
Alicia Witt, Longlegs
Best Supporting Actor
Adam Pearson, A Different Man
Austin Abrams, Wolfs
Kevin Durand, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Nicolas Cage, Longlegs
Jesse Plemons, Civil War
Best Cinematography
Civil War, Rob Hardy
Conclave, Stéphane Fontaine
Furiosa, Simon Duggan
Longlegs, Andrés Arochi
Monkey Man, Sharone Meir
Best Original Score
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Challengers, Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor
Dune: Part Two, Hans Zimmer
Flow, Gints Zilbalodis & Rihards Zalupe
Furiosa, Junkie XL
Nosferatu, Robin Carolan
The biggest winner of the NAAscar nominations is Longlegs with 5 nominations. Other winners include All We Imagine as Light and Furiosa with 4 nominations with A Different Man and Dune: Part Two garnering 3 each as well. My favourite part of doing this was being able to give a lot more attention to other genres like action and horror while also spotlighting films that got no attention at the actual Oscars.
If you want to see what GCR’s favourite movies and other media were for 2024, you can check them out here: GCR’s Best of 2024.
