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Behold, the 2025 Awards Season Awards!

From the contenders who never were contenders to the Netflix-bashing on Oscar night (and plenty of Karla Sofía Gascón), one of the oddest and most roller-coastery seasons in memory deserves its own set of accolades…

Sean Baker
Winner of the "Most Biting F-You to Netflix During the Oscars As Netflix Debates Whether to Overpay to Steal the Show From Disney" award. Photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
March 4, 2025

For a couple years now, I’ve continued a tradition I had at Hollywood Reporter of bestowing “awards season awards” honoring the highs and (mostly) lows of the death march to the Oscars. This year, an especially wild one with the Emilia Pérez Twitter scandal, I decided to do it after the Oscars, both to incorporate the absurdities of the big event and to put a button on the entire season so we never need speak of it again. So here’s my acknowledgment of the most cynical marketing campaigns, the cringiest moments, and the most ridiculous people Hollywood has to offer in the year 2025…