It’s another busy week in awards season land! Both the BAFTA (British Oscars) nominations and WGA (Writer’s Guild) nominations came out today. While there is probably a lot to parse there in terms of who’s ahead in the Oscars race, we at the Long Take Review wanted to take some time out of our busy coverage to hand out our own awards, the LTRs or “Letters.”

And in true LTR fashion, we set out to make the episode shorter by breaking up our nominations and our winners into two different episodes. We still, however, recorded for over two hours in the first episode, despite having less to go through. Nonetheless, we hope you join us as we honor our favorites from 2025. With a mix of “chalk” (a.k.a. expected) picks and more obscure personal favorites, we each shared our individual nominees for acting, directing, writing, and best picture. Any nominees that overlapped automatically made it onto the consensus list, with the option for one of us to argue for moving a non-consensus nominee forward. In part two, to be released later this week, we debate and announce the winners in each category.

I’ll publish the full text of our lists in a separate Substack post and link it here when it’s ready.

Also, please note that we recorded this episode before Oscar nominations were announced, so our conversation about those is still in the speculation phase.

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