The Film Experience

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER | © Warner Bros.

Later tonight, we’ll have a new batch of Oscar winners to celebrate. But, for now, let us rejoice for the Team Experience Awards, voted on by the site’s writers, sans Nathaniel, who has his own Film Bitch Awards. It’s likely some of these victors may echo AMPAS’ picks, as One Battle After Another is our champion, after having tied with Sinners in nominations, twelve apiece. As ever, there are some ties to report as our voting body is quite small, with Supporting Actress and Costume Design the tightest races of the lot. Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent fans will also have reason to rejoice, with each flick scoring three prizes. Indeed, half of our winners come from international cinema...

THE SECRET AGENT | © Neon

BEST PICTURE

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy & Adam Somner

BEST DIRECTOR

Kleber Mendonça Filho, THE SECRET AGENT

HAMNET | © Focus Features

BEST ACTRESS

Jessie Buckley, HAMNET

BEST ACTOR

Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

...and...

Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE

BEST ENSEMBLE

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, Hadis Pakbaten, Majid Panahi, Mohamad Ali Elyasmehr, George Hasgemzadeh, Delmaz Najafi & Afsaneh Najm Abadi

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT | © Neon

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Kleber Mendonça Filho, THE SECRET AGENT

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

SOUND OF FALLING | © MUBI

BEST FILM EDITING

Andy Jurgensen, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Fabian Gamper, SOUND OF FALLING

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Jack Fisk & Adam Willis, MARTY SUPREME

SINNERS | © Warner Bros.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Ruth E. Carter, SINNERS

...and...

Malgosia Turzanska, HAMNET

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

THE UGLY STEPSISTER, Thomas Foldberg & Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon & Daniel Barrett

BEST MUSIC

Daniel Blumberg, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE

BEST SOUND

SIRĀT, Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas & Yasmina Praderas

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
James Cameron & Jon Landau

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR
Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Bisbee, Nikon Kwantu & Alisa Payne

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, UK

FUN FACTS & FIGURES:

If One Battle After Another wins the Best Picture Oscar, it’ll be only the fourth time AMPAS and the Team Experience agree on the best of the year. Last time it happened was six years ago, when both groups picked Parasite.
This is the third time there’s a tie in Best Supporting Actress. It happened before in 2022, with Kerry Condon and Dolly De Leon, and then again in 2023, with Rachel McAdams and Rosamund Pike.
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleeas and Stellan Skarsgård are the first Scandinavian performers to win at the Team Experience Awards.
Though three of his films have won in some categories, this is the first time Paul Thomas Anderson himself is a Team Experience Award winner.
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura are the first artists from Latin America to win their categories. The Secret Agent is also the first Portuguese-language film to win a Team Experience Award outside of the Film Not in the English Language prize, which I’m Still Here won last year.
Interestingly enough, two Kleber Mendonça Filho pictures have won the Film Not in the English Language category before – Aquarius and Bacurau.
Sentimental Value is the first Norwegian production to take Best Film Not in the English Language.
Food for thought: In our Best Picture preferential ballot, Sentimental Value ended up below The Secret Agent, and It Was Just an Accident. However, in a simpler, single-vote ballot, it won Best Film Not in the English Language.
This is the third year in a row that Best Original Screenplay has gone to a non-English Language Film, following Anatomy of a Fall and Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World.
For the second year in a row, an Iranian cast wins our Best Ensemble category.
Despite having only one nomination, Marty Supreme, The Testament of Ann Lee, and The Ugly Stepsister all won their races.
For the first time ever, we have a tie in Best Costume Design. While Malgosia Turzanska is a first-time winner, Ruth E. Carter previously won for 2018’s Black Panther and 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, just like at the Oscars.
Avatar: Fire and Ash marks the first time a photorealistic animated film, usually considered live-action by the industry, has won our Best Animated Feature category.
Sirat is the first Spanish film not directed by Pedro Almodóvar to win a Team Experience Award.
Of the 44 features nominated for Team Experience Awards this season, 13 won at least one category. The biggest loser is No Other Choice, which lost all six races where it was nominated – Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Visual Effects, and International Film.

And that’s it for the 14th annual Team Experience Awards. What do you think? You can find the complete list of nominees HERE and check out the awards' history HERE.