March 9, 2026
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Best in Film 2025, Best of 2025, Cinema, Oscars
98th Academy Awards, 98th Oscars, Academy Awards, Jeff Malone Academy Awards, jmunney Academy Awards, Oscars, Sinners
If it’s a sin to win Oscars, I don’t want to be a saint! (CREDIT: Warner Bros./Screenshot)
The Oscar winners are determined by the thousands of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But what if … they were chosen by just one person? If I were singlehandedly in charge of running the Oscars, here’s how they would go down.
Please Note: Some of my decisions about categorization (like Lead vs. Supporting for actors, or Adapted vs. Original for screenplays) may differ from those of the Academy and other awards bodies.
Nominees are listed alphabetically (either by movie title or by nominee name), winners in bold.
Best Picture
Bring Her Back
The Day the Earth Blew Up
Highest 2 Lowest
The Luckiest Man in America
Marty Supreme
The Naked Gun
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Weapons
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February 7, 2026
jmunney
Best of 2025, Best of Music 2025, Music
Addison Rae, Best of 2025, Blood Orange, Brandi Carlile, De La Soul, Doechii, Doja Cat, Florence + the Machine, Garbage, George Harrison, Haim, Hayley Williams, Huntrix, Ice Spice, Jack White, Kyle M., Kyle Mooney, Lily Allen, Miley Cyrus, Music, Portugal. The Man, Reneé Rapp, Sabrina Carpenter, sombr, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Tame Impala, Tears for Fears, The Beaches, Wet Leg, Zara Larsson
A lot of wonderful new melodies and lyrics successfully made their way to my ears, brain, and feet in 2025. Here are the standouts, in collectible and solitary form:
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February 4, 2026
jmunney
Best in Film 2025, Best of 2025, Cinema
Best of 2025, Blue Moon, Bring Her Back, Companion, Drop, Highest 2 Lowest, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, KPop Demon Hunters, Marty Supreme, movies, Novocaine, Oh Hi!, One Battle After Another, One to One: John & Yoko, Sentimental Value, Sinners, Spinal Tap II, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, The Day the Earth Blew Up, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, The Luckiest Man in America, The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2025, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, Weapons
CREDIT (Clockwise from Top Left): Ketchup Entertainment; A24; Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros.
It was a great year at the movies in 2025, just as it was last year, and will be every year in the future as long as cinema continues to exist. Here are my 20 favorites, along with quick summations of why I would recommend them.
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January 31, 2026
jmunney
Best of 2025, Best of TV 2025, Television
Abbott Elementary, Beavis and Butt-Head, Best of 2025, Black Mirror, Bob's Burgers, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Live + in the Flesh, Pluribus, Sarah Squirm, Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh, Saturday Night Live, Severance, SNL, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Solar Opposites, South Park, The Lowdown, The Paper, The Rehearsal, The Simpsons, The Studio
CREDIT: ABC/Screenshot
A surprisingly perfect crossover produced an unforgettable culture clash, while some of the usual suspects got up to the same old new shenanigans.
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January 30, 2026
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Best of 2025, Best of TV 2025, Television
Alien: Earth, Beavis and Butt-Head, Best of 2025, Bob's Burgers, Digman!, Elsbeth, Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Ghosts, I Love LA, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Last Week Tonight, Matlock, Pluribus, Severance, Solar Opposites, Television, The Chair Company, The Lowdown, The Paper, The Rehearsal, The Simpsons
CREDIT (Clockwise from Top Left): Apple TV/Screenshot; Apple TV/Screenshot; HBO/Screenshot; Hulu/Screenshot
Sometimes I arrange my Best TV Shows of the Year list around a gimmick or an alternative perspective. But this year, I just decided to stick with a straightforward roundup of the series I loved the most. So here’s my list of my top 20 shows for 2025, along with some thoughts about why I was happy to have them as part of my regular viewing routine.
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January 20, 2026
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Best of 2025, Podcasts
Best of 2025, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Doughboys, Geek Sqwad, How Did This Get Made?, Podcasts, Scott Hasn't Seen, That's Auntertainment, The Deep Dive, The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael, The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
CREDIT: How Did This Get Made?
My annual Best of the Year coverage currently encompasses the worlds of Cinema, Television, Music, and Podcasts. That last medium is perhaps the most expansive, despite also being the youngest. So since listening to every new podcast of 2025 would have been a disturbingly Herculean task, this isn’t a countdown of the best podcasts of the year, but instead a collection of highlights from the ones on my playlist.
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