Awards

2025 Voting Dates

  • Nominations Due: Dec. 19, 2025
  • Nominees Announced: Dec. 24, 2025
  • Voting Ballot Due: Dec. 31, 2025
  • Winners Announced: Jan. 10, 2026 at the Dryden Theatre in Rochester, NY

Events

Rules

Nomination voting will consist of every member compiling a ranked five choices per category with first place votes receiving 5 points, second place votes receiving 4 points, and so on in order to achieve a weighted consensus of those choices with the most points.

Final voting will then be a weighted consensus in the same mold of the agreed upon nominees.

(Tie-breaker: number of 1st place votes, then 2nd, and so on. Run-off vote if remains tied.)

Our Categories

  • Best Picture
  • Best Film in a Foreign Language
  • Best Animated Film
  • Best Documentary
  • Best Director
  • Best Lead Actor
  • Best Lead Actress
  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Best Supporting Actress
  • Best Ensemble
  • Best Original Screenplay
  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Best Cinematography
  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Score
  • Breakthrough Performance
  • Breakthrough Director

Mentions/Thanks