Overview
- AFI unveiled unranked Top 10 lists for 2025 in film and television that often foreshadow Oscars, with roughly four in five AFI film picks typically becoming Best Picture nominees.
- Film honorees are Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Jay Kelly, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Train Dreams and Wicked: For Good.
- Television selections are Adolescence, Andor, Death by Lightning, The Diplomat, The Lowdown, The Pitt, Pluribus, Severance, The Studio and Task, reflecting a streamer-heavy field.
- Netflix led film distributors with three selections and tied Apple TV for a leading three TV mentions, while broadcast networks did not make the TV list.
- Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident received AFI’s Special Award, and honorees will be celebrated on January 9, 2026, at the Four Seasons Los Angeles.