The 2025 Hollywood Outsider Awards for Film and Television
Release Date: 01/08/2025
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info_outlineThese are the only awards that really matter, the 2025 HO Awards! On this episode of The Hollywood Outsider podcast, we are breaking down our 2025 awards for both film and television. If you haven’t listened to our HO Awards before, we do ours a bit different, for example our "actor" category covers all genders, we do not separate it. For TV, network, cable, and streaming all count, it just has to have had at least 3 new episodes in 2024. For movies, theatrical, VOD, and streaming are all eligible.
If you want to follow along, the categories are below, so let us know what your picks are on our social media channels. What will take our awards? Wicked, Dune: Part 2, The Wild Robot, The Fall Guy, Deadpool and Wolverine, The Penguin, Silo, Reacher, Fallout, or something else? Each of us will award our winners in each category, and at the end, we’ll combine ours with listener picks to determine what was the HO TV series and Movie of the Year!
Take a listen to the 2025 HO Awards for TV and Film!
Discussed on this episode
- (0:00 – 22:21) Opening | Best Movie or TV Experience, Best News Story
- (22:22 – 1:15:51) Television Awards
- (1:15:52 – 2:04:59) Film Awards
- (2:05:00 - 2:13:40) HO TV Series and HO Movie of the Year
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- Be wary of potential mild spoilers for 2024 films and TV series
TV Award Categories
- Most Absurd or Frustrating Series
- Best Special Effects and/or Stunts on TV
- Best Villain or Badass
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Actor
- Best Specific Moment on TV
- The Justin Macumber Award: Little-seen or discussed TV series that just completely won you over and you hope more people find it in the new year. Named after the late Justin Macumber.
- Biggest Surprise
- The Top 10
Movie Award Categories
- Most Absurd or Frustrating Series
- Best Physical Effects or Stunts
- Best Use of CGI in Film
- Best Villain or Badass
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Actor
- Best Specific Moment in Film
- The Justin Macumber Award: Little-seen or discussed film that just completely won you over and you hope more people find it in the new year. Named after the late Justin Macumber.
- Biggest Surprise
- The Top 10