In just a few hours, the telecast of the Oscars (or, as we refer to them, the “Weirdcademy Awards for squares”) will begin. We are happy to steal the Academy’s thunder by announcing cinema’s weirdest winners of 2025 now.
Note that this year, two categories—Weirdest Short and Weirdest Scene—actually ended in ties, requiring an editorial tiebreaker. For this reason, you can consider David Firth‘s “Salad Fingers 14: Crows” and the Bugonia scene where Jesse Plemons flies his mom like a kite as 2025 honorable mentions. Now on to the official in-the-books winners!
In the category of “Weirdest Short Film,” the tiebreak yields a legendary big night out.
“Yes I Didi” by Jim Hosking
In the category of “Weirdest Actress,” the Award goes to two-time winner Emma Stone, who, it turns out, actually looks like an alien when you shave her head in Bugonia. Stone is also nominated in the Most Conventional Actress race in a few hours; she has no shot. Celebrate with us, Emma!
In the category of “Weirdest Actor,” Nicolas Cage notches his third Weirdcademy award for feeding a dead rat to a fellow surfer in The Surfer.
In the category of “Weirdest Scene,” in a tiebreaker, the Weirdcademy Award goes to Reflection in a Dead Diamond for the showdown between a clothed man, naked katana-wielding female.
And the “Weirdest Picture” Award of 2025 goes to Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani for their bizarre Eurospy fantasia Reflection in a Dead Diamond, in a major upset over favorite (and Oscar-nominated) Bugonia.
Thanks voters, see you again next year!
Really happy to see Reflection in a Dead Diamond do so well, I discovered it thanks to this website and massively enjoyed it, and so far everyone I’ve recommended it to has rated it highly as well. 🙂