Thursday, March 12, 2026

AMPS 2025 Best Picture Nominees (and Winners)



Oh, gadzooks! It's mid-March!

Back in December, you might remember me pestering you to vote in my AMPS Best Picture Nominee vote. It's an annual tradition I have where I pick out three fictional movies that I came up with in the past year, and have people vote on which they feel should join four other fictional movies to form a lineup of five fictional movies that will serve as the Best Picture nominees for the Awards for Motion Picture Services (AMPS), one of three fake film awards I reward to my fictional movies. The poll was supposed to last for a week and then theoretically I would announce the winner along with the other four nominees. However, life got in the way and I missed the New Year's deadline. Then the time when I would pick out the winners for the AMPS awards came and went, and I still didn't write anything. Then the second of the fake film awards the Movie Magazine Awards came and went, and I still didn't write anything. And now it's almost time for the ultimate fake film awards, the L Awards. 

It's not the first time I've held a vote for the final Best Picture nominee and then neglect to present the winner. Back in 2014 I held a nominating vote which Kids Court won, but I ended up not presenting the other nominees. That year I didn't feel like I had a solid grasp of what the other films were about. However, this year it's a completely different story. I had a basic plot for these films. I just dropped the ball and got lazy. Nevertheless, I figured I owe y'all the winner of this year's poll along with the other four nominees.