The FilmLight Colour Awards, celebrating the best of the industry’s color grading professionals, have announced their 2025 nominees.
The craft involves manipulating color to create a specific mood, visual style or narrative theme and is widely-used across film, TV and music. Among the well-known features nominated in major categories this year are Sinners, The Brutalist and, on the TV side, Severance, Andor and The Studio.
FilmLight, headquartered in London, develops unique color grading systems, image processing applications as well as storage and workflow tools that are “transforming film and video post-production and setting new standards for quality, reliability and performance.”
Now in their fifth year, the FilmLight Colour Awards attracted over 500 entries from 47 countries across the globe. Cinematographer Bradford Young, best known for his work on When They See Us (2019), Arrival (2016) and Selma (2014) is heading up the jury. South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook is this year’s guest of honor.
Live from Cooke Optic’s London Gallery on Wednesday, FilmLight confirmed the 2025 nominees:
Theatrical Feature
Sinners, graded by Kostas Theodosiou at FotoKem
The Brutalist, graded by colourist Máté Ternyik
Mickey 17, graded by Damien Vandercruyssen at Harbor
The Phoenician Scheme, graded by Gareth Spensley at Company 3
Nosforatu, graded by Adam Glasman at Goldcrest
TV Series / Episodic
Severance (season 2), graded by Tom Poole at Company 3
Disclaimer (season 1), graded by Peter Doyle at PostWorks NY (now Picture Shop)
Andor (season 2, episode 4, 9, 12), graded by Jean-Clement Soret at Company 3
The Studio(season 1), graded by Damien Vandercruyssen at Harbor
Commercial
Bluff Bounce, Prologue, graded by freelance colourist Franziska Heinemann
KFC, Obsession, graded by Mark Gethin at Trafik
Office Magazine, Michael Shannon: A Reflection on Life, Art, Unity and the Divine, graded by Dylan Hageman at House Post
Gucci, We Will Always Have London, graded by Tim Masick at Company 3
Music Video
Bad Bunny, NUEVAYoL, graded by Dante Pasquinelli at Ethos Studio
Wren Evans, CỨU LẤY ÂM NHẠC, graded by Sam Howells at Ethos Studio
Maggie Rogers, In the Living Room, graded by Jake White at Company 3
Damiano David, Next Summer, graded by Valerio Liberatore at Frame by Frame
Spotlight Award
La Hija Cóndor, graded by Leo Fallas at Fermento Color
NAWI: Dear Future Me, graded by freelance colourist, Marina Starke
Good Shot, graded by Connor Bailey at House Post
Duchoň, graded by Ondřej Štibingr at PFX
Emerging Talent
Bluff Bounce, Prologue, graded by freelance colourist Franziska Heinemann
Converse x Daily Paper, Homecoming, graded by freelance colourist Marina Starke
Timberland, 50 Years of Hip-Hop, graded by Connor Bailey at House Post
S Bahn, A Century In Motion, graded by freelance colourist Imri Agmon
