The FilmLight Colour Awards, celebrating the best of the industrys 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 years guest of honor.

Live from Cooke Optics London Gallery on Wednesday, FilmLight confirmed the 2025 nominees:

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Sinners, graded by Kostas Theodosiou at FotoKem

The Brutalist, graded by colourist Mt 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

Sinners. Courtesy of Warner Bros. 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

The Studio. Courtesy Apple TV+ 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, CU LY M NHC, 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

Damiano David in music video Next Summer. FilmLight Colour Awards 2025 Spotlight Award

La Hija Cndor, 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

Ducho, graded by Ondej tibingr 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