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UK & Ireland Horror Critics Group Announces 2025 Golden Claw Award Nominees The UK & Ireland Horror Critics Group has announced the nominees for their 2025 Golden Claw Awards! Check out the full list on Dread Central.

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UK & Ireland Horror Critics Group reveals the 2025 Golden Claw nominees The UK & Ireland Horror Critics Group have announced the nominations for this year’s annual Golden Claw awards. Founded in 2022 as the first Horror Critics association in the UK or Ireland, the…

The @horrorcriticsgroup.bsky.social #GoldenClaws nominees have been announced - and The Substance has taken a lead, just ahead of Longlegs and I Saw The TV Glow. Winners announced on March 1st! 📽️ 👻

Sneaky Dan Stevens there with the double nomination. 👀

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Pure excellence from top to bottom.
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(I wish I could say which one I was rooting for, but as a committee member I’m going to refrain… but while I love them all I REALLY loved one of them…)

This is a big one…
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Winners announced March 1st…
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Those are the nominees for this year’s Golden Claw Awards, sponsored by @nighttidemag.bsky.social and @thncom.bsky.social! Be sure to follow both of those excellent publications, and tune in on March 1st to find out who’ll win our coveted trophies 🏆.

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Best Horror Film I Saw The TV Glow Longlegs Oddity Strange Darling The Substance

Best Horror Film
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Best Director Coralie Fargeat (The Substance) Damian Mc Carthy (Oddity) Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow) JT Mollner (Strange Darling) Osgood Perkins (Longlegs)

Best Director
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Best lead performance David Dastmalchian (Late Night With The Devil) Demi Moore (The Substance) Hugh Grant (Heretic) Juliette Gariépy (Red Rooms) Justice Smith (I Saw The TV Glow) Lupita Nyong’o (A Quiet Place: Day One) Maika Monroe (Longlegs) Naomi Scott (Smile 2) Nell Tiger Free (The First Omen) Sydney Sweeney (Immaculate)

Best Lead Performance
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Technical Excellence Chime (Sound Design) Longlegs (Score) MadS (Cinematography) Strange Darling (Cinematography) The Substance (Production Design, Makeup & Costuming)

Technical Excellence
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Best Kill Acid Blood Kill (Alien Romulus) Baby Meets Table (The Coffee Table) Chainsaw in the Shower (Terrifier 3) Rock Meets Baby (Immaculate) Yoga Kill (In a Violent Nature)

Best Kill
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Best feature debut Arkasha Stevenson (Director, The First Omen) Chris Nash (Director, In a Violent Nature) Sebastian Vanicek (Director, Infested) Zelda Williams (Writer, Lisa Frankenstein) Zoe Kravitz (Director, Blink Twice)

Best Feature Debut
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Representation Award – Sponsored by the Soho Horror Film Festival A Different Man Cuckoo I Saw The TV Glow Love Lies Bleeding The Substance

Representation Award - Sponsored by @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social
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Trailblazer of The Year Chris Nash (Writer-Director, In A Violent Nature) Coralie Fargeat (Writer-Director, The Substance) Jane Schoenbrun (Writer-Director, I Saw The TV Glow)

Trailblazer of 2024
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Best Supporting Performance Alicia Witt (Longlegs) Blair Underwood (Longlegs) Dan Stevens (Cuckoo & Abigail) David Jonsson (Alien: Romulus) Dennis Quaid (The Substance) Ingrid Torelli (Late Night With The Devil) Jack Haven (I Saw The TV Glow) Kyle Gallner (Strange Darling) Margaret Qualley (The Substance) Nicolas Cage (Longlegs) Sophie Thatcher (Heretic)

Best Supporting Performance
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Best horror TV show From Inside No. 9 Interview with the Vampire The Creep Tapes True Detective: Night Country

Best Horror TV Show
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Best horror film not in English Chime Exhuma Infested MadS Red Rooms The Coffee Table

Best Film Not In English
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Best Screenwriter Coralie Fargeat (The Substance) Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow) JT Mollner (Strange Darling) Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (Heretic)

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Coralie Fargeat (The Substance) Damian Mc Carthy (Oddity) Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw The TV Glow) JT Mollner (Strange Darling) Osgood Perkins (Longlegs)

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Announcing our GOLDEN CLAW AWARDS nominees!

We are here to celebrate cinematic horror excellence through 2024. Here’s who our members have nominated… winners will be announced on March 1st!

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Coming in two hours… 📽️ 👻 🎟️
Any guesses for the five best horror movies nominees? #goldenclaws