The Clara Awards Winners 2025

BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. Ne Zha 2. Sequel. Animated. Highest grossing. 2.1 billion worldwide. 10 billion yuan (like 14 cents to a dollar, so 1.4 billion there). Ne Zha realms. 

BEST PICTURE IN A SERIES. Wicked and Wicked For Good. Musical, drama, fantasy. Oz universe. 

BEST SUPERHERO MOVIE OF THE YEAR. Superman Legacy. Reboot of DCU. 

HONORABLE MENTIONS. Fantastic Four First Steps, Thunderbolts. 

HONORABLE MENTION MARX CARDS SAW. Kpop Demon Hunters. 

Worst Picture based on the fact that Kat did not go to see really bad movies. 

WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. Snow White. Adaptation. Story. Ugly animations. Awful heroes and villains on and off the screen. 

DISHONORABLE MENTION. Tron Ares, Avatar 3 Fire and Ash

In House Series, stories and productions. 

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. CADABRA BROWNE, CAT, 2008-2025. HOUDINI AND ABRA ALSO ON AWARD. 

BEST ORIGINAL SERIES. STARSHIP LOCATIONS WARP CORPS. Adapted from Space Time Eye. Kal Kat. Marx Cards.

BEST CONTINUING SERIES. STARSHIP LOCATIONS LEGACY. The Zombie Season ends with an additional fun fourth act that wraps it up better than modern trek finales. 

HONORABLE MENTION. THE VICTORIA BROWNE LETTERS PRESENT A CHRISTMAS FIASCO TRILOGY. It takes place from 2009-2012. 

Kat Did Movie Picks so far in 2025

 "Ne Zha 2" Every person in China has been ordered to see this 11 times, this over 10 billion dollars. Sequel to a film that doesn't quite meet up to the first one but makes up for it in a stunning visual style blending animation and CGI. 

"Superman (Legacy)" The reboot of the DCU presents a love letter to the early 2000s comic books but references the OG stuff from the SuperFriends and the classic 1970s Donner films, far better than any since The Return. 

"Fantastic Four First Steps" It doesn't have Squirrel Girl, as did the Kal Kat pitch, but it is the Kal Kat pitch. He did not get credit. Set in a 60s retro world, the Four must battle over custody of a power cosmic baby, withy Galactus there for the ride. Cards has been avoiding it since it has a baby in it. It even has a Kal Kat inspired final song. 

"Predator Badlands" Toned down a little version of the Aliens v Predator and Dark Horse films, but for a new audience, and no it is not a riff on the current administration.  Terse and witty Enemy Mine meets Picard the synth planet storyline somehow works. 

"Demon Slayers Eternal Castle" Not to be confused with "K Pop Demon Hunters", rated PG, as Marx was indeed confused and saw that instead, which was excellent too. This one is a hard R gory story set in an eternal perdition where a team of heroes fights demonic relations. 

"Thunderbolts*" This year's theme is ragged antiheroes go and fight demonic aliens or villains, as tat's the in thing. Story tries to reinstate the Avengers using the late 90s comics for inspiration, and some later 2000s ones. This is because they dropped Kang like a hot potato of poo. They needed to come up with something else. 

"Captain America Brave New World" Let's just do The Winter Soldier again only without him, and have some Civil War elements, and a lackluster replacement Cap who is not at all convincing. Yes, the miniseries is known also. He wasn't great in that also. No it's not because he's not a white guy. It's because he's not interesting. And Red Hulk should have been, but is executed terribly clumsy in this. If they just called it "Falcon Brave New World" and had Hulk fight Red Hulk maybe it might have worked. Story also forgets that in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Falcon Cap did take the serum. Just saying he did might make that boring third act more interesting. 

"Tron Ares" Let us just dump the second Tran movie and that lame let's make a hot girlfriend for the hero thing, and introduce alleged creepy Leto in the role of the new Tron, and not make it fun. Yes, let's do that. It's the old meme, stop trying to make your phrase a thing. It's not a thing. 

"Karate Kid Legends" Chan and Macchio are back, but not used enough, in the follow up to a show only some saw over there on streaming. Using some new characters, and having a karate fight win the day, okay. But then it gets stupid as bringing in a ridiculous plot about a pizza place being blackmailed, and not once just calling the police and a lawyer, is baffling enough. And Danielson is barely even in it. 

"Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning" This is what happens when in your second half you have half the budget spent on Tom Cruise's paycheck and the other on some new stunts, but can't meet the level of the last one. Dead Reckoning 2. Yeah. The plane scene is cool but it doesn't really lead to anything interesting. The dive scene is laughable. No way were they in frigid arctic waters. He would have been dead in seconds. Buit we can believe he can dangle from a plane again. He's done that. 

"Jurassic World Rebirth" Cue the jokes about various forms of stillborn birth, as this movie even tries to make fun of itself and dinosaur geeks, and then becomes a rehash of Jurassic Park 3, and the Land of the Lost remakes. The have never once taken the hint, what we want is a rampage of dinos in an urban city. Not just one scene in a city. We want them everywhere, ala that terrible America Godzilla, but cool this time. Instead what we get is a dippy plot about heart conditions and getting dino blood to save people, while a T Rex is stopped from having an annoying tot snack by a rubber raft. 

"Snow White" Essays and scores of blogs have already gone over this. Both leads are insufferable and disgusting and cannot act. An unrelated little person apparently wanted to be in the movie and ruined it for his fellow little people. They then disowned him online. An original version had there be no little people, just bandits and one dwarf. Then they rotoscoped in hideous CGI dwarves and reshot a third of it, and made Ms. Prissy, and the Evil Queen both Karens, so you wanted them to both be offed by the Huntsman, who had been so neutered he wasn't going to hurt a fly. It ends with a mockery of the original twist about the mirror being the queen, only for t literally to shatter all expectations...of a good movie. Now we know, the laid villain cannot act playing a villain. And just because the lead girl was in an unnecessary remake of West Side Story doesn't mean she can be the princess. And for the record, the name does not come from her being born in winter. It comes from her being pale. It's in the children's story. And she was likely 14 in the original story Disney used to make the film in the 30s. 

The 2024 Clara Awards and any last minute entries

Best Picture of the Year

The Wild Robot

Theme, message, visuals, voice acting

Best Musical Adaptation of the Year

Wicked, Part 1

Part of a two part series, likely to nab Best Picture at the Oscars.

Best Science Fiction Drama of the Year

Dune, parts 1 and 2

Best Foreign Picture of the Year

Flow

Original and late coming story, but was out limited in November. Marx Cards recommends for Best Picture.

Visuals, theme, message, blender animated movie, Belgium

Best Fan Film of the Year

Identiteaze  

message, visuals, acting and gravitas, Jessie Earl, De Lancie.

Best Animated Sequel of the Year

Inside Out 2

Theme, message, update and continuation satisfies, Disney, Pixar

Best In House Fan Film or Original Picture of the Year

Starship Locations Cohnirri the Redemption

Part one of a three part series.  

Best In House Continuation of Series Fan Film

Starship Locations Legacy

A Star Trek themed fan series taking place after the events of Picard in the 2400s. 

Honorable Mention

Transformers One

Lifetime Achievement Awards

Posthumous

David Lynch

Movie maverick from the original Dune movie, the Mullholand Drive, to the cult classic Twin Peaks and beyond. Passed weeks ago.

Victoria Browne

Browne Productions CEO from 2009 to 2022. Passed in 2024.

Worst Movie or Series of the Year

Rebel Moon, Snyder's Star Wars 

Caveat being we did not see a lot of them.

Our Picks for Best of the Year Movies or TV show or our own stuff 2024

 "Dune" Parts 1 and 2, best completed work. 2024. 

"Wicked Part I" Marx Cards did not see it. Based on buzz, going to nab acting and visual Oscars. Maybe song. 

"Transformers One" Best origin story, but Marx Cards did not see. Poor marketing though. Made it look like a frat comedy. It isn't. It is akin to heroes journey classics, and friends turned enemies stories. 

"The Wild Robot" Although cartoon drama, best drama of the year, best message, will likely get a nod for animated film, original screenplay, concept, voice acting. 

(Oscar will probably completely ignore it and pick some dull January release that only aired in Poduck, AK New Year's Eve last year). 

"Inside Out 2" Best sequel, even if they cut out most of the implied gay stuff, and should not have. Allegedly. 

"Identiteaze" Marx did not see, but highly recommended, a Nebula original with a Star Trek alum in John DeLancie not playing Q, and Jesse "Gender" Ear's first directorial debut. The 45 minute Matrix style evil company cult story takes two gender fluid people, a man and woman, into their midst where it becomes like an autistic fever dream. (This is in a good way, and it doesn't chicken out with the gay). 

The best short film indie category, best picture, best original story, short film, or documentary short subject, all of the above. 

(Oscar will probably ignore it too). 

Worst Story of the Year, because we did not see the obvious ones like Megalopolis and Madame Web, but did see this, as it goes to "Rebel Moon", the two movie miniseries that proves not everyone can write a spoof of Star Wars, and Snyder shouldn't, ever again. 

(Razzies will be forthcoming for this turd). 

"Star Trek Lower Decks Season 5" Final season of the parody series most similar to our stuff. Nod for best animated TV show only because we don't see a lot of them lately. 

"Transformers Earth Spark, The Second and Final Season" They call it season 3, but it's season 2.5. It too seems like our stuff in some ways. 

"Star Trek Prodigy, Season 2" Saved to Netflix, the series ends with a new Voyager and a few surprises in a time bending story. A special nod.

Best of the In House Stuff We Did. 

"Transformers Legacy" Based on the popular Transformers MUSH and Lexicons stories, the sequel series picks up during the years following the Sentinels from last year, and rushes on ahead after a catastrophe destroy space time, and the legendary Primes must intervene. 

The four stories and most interestingly the final act that retcons it. Ha. 

"Starship Locations Legacy" Based on Star Trek and on Starship Locations spin off series, the sequel finally goes balls to the wall and has the new crew pay homage to Lower Decks and Prodigy, which left this year last, and has them face various shipping fiction stories. 

"The Illiop at Mad Planet" episode adapts the Silly Trek Adventure, 1988, as a new modern movie story and is moving and interesting, sort of an update taking place in 2024 or in 2407.  

"Starship Locations Cohnirri" Original spin off series based on Conhirri Space and and episode of Starship Locations, began just shy of Christmas 2024 and got on the list. They are doing two more movies. It's a trilogy based on the long and epic first book. 

We have done at least 8 feature length films in house in 2024 with the action figures.