As the year comes to a close, awards season starts to heat up. We’re still a few weeks away from the biggest nominations like the Golden Globes or Oscars , but other major groups have started to roll out their nominations, and, for us here at io9 , they’ve been very exciting. That’s because while most years there are one or two genre movies in the mix, this year there are at least four, possibly even five. And TV looks just as good, if not better.

Take, for example, the American Film Institute . AFI top tens every year of exclusively American movies and shows (which does take out a few of the best), but on the film list this year, there are five sci-fi films considered the best of 2025. Those are Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Sinners, and Wicked For Good . And,

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