It’s time to VOTE! Submit Your Votes Now for the #2025LaborOscars
The time has arrived for you to vote for your favorite (or least favorite, see below) labor films… again! The 2025 Labor Oscars voting period begins on February 10. And we are ready to announce the nominated films in all five categories in this post.
#2025LaborOscars is Power At Work’s annual effort to shine a bright light on films that feature worker power, unions, labor leaders, front-line union members, and workers’ collective action. For this year’s list, we added 13 more labor films. Some are brand new. Some simply escaped our notice last year. The Power At Work Labor Oscars list is a living, growing thing.
Power At Work’s subscribers will choose the winner in each of five categories: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary Film, Best International Labor Film, Best Worker Power Profile (group or individual), and Worst Labor Film. That’s right. Power At Work wants you to choose four bests and one worst.
Here is how you — Power At Work’s subscribers — will choose the recipients of the coveted Workers — the winners of the 2025 Labor Oscars:
Step #1: Watch the nominated films. We have created a Letterboxd list of all the nominated films that helps you to find where all the nominated films can be streamed. Our 2025 Labor Oscars nomination list was chosen by our expert and diverse Nominating Committee. You can read more about the Nominating Committee below.
Step #2: You must be subscribed to Power At Work to be eligible to vote! Go to the front page of the web site and subscribe right now. Not only will your voice be heard in the results of the #2025LaborOscars, but we will keep you up to date with all of our other content with a weekly newsletter.
Step #3: Join the debate over the films that should win the Labor Oscars. Post to Bluesky, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, or TikTok to advocate for the nominated films you love the most. Don’t forget to use #2025LaborOscars and tag Power At Work using our correct handle for each social media site (usually @PowerAtWork or @PowerAtWorkBlog) --- just search “Power At Work” to find us.
Step #4: Cast your ballot to vote for your favorite nominee in each category! Voting will open on February 10th. We will send voting instructions to Power At Work subscribers just before the voting opens. Voting will close on February 17th.
Feeling particularly passionate about a nominee? We encourage you to organize your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and union siblings to vote for your favorite nominees. Make sure they subscribe to Power At Work so we can send them the voting instructions as well.
Step #5: Watch the Power At Work #2025LaborOscars awards ceremony blogcast and read the Power At Work post announcing the #2025LaborOscars winners when we publish it. Again, the best way to keep track of all 2025 Labor Oscars content is to subscribe to Power At Work.
Watch the nominated films and cast your votes on February 10th. We will count the votes after February 17th. Don’t miss the opportunity to choose who gets to win ‘The Worker.’
The 2025 Labor Oscars Nominees
We tried to limit the list of nominated films to five per category, but our expert Nominating Committee has other ideas. There were several tied votes in the Nominating Committee, so we decided to include all the films whose votes could be said to be in the top five. You will vote for one film in each category. And now, without further ado, here are Power At Work’s 2025 Labor Grammys nominees:
Best Feature Film
Norma Rae (1979), dir. Martin Ritt
Matewan (1987), dir. John Sayles
Sorry to Bother You (2018), dir. Boots Riley
Silkwood (1983), dir. Mike Nichols
Salt of the Earth (1954), dir. Herbert J. Biberman
Best Documentary Film
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976), dir. Barbara Kopple
The Wobblies (1979), dir. Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer
At the River I Stand (1993), dir. David Appleby, Allison Graham, & Steven Ross
Blood on the Mountain (2016), dir. Jordan Freeman & Mari-Lynn C. Evans
9 to 5: The Story of a Movement (2021), dir. Julia Reichert & Steven Bognar
Union (2024) dir. Stephen Maing and Brett Story
Best International Labor Film
The Organizer (1963), dir. Mario Monicelli
Germinal (1993), dir. Claude Berri
The Take (2004), dir. Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis
Made in Dagenham (2010), dir. Nigel Coles
Still the Enemy Within (2014), dir. Owen Gower
Blood Fruit (2014), dir. Sinead O'Brien
The Factory (2015), dir. Rahul Roy
Best Worker Power Profile
Union Maids (1976), dir. Julia Reichert & Jim Klein
10,000 Black Men Named George (2002), dir. Robert Townsend
Made in Dagenham (2010), dir. Nigel Coles
No Job For A Woman: The Women Who Fought To Report WWII (2011) dir. Michèle Midori Fillion
Caesar Chavez (2014), dir. Diego Luna
Rustin (2023), dir. George C. Wolfe
Worst Labor Film
On the Waterfront (1954), dir. Elia Kazan
The Pajama Game (1957), dir. George Abbott & Stanley Donen
Hoffa (1992), dir. Danny Devito
In Dubious Battle (2016) dir. James Franco
The Irishman (2019), dir. Martin Scorsese
There is your list of nominated films. Now, VOTE AS SOON AS YOUR BALLOT ARRIVES!
