Make Your Nominations for the 2025 Trying! Awards

The 2025 Trying! Awards are now open for nominations. Submit your picks below, and we will reveal the winners shortly. You can nominate both people and things—movies, ideas, phenomena—and they can be either well-known or obscure, broadly meaningful or intimately personal. Your call! Ideally, we're talking all of 2024 through, I guess, today. Don't be afraid to be weird!

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Attempt of the Year: Who really gave it their best effort, whatever they were attempting to do?

Failure of the Year: Who just absolutely blew, in the most absurd and memorable way?

The Golden Sisyphus: Who demonstrated the utter pointlessness of existence yet also gave us a way to triumph over it?

Boulder of the Year: Who above all was the thing we had to deal with, again and again, throughout 2025?

Half-Assery of the Year: Who made the lamest, weakest attempt—and actually pulled it off?

Underachiever of the Year: What was the absolute most B+/A- effort you witnessed?

Open call: Make up your own award and/or nomination for it, and maybe we'll include it in the package!

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