The pinnacle of the 2025 awards seasons is almost here: this Sunday, the 97th Academy Awards will take place in Los Angeles. Hosted by Conan O’Brien, the ceremony will honor the best of film that this past year had to offer and bring to a head multiple showdowns. Who will take home the Oscar for Best Actor — Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet or Ralph Fiennes? Who will be crowned Best Actress — Demi Moore or Mikey Madison? And is Kieran Culkin in a league all his own for his supporting role in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain”?
Of course, these are all important questions and we here at Hey Alma have our fingers crossed for all the Jewish nominees. But we also couldn’t let this awards season end without giving out some of our own awards. Last week, we posted a few polls on our Instagram stories to let our audience decide the winners in some extremely important and extremely hyper-specific Jewish categories. The categories were Best Choice for Surprise Cameo on “Nobody Wants This” Season Two, Best Brody, Best Supporting Non-Jew, Best Surprise Jew and Best Guess As to Where Haim Went This Year.
And the winners are…
Best Choice for Surprise Cameo on “Nobody Wants This” Season Two
Jeff Goldblum
Adrien Brody
⭐ Andy Samberg ⭐
Natasha Lyonne
“Nobody Wants This” is a TV show rife with opportunity for flashy, fun cameo appearances. Case in point: it was just announced last week that Leighton Meester, who’s married to Adam Brody, will have a guest role in season two! Before that, however, fans and reporters alike have expressed the wish that SNL star Andy Samberg play “a hot gay rabbi” in season two, and that Jeff Goldblum take on the role of a cantor in the show. Along with those two options, we here at Hey Alma also nominated Adrien Brody and Natasha Lyonne for Best Choice for a Surprise Cameo on “Nobody Wants This” Season Two. But at the end of the day, Andy Samberg prevailed with 37% of the vote. Mazel tov, Andy!
Best Brody
⭐ Adam Brody ⭐
Adrien Brody
The running joke of this Awards season is that people really can’t seem to keep Jewish actors Adrien Brody and Adam Brody straight. (In spite of the extremely helpful FAQ Hey Alma associate editor Evelyn Frick compiled about them.) So it was time to decide, once and for all, who is the Best Brody? In spite of his previous Academy Award win in 2003 and nomination in 2025, Adrien Brody was upset by Adam Brody! Adam took home the Best Brody award with a whopping 74% of the vote.
Best Supporting Non-Jew
Kylie Jenner (dating Timothée Chalamet)
⭐ Leighton Meester (married to Adam Brody) ⭐
Gabby Windey (dating Robby Hoffman)
Selena Gomez (engaged to Benny Blanco)
Behind every Jewish person (in an interfaith relationship) is a non-Jewish person to support and love them. This past year, there have been an exciting number of interfaith relationships highlighted in TV and media, from Kylie Jenner attending award shows with Timothée Chalamet to Leighton Meester joining her husband Adam Brody in season two of “Nobody Wants This” to Gabby Windey gaining popularity on social media and “The Traitors” and almost never not talking about her beau Robby Hoffman to Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco getting engaged. Only one non-Jew could win, however, and unsurprisingly given how much the Hey Alma audience loves Adam Brody, the award went to Leighton Meester with 51% of the vote.
Best Surprise Jew
Logan Paul
⭐ Alanis Morissette ⭐
Jack Schlossberg
Suzie Toot
The fun thing about not all Jews looking the same or having the most obvious-sounding Jewish name is that anyone can be Jewish! Including celebrities! In 2024, we collectively discovered that influencer and professional boxer Jake Paul and his brother Logan Paul have some Jewish ancestry; Alanis Morissette has deep Jewish roots, which she learned about thanks to “Finding Your Roots” on PBS; Jack Schlossberg, grandson of JFK, whose father is Jewish and mother is Catholic identifies as both; and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” queen Suzie Toot, whose out-of-drag name is Benjamin Shaevitz, is a member of the tribe! So who’s the winner of the Best Surprise Jew Award? “You Oughta Know”! It’s Alanis Morissette, who won with 56% of the vote.
Best Guess As to Where Haim Went This Year
Recording studio
Film set in Hollywood
⭐ Taylor Swift’s basement ⭐
Boca, Florida
One of most perplexing pop culture stories of the last year has been the seeming disappearance of Jewish sister band Haim. No, we’re not talking “no body no crime”-style, Este, Danielle and Alana have just been completely off social media and basically out of the public eye — save going to events with Taylor Swift — since around 2023. Thankfully, Haim reappeared on Valentine’s Day to announce that Este is engaged and to start teasing that perhaps, finally, their fourth album is on the way. But where the heck have they been?! We proposed a few different theories: A recording studio, a film set in Hollywood, TayTay’s basement and Boca. The winner, as chosen by 47% of our readers, is Taylor Swift’s basement.
Mazel tov to all the winners!
