‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ and ‘Wicked’ lead 2025 Oscar nominations: See the full list
And it has come down to this.
After months of hype, campaigning, predictions, and pivots, the 2025 Oscar nominations arrived Thursday to provide clarity in a muddled awards season.
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Leading the way: Emilia Pérez (13 nominations), The Brutalist (10), Wicked (10), A Complete Unknown (eight), and Conclave (eight). Those films will compete with Anora, Dune: Part Two, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys, and The Substance.
With its 13 nominations — including Best Director (Jacques Audiard), Best Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans person to be nominated for acting), and Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Salda?a) — Emilia Pérez set a record for an international film, eclipsing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma, which each had 10. The Spanish-language, Mexico-set French-imported musical’s tally matched last year’s leader, Oppenheimer, which went on to win Best Picture.
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But without an Oppenheimer-esque juggernaut dominating the precursor awards, it’s expected to be a tight race with formidable competition. The Brutalist, starring Best Actor frontrunner Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor who tries to make his way in postwar America, also scored nominations for Best Director (Brady Corbet), Best Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones), and Best Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce, the first of his stellar career). We’ll see if the revelation over the weekend that the film used AI to enhance the Hungarian speech of Brody and Jones becomes a footnote or a stumbling block.
Wicked, the blockbuster adaptation of the hugely, um, popular Broadway stage musical tallied nominations for both lead witches, Cynthia Erivo (Best Actress) and Ariana Grande (Best Supporting Actress); however, filmmaker Jon M. Chu was a notable omission for Best Director.
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In the lead actress race, Demi Moore capped her comeback story by earning her first Oscar nomination for The Substance as an older actress who undertakes extreme measures to remain relevant in Hollywood; she’ll compete against Gascón, Erivo, Anora breakout Mikey Madison, and Fernanda Torres, the star of I’m Still Here, Brazil’s contender for international feature which also snagged a Best Picture slot. In addition to Brody, the lineup for Best Actor includes Timothée Chalamet for channeling Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, Colman Domingo for the prison drama Sing Sing, Ralph Fiennes as the embattled cardinal in the papal potboiler Conclave, and, in one of the bigger shocks, Sebastian Stan, for playing a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
There were some other surprises when the nominees were unveiled by Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang in the unusually low-key announcement ceremony, which took place from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater without the usual throngs of media in attendance following a series of wildfires that devastated the Los Angeles area and delayed the Oscar schedule. Denzel Washington (Gladiator II), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Daniel Craig (Queer), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), and Challengers were among the hopefuls that did not make the cut.
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The 2025 Oscar ceremony will air on March 2, with a reconfigured ceremony paying tribute to the firefighters. Here is the complete list of nominations for the 97th Academy Awards:
BEST PICTURE
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
BEST DIRECTOR
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
BEST ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
BEST ACTOR
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Salda?a, Emilia Pérez
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Emilia Pérez
Flow
The Girl With the Needle
I’m Still Here
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
“Beautiful Men”
“In the Shadow of the Cypress”
“Magic Candies”
“Wander to Wonder”
“Yuck!”
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“Death by Numbers”
“I Am Ready, Warden”
“Incident”
“Instruments of a Beating Heart”
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
“A Lien”
“Anuja”
“I’m Not a Robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked
BEST FILM EDITING
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked
BEST SCORE
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
BEST SONG
“El Mal,” from Emilia Pérez
“The Journey,” from The Six Triple Eight
“Like a Bird,” from Sing Sing
“Mi Camino,” from Emilia Pérez
“Never Too Late,” from Elton John: Never Too Late
BEST SOUND
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
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