It’s time to review the 2025 Oscar nominations! That’s because tonight is the 97th Academy Awards (learn how to watch here), and, my, have things in the Oscar race changed since this full list of noms was unveiled January 23. See the complete list of nominees for the 2025 Oscars below, and see our full list of Oscar predictions here.
“Emilia Pérez” seemed like the definitive Best Picture frontrunner at that time, cleaning up with 13 nominations. Now, following the implosion of Best Actress nominee Karla Sofía Gascón, and the growing outcry against the film in Mexico, its Oscar chances seem pretty much dead, except for likely Best Supporting Actress winner Zoe Saldaña and maybe Best International Feature. In her own final Oscar picks, Anne Thompson also has “El Mal” from the Jacques Audiard movie winning Best Original Song.
Mind you, “Emilia Pérez,” in scoring 13 noms, tied with multiple other films such as “Gone with the Wind,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Oppenheimer” for the second-most of all time. This is the most nominations a non-English language feature has ever received. (The most Oscar noms ever received by a film is 14, which was an achievement shared by “All About Eve,” “Titanic,” and “La La Land.”)
“The Brutalist” and “Wicked” each scored 10 nominations, showing the extraordinary momentum they’ve built across awards season — “Wicked” has now grossed over $472 million domestically. Both Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande received acting nominations. That film is likely to perform best in the craft categories, however, while “The Brutalist” is a strong contender for Best Director Brady Corbet and Best Actor Adrien Brody.
Unless Bob Dylan has anything to say about it, that is: “A Complete Unknown” earned eight nominations, including James Mangold in Best Director and Timothée Chalamet in Best Actor, as well as Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton in the supporting categories. Chalamet has gained momentum as the season has gone on, including winning the Best Actor prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last Sunday — actors are the largest voting bloc in the Academy, and there is profound overlap with the SAG Awards votership.
“Conclave” is another film that has gained momentum late. It received eight Oscar noms, including for Ralph Fiennes and Isabella Rossellini in the acting categories, and last weekend it won the SAG Awards’ equivalent of Best Picture, the Best Cast prize.
“Anora” had six nominations — and all other things being considered, is probably the safest bet to win Best Picture — while “The Substance” and “Dune: Part Two” had five, “Nosferatu” had four, and “Sing Sing” had three.
For the second time ever, a film was nominated in both Best International Feature and Best Animated Feature: The extraordinary “Flow,” which follows the same achievement by “Flee” for the 2022 Oscars.
With “Emilia Pérez” and “Wicked,” this is also the first time since the 1969 ceremony that two musicals were nominated for Best Picture. On that occasion it was “Funny Girl” and “Oliver!” which ultimately won Best Picture.
Nominations voting was extended until Friday January 17 on account of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires and the reveal of the nominations themselves was pushed back twice. This time, there was no in-person component for press on nominations morning. The noms were read live on ABC, which always hosts the Oscars, by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott. They kicked off the proceedings by saying that they had started the morning with “three diet cokes, a pack of cigarettes, and an Adderall.”
The 97th Academy Awards are taking place tonight March 2 at Los Angeles’s Dolby Theatre, and will be hosted by Conan O’Brien, who IndieWire called an inspired choice.
Read the full list of nominations below.
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
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Perez”
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
Karla Sofia Gascon, “Emilia Perez”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
Best Actor
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Timothee Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
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 Supporting Actress
Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Pérez”
Best International Feature Film
“I’m Still Here”
“The Girl with the Needle”
“Emilia Pérez”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
“Flow”
Best Cinematography
“The Brutalist”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
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 & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Visual Effects
“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”
Best Editing
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
Best Production Design
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune Part Two”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“A Different Man”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Best Costume Design
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Best Sound
“A Complete Unknown”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Documentary Feature
“Black Box Diaries”
“No Other Land”
“Porcelain War”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“Sugarcane”
Best Documentary Short Subject
“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 Would Not Remain Silent”
Best Animated Short
“Beautiful Men”
“In the Shadow of the Cypress”
“Magic Candies”
“Wander to Wonder”
“Yuck!”
Best Original Song
“El Mal,” “Emilia Perez”
“The Journey,” “The Six Triple Eight”
“Like a Bird,” “Sing Sing”
“Mi Camino,” “Emilia Perez”
“Never Too Late,” “Elton John: Never Too Late”
Best Original Score
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
