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The 2025 Oscar Nominations Are Here!

By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | January 23, 2025 |

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The Oscar nominations are here! Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott woke up bright and early to announce the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards.

There were very few surprises with these noms. Everyone expected films like Conclave, Emilia Perez, and Wicked to do well. The total shut-out of Queer and Hard Truths does sting but wasn’t a shock. Sebastian Stan got in for Best Actor but for The Apprentice and not A Different Man. Fernanda Torres made good on her Golden Globes boost not only with a Best Actress nom but with the film making its way into Best Picture. No Other Land, a documentary about a group of Palestinian-Israeli activists resisting the occupation in the West Bank, made it into Best Documentary Feature even though it notably does not have US distribution.

Here are the nominees for the 2025 Oscars. Argue away!

BEST PICTURE

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
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 ACTOR

Adrien Brody — The Brutalist
Timothee Chalamet — A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo — Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes — Conclave
Sebastian Stan — The Apprentice

BEST ACTRESS

Cynthia Erivo — Wicked
Karla Sofia Gascon — Emilia Perez
Mikey Madison — Anora
Demi Moore — The Substance
Fernanda Torres — I’m Still Here

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
Isaella Rossellini — Conclave
Zoe Saldana — Emilia Perez

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Perez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Maria
Nosferatu

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

BEST EDITING

Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Perez
Wicked

BEST SOUND

A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP

A Different Man
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Death By Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Cout d’Etat
Sugarcane

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Would Not Remain Silent

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Perez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

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 VISUAL EFFECTS

Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

I’m Still Here
The Girl With the Needle
Emilia Perez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 2 and will be hosted by Conan O’Brien.