Oscars 2025 (Academy Awards)

[Anders]

Here are the full list of nominees:

Best Picture
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ray Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Actress in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here

Actor in a Supporting Role
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Actress in a Supporting Role
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Pérez

Directing
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

International Feature Film
I’m Still Here
The Girl with The Needle
Emilia Perez
The Seed of a Sacred Fig
Flow

Animated Feature Film
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit
The Wild Robot

Documentary Feature Film
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane

Film Editing
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

Cinematography
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Maria
Nosferatu

Production Design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

Costume Design
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

Music (Original Score)
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Music (Original Song)
El Mal, Emilia Pérez
The Journey, The Six Triple Eight
Like A Bird, Sing Sing
Mi Camino, Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late, Elton John: Never Too Late

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

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

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

Makeup and Hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

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

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

[BurtReynolds]

Good luck to all the nominees.

[tommy]

The formatting is a little hard to follow - did they snub Denzel??

[tommy]

No best director nom for Denis??

What the fuck is this bullshit!?

[tommy]

I will continue my tradition of never watching the Oscars in protest

[tommy]

A visual effects nomination for Romulus is hilarious too

[VinylGuy]

ugh that emilia perez thing got so many...havent seen it yet, but it seems like a disaster.

Happy for Sean Baker but these fuckers wont give anything to Anora. Surprised The Substance got a best movie nod, but im happy it didnt get a best editing at least. Coralie Fargeat best director? no way.

Issabella Rosellini for Conclave? get out of here. She is barely in the movie.

[Anders]

Conan O'Brien will host the Oscars ceremony, which will air live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.m. ET on ABC and Hulu.

CBS News: "Nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with "Emilia Pérez," "A Complete Unknown" and "Conclave" at the top of the heap in overall nods. This comes after the nominations were delayed twice due to the Los Angeles area wildfires.

Leading the pack in overall nominations, with 13 total, is "Emilia Pérez," a crime musical centering around a cartel leader who has transitioned. That achievement is just one nomination shy of tying the record for overall nominations from a single film; "Titanic," "All About Eve" and "La La Land" all received 14.

Actress Karla Sofía Gascón, playing the titular role, made Oscar history by being the first transgender woman to be nominated in any acting category. She joins a competitive field that also includes Cynthia Erivo, from "Wicked," and Demi Moore, whose performance in the bloody body horror hit "The Substance" has stirred up a conversation on the industry's mistreatment of women of an age. Both Moore and the film itself were expected to get nominations in the top Oscar categories.

Behind "Emilia Pérez" in overall nominations were "The Brutalist" and "Wicked," which each received 10 nominations. All three, along with "The Substance," were among the 10 nominated for the best picture award, where they were joined by "A Complete Unknown," "Conclave," "Anora," "Dune: Part Two," "Nickel Boys" and "I'm Still Here."

"Emilia Pérez" won four Golden Globes earlier this month, including best motion picture musical or comedy, and best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña's performance. "The Brutalist," a 215-minute epic about a Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America post-WWII, won Golden Globes for best motion picture drama, and lead actor Adrian Brody was also a Globe winner. Both Saldaña and Brody were nominated in their respective Oscar categores."

BBC: "The big snub in best actor is Daniel Craig – who misses out for his performance in Queer, in which he plays a gay man in 1950s Mexico City."
"With 13 nominations, Emilia Pérez becomes the most nominated foreign film in Oscar history"

Deadline: "SNUBS

DENZEL WASHINGTON – One of the greatest actors of all time puts on a literal and figurative battle royale of a performance in Gladiator II, and Denzel Washington’s name was unspoken today. The two-time Academy Award winner was rightfully given a delayed Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden earlier this month, but there will be no gold at this year’s Oscar for the previously nine-time nominee. That’s a crime.

KNEECAP – The Rich Peppiatt directed flick about the fierce Irish hip hop band of the same name premiered at Sundance 2024 and has been on a tear ever since. However, today, the music stopped for what was considered a bigger contender in the International Film category.

NICOLE KIDMAN – The Babygirl actress and past Best Actress winner was not the object of the Academy’s affection this year.

NOSFERATU – The Robert Eggers helmed remake of the 1922 horror classic couldn’t seem to draw significant blood out of AMPAS voters today.

DANIEL CRAIG – The Our Friends in the North and 007 alum’s Queer performance has been blessed with a Holy Trinity of Golden Globes, Critics Choice and SAG Awards nominations, but received no love from the Academy this AM. Would you say that to William S. Burroughs’ face?

PAMELA ANDERSON – Coming off a Golden Globe nomination and more recently a SAG Award nomination, The Last Showgirl star has not only flexed some true acting muscles on-screen but portrayed a true Hollywood comeback epic in real life with the Gia Coppola directed drama. So, what was the problem, AMPAS voters? And what was co-star and past Best Supporting Actress winner Jamie Lee Curtis not invited to the party either?

CHALLENGERS – No match point here Luca! Not even for the WGA Awards nominated screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes. Where’s John McEnroe when you need him?

JON M. CHU – Just like with the Golden Globes nominations late last year, Wicked was all over today’s Oscar nominations, but its director was AWOL with AMPAS voters. That’s as wicked as it seems, as Keith Richards would say.

SURPRISES

FELICITY JONES – The Brutalist is brutally long, but if you stuck it out through the intermission, you’d have found that the Erzsébet Tóth performance by the past Oscar nominee Jones was in many ways the beating heart of the Brady Corbet directed epic. Clearly, Academy voters are a lot more patient lot that many would have given them credit for. Bravo!

SEBASTIAN STAN – The Donald Trump origin story The Apprentice attracted a lot of controversy and threats of legal action from the past and now present POTUS, but seem to be shunned by a cowed Hollywood, some of whom wouldn’t even be in the same room with Stan. Now, with a Best Actor nomination for the man who also plays a certain Winter Soldier, the real life former Apprentice host might see Tinseltown flexes some muscle. Also, co-star Jeremy Strong brought some nomination heat with a nomination of his own for his Roy Cohn."

[Anders]

CNN: “Emilia Pérez” led with 13 nominations, followed by “The Brutalist” and the movie musical “Wicked” with 10 each.

LA Times: Snubs and surprises:

SURPRISE: Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here” (lead actress)
Torres’ Golden Globes win earlier this month gave her a late boost, as it prompted voters who hadn’t seen “I’m Still Here” to move it to the top of their to-do list. She’s outstanding in Walter Salles’ period drama, playing a defiant woman holding her family together after a repressive regime takes her husband away. I suspect that the final spot in the crowded lead actress category came down to Torres and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in “Hard Truths.” Voters went with Torres and the more accessible film.

SNUB: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (lead actress)
Jean-Baptiste won lead actress honors from the three major film critics groups — L.A., New York and the National Society. Six of the last seven women to win honors from both the New York and Los Angeles groups went on to earn an Oscar nod. The exception? Sally Hawkins, who, like Jean-Baptiste, starred in a Mike Leigh movie, “Happy-Go-Lucky.” Granted, “Hard Truths” is a challenging film. But Jean-Baptiste was so skilled at showing us the pain behind her misanthropic character’s brittle exterior, I thought she was undeniable. But like Pansy says in the film: “People. Can’t stand them.”

SNUB: Angelina Jolie, “Maria” (lead actress)
At its Venice Film Festival premiere, “Maria” earned an eight-minute standing ovation, prompting tears from it star, Jolie, who plays legendary opera singer Maria Callas in the film. It turns out that was the high point for the movie and its headliner. Film critics weren’t impressed, calling the film a “chilly, one-note bore.” Music critics who covered Callas, wrote that “Jolie would make a great plastic doll of Callas.” The biopic genre has always been (and continues to be) catnip to voters, but “Maria” proved to be an exception.

SNUB: Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl” (lead actress)
With that packed lead actress category, the numbers weren’t on Kidman’s side. Neither was the movie’s marketing, which billed “Babygirl” as an erotic-thriller, leading to some confusion for audiences (and voters) who came in expecting ... what? “Basic Instinct”? This feels like it’ll be another risk-taking Kidman performance that, years from now, we’ll look back at and wonder how it failed to connect on a larger scale.

SURPRISE: “I’m Still Here” (picture)
Walter Salles’ excellent “I’m Still Here,” anchored by Torres’ Oscar-nominated performance, snuck in, benefiting from a surge in viewing by voters while ballots were out. The movie also earned a nomination for international feature. Great day for Brazil.

SNUB: Daniel Craig, “Queer” (lead actor)
Most pundits figured Craig could earn his first Oscar nomination for a go-for-broke performance as a lonely expat shaken (and stirred) from mindless debauchery after he becomes obsessed with a younger man in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer.” But the movie is sluggish to the point of inertia. Maybe ayahuasca would help? I don’t think they hand that out at the academy screenings.

SURPRISE: James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown” (director)
The Directors Guild gave Mangold a nomination too, so, in retrospect, is this really a shock? A little. The academy’s directors branch hasn’t rubber-stamped the DGA’s slate since 2010, so it figured someone might be out. But it wasn’t Mangold, the force behind the Dylan-goes-electric biopic, which has proved immensely popular with the academy’s older voters.

SURPRISE: Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice” (lead actor)
Stan’s decision to reveal that he couldn’t participate in Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series for his portrayal of a young Donald Trump in “The Apprentice” turned out to be genius. “They were too afraid to go and talk about this movie,” Stan told an audience of awards voters. Suddenly, Stan — and his fascinating, flawed movie — were back in the news. And who doesn’t like an underdog story, not to mention one poking its real-life subject, who can now be counted on to offer his thoughts on this year’s Oscars.

SNUB: “Sing Sing” (picture)
The running theme with “Sing Sing,” the inspirational drama about a real-life prison arts program that uplifts inmates, is that not enough people saw it — not when it premiered in theaters in July and not during awards season screenings. I always thought it would turn a corner because, c’mon, it trumpets the importance of the arts and, in particular, acting. I’ll never understand how it failed to find its audience.

SNUB: “September 5” (picture)
This drama about ABC Sports’ coverage of the hostage drama at the 1972 Summer Olympics hadn’t made much noise until it picked up a Producers Guild best picture nomination. Critics liked it well enough, but often in a backhanded way, calling it a very good television movie. But the fact that it played well on the small screen, as opposed to, say, “Nickel Boys,” gave some hope that it might have a leg up with voters who prefer to stay at home and watch movies on the academy’s screening portal. Turns out “September 5” might have won an Emmy, but not an Oscar.

SURPRISE AND SNUB: “Nickel Boys” (picture, director RaMell Ross)
Ross’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a cruel Florida reform school in the early 1960s challenged viewers as he told the story subjectively from the point of view of his protagonists. It was a bold conceit — not too bold though for voters to nominate the movie for best picture. However, the directors branch omitted Ross, strange since “Nickel Boys” felt like the most-directed movie of the year.

SNUB: Denis Villeneuve, “Dune: Part Two” (director)
No nomination for the first one. And now he’s overlooked for the second entry, which was even better. Are voters waiting for the third one to anoint Villeneuve like they did Peter Jackson and the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy?



SNUB: Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl” (supporting actress)
Curtis, the (often) self-proclaimed “weapon of mass promotion,” surprised many by picking up nominations from the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the British Academy Film Awards for her brassy turn as Pamela Anderson’s spray-tanned friend in “The Last Showgirl.” But she won’t get the chance to pick up a bookend for the Oscar she won two years ago for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” I imagine the Emmy she earned for “The Bear” will have to do (for now).


SNUB: Margaret Qualley, “The Substance” (supporting actress)
Yes, “respect the balance” was a rule of the movie, designed to impose limits on Elisabeth and Sue’s ventures into the world. But that shouldn’t have kept voters from rewarding both Qualley and Moore with nominations.


SNUB: Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II” (supporting actor)
The real snub: Fun.

[Anders]

Oddschecker actually had September 5 with the second lowest odds for Best Picture winner, only behind The Brutalist. Those two followed by Emilia Perez, Conclave and Anora.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Sloppy Dupree]

Complete Unknown doesn’t seem like it deserves a best picture nod.

[Anders]

Letterboxd:

The #Oscars nominees, by the numbers:

Emilia Perez - 13
The Brutalist - 10
Wicked - 10
A Complete Unknown - 8
Conclave - 8
Anora - 6
Dune: Part Two - 5
The Substance - 5
Nosferatu - 4
I'm Still Here - 3
Sing Sing - 3
The Wild Robot - 3
The Apprentice - 2
Flow - 2
Nickel Boys - 2
A Real Pain - 2

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I feel like this will be all about Wicked this year.

[BurtReynolds]

Lmao Amelia Perez proves you can't spoof Hollywood. No matter what, it will always out-ridiculous you.

[tommy]

Lmao Amelia Perez proves you can't spoof Hollywood. No matter what, it will always out-ridiculous you.

13 nominations for some stupid straight to Netflix movie that nobody liked and 5 for a literal fucking sci-fi masterpiece.

[psychobain]

I'm Still Here

[Sloppy Dupree]

Complete Unknown doesn’t seem like it deserves a best picture nod.

old people love to reminisce about stupid Bob Dylan

It has that stink of “bio pic Oscar bait” all over it. I love Chalomet, but I thought the movie was middling.

[E.H. Ruddock]

The movie sucked. It is the same Dylan story that is in like five other documentaries/movies. Also, biopics for people who are still alive is kind of dumb to me.