The 2025 Oscar Nominations Are In

By Olivia Emily

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It’s a big day for film buffs: the 2025 Oscar nominations are here, showcasing the work of the very best films, actors and technicians over the past year. Here’s everything you need to know.

Feeling behind? Here’s who made the Oscars shortlist.

The 2025 Oscar Nominations In Brief

The race for Best Picture is officially on – and, where 2024’s nominations heralded an Oppenheimer-dominated ceremony, 2025’s nominations have thrown the competition wide open. Ten films are up for the prestigious award, spanning everything from the Cannes Palm d’Or-winning indie film Anora to Jacques Audiard’s controversial Emilia Pérez (a Spanish-language drama set in Mexico directed by a Frenchman and filmed in Paris was never going to please everyone). Regardless of Audiard’s detractors, he has made Oscars history: Emilia Pérez is not just 2025’s most nominated film with 13 nods, but the most nominated non-English-language film in history; and the film’s lead star Karla Sofía Gascón is the first ever openly trans actor to be nominated both for Best Actress and in any acting category at all.

Speaking of the acting categories, 13 of 20 nominees are Oscar-first-timers, including Gascón, Anora‘s Mikey Madison, Wicked‘s Ariana Grande and The Substance‘s Demi Moore. The latter has been the topic of many an Academy Awards conversation after career-long snubs; her nomination is hot on the heels of her Golden Globes win, with the horror film receiving a surprise Best Picture nomination to boot.

Sebastian Stan has also bagged a Best Actor nomination for his turn as a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice, a salacious acknowledgment just days after the President returned to the oval office. Co-star and fellow Oscar-first-timer Jeremy Strong has also been commended in the Supporting Actor category, kicking off a Succession battle with A Real Pain‘s Kieran Culkin. It’s a stiff competition for Best Actor: Stan will go up against 2002 winner Adrien Brody, 2017 nominee Timothée Chalamet, 1996 nominee Ralph Fiennes, and Colman Domingo who is nominated in the category for the second year running.

Here are the headlines:

  • Emilia Pérez has the most nominations with 13, followed by Wicked and The Brutalist with 10 apiece.
  • Best Picture nominations for Emilia Pérez and Wicked mark the first time two musicals have been nominated in the category since Oliver! and Funny Girl in 1968.
  • Coralie Fargeat’s Best Picture nomination for The Substance marks the sixth year running at least one film directed by a woman has been nominated in the category; her Best Director nod is the tenth ever nomination for a woman in the category.
  • Latvia has its first ever nomination in Best International Feature Film for Flow. The film is the third animated film to ever be nominated in this category.
  • Diane Warren’s Original Song nomination marks her eighth consecutive showing in the category, with 16 nominations in total.

All The Nominees For The 97th Academy Awards

Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott host the announcement of the 97th Oscars® nominations, on Thursday, January 23, 2025.

Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott host the announcement of the 97th Oscars® nominations, on Thursday, January 23, 2025.

Best Picture

  • Anora
  • The Brutalist
  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part 2
  • 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 Pérez
  • Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
A still from Anora film

Anora

Best Actor

  • Adrien Brody in The Brutalist
  • Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown
  • Colman Domingo in Sing Sing
  • Ralph Fiennes in Conclave
  • Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice

Best Actress

  • Cynthia Erivo in Wicked
  • Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez
  • Mikey Madison in Anora
  • Demi Moore in The Substance
  • Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here
A still from The Apprentice

The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actor

  • Yura Borisov in Anora
  • Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain
  • Edward Norton in A Complete Unknown
  • Guy Pearce in The Brutalist
  • Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

  • Monica Barbaro in A Complete Unknown
  • Ariana Grande in Wicked
  • Felicity Jones in The Brutalist
  • Isabella Rossellini in Conclave
  • Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez

Best Original Screenplay

  • Anora
  • The Brutalist
  • A Real Pain
  • September 5
  • The Substance
Edward Norton and Timothée Chalamet in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

Edward Norton and Timothée Chalamet in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Photo by Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2024 Searchlight Pictures All Rights Reserved.

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Nickel Boys
  • Sing Sing

Best International Feature Film

  • Brazil, I’m Still Here
  • Denmark, The Girl with the Needle
  • France, Emilia Pérez
  • Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  • Latvia, Flow

Gromit & Wallace in Vengeance Most Fowl. (BBC/Aardman Animations Ltd 2024/Richard Davies)

Best Animated Feature Film

  • Flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • Wallace & 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
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in the Wicked film

Wicked

Best Documentary Short Film

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

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Live Action Short Film

  • A Lien
  • Anuja
  • I’m Not a Robot
  • The Last Ranger
  • The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Zoe Saldaña as Rita Moro Castro and Karla Sofía Gascón as Emilia Pérez in Emilia Pérez.

Zoe Saldaña as Rita Moro Castro and Karla Sofía Gascón as Emilia Pérez in Emilia Pérez. (Netflix © 2024)

Best Original Score

  • The Brutalist
  • Conclave
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Wicked
  • The Wild Robot

Best Original Song

  • ‘Never Too Late’ from Elton John: Never Too Late
  • ‘El Mal’ from Emilia Pérez
  • ‘Mi Camino’ from Emilia Pérez
  • ‘Like A Bird’ from Sing Sing
  • ‘The Journey’ from The Six Triple Eight

Best Sound

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

(L-R) TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET as Paul Atreides and AUSTIN BUTLER as Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ action adventure “DUNE: PART TWO,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release. © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Best Production Design

  • The Brutalist
  • Conclave
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Nosferatu
  • Wicked

Best Cinematography

  • The Brutalist
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Emilia Pérez
  • Maria
  • Nosferatu
Angelina Jolia as Maria

Angelina Jolia as Maria. (Netflix)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

Best Costume Design

  • A Complete Unknown
  • Conclave
  • Gladiator II
  • Nosferatu
  • Wicked
Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter and Emma Corrin as Anna Harding in director Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU

Lily-Rose Depp stars as Ellen Hutter and Emma Corrin as Anna Harding in director Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU. (© Focus Features)

Best Film Editing

  • Sean Baker, Anora
  • David Jancso, The Brutalist
  • Nick Emerson, Conclave
  • Juliette Welfling, Emilia Pérez
  • Myron Kerstein, Wicked

Best Visual Effects

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

David Jonsson as Andy in 20th Century Studios’ ALIEN: ROMULUS. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2024 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

WATCH

The 97th Academy Awards will return to Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Sunday 2 March 2025. The ceremony will begin at 4pm Pacific Time (midnight here in the UK). The ceremony will be hosted by Conan O’Brien.

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