All The British Winners At The 2025 Oscars

Brits may not have bagged any of the big-name awards this year, but there’s some serious heavy lifting going on behind the scenes, from Hollywood hits filmed at Pinewood Studios in Slough to masterful British technicians editing future blockbusters. Here are all of the British Oscar winners to know in 2025.

Lol Crawley poses backstage with the Oscar® for Cinematography during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

British Winners At The 2025 Oscars

Eight British film technicians and writers bagged an Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards last night. They are:

• British writer Peter Straughan, who won Best Adapted Screenplay for Conclave, which was based on the novel by British author Robert Harris
• British musician Daniel Blumberg, who bagged Best Original Score for his work on The Brutalist
• British sound engineer Gareth John who shares Best Sound for Dune: Part Two with American colleagues Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill
• British production designer Nathan Crowley and British set decorator Lee Sandales, who share Best Production Design for their work on Wicked
• British cinematographer Lol Crawley who bagged Best Cinematography for his work on The Brutalist
• British visual effects supervisor Paul Lambert and Welsh-Canadian VFX artist Rhys Salcombe share Best Visual Effects for Dune: Part Two with Canadian Stephen James and German Gerd Nefzer

Daniel Blumberg poses backstage with the Oscar® for Original Score during the live ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® at Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

The Nominees

It wasn’t a huge showing of Brits in the top categories this year: one of the 10 Best Picture nominees can be counted as British, Conclave; three of the five Best Director nominees were American, the other two French; and only Cynthia Erivo, Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones flew the flag for British actors in the acting categories, though both missed out.

Further down the list, Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek and the rest of the Aardman team were tragically snubbed in the Best Animated Feature category for their Bafta winning Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The winner, Flow, marks Latvia’s first ever Oscar win. Fellow British animator Nina Gantz missed out in the Best Animated Short category, with her 2023 film Wander to Wonder up for the prize. 

Meanwhile, one of Britain’s shiniest stars Elton John missed out on Best Original Song; he was nominated for ‘Never Too Late’ which accompanied his 2024 documentary of the same name, trumped by Emilia Perez’s ‘El Mal’.

While Brits won in the technical categories of Best Sound and Best Production Design, it was at the expense of other Brits: composer Paul Massey for A Complete Unknown, sound mixers Simon Hayes and Andy Nelson for Wicked, and production designer Suzie Davies for Conclave. 

Over in Best Film Editing (snapped up by technical triple-threat Sean Baker), Northern Irish editor Nick Emerson missed out for his work on Conclave. In Best Costume Design, British duo Janty Yates and Dave Crossman missed out for their work on Gladiator II. In Best Makeup and Hairstyling, a French team won for The Substance, with Brits David White and Suzanne Stokes-Munton missing out for Nosferatu, and British trio Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth missing out for Wicked. There’s always part two!

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Catch up with the 97th Academy Awards at itv.com

See the full list of 2025 winners here.