2024-2025 Oscars / 97th Academy Awards

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The 2024-2025 Oscars / 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Conan O'Brien will host. The nominees were announced today, Thursday, January 23, 2025:

Best Picture:
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part 2
- Emilia Perez
- I'm Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- The Substance
- Wicked

 

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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) as Laszlo Toth
- Timothee Chalamet (A Complete Unknown) as Bob Dylan
- Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) as John "Divine G" Whitfield
- Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence
- Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) as Donald J. Trump

Best Actress

- Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) as Elphaba Thropp
- Karla Sofia Gascon (Emilia Perez) as Emilia Perez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte
- Mikey Madison (Anora) as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva
- Demi Moore (The Substance) as Elisabeth Sparkle
- Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here) as Eunice Paiva

Best Supporting Actor

- Yura Borisov (Anora) as Igor
- Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain) as Benji Kaplan
- Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown) as Pete Seeger
- Guy Pearce (The Brutalist) as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr.
- Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice) as Roy Cohn

Best Supporting Actress

- Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown) as Joan Baez
- Ariana Grande (Wicked) as Galinda "Glinda" Upland
- Felicity Jones (The Brutalist) as Erzsebet Toth
- Isabella Rossellini (Conclave) as Sister Agnes
- Zoe Saldana (Emilia Perez) as Rita Mora Castro

Best Original Screenplay

- Anora by Sean Baker
- The Brutalist by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
- A Real Pain by Jesse Eisenberg
- September 5 by Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum; co-written by Alex David
- The Substance by Coralie Fargeat

Best Adapted Screenplay

- A Complete Unknown by James Mangold and Jay Cocks; based on the book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald
- Conclave by Peter Straughan; based on the novel Conclave by Robert Harris
- Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard; in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Lea Mysius, and Nicolas Livecchi; based on the opera libretto Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard
- Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; based on the novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Sing Sing: screenplay by Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley; story by Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, Clarence Maclin, and John "Divine G" Whitfield; based on the book The Sing Sing Follies by John H. Richardson

 

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Best Animated Feature

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

Best International Feature Film

- Emilia Perez (France) in Spanish
- Flow (Latvia)
- The Girl with the Needle (Denmark) in Danish
- I'm Still Here (Brazil) in Portuguese
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany) in Persian

Best Documentary Feature Film

- Black Box Diaries
- No Other Land
- Porcelain War
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- Sugarcane

Best Documentary Short Film

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

Best Live Action Short Film

- A Lien
- Anuja
- I'm Not a Robot
- The Last Ranger
- The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Original Score

- The Brutalist by Daniel Blumberg
- Conclave by Volker Bertelmann
- Emilia Perez by Clement Ducol and Camille
- Wicked by John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
- The Wild Robot by Kris Bowers

Best Original Song

- "El Mal" from Emilia Perez - music by Clement Ducol and Camille; lyrics by Clement Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard
- "The Journey" from The Six Triple Eight - music and lyrics by Diane Warren
- "Like a Bird" from Sing Sing - music and lyrics by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada
- "Mi Camino" from Emilia Perez - music and lyrics by Camille and Clement Ducol
- "Never Too Late" from Elton John: Never Too Late - music and lyrics by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, and Bernie Taupin

Best Sound

- A Complete Unknown
- Dune: Part 2
- Emilia Perez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot

Best Production Design

- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Dune: Part 2
- Nosferatu
- Wicked

Best Cinematography

- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part 2
- Emilia Perez
- Maria
- Nosferatu

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

- A Different Man
- Emilia Perez
- Nosferatu
- The Substance
- Wicked

Best Costume Design

- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Gladiator II
- Nosferatu
- Wicked

Best Film Editing

- Anora
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Perez
- Wicked

Best Visual Effects

- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Dune: Part 2
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked

 

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The 2024-2025 Oscars / 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025. The nominees were announced today, Thursday, January 23, 2025:

Best Picture:
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part 2
- Emilia Perez
- I'm Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- The Substance
- Wicked

I have only seen Dune. And that did NOT feel like a “Best Picture”.

Emilia is getting a lot of buzz, and I think Hollywood NEEDS a victory over the cultural trend of the country right now, so that will win.

 

[flyerhawk]

A lot of angst about Emilia Perez. Haven't seen it yet but based on what I've read, I'm sticking with The Brutalist winning.

 

[Wazmankg]

I've usually seen a few of these but not this year. Dune 2 has been it so far and it's crazy to me that it was nominated for best picture. But to be fair, it was not my thing and I kinda knew that going in.