2025 Academy Awards: Complete List of Oscar Nominations

The 97th Academy Awards nominations are officially out, with “Emilia Pérez,” “A Complete Unknown,” and “Conclave” leading the list of nominees.

“Emilia Pérez,” a crime musical about a cartel leader, who fakes his death and undergoes a gender transition, leads the pack with 13 nominations.

These nominations puts “Emilia Pérez” close to the all-time record of 14 nominations held by “Titanic,” “All About Eve,” and “La La Land.”

“The Brutalist” and “Wicked” scored 10 nominations each.

These three films, along with “The Substance,” are competing for Best Picture, alongside “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Nickel Boys,” and “I’m Still Here.”

The Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and air live in more than 200 territories worldwide.

See the full list of Oscar nominations for 2025 Academy Awards

Category	Nominees
Best Picture	“Anora” (Neon), “The Brutalist” (A24), “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight), “Conclave” (Focus), “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “I’m Still Here” (Sony Classics), “Nickel Boys” (Amazon/MGM), “The Substance” (Mubi), “Wicked” (Universal)
Best Director	Sean Baker (“Anora”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”), James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”), Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”), Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”)
Best Actress	Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”), Karla Sofia Gascón (“Emilia Pérez”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”), Demi Moore (“The Substance”), Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”)
Best Actor	Adrian Brody (“The Brutalist”), Timothée Chalamet (“A Complete Unknown”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”), Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”), Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”)
Best Supporting Actress	Monica Barbaro (“A Complete Unknown”), Ariana Grande (“Wicked”), Felicity Jones (“The Brutalist”), Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”), Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”)
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 Original Screenplay	“Anora” (Sean Baker), “The Brutalist” (Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold), “A Real Pain” (Jesse Eisenberg), “September 5” (Tim Fehlbaum & Moritz Binder), “The Substance” (Coralie Fargeat)
Best Adapted Screenplay	“A Complete Unknown” (Jay Cocks & James Mangold), “Conclave” (Peter Straughan), “Emilia Pérez” (Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain & Nicolas Livecchi), “Nickel Boys” (RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes), “Sing Sing” (Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin & John “Divine G” Whitfield)
Best International Feature	“I’m Still Here” (Brazil), “The Girl with the Needle” (Denmark), “Emilia Pérez” (France), “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Germany), “Flow” (Latvia)
Best Documentary Feature	“Black Box Diaries” (MTV), “No Other Land” (No distributor), “Porcelain War” (Picturehouse), “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Kino Lorber), “Sugarcane” (Nat Geo)
Best Animated Feature	“Flow” (Janus Films/Sideshow), “Inside Out 2” (Disney/Pixar), “Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films), “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Aardman/Netflix), “The Wild Robot” (Dreamworks/Universal)
Best Cinematography	“The Brutalist” (Lol Crawley), “Dune: Part Two” (Greig Fraser), “Emilia Pérez” (Paul Guillaume), “Maria” (Edward Lachman), “Nosferatu” (Jarin Blaschke)
Best Costume Design	“A Complete Unknown” (Arianne Phillips), “Conclave” (Lisy Christl), “Gladiator II” (Janty Yates), “Nosferatu” (Linda Muir), “Wicked” (Paul Tazewell)
Best Film Editing	“Anora” (Sean Baker), “The Brutalist” (Dávid Jancsó), “Conclave” (Nick Emerson), “Emilia Pérez” (Juliette Welfling), “Wicked” (Myron Kerstein)
Best Production Design	“The Brutalist” (Judy Becker), “Conclave” (Suzie Davies), “Dune: Part Two” (Patrice Vermette), “Nosferatu” (Craig Lathrop), “Wicked” (Nathan Crowley)
Best Original Score	“The Brutalist” (Daniel Blumberg), “Conclave” (Volker Bertelmann), “Emilia Pérez” (Clément Ducol & Camille), “Wicked” (John Powell & Stephen Schwartz), “The Wild Robot” (Kris Bowers)
Best Original Song	“Never Too Late” (“Elton John: Never Too Late”), “El Mal” (“Emilia Pérez”), “Mi Camino” (“Emilia Pérez”), “Like a Bird” (“Sing Sing”), “The Journey” (“The Six Triple Eight”)
Best Sound	“A Complete Unknown,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Wicked,” “The Wild Robot”
Best Visual Effects	“Alien: Romulus,” “Better Man,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” “Wicked”
Best Makeup & Hairstyling	“A Different Man,” “Emilia Pérez,” “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 Animated Short	“Beautiful Men,” “In the Shadow of the Cypress,” “Magic Candies,” “Wander to Wonder,” “Yuck!”
Best Live-Action Short	“A Lien,” “Anuja,” “I’m Not a Robot,” “The Last Ranger,” “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”

What are your thoughts on the Oscar nominations for 2025 Academy Awards? Which movies or TV shows are you rooting for? Were there any surprises that caught your attention?