The 2025 awards season is officially underway with Thursday’s nominations for the Oscars.
Nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards were announced early Thursday morning at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles by “Saturday Night Live” standout Bowen Yang, who starred in this year’s “Wicked,” and writer-actor Rachel Sennott.
The announcements arrived after a devastating month for Southern Californians, as the ongoing wildfires in the region have placed dozens of thousands of people under mandatory evacuation orders and untold residents have lost their homes.
Academy CEO Bill Kramer told the Los Angeles Times last week that after “consultation with ABC, our board” and major stakeholders in the industry, “we have made the carefully considered decision to proceed with the 97th Oscars ceremony as planned on March 2.”
The academy did extend the voting period and postponed the announcements by several days, as members are among the affected, and while some urged them to cancel the upcoming ceremony entirely, the show will go on — with a lot of competition in play now.
Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars for the very first time in his career when the ceremony airs on March 2 on ABC and its website, Hulu Live TV and elsewhere.
Here is the list of nominees:
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”)
Makeup And Hairstyling
“A Different Man”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Music (Original Score)
“Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Best Live Action Short Film
“A Lien”
“Anuja”
“I’m Not a Robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“The Man Who Would Not Remain Silent”
Best Animated Short Film
“Beautiful Men”
“In The Shadow of the Cypress”
“Magic Candies”
“Wander to Wonder”
“Yuck!”
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
Original Screenplay
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Real Pain”
“September 5”
“The Substance”
Best Documentary Feature Films
“Black Box Diaries”
“No Other Land”
“Porcelain War”
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
“Sugar King”
Best Documentary Short Film
“Death By Numbers”
“I Am Ready, Warden”
“Incident”
“Instruments of a Beating Heart”
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
Best International Feature Film
“I’m Still Here” (Brazil)
“The Girl With the Needle” (Denmark)
“Emilia Pérez (France)
“The Seed” (Germany)
“Flow” (Latvia)
Best Animated Feature Film
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
Production Design
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Film Editing
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
Sound
“A Complete Unknown”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Visual Effects
“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”
Cinematography
“The Brutalist”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
Actor In A Leading Role
Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”)
Timothée Chalamet
Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”)
Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”)
Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”)
Actress In A Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”)
Karla Sofia Gascón (“Emilia Pérez”)
Mikey Madison (“Anora”)
Demi Moore (“The Substance”)
Fernanda Torres (“I’m Still Here”)
Directing
Sean Baker (“Anora”)
Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”)
James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”)
Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”)
Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”)
Best Picture
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“I’m Still Here”
“Nickel Boys”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
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