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Oscars 2025: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Leads 97th Annual Academy Awards Noms

Clarence Moye by Clarence Moye
January 23, 2025
in Academy Awards, Featured Film, Featured Story, Film
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Netflix’s Emilia Pérez leads all films with 13 nominations at the 97th Annual Academy Awards. A24’s The Brutalist and Universal’s Wicked follow with 10 nominations each.

Here are your 2025 Oscar nominees:

Best motion picture of the year

“Anora” (Neon)

“The Brutalist” (A24)

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

“Conclave” (Focus Features)

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

“I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics)

“Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

“The Substance” (MUBI)

“Wicked” (Universal)

 

Achievement in directing

“Anora” (Neon) Sean Baker

“The Brutalist” (A24) Brady Corbet

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight) James Mangold

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Jacques Audiard

“The Substance” (MUBI) Coralie Fargeat

 

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Adrien Brody in “The Brutalist” (A24)

Timothée Chalamet in “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

Colman Domingo in “Sing Sing” (A24)

Ralph Fiennes in “Conclave” (Focus Features)

Sebastian Stan in “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)

 

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Yura Borisov in “Anora” (Neon)

Kieran Culkin in “A Real Pain” (Searchlight)

Edward Norton in “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

Guy Pearce in “The Brutalist” (A24)

Jeremy Strong in “The Apprentice” (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)

 

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Cynthia Erivo in “Wicked” (Universal)

Karla Sofía Gascón in “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

Mikey Madison in “Anora” (Neon)

Demi Moore in “The Substance” (MUBI)

Fernanda Torres in “I’m Still Here” (Sony Pictures Classics)

 

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Monica Barbaro in “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

Ariana Grande in “Wicked” (Universal)

Felicity Jones in “The Brutalist” (A24)

Isabella Rossellini in “Conclave” (Focus Features)

Zoe Saldaña in “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

 

Adapted screenplay

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

“Conclave” (Focus Features)

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

“Nickel Boys” (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)

“Sing Sing” (A24)

 

Original screenplay

“Anora” (Neon)

“The Brutalist” (A24)

“A Real Pain” (Searchlight)

“September 5” (Paramount)

“The Substance” (MUBI)

 

Achievement in film editing

“Anora” (Neon) Sean Baker

“The Brutalist” (A24) David Jancso

“Conclave” (Focus Features) Nick Emerson

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Juliette Welfling

“Wicked” (Universal)

 

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

“The Brutalist” (A24) Daniel Blumberg

“Conclave” (Focus Features) Volker Bertelmann

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Clément Ducol and Camille

“Wicked” (Universal) John Powell and Stephen Schwartz

“The Wild Robot” (Universal) Kris Bowers

 

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

“El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”

Music by Clément Ducol and Camille

Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard

“The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”

Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

“Like A Bird” from “Sing Sing”

Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada

“Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez”

Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol

“Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”

Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin

 

Best international feature film of the year

“I’m Still Here”

“The Girl with the Needle”

“Emilia Pérez”

“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

“Flow”

 

Best documentary feature film

“Black Box Diaries” (MTV Documentary Films)

“No Other Land”

“Porcelain War” (Picturehouse)

“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (Kino Lorber)

“Sugarcane” (National Geographic Documentary Films)

 

Best animated feature film of the year

“Flow” (Sideshow/Janus Films)

“Inside Out 2” (Walt Disney)

“Memoir of a Snail” (IFC Films)

“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” (Netflix)

“The Wild Robot”(Universal)

 

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

“A Different Man” (A24)

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

“Nosferatu” (Focus Features)

“The Substance” (MUBI)

“Wicked” (Universal)

 

Achievement in cinematography

“The Brutalist” (A24) Lol Crawley

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) Greig Fraser

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix) Paul Guilhaume

“Maria” (Netflix) Ed Lachman

“Nosferatu” (Focus Features) Jarin Blaschke

 

Achievement in costume design

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

“Conclave” (Focus Features) Lisy Christl

“Gladiator II” (Paramount)

“Nosferatu” (Focus Features) Linda Muir

“Wicked” (Universal) Paul Tazewell

 

Achievement in production design

“The Brutalist” (A24)

“Conclave” (Focus Features)

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)

“Nosferatu” (Focus Features)

“Wicked” (Universal)

 

Achievement in visual effects

“Alien: Romulus” (20th Century)

“Better Man” (Paramount)

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)

“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” (20th Century)

“Wicked” (Universal)

 

Achievement in sound

“A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)

“Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)

“Emilia Pérez” (Netflix)

“Wicked” (Universal)

“The Wild Robot”

 

Best documentary short film

“Death by Numbers”

“I Am Ready, Warden” (MTV Documentary Films)

“Incident” (The New Yorker)

“Instruments of a Beating Heart”

“The Only Girl in the Orchestra”

 

Best animated short film

“Beautiful Men” (Miyu Distribution)

“In the Shadow of the Cypress”

“Magic Candies” (Toei Animation)

“Wander to Wonder” (Miyu Distribution)

“Yuck!” (Miyu Distribution)

 

Best live action short film

“A Lien”

“Anuja”

“I’m Not a Robot”

“The Last Ranger”

“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”

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Clarence Moye is a proud co-founder of The Contending where he writes about film, television, and occasionally Taylor Swift. Under his 10-year run at Awards Daily, Clarence covered the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Telluride Film Festival, the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, the Middleburg Film Festival, and much more. Clarence is a member of the Critics Choice Association.

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  1. For UnjustOther says:
    12 months ago

    Glad to see Mr Lachman for Maria made it but that film deserved more.
    Also Flow for International pic? AMPAs is doing nicely this year. If only they'd glanced at His Three Daughters a bit more.

    Still, Emilia Perez is an excellent pick and would love to see it win most categories.. Not only some people will be wickedly put in their place, it is actually a flawed yet great film that deserves it through artistic merit, not just because of the woke conspiracy theories from American (Or is global?) alt-righters.

    • Clarence Moye says:
      12 months ago

      RIP Maria……

    • Tom85 says:
      12 months ago

      Root for the movie if you want, but no right wingers would be chastened or humbled by an Emilia Perez win.

      • For UnjustOther says:
        12 months ago

        Yeah, they'd be totally happy and OK with a non-American film with a transgender woman in the lead winning. Not at all. Biological Sex executive order or not.

        • Tom85 says:
          12 months ago

          Plenty of them would be happy because it would give them something to gripe about for years.

  2. No thanks says:
    12 months ago

    Another Luca-hating group…

    • Clarence Moye says:
      12 months ago

      My biggest surprise of the day was the Challengers omission from Editing, seconded by Daniel Craig getting in at SAG but missing here.

      • No thanks says:
        12 months ago

        Yeah, I expected three nominations for Challengers and one for Queer, although the two films were worthy of at least a dozen between them.

  3. FJA says:
    12 months ago

    Really pretty predictable and dull choices mostly. Hard to get excited about much here. Sad that Kidman couldn't crack that super weak 5 when so many stronger actors were left off like Jean-Baptiste and Swinton. Best Actress should be renamed 2nd Best Actress this year. And Supporting is even more of a joke. Happy SEPT 5 got a screenplay nomination. Oh, and THE LAST RANGER for Live Action. And I'M STILL HERE for Best Picture. Hoping it upsets and wins International Feature!!!!

  4. Tom85 says:
    12 months ago

    We need a "Poor Edward Berger" campaign ASAP.

  5. Cameron says:
    12 months ago

    I've seen every Best Picture winner on the big screen going back to 1996 (including Nomadland during the pandemic). This year I've seen 7 of the 10 nominees. Unseen are The Substance, Nickel Boys and I'm Still Here. Hoping they come to my neck of the woods soon! (and in the case of The Substance, maybe re-released?)

  6. Alexsh0803 says:
    12 months ago

    I know many were predicting it but having come late to the Conclave watching party, I am actually shocked by the Rossellini nom …

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