The wait is over – the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards have been announced.
As expected, “Emilia Perez” led the field with 13 nominations on Thursday morning. This included Best Picture, Lead Actress (Carla Sofia Gascón), Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña), and Direct (Jack Audide). Gascón, who stars as the eponymous cartel boss who underwent gender-affirming surgery, made history as the first trans woman nominated in the acting category.
The French-produced Netflix-Distributed Crime Musical holds the record for most nominations earned by an international film, previously held by “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000) and “Roma” (2018) with 10 nominations each. I broke it. Brazil’s “I’m Still Here” was also nominated in both the international feature and photography categories.
‘Anora’, ‘Brutal’, ‘Complete Unknown’, ‘Conclave’, ‘Dune: Part 2’, ‘Nickel Boys’, ‘Substance’, ‘Evil’, ‘Evil’ make Best Picture nominees I’ll conclude.
“Wicked” actor Bowen Yang and “Bottoms” star Rachel Sennott to reveal nominees in all 23 categories during a presentation streamed live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. It was stolen from me.
The 2025 Oscar nominations were originally scheduled to be announced on January 17, but were postponed amid the multiple wildfires that have devastated Los Angeles. Despite delays that have extended the nomination voting period, the 97th Oscar ceremony will be held on March 2 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, with live telecast on ABC and Hulu. At the start of Thursday’s announcement, Motion Picture Academy President Janet Yang and CEO Bill Kramer expressed sympathy for those affected by the fires and said this year’s awards were “in recognition of the talented films nominated today. Celebrating our creators, honoring our brave first responders, and paying tribute to the enduring spirit of Los Angeles and the film industry.”
The full list of candidates is:
best pictures
“Anora”
“Brutalist”
“Complete unknown”
“conclave”
“Dune: Part 2”
“Emilia Perez”
“I’m still here.”
“Nickel Boys”
“material”
“evil”
leading actress
Cynthia Erivo, “Evil”
Karla Sofía Gascon, “Emilia Pérez”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “Substance”
Fernanda Torres, “I’m still here”
main actor
Adrien Brody, “Brutal”
Timothée Chalamet, “The Complete Unknown”
Colman Domingo, “Sing”
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
actors in supporting roles
Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Kieran Culkin, “Real Pain”
Edward Norton, “The Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce, “Brutal”
Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
Actresses in supporting roles
Monica Barbaro, “The Complete Unknown”
Ariana Grande, “Evil”
Felicity Jones, “Brutal”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Perez”
director
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Brady Corbett, ‘Brutal’
James Mangold, “The Complete Unknown”
Jack Audide, “Emilia Perez”
Coralie Fargeat, “Substance”
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
James Mangold and Jay Koch, “The Complete Unknown”
Peter Straffan, “Conclave”
Jacques Audiard (in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi), “Emilia Pérez”
Ramel Ross and Jocelyn Burns, “Nickel Boys”
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kweder, Clarence Maclin, John “God G” Whitfield), “Sing Sing”
Writing (original script)
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastbold, “Brutal”
Jesse Eisenberg, “Real Pain”
Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum (co-authored by Alex David), “September 5th”
Coralie Fargeat, “Substance”
documentary feature
“Black Box Diary”
“There is no other land.”
“Porcelain War”
“Soundtrack to the Coup”
“sugar cane”
documentary short subject
“Death by numbers”
“Ready, Warden.”
“incident”
“An instrument of the beating heart”
“The only girl in the orchestra”
animated feature film
“flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Snail Memoirs”
“Wallace & Gromit: The Revenge of the Little Birds”
“Wild Robot”
animated short film
“Beautiful man”
“In the Shadow of Cypress”
“Magic Candy”
“Wonder to wonder”
“Yuck!”
Cinematography
“Brutalist”
“Dune: Part 2”
“Emilia Perez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
costume design
“Complete unknown”
“conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“evil”
movie editing
“Anora”
“Brutalist”
“conclave”
“Emilia Perez”
“evil”
international feature film
“I’m still here.”
“Girl with a needle”
“Emilia Perez”
“Sacred Fig Seed”
“flow”
live action short film
“Lien”
“Anuja”
“I’m not a robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“The man who could not remain silent”
makeup and hairstyle
“Another man”
“Emilia Perez”
“Nosferatu”
“material”
“evil”
Music (original score)
Daniel Blumberg, “Brutal”
Volker Bertelmann, “Conclave”
Clement Decol and Camille, “Emilia Perez”
John Powell and Stephen Schwartz, “Evil”
Chris Bowers, “Wild Robots”
Music (original song)
“Elmal” from “Emilia Perez”
“Journey” from “6 Triple 8”
From “sing” to “like a bird”
“Mi Camino” from “Emilia Perez”
“Elton John: Never Too Late” to “Too Late”
production design
“Brutalist”
“conclave”
“Dune: Part 2”
“Nosferatu”
“evil”
sound
“Complete unknown”
“Dune: Part 2”
“Emilia Perez”
“evil”
“Wild Robot”
visual effects
“Alien: Romulus”
“A better man”
“Dune: Part 2”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“evil”
