Nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with “Emilia Pérez,” “A Complete Unknown,” and “Conclave” at the top of the heap in overall nods. This comes after the nominations were delayed twice due to the Los Angeles area wildfires.
Leading the pack in overall nominations, with 13 total, is “Emilia Pérez,” a crime musical centering around a cartel leader who has transitioned. That achievement is just one nomination shy of tying the record for overall nominations from a single film; “Titanic,” “All About Eve,” and “La La Land” all received 14.
Actress Karla Sofía Gascón, playing the titular role, made Oscar history by being the first transgender woman to be nominated in any acting category. She joins a competitive field that also includes Cynthia Erivo, from “Wicked,” and Demi Moore, whose performance in the bloody body horror hit “The Substance” has stirred up a conversation on the industry’s mistreatment of women of an age. Both Moore and the film itself were expected to get nominations in the top Oscar categories.
Behind “Emilia Pérez” in overall nominations were “The Brutalist” and “Wicked,” which each received 10 nominations. All three, along with “The Substance,” were among the 10 nominated for the best picture award, where they were joined by “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Nickel Boys,” and “I’m Still Here.”
“Emilia Pérez” won four Golden Globes earlier this month, including best motion picture musical or comedy, and best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña’s performance. “The Brutalist,” a 215-minute epic about a Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America post-WWII, won Golden Globes for best motion picture drama, and lead actor Adrian Brody was also a Globe winner. Both Saldaña and Brody were nominated in their respective Oscar categories.
Actors Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott hosted the live announcement.
Full list of nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards
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,” Walter Salles (Brazil)
- “The Girl with the Needle,” Magnus von Horn (Denmark)
- “Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard (France)
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof (Germany)
- “Flow,” Miguel Gomes (Latvia)
Best Documentary Feature:
- “Black Box Diaries,” Shiori Itō (MTV)
- “No Other Land,” Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor (No distributor)
- “Porcelain War,” Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev (Picturehouse)
- “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” Johan Grimonprez (Kino Lorber)
- “Sugarcane,” Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie (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)
(Other categories follow similar formatting as above.)
When is the Oscar awards ceremony?
The nominations were originally scheduled for Jan. 17 but, as with a number of other industry awards ceremonies that traditionally make up Hollywood’s social calendar in January, the proliferation of wildfires in the Los Angeles area had organizers scrambling to reschedule.
The Oscars nominees luncheon has been canceled, the academy says. It had been scheduled for Feb. 10.
As of now, the Oscars are still scheduled to be handed out on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.