2025 Oscar nominations: see the full list

Emilia Pérez, a zany Spanish-language musical about a drug kingpin pursuing gender-affirming surgery, leads the pack with 13 nominations. Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman’s snub shifts Australia’s hopes to Guy Pearce and Adam Elliot.

Sebastian Stan, up for best actor for his role as Donald Trump in The Apprentice.

The Best Picture category at this year’s Oscars is a free-for-all.

Last year’s awards season was a bit of a snooze, courtesy of the deserved Oppenheimer blitz that left us trudging to the finish line. With respect to Christopher Nolan, a great filmmaker, he’s an achingly boring acceptance speech maker.

This year’s frontrunner is Emilia Pérez — the French-made, Spanish-language musical about a drug kingpin seeking gender-affirming surgery. It has scooped 13 nominations, the same as Oppenheimer. The film is placed in all the major categories except for Best Actor — because the film’s lead “male” character is played by Karla Sofía Gascón, who is up for Best Actress.

Emilia Pérez’s biggest threat is the low-budget The Brutalist, which has ten nominations (read an interview with the director, Brady Corbet, in this weekend’s edition of Review). The 3½-hour film, starring Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce (both up for acting awards), follows a Hungarian-Jewish architect who flees the Holocaust and tries to make a name for himself in America.

Rounding off the Best Picture nominees are Conclave, the Ralph Fiennes-led Vatican thriller about choosing a new pope; The Substance, a goopy body horror film about a woman who goes to extreme lengths to regain her youth; Anora, Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning stripper-not-so-Cinderella story; I’m Still Here, a Brazilian drama by celebrated filmmaker Walter Salles, based on the disappearance of Brazilian congressman Rubens Paiva; Nickel Boys, a drama set at a racist reform school in 1960s Florida, which has largely been overlooked in major awards shows; and A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan biopic. Filling out the category are the big-budget blockbusters Wicked and Dune: Part Two.

Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown.

Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) are the nominees for Best Actor. No surprises there. The wild card is Sebastian Stan, whose portrayal of Donald Trump in The Apprentice has simultaneously outraged its subject (the President called it “garbage”) and endeared itself to awards voters.

Hollywood loves a comeback story, and all signs point to Demi Moore taking home Best Actress for her buck-wild performance in The Substance. Moore recently won at the Golden Globes. Also nominated are Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Mikey Madison (Anora), Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here), and Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez). Gascón is the first openly trans actress to receive an Oscar nomination.

You may have noticed a name missing from that list: Nicole Kidman. She failed to secure a nomination for her widely praised turn in Babygirl, which was completely locked out of the ceremony. Luca Guadagnino, with his two fabulous films (Challengers and Queer), has been given the cold shoulder, along with star Daniel Craig. Angelina Jolie, who underwent months of vocal training to play the ailing opera star Maria Callas in Maria, also failed to get a nod.

Guy Pearce is up for Best Supporting Actor for his wicked turn in The Brutalist. It is, miraculously, the Australian star’s first-ever Oscar nomination. While it would be great to see him win, he’s facing tough competition from Kieran Culkin, who won the Golden Globe in this category for his turn in A Real Pain and is still riding the goodwill of Succession. Filling out the category are Yura Borisov (Anora), Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown), and Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice).

Coralie Fargeat’s film, The Substance.

French director Coralie Fargeat is the 10th woman to be nominated in the Best Director category in the Academy’s 97-year history. Only three have won: Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog in 2022, Chloé Zhao for Nomadland in 2021, and Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2009.

Melbourne claymation master Adam Elliot is up for his second Oscar — he won in 2003 for the short Harvey Krumpet — for his moving Memoir of a Snail, nominated for best animated film.

Oscar 2025 nominations full list

Best Picture

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• I’m Still Here
• Nickel Boys
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Director

• Sean Baker, Anora
• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
• Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
• Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

Mikey Madison in Anora.

Best Actor

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
• Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Actress

• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

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 Supporting Actress

• Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
• Ariana Grande, Wicked
• Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
• Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
• Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Zoe Saldaña as Rita Moro Castro in Emilia Pérez. Picture: Shanna Besson

Best Adapted Screenplay

• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Nickel Boys
• Sing Sing

Best Original Screenplay

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Real Pain
• September 5
• The Substance

Best Film Editing

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

Best Cinematography

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu

Best Visual Effects

• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Wicked

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
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
• Sugarcane

Best Documentary Short

• Death by Numbers
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra

A scene from Memoir of a Snail, a stop-motion animation from Melbourne claymatation master Adam Elliot, who won an Oscar for his 2003 short film Harvie Krumpet.

Best Animated Feature

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot
• Best Animated Short
• Beautiful Men
• In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Magic Candies
• Wander to Wonder
• Yuck!

Best Live-Action Short

• Alien
• Anuja
• I’m Not a Robot
• The Last Ranger
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
• Best Production Design
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

Best Costume Design

• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Sound

• A Complete Unknown
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best Original Song

• El Mal from Emilia Pérez
• The Journey from The Six Triple Eight
• Like a Bird from Sing Sing
• Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez
• Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late

Best Original Score

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• Wild Robot