2025 Oscar Nominations – ‘A Complete Unknown’, ‘Emilia Perez’ & More

The nominees for the 2025 Oscars have officially been announced.

Best Actor

• Colman Domingo –  Sing Sing (A24)
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave (Focus Features)
• Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)
• Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (A24)

Best Actress

• Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
• Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Cynthia Erivo – Wicked (Universal Pictures)
• Mikey Madison – Anora (NEON)
• Demi Moore – The Substance (Mubi)

Best Supporting Actor

• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist (A24)
• Yuri Borisov – Anora (NEON)
• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (Searchlight Pictures)
• Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)
• Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Supporting Actress

• Ariana Grande – Wicked (Universal Pictures)
• Isabella Rossellini – Conclave (Focus Features)
• Felicity Jones – The Brutalist (A24)
• Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures)
• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez (Netflix)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Conclave – Peter Straughan (Focus Features)
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard (Netflix)
• Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes (Amazon MGM Studios)
• A Complete Unknown – James Mangold, Jay Cocks (Searchlight Pictures)
• Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield (A24)

Best Original Screenplay

• Anora – Sean Baker (NEON)
• September 5 – Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; co-written by Alex David (Paramount Pictures)
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat (Mubi)
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold (A24)
• A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Original Score

• The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg (A24)
• The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers (Universal Pictures)
• Conclave – Volker Bertelmann (Focus Features)
• Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol, Camille (Netflix)
• Wicked – John Powell, Stephen Schwartz (Universal Pictures)

Best Original Song 

• “Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late – Elton John & Brandy Carlile (Walt Disney Pictures)
• “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol, Jaques Audiard and Camille (Netflix)
• “Like a Bird” from Sing Sing – Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada (A24)
• “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol and Camille (Netflix)
• “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight – Diane Warren (Netflix)

Best International Feature

• Emilia Pérez, France (Netflix/Pathé )
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Germany (Run Way Pictures)
• The Girl With The Needle, Denmark (Nordisk Film Creative Alliance Production)
• I’m Still Here, Brazil (VideoFilmes Produções Artísticas Production)
• Flow, Latvia (Dream Well Studio Production)

Best Costume Design

• Wicked – Paul Tazewell (Universal Pictures)
• Conclave – Lisy Christl (Focus Features)
• Gladiator II – Janty Yates,Dave Crossman (Paramount Pictures)
• Nosferatu – Linda Muir (Focus Features)
• A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Production Design

• Wicked – Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales (Universal Pictures)
• The Brutalist – Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia (A24)
• Dune: Part Two – Zsuzsanna Sipos, Shane Vieau, Patrice Vermette (Warner Bros Pictures)
• Nosferatu – Craig Lathrop, Beatrice Brentnerová (Focus Features)
• Conclave – Suzie Davies, Roberta Federico, Cynthia Sleiter (Focus Features)

Best Animated Feature

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• The Wild Robot
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Best Live Action Short

• Anuja
• The Last Ranger
• I’m Not A Robot
• A Lien
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best Animated Short Film

• Magic Candies
• Yuck!
• Beautiful Men
• In The Shadow Of The Cypress
• Wander to Wonder

Best Documentary Short Film

• The Only Girl In The Orchestra (Netflix)
• Incident (The New Yorker)
• Death by Numbers
• Instruments of a Beating Heart (The New York Times OpDocs/Cineric Creative)
• I Am Ready, Warden (MTV Documentary Films)

Best Documentary Feature

• No Other Land (ImmerGuteFilme/Antipode Films)
• Black Box Diaries (MTV Documentary Films)
• Porcelain War (Picturehouse)
• Sugarcane (National Geographic Documentary Films)
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Nosferatu – Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White (Focus Features)
• A Different Man –  Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, Aaron Saucier (A24)
• Emilia Pérez – Julia Floch Carbonel, Simon Livet (Netflix)
• The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin (Mubi)
• Wicked – Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount (Universal Pictures)

Best Film Editing

• Conclave – Nick Emerson (Focus Features)
• The Brutalist – David Jancso (A24)
• Anora – Sean Baker (NEON)
• Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling (Netflix)
• Wicked – Myron Kerstein (Universal Pictures)

Best Sound Design

• Wicked – John Marquis, Nancy Nugent Title, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson (Universal Pictures)
• Dune: Part Two – Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Barlett, Doug Hemphill (Warner Bros Pictures.)
• Emilia Pérez – Cyril Holtz, Erwan Kerzanet, Niels Barletta (Netflix)
• The Wild Robot – Nominees to be determined (Dreamworks Animation)
• A Complete Unknown – Ted Caplan, David Giammarco, Paul Massey, Tod Maitland, Donald Sylvester (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Visual Effects

• Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Wicked – Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk (Universal Pictures)
• Better Man – Luke Miller, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs, David Clayton (Paramount Pictures)
• Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes – Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke (20th Century Studios)
• Alien: Romulus – Nominees to be determined (20th Century Studios)

Best Cinematography

• The Brutalist – Lol Crawley (A24)
• Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume (Netflix)
• Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke (Focus Features)
• Maria – Ed Lachman (Netflix)
• Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Director

• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard (Netflix)
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet (A24)
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat (Mubi)
• A Complete Unknown – James Mangold (Searchlight Pictures)
• Anora – Sean Baker (NEON)

Best Picture

• Conclave – Alice Dawson, Robert Harris, Juliette Howell, Michael Jackman, Tessa Ross (Focus Features)
• Anora – Sean Baker, Alex Coco, Samantha Quan (Neon)
• Dune: Part Two – Alice Dawson, Robert Harris, Juliette Howell, Michael Jackman, Tessa Ross (Warner Bros.)
• The Brutalist – Nick Gordon, D.J. Gugenheim, Brian Young, Andrew Lauren, Trevor Matthews, Andrew Morrison (A24)
• A Complete Unknown – Fred Berger, Bob Bookman, Timothée Chalamet, Alan Gasmer, Alex Heineman, Peter Jaysen, James Mangold, Jeff Rosen (Searchlight Pictures)
• Nickel Boys – Nominees to be determined (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
• Wicked – Marc Platt, David Stone (Universal Pictures)
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux, Valérie Schermann, Anthony Vacarello (Netflix)
• I’m Still Here – Nominees to be determined (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner (Mubi)

Films With More Than One Nomination, Ordered By Nominations

Emilia Pérez – 13
The Brutalist – 10
Wicked – 10
A Complete Unknown – 8
Conclave – 8
Anora – 6
Dune: Part Two – 5
The Substance – 5
Nosferatu – 4
I’m Still Here – 3
Sing Sing – 3
The Wild Robot – 3
A Real Pain – 2
Flow – 2
Nickel Boys – 2
The Apprentice – 2

That’s all for the nominees for this year’s Oscars. Be sure to stay tuned here at Feature First as we cover the eventual winners and other award ceremonies during this year’s and future awards season(s).

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