Full Oscars 2025 nominations list: Emilia Perez, The Brutalist and Wicked in the lead

Emilia Perez leads the Oscar nominations with 13 nods including best picture, actress for Karla Sofia Gascon, supporting actress for Zoe Saldana and director for Jacques Audiard.

The French-made, Spanish-language musical about a transgender woman has been a wild success story across the awards season and goes into the race a leading contender.

It also broke the record for most nominations ever for a non-English language film, a title previously held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma, which both had 10 nods.

In second place in the nominations stakes are The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 nominations apiece.

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown also performed well with eight nominations including for stars Timothee Chalamet and Monica Barbaro and a somewhat surprising nod for director James Mangold.

Demi Moore will chase her first Oscar in the actress race for The Substance, which was nominated in five categories overall. Moore won a Golden Globe for her performance and her widely praised acceptance speech put momentum behind her awards campaign.

Among the Australians nominated were Guy Pearce for his role in The Brutalist, Adam Elliot for his animated film Memoir of a Snail, Greig Fraser in cinematography for Dune: Part Two and some members of the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Better Man visual effects teams.

Sebastian Stan was a surprise name in the actor category having nabbed a nomination for playing Donald Trump in The Apprentice. The film struggled to secure American distribution after its Cannes premiere. Stan’s co-star, Jeremy Strong, was also nominated.

Another head-turner was Brazilian film I’m Still Here sneaking into the best picture category but it gained considerable notice after its lead actor, Fernanda Torres, won a Golden Globe for her performance, which likely helped push it onto Oscar voters’ viewing lists.

Notable misses include Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Angelina Jolie for Maria, Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths, Daniel Craig for Queer and Conclave director Edward Berger.

Kidman was a favourite for a nod earlier but, like Jolie and Gladiator II’s Denzel Washington, she had missed out on key nominations by other awards bodies in the lead-up, and, for the past few weeks, was considered an outside chance.

The nominations were delayed as a result of the Los Angeles wildfires which coincided with the nominations voting period. The Academy extended the deadline.

Despite speculation and some UK media reporting that the Oscars were on the verge of cancellation, the Academy stridently denied the rumours.

The ceremony will go ahead but it’s expected that it will feature a component to “honour Los Angeles as a city of dreams, showcasing its beauty and resilience,” according to a letter sent by Academy chief executive Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang.

But there will not be any live musical performances from the nominated songs. At the 2024 ceremony, Ryan Gosling stole the show with his energetic rendition of “I’m Just Ken”.

The Oscars are voted on by its invitation-only membership, which consists of roughly 10,000 industry professionals. Each branch, for example, actors, writers or documentaries, nominate in their corresponding category while everyone can nominate in the best picture category. All members can vote in every category for the final result.

The ceremony will be held on March 3 with Conan O’Brien to serve as host.

PICTURE

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Perez

I’m Still Here

Nickel Boys

The Substance

Wicked

DIRECTOR

Sean Baker, Anora

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez

Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

ACTOR

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

ACTRESS

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked

Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Perez

Mikey Madison, Anora

Demi Moore, The Substance

Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Yura Borisov, Anora

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown

Ariana Grande, Wicked

Felicity Jones, The Brutalist

Isabella Rossellini, Conclave

Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Sean Baker, Anora

Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist

Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain

Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David, September 5

Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

James Mangold and Jay Cocks, A Complete Unknown

Peter Straughan, Conclave

Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Lea Mysius and Nicholas Livecchi, Emilia Perez

Ramell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys

Clint Bentley, Greg Kewdar, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield, Sing Sing

ANIMATED FEATURE

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

I’m Still Here, Brazil

The Girl with the Needle, Denmark

Emilia Perez, France

The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Germany

Flow, Latvia

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

Black Box Diaries

No Other Land

Porcelain War

Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat

Sugarcane

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Perez

Maria

Nosferatu

FILM EDITING

Anora

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Perez

Wicked

ORIGINAL SCORE

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Perez

Wicked

The Wild Robot

ORIGINAL SONG

“El Mal”, Emilia Perez

“The Journey”, Six Triple Eight

“Like a Bird”, Sing Sing

“Mi Camino”, Emilia Perez

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

SOUND

A Complete Unknown

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Perez

Wicked

The Wild Robot

PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Wicked

COSTUME DESIGN

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Gladiator II

Nosferatu

Wicked

MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING

A Different Man

Emilia Perez

Nosferatu

The Substance

Wicked

VISUAL EFFECTS

Alien: Romulus

Better Man

Dune: Part Two

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

Death by Numbers

I Am Ready, Warden

Incident

Instruments of a Beating Heart

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

A Lien

Anuja

I’m Not a Robot

The Last Ranger

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

Beautiful Men

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Magic Candies

Wander to Wonder

Yuck!