2025 Oscar Nominees and Winners: The Full List

ByLindaMarch 3, 2025

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Best Picture winner Anora.

March 3, 2025–It was just a couple months ago that the world watched as towns like Pacific Palisades and Altadena were reduced to ash overnight. First-time Oscars host Conan O’Brien seemed to find a good balance, keeping the evening relatively breezy (with an assist by the Dune sand worm), while acknowledging that the city was recovering from a disaster that affected not just the glitzy stars, but many many folks that work in the industry.

This year’s Oscars were certainly an awards-season-long horse race. Critics’ awards were all over the place, and momentum for certain films seemed to peak too early, too late, or not at all. France’s musical Emilia Pérez led with a whopping 13 nominations, but scandal with lead actress (and first trans nominee) Karla Sofía Gascón’s past racist tweets derailed her campaign and most likely affected the film’s early momentum. The Brazilian drama I’m Still Here, in turn, benefited from the building buzz. And the little cat that could, Flow, surprised everyone (except for those of us who saw and loved the film) by beating Hollywood mega-animation studios at their own game. But it was the wild sex-worker comedy Anora—and especially writer/director/editor/producer Sean Baker—that walked home with the most awards of the evening.

I’d say it was a shock and delight to see Mikey Madison win Best Actress (over the favorite Demi Moore for The Substance), but my Oscar party screamed at the TV for a different reason. Literally just before the tearing of the envelope to announce arguably the most anticipated award of the night, our Hulu event suddenly logged off with a jaunty error screen: “Thank you for watching! This live event has now ended.” I had to scramble to find a decent ABC live feed, just to see Mikey in mid-thank you. I know the evening needed a little jolt of surprise, but Hulu, don’t do that to us!

John Lithgow disappointed — John Lithgow was also disappointed in Hulu.

The winners are marked with a ✔

BEST PICTURE

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

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

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

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain ✔
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

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

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

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

BEST DIRECTOR

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

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

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

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Black Box Diaries
No Other Land ✔
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

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

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

I’m Still Here (Brazil) ✔
The Girl With the Needle (Denmark)
Emilia Pérez (France)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
Flow (Latvia)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

A Complete Unknown
Conclave ✔
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Anora ✔
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

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