Oscar Nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez Leads Nominees, Followed By The Brutalist And Wicked

It’s official: Emilia Pérez has emerged as the frontrunner of awards season...

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Oscar Nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez Leads Nominees, Followed By The Brutalist And Wicked

It’s official: Emilia Pérez has emerged as the frontrunner of awards season this year. Not only did Jacques Audiard’s gangster-thriller-musical-character-drama rack up major love at this year’s BAFTA nominations, but it’s the leader of the pack in the Oscar nominees in 2025 too. The film has been nominated in 13 categories at this year’s Academy Awards – including Best Picture, Director for Audiard, Leading Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, and Adapted Screenplay. It nabbed two Original Song nominations too, going up against itself with ‘El Mal’ and ‘Mi Camino’. As ever, though, the most nominations doesn’t necessarily mean the most wins.

Hot on Emilia Pérez’s heels are Wicked and The Brutalist, each with 10 nominations. Clearly, musicals are pop-u-lar this year (though, notably, Brady Corbet’s seismic American architecture drama is lacking in song-and-dance numbers). The Brutalist is up for Best Picture, with Director for Corbet, Leading Actor for Adrien Brody, Supporting Actor for Guy Pearce, Supporting Actress for Felicity Jones, Original Screenplay and more. Wicked, meanwhile, is flying high (defying gravity!) with a Best Picture nod, Leading Actress for Cynthia Erivo, Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande (hair flip!), Original Score, and nominations across several technical categories.

Music seems to be a real favourite of the Academy this year – James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is up for eight awards, including Best Picture, Directing for Mangold himself, Timothée Chalamet in Leading Actor for his portrayal of Dylan, and Adapted Screenplay. Will it nab any of those awards on the night? The answer, my friend, is… something something something. Also with eight nominations is Conclave (the BAFTA frontrunner), up for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and acting nominations for Ralph Fiennes (Leading Actor) and Isabella Rosselini (Supporting Actress). Stay tuned on whether the Academy chooses white smoke.

While Anora came away with six nominations, it’s in the mix for the biggest awards of the night – in Best Picture, Directing for Sean Baker, Original Screenplay, Leading Actress for Mikey Madison, and Supporting Actor for breakout star Yura Borisov. Meanwhile, horror fans can rejoice with The Substance’s five nominations – in all the major categories, vying for Best Picture, Directing for Coralie Fargeat, Original Screenplay, Demi Moore for Leading Actress, and Makeup & Hairstyling for those stomach-churning effects. Nosferatu also bagged four nominations in the technical categories – Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, and Cinematography. Alien: Romulus even nabbed an effects nomination. The Substance

Rounding out the Best Picture nominees are Nickel Boys (also up for Adapted Screenplay), Dune: Part Two (up for five awards overall), and I’m Still Here (also Brazil’s entry in International Feature Film, with a Leading Actress nomination too for Fernanda Torres).

Start your bets now, and mark the night of Sunday 2 March in your calendars for the ceremony – for now, here’s the full list of nominees:

BEST PICTURE

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

DIRECTING

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

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

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

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 SUPPORTING ROLE

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

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

I’m Still Here
The Girl With The Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
Flow

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir Of A Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

COSTUME DESIGN

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

ORIGINAL SCORE

The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu

PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

FILM EDITING

Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

SOUND

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

VISUAL EFFECTS

Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
Wicked

ORIGINAL SONG

‘El Mal’ – Emilia Pérez
‘The Journey’ – The Six Triple Eight
‘Like A Bird’ – Sing Sing
‘Mi Camino’ – Emilia Pérez
‘Never Too Late’ – Elton John: Never Too Late