Oscars 2025: Emilia Pérez leads the nominees
David Farnor | On 23, Jan 2025
The nominations for the 2025 Oscars have been announced, and Netflix’s Emilia Pérez is leading the pack.
The streamer’s genre-bending musical, directed by Jacques Audiard, has broken history several times over this week becoming the most-nominated non-English-language film ever at the Oscars. The film has a total of 13 nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. That total surpasses the previous record of 10, jointly held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Netflix’s Roma.
The film also makes history as Spanish-born star Karla Sofía Gascón is nominated for Best Actress, making her the first openly transgender performer to get a nod in that category.
Close behind Emilia Pérez with 10 nominations each are The Brutalist and Wicked, with A Complete Unknown and Conclave then following behind with eight nods apiece.
Other notable nominees include Anora, Dune: Part Two, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys and The Substance, which are all vying for Best Picture. In the Best Director category, The Substance also has momentum, with the nomination of Coralie Fargeat – competing against Audiard, Anora’s Sean Baker, The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet and A Complete Unknown’s James Mangold.
Also boosting The Substance’s chances are a nod for Demi Moore for Best Actress. Wicked, however, is also doing well in the actress race, with Cynthia Erivo up for Best Actress and Ariana Grande up for Best Supporting Actress – but director Jon M Chu is surprisingly missing from the helmer category. Also notably missing from the directing race is Conclave’s Edward Berger.
Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice, Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown, Ralph Fiennes for Conclave and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing will all compete for Best Actor alongside Adrien Brody for The Brutalist.
Yura Borisov for Anora, Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown, Guy Pearce for The Brutalist and Jeremy Strong for The Apprentice are all up for Best Supporting Actor, alongside Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain. A Real Pain, however, is surprisingly not up for Best Picture.
Other surprise absences include Angelina Jolie for Maria, Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Kate Winslet for Lee and Zendaya for Challengers – indeed, Luca Guadagnino’s tennis pic isn’t in the frame for any awards at all.
While Challengers is absent, Amazon does have a horse in the race in the form of Nickel Boys (the film is distributed by Curzon in the UK). Apple TV+ might be notably not in this year’s race, but MUBI is doing brilliantly thanks to the nominations for both The Substance and The Girl with the Needle.
Netflix, however, is undoubtedly leading the pack, with 18 nominations in total to its name, not only the most of all the streamers but also more than any other distributor.
The winners will be announced on Sunday 2nd March in a ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien. Here’s the full list of nominees – for a guide to where you can stream each nominated film click here.
Best Picture
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Directing
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
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
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance
Animated Feature Film
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Animated Short Film
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Cinematography
The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
Emilia Pérez (Paul Guilhaume)
Maria (Ed Lachman)
Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke)
Costume Design
A Complete Unknown (Arianne Phillips)
Conclave (Lisy Christl)
Gladiator II (Janty Yates and Dave Crossman)
Nosferatu (Linda Muir)
Wicked (Paul Tazewell)
Film Editing
Anora (Sean Baker)
The Brutalist (David Jancso)
Conclave (Nick Emerson)
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
Wicked (Myron Kerstein)
Makeup and Hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Live-Action Short Film
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Music (Original Score)
The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg)
Conclave (Volker Bertelmann)
Emilia Pérez (Clément Ducol and Camille)
Wicked (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz)
The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)
Music (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
Documentary Feature Film
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Documentary Short Film
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
The Girl With the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow
Production Design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
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