Who will be this year’s Oppenheimer at the Academy Awards? 

The 2025 Oscar nominations have been announced and it’s still hard to predict the big winners from the most open race of recent years.

The big candidates looking to get close to matching the seven gongs picked up by Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic include Emilia Pérez (13 nominations), Wicked (10), A Complete Unknown (10), The Brutalist (10), Conclave (8), Anora (6) and Dune: Part Two (5).

Jacques Audiard’s polarising cartel musical Emilia Pérez’s 13 nominations is the most ever by a non-English language film, pipping Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma to the record.

Man of the moment Timothée Chalamet picked up an expected Best Actor nod for his performance in Bob Dylan drama A Complete Unknown. His rivals in the category include Ralph Fiennes for Conclave, Adrien Brody for The Brutalist, Colman Domingo for prison drama Sing Sing, and Sebastian Stan for Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice.

Battling it out for Best Actress at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on March 2, meanwhile, will be Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), and I’m Still Here’s Fernanda Torres. If she wins, Gascón would make history as the first trans Academy Awards winner.

Comeback queen Moore, meanwhile, represents the first acting nomination for a horror movie since Natalie Portman, who won for Black Swan in 2010.

Another comeback dream didn’t materialise, with Pamela Anderson’s startling turn in The Last Showgirl not quite enough to pick up a nomination.

The nominees in full:

Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

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

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

International Feature

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

Best Animation

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

Original Screenplay

Anora
A Real Pain
The Brutalist
The Substance
September 5

Adapted Screenplay

Conclave 
Emilia Pérez
A Complete Unknown
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

Best Documentary

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

Best Production Design

Wicked
Dune: Part Two
The Brutalist
Nosferatu
Conclave

Editing

Conclave
Anora
Emilia Pérez
The Brutalist
Wicked

Make-up and Hairstyling

Emilia Pérez
The Substance
Wicked
Nosferatu
A Different Man

Costume Design

Wicked
Nosferatu
Conclave
Gladiator II
A Complete Unknown

Cinematography

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Maria
Emilia Pérez

Best Score

Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
Clément Ducol and Camille – Emilia Pérez
John Powell and Stephen Schwartz – Wicked 

Best Original Song

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

Best Sound

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

Best Visual Effects

Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Better Man
Alien Romulus
Wicked

Animated Short Film

Yuck!
Wander to Wonder
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies

Documentary Short

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

Live Action Short

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

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