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Oscars 2025: every nominee and winner, category by category

The full list of 2025 Oscar nominees from the 97th Academy Awards, with Anora, The Brutalist, Wicked and Brazil's historic win for I'm Still Here.

By Rankiew · · 7 min read

The 97th Academy Awards took place on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Conan O'Brien hosting for the first time. Anora was the big winner of the night, and Brazil celebrated its first Oscar with I'm Still Here. Here are all the nominees.

The ten Best Picture nominees of 2025

1. Anora (2024) · Winner

A Brooklyn dancer marries the son of a Russian oligarch, and his family comes to undo the wedding.

Worth it if: you want a funny and painful fairy tale in reverse.

Oscars: Winner: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing · Nominated: Best Supporting Actor

2. The Brutalist (2024)

A Hungarian Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust rebuilds his life in America under a wealthy patron.

Worth it if: you have time for a long, monumental American epic.

Oscars: Winner: Best Actor, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Film Editing

3. A Complete Unknown (2024)

A young Bob Dylan arrives in 1960s New York and shakes up folk music by going electric.

Worth it if: you love music biopics and folk history.

Oscars: Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Costume Design

4. Conclave (2024)

A cardinal running the papal election uncovers secrets that could shake the Church.

Worth it if: you like elegant thrillers full of secrets.

Oscars: Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing

5. Dune: Part Two (2024)

Paul Atreides joins the Fremen on Arrakis to take revenge on those who destroyed his family.

Worth it if: you want huge science fiction made for the big screen.

Oscars: Winner: Best Sound, Best Visual Effects · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography

6. Emilia Pérez (2024)

A cartel boss hires a lawyer to help start over with a new identity, in a crime story told as a musical.

Worth it if: you are curious about bold, divisive musicals.

Oscars: Winner: Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Film Editing

7. I'm Still Here (2024)

Eunice Paiva rebuilds her family after the dictatorship takes her husband, Rubens, in 1971.

Worth it if: you want a restrained, powerful story of memory and resistance.

Oscars: Winner: Best International Feature Film · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Actress

8. Nickel Boys (2024)

Two Black teenagers survive a brutal Florida reform school in the 1960s, in a film shot from their point of view.

Worth it if: you want an experimental, moving drama about American history.

Oscars: Nominated: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay

9. The Substance (2024)

A fading TV star takes a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself.

Worth it if: you can handle extreme, satirical body horror.

Oscars: Winner: Best Makeup and Hairstyling · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay

10. Wicked (2024)

The unlikely friendship between Elphaba and Glinda, long before the events of The Wizard of Oz.

Worth it if: you love Broadway, magic and big musical numbers.

Oscars: Winner: Best Production Design, Best Costume Design · Nominated: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, Best Sound, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Animated Feature

Best International Feature Film

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Short

Best Live Action Short

Best Animated Short

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

Best Sound

Best Production Design

Best Cinematography

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Best Costume Design

Best Film Editing

Best Visual Effects

What won Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars?

Anora, directed by Sean Baker, won Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards, along with Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing.

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