# 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.

Source: https://rankiew.app/blog/oscars-2025-all-nominees
Published: 2026-10-21
Author: Rankiew
Tags: oscars, oscars 2025, academy awards, oscar nominees, anora

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

::film[Anora|2024]

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

- **Director:** Sean Baker
- **Genre:** Comedy, Drama

**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)

::film[The Brutalist|2024]

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

- **Director:** Brady Corbet
- **Genre:** Drama

**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)

::film[A Complete Unknown|2024]

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

- **Director:** James Mangold
- **Genre:** Biography, Music

**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)

::film[Conclave|2024]

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

- **Director:** Edward Berger
- **Genre:** Thriller, Drama

**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)

::film[Dune: Part Two|2024]

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

- **Director:** Denis Villeneuve
- **Genre:** Science fiction, Adventure

**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)

::film[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.

- **Director:** Jacques Audiard
- **Genre:** Musical, Crime

**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)

::film[Ainda Estou Aqui|2024]

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

- **Director:** Walter Salles
- **Genre:** Drama, History

**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)

::film[Nickel Boys|2024]

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

- **Director:** RaMell Ross
- **Genre:** Drama

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

**Oscars:** Nominated: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay

## 9. The Substance (2024)

::film[The Substance|2024]

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

- **Director:** Coralie Fargeat
- **Genre:** Horror

**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)

::film[Wicked|2024]

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

- **Director:** Jon M. Chu
- **Genre:** Musical, Fantasy

**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

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

# Best Actor

- **Adrien Brody**, The Brutalist · Winner
- **Timothée Chalamet**, A Complete Unknown
- **Colman Domingo**, Sing Sing
- **Ralph Fiennes**, Conclave
- **Sebastian Stan**, The Apprentice

# Best Actress

- **Mikey Madison**, Anora · Winner
- **Cynthia Erivo**, Wicked
- **Karla Sofía Gascón**, Emilia Pérez
- **Demi Moore**, The Substance
- **Fernanda Torres**, I'm Still Here

# Best Supporting Actor

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

# Best Supporting Actress

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

# Best Original Screenplay

- **Anora** · Winner
- **The Brutalist**
- **A Real Pain**
- **September 5**
- **The Substance**

# Best Adapted Screenplay

- **Conclave** · Winner
- **A Complete Unknown**
- **Emilia Pérez**
- **Nickel Boys**
- **Sing Sing**

# Best Animated Feature

- **Flow** · Winner
- **Inside Out 2**
- **Memoir of a Snail**
- **Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl**
- **The Wild Robot**

# Best International Feature Film

- **I'm Still Here** (Brazil) · Winner
- **Emilia Pérez** (France)
- **Flow** (Latvia)
- **The Girl with the Needle** (Denmark)
- **The Seed of the Sacred Fig** (Germany)

# Best Documentary Feature

- **No Other Land** · Winner
- **Black Box Diaries**
- **Porcelain War**
- **Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat**
- **Sugarcane**

# Best Documentary Short

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

# Best Live Action Short

- **I'm Not a Robot** · Winner
- **A Lien**
- **Anuja**
- **The Last Ranger**
- **The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent**

# Best Animated Short

- **In the Shadow of the Cypress** · Winner
- **Beautiful Men**
- **Magic Candies**
- **Wander to Wonder**
- **Yuck!**

# Best Original Score

- **The Brutalist** · Winner
- **Conclave**
- **Emilia Pérez**
- **Wicked**
- **The Wild Robot**

# Best Original Song

- **"El Mal"**, Emilia Pérez · Winner
- **"The Journey"**, The Six Triple Eight
- **"Like a Bird"**, Sing Sing
- **"Mi camino"**, Emilia Pérez
- **"Never Too Late"**, Elton John: Never Too Late

# Best Sound

- **Dune: Part Two** · Winner
- **A Complete Unknown**
- **Emilia Pérez**
- **Wicked**
- **The Wild Robot**

# Best Production Design

- **Wicked** · Winner
- **The Brutalist**
- **Conclave**
- **Dune: Part Two**
- **Nosferatu**

# Best Cinematography

- **The Brutalist** · Winner
- **Dune: Part Two**
- **Emilia Pérez**
- **Maria**
- **Nosferatu**

# Best Makeup and Hairstyling

- **The Substance** · Winner
- **A Different Man**
- **Emilia Pérez**
- **Nosferatu**
- **Wicked**

# Best Costume Design

- **Wicked** · Winner
- **A Complete Unknown**
- **Conclave**
- **Gladiator II**
- **Nosferatu**

# Best Film Editing

- **Anora** · Winner
- **The Brutalist**
- **Conclave**
- **Emilia Pérez**
- **Wicked**

# Best Visual Effects

- **Dune: Part Two** · Winner
- **Alien: Romulus**
- **Better Man**
- **Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes**
- **Wicked**

# 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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