Nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards are being announced Thursday morning after being delayed twice due to the Los Angeles area wildfires.
Actors Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott are hosting the live announcement, as hopefuls behind such films as “Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Wicked” look to see if they’ll join the list of the year’s top Academy Award nominees.
Full list of nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards
Best picture
TBD
Best director
TBD
Best actress
TBD
Best actor
TBD
Best supporting actress
- Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
- Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
- Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
- Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
- Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
Best supporting actor
- Yura Borisov, “Anora”
- Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
- Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
- Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
- Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
Best original screenplay
- “Anora,” Sean Baker
- “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
- “A Real Pain,” Jesse Eisenberg
- “September 5,” Tim Fehlbaum & Moritz Binder
- “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat
Best adapted screenplay
- “A Complete Unknown,” Jay Cocks & James Mangold
- “Conclave,” Peter Straughan
- “Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain & Nicolas Livecchi
- “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
- “Sing Sing,” Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin & John “Divine G” Whitfield
Best international feature
TBD
Best documentary feature
TBD
Best animated feature
TBD
Best cinematography
TBD
Best costume design
- “A Complete Unknown,” Arianne Phillips
- “Conclave,” Lisy Christl
- “Gladiator II,” Janty Yates
- “Nosferatu,” Linda Muir
- “Wicked,” Paul Tazewell
Best film editing
TBD
Best production design
TBD
Best original score
- “The Brutalist,” Daniel Blumberg
- “Conclave,” Volker Bertelmann
- “Emilia Pérez,” Clément Ducol & Camille
- “Wicked,” John Powell & Stephen Schwartz
- “The Wild Robot,” Kris Bowers
Best original song
TBD
Best sound
TBD
Best visual effects
TBD
Best makeup and hairstyling
- “A Different Man”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Nosferatu”
- “The Substance”
- “Wicked”
Best documentary short
TBD
Best animated short
- “Beautiful Men”
- “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
- “Magic Candies”
- “Wander to Wonder”
- “Yuck!”
Best live-action short
- “A Lien”
- “Anuja”
- “I’m Not a Robot”
- “The Last Ranger”
- “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
When is the Oscar awards ceremony?
The nominations were originally scheduled for Jan. 17 but, as with a number of other industry awards ceremonies that traditionally make up Hollywood’s social calendar in January, the proliferation of wildfires in the Los Angeles area had organizers scrambling to reschedule. The Oscars nominees luncheon has been canceled, the academy says. It had been scheduled for Feb. 10.
As of now, the Oscars are still scheduled to be handed out on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
What movies were predicted to get Oscar nominations?
While many expected to see blockbusters like “Wicked” and “Dune: Part Two” among this year’s top nominees, the awards leading up to this moment in the movie awards season also suggested that smaller, critically acclaimed movies like “Anora,” “The Brutalist” and “Conclave” would be among this year’s most-nominated films.
The latter film, an adaptation of a Robert Harris novel showcasing expected best actor nominee Ralph Fiennes as the representative overseeing a contentious papal conclave, received the most BAFTA nominations of any movie last year with 12. The voting body at BAFTA includes a significant overlap with the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who determine each year’s Oscar nominees, so a strong performance at the former organization is generally considered to be an encouraging bellwether for the latter.
Close behind “Conclave” in overall BAFTA nominations with 11 is “Emilia Pérez,” a crime musical centering around a cartel leader who has transitioned. Actress Karla Sofía Gascón, playing the titular role, could make Oscar history by being the first transgender woman to be nominated in any acting category.
“Emilia Pérez” won four Golden Globes earlier this month, including best motion picture musical or comedy, and best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña’s performance. “The Brutalist,” a 215-minute epic about a Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America post-WWII, won Golden Globes for best motion picture drama, and lead actor Adrian Brody was also a Globe winner.
Another Globe winner who was expected to earn an Academy Award nomination Thursday morning: Demi Moore, whose performance in the bloody body horror hit “The Substance” has stirred up a conversation on the industry’s mistreatment of women of an age. Both Moore and the film itself were expected to get nominations in the top Oscar categories.
