2025 Academy Awards

[Gizmo]

The below is the nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards which are in March. My picks are in bold. Do you have any picks or predictions?

Best picture​

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

Best 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

Best 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

Best 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

Best actress in a supporting role​

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

Best director​

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

Best cinematography​

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu

Best international feature film​

• I’m Still Here
• The Girl with the Needle
• Emilia Pérez
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Flow

Best adapted screenplay​

• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Nickel Boys
• Sing Sing

Best original screenplay​

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Real Pain
• September 5
• The Substance

Best live action short film​

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

Best animated short film​

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

Best animated feature film​

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

Best documentary short​

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

Best documentary feature film​

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

Best 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

Best original score​

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best makeup and hairstyling​

• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best costume design​

• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

Best editing​

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

Best sound​

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

Best production design​

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

Best visual effects​

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

 

[MeistroFlare]

This was such a snoozefest. The winners are kinda meh (Demi Moore should've won Best Actress for a Leading Role and The Substance should've won Best Picture) and feel like the "safe choice." Conan was okay as a host, save a few cringeworthy digs at Trump without mentioning his name because you just can't keep politics out of these award shows.

Kinda regretted staying up to watch this (the live broadcast aired at 8am in Singapore for me).