by Abb Jones
The Reelness

The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced Thursday, with Emilia Pérez picking up a whopping 13 nominations – a record for a non-English language film, closely followed by The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 nominations each. The Latvian animated feature Flow, which was #2 on The Reelness’ Top 10 movies of 2024, picked up two nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best International Film, and I’m Still Here star Fernanda Torres became the second Brazilian nominated for Best Actress – the first being her mother Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) in 1999.

Here is the list, including snubs in some of the main categories. Click on the films highlighted in gold for our reviews.

BEST PICTURE

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

BEST DIRECTOR

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

Snubs: John Chu (Wicked), Edward Berger (Conclave)

BEST ACTRESS

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

Snubs: Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Danielle Deadwyler (The Piano Lesson), Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door), Amy Adams (Nightbitch)

BEST ACTOR

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

Snub: Daniel Craig (Queer)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

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

Snubs: Jonathan Bailey (Wicked), Adam Pearson (A Different Man), Denzel Washington (Gladiator II)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

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

Snubs: Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Jamie Lee Curtis (The Last Showgirl), Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

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

Snub: All We Imagine as Light

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

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

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Jay Cocks and Jay Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Peter Straughan, Conclave
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and Alex David, September 5
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

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

Snubs: Challengers, Gladiator II, Nosferatu

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“El Mal,” Emilia Pérez
“The Journey,” The Six Triple Eight
“Like a Bird,” Sing Sing
“Mi Camino,” Emilia Pérez
“Never Too Late,” Elton John: Never Too Late

Snubs: “Kiss the Sky,” The Wild Robot, “Harper and Will Go West,” Will & Harper, “Forbidden Road,”Better Man

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

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

Snub: Will & Harper

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

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

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Lol Crawley, The Brutalist
Greig Fraser, Dune: Part Two
Paul Guilhaume, Emilia Pérez
Edward Lachman, Maria
Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

BEST EDITING

Sean Baker, Anora
Dávid Jancsó, The Brutalist
Nick Emerson, Conclave
Juliette Welfling, Emilia Pérez
Myron Kerstein, Wicked

BEST SOUND

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

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

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

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

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

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

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

Comedian and former late night TV show host Conan O’Brien will emcee the Academy Awards for his first time on Sunday, March 2nd at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. In the U.S., it will air on ABC and live stream on Hulu, the first Oscars to do so.