2025 Oscar nominations announced: Emilia Pérez leads the pack, The Brutalist and Wicked not far behind

Roll out the red carpet — it’s almost time to celebrate the best-of-the-best in cinema from the past 12 months. The 2025 Oscar nominations have been revealed, and give a great glimpse of which films are likely to win big on the most important night in Hollywood.

What’s leading the charge then? Emilia Pérez is out in front with a whopping 13 nominations, including top gongs like Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Lead Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón. It’s a daring musical-crime film, focussing on a cartel boss looking to transition into living life as a woman. 13 nominations already makes it a record breaker of sorts — it’s the most a film not in English has ever picked up.

Not far behind it are box-office-busting Wizard of Oz musical Wicked, and postwar drama The Brutalist, each with ten nominations. They’re followed by papal drama Conclave and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, which get 8 nominations each.

Here’s the complete list of nominated films. Which would you like to see take home an award?

Oscar 2025 Nominations

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)
• James Mangold (A Complete Unknown)
• Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
• Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

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)

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)

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)

Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

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

Writing (Original Screenplay)

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

Cinematography

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

Animated Feature Film

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

Music (Original Score)

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

Music (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)

Production Design

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

Film Editing

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

Documentary Feature Film

• Black Box Diaries
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat
• Sugarcane

Documentary Short Film

• Death By Numbers
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments Of A Beating Heart
• The Only Girl In The Orchestra

International Feature Film

• I’m Still Here (Brazil)
• The Girl With The Needle (Denmark)
• Emilia Pérez (France)
• The Seed Of The Sacred Fig (Germany)
• Flow (Latvia)

Makeup and Hairstyling

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

Visual Effects

• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Wicked

Costume Design

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

Animated Short Film

• Beautiful Men
• In The Shadow Of The Cypress
• Magic Candies
• Wander To Wonder
• Yuck!

Live-Action Short Film

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

Sound

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