Oscar 2025: “Emilia Pérez” Domination of Nomination Breaks Records

‘Emilia Pérez’ Dominated

There are 38 days between now and the 97th Academy Awards on March 2. The final round of Oscars voting will run 9 a.m. PT on Feb. 11 through 5 p.m. PT on Feb. 18.

That achievement, previously held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma, which had 10 each, is just one shy of the all-time record for any film: All About EveTitanic and La La Land, which each landed landed 14.

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Some people have issues with the film, including members of the Mexican and trans communities, who find it offensive.

Critics and audiences find it artistically lacking, giving it Rotten Tomatoes scores of 76 percent and 33 percent, respectively.

Also, there are strong arguments for the prospects of five of its nine fellow best picture nominees. Ten noms were allocated for A24’s Venice-winning VistaVision epic The Brutalist, including a co-field-leading three for acting.

Grand Hotel in 1932 is the only film that ever won best picture without directing or screenplay noms,

Searchlight’s Bob Dylan portrait A Complete Unknown (bolstered by far-from-assured noms for director James Mangold and supporting actress Monica Barbaro, one of its three acting noms,mand Focus’ Conclave (despite a rough miss for director Edward Berger). And then there’s Neon’s Cannes winner Anora with six, including four for Sean Baker personally).

The film with the most noms of its year often does not go on to win. In fact, of the 14 films that previously garnered 14 noms (see above) or 13 (the others being Gone With the WindFrom Here to EternityMary PoppinsWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Forrest GumpShakespeare in LoveThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingChicagoThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonThe Shape of Water and Oppenheimer), five lost best picture (La La LandMary PoppinsWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).

But four of those five lost in the era between 1945 and 2009, when there were only five best picture nominees and the category’s winner was chosen by a popular vote, as opposed to the preferential, or ranked, ballot that was employed prior to and since that period.
In the era of the preferential ballot, big, bold features (The Shape of Water and Everything Everywhere All at Once) have been rewarded just as often as more conservative approaches (e.g. Green Book and CODA).

Eight years after Amazon’s Manchester by the Sea became the first film distributed by a streaming service to be nominated for best picture, 3 years after Apple’s CODA became the first to win, and on the heels of nine prior Netflix best picture nominees that came up short, there is some reason to believe that the world’s highest-profile streaming service may finally have a winner.

The Academy’s embrace of Emilia Pérez is significant as a reflection of the increasing internationalization of is members.

Responding to OscarsSoWhite a decade ago, the Academy recruited more people of color and women, and more people outside of America.

That paved the way for the historic best picture win five years ago of Parasite, as well as best picture noms for RomaMinariDrive My CarAll Quiet on the Western FrontAnatomy of a FallPast Lives and The Zone of Interest.

 

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