Emilia Pérez’ Leads With 13 Nods, ‘Wicked’ and ‘The Brutalist’ Follow With 10

Top Three Nominee
“Emilia Pérez,” a musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender affirming surgery, topped the 2025 Oscar nominations with 13 nods. It was followed closely behind by The Brutalist, a historical epic the examines the immigrant experience, and Wicked, the hit screen version of a long-running Broadway sensation, which both nabbed 10 nominations.
“Conclave,” a thriller about the election of a new pope, and “A Complete Unknown,” a look at Bob Dylan’s early, freewheeling years, each had 8 nominations.
All five of those films are up for best picture, the ceremony’s top prize, alongside indies like “Anora,” “Nickel Boys,” and “I’m Still Here,” as well as the body horror film, “The Substance,” and “Dune: Part Two,” one of rare studio blockbusters to garner Oscar attention.
Brady Corbet, who struggled for nearly a decade to bring “The Brutalist” to the screen after financing for project collapsed several times, was nominated for best director. His competition includes French auteurs Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”) and Coralie Fargeat (“The Substance”), as well as arthouse maverick Sean Baker (“Anora”) and studio mainstay James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”). Every one of those filmmakers was nominated in multiple categories, having performed several different roles on the movies they made. Baker, for instance, is also nominated for editing, producing and writing the screenplay, while Audiard was recognized for writing a song his film, as well as co-writing its script.
Universal, which owns indie label Focus, dominated the nominations with 25 nods, the bulk of which came for “Wicked” and “Conclave.” Netflix, which released “Emilia Pérez,” scored 16 nods, while A24, a plucky indie distributor known for embracing risky fare such as”The Brutalist,” a 3 hour meditation on art and commerce, had 14 nominations.
There were several notable snubs and surprises. Denzel Washington, once seen as a lock for his villainous performance in “Gladiator II,” was overlooked, as was Margaret Qualley, who earned raves for her work as a Moore’s younger doppelgänger in “The Substance.”
Edward Berger, who gave “Conclave” it propulsive energy, was shut out of best director race, while “A Real Pain” failed to capture best picture nomination despite earning the year’s best reviews.
These services have fundamentally altered the way movies are seen and experienced, and the theatrical part of the film business has often struggled to keep up. At the same time, COVID and a series of labor strikes in 2023 has left Hollywood with fewer movies to screen in cinemas. The box office has failed to recover from the pandemic. Domestic ticket sales in 2024 topped out at $8.7 billion, down than 3.3% from 2023 (when revenues hit $9.04 billion) and down 23.5% from 2019 (when revenues reached $11.3 billion in the last pre-COVID period). And the stalled recovery has come as studios and streamers have enacted a series of cutbacks and shed jobs. Many of these companies — from Warner Bros. Discovery to Paramount Global — have sold themselves as the business has engaged in a period of frenzied consolidation that shows no signs of stopping.
The natural disasters that Los Angeles is still experiencing, as well as the corporate upheaval the business is stumbling through, means that the Academy Awards may feel less celebratory than usual. It will fall to Conan O’Brien, a former late night talk show staple turned podcasting mogul, to try to lift spirits as he embarks on his first stint as Oscars host.
The show that O’Brien presides over will be held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, with the Oscars airing, as it long has, on ABC. For the first time, it will also be available to stream live on Hulu, a concession to the shifting ways that audiences are watching movies and shows.
See the full list of nominees below as they’re announced.
Best Picture
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“I’m Still Here”
“Nickel Boys”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
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
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
Animated Short Film
“Beautiful Men”
“In the Shadow of Cypress”
“Magic Candies”
“Wander to Wonder”
“Yuck!”
Costume Design
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Live Action Short Film
“A Lien”
“Anuja”
“I’m Not a Robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
Makeup and Hairstyling
“A Different Man”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”
Original Score
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Adapted Screenplay
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”
Original Screenplay
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Real Pain”
“September 5”
“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”
Animated Feature Film
“Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
Cinematography
“The Brutalist”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”
Best Director
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
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”
Film Editing
“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
International Feature Film
“I’m Still Here”
“The Girl with the Needle”
“Emilia Pérez”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
“Flow”
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”
Production Design
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”
Sound
“A Complete Unknown”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Perez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”
Visual Effects
“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”