Emilia Pérez leads Oscar nominations

Best Actress winner Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez

Emilia Pérez has taken the lead in the 2025 Oscars, with 13 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. It's closely followed by The Brutalist and Wicked, with ten apiece, while Vatican-set thriller Conclave and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown each scored eight. Among the independents, Anora, Nickel Boys and The Substance all made an impressive showing.

It's not a great year for women outside the acting categories, with The Substance's Coralie Fargeat the only woman nominated in the writing and directing categories, though there was a rare nod for a female editor - Juliette Welfling, who worked on Emilia Pérez.

The awards themselves will be announced on 2 March at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, wildfires permitting.

Those nominations in full:

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

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

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 Leading Role

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

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 Animated Feature Film

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

Best Documentary Feature Film

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

Best 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

Best Documentary Short Film

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

Best Animated Short Film

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

Best Live Action Short Film

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
• Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley – Sing Sing
• James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
• RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
• Peter Straughan – Conclave

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Cinematography

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

Best Film Editing

• Sean Baker – Anora
• Nick Emerson – Conclave
• David Jancso – The Brutalist
• Myron Kerstein - Wicked
• Juliette Welfling - Emilia Pérez

Best Production Design

• Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia – The Brutalist
• Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – Wicked
• Suzie Davies – Conclave
• Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu
• Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau – Dune: Part Two

Best Visual Effects

• Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin, Shane Mahan - Alien: Romulus
• Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – Dune: Part Two
• Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs – Better Man
• Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke – Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
• Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk, Paul Corbould - Wicked

Best Costume Design

• Arianne Phillips - A Complete Unknown
• Lisy Christl - Conclave
• Janty Yates and Dave Crossman - Gladiator II
• Linda Muir - Nosferatu
• Paul Tazewell – Wicked

Best Make-up & Hairstyling

• Jane Brizard – Emilia Pérez
• Hair & Makeup Team – The Substance
• Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount – Wicked
• Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White – Nosferatu
Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, Aaron Saucier – A Different Man

Best Sound

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

Best Original Score

• Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
• Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
• Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot
• Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez
• John Powell & Stephen Schwartz - Wicked

Best Original Song

• El Mal – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille
• The Journey – The Six Triple Eight – Diane Warren
• Like A Bird - Sing Sing - Abraham Alexander, Adrian Quesada
• Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez – Selena Gomez
• Never Too Late – Elton John: Never Too Late - Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, Bernie Taupin