The 97th Academy Awards | 2025

The 97th Academy Awards Nominations and Predictions

The 2025 Academy Awards are on Sunday March 2nd. Here I will list the nominees along with my predicted winner. Let me know your thoughts on who should win in the comments.  I will mark my predictions in bold.

Best picture

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

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 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 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 director

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

Best cinematography

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

Best international feature film

  • I’m Still Here
  • The Girl with the Needle
  • Emilia Pérez
  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  • Flow

Best adapted screenplay

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

Best original screenplay

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

Best live action short film

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

Best animated short film

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

Best animated feature film

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

Best documentary short

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

Best documentary feature film

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

Best 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

Best original score

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

Best makeup and hairstyling

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

Best costume design

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

Best editing

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

Best sound

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

Best production design

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

Best visual effects

  • Alien: Romulus
  • Better Man
  • Dune: Part Two
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  • Wicked
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Earth
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Earth
2 days ago

I hope Wicked wins.

Henrywrites
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Henrywrites
12 hours ago

The “Substance” is a good choice for the original screenplay award. I hope it will get to win because it has all the elements that should make it happen as far as I am concerned.