The 97th Academy Awards honored films released in 2024 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on March 2, 2025. Below is the complete nominee list by category, with each winner identified. The Academy counted 220 individual nominees across 23 categories; its total excludes the five country entries in International Feature Film. Academy Awards: 2025 ceremony · Academy Press Office, February 11, 2025.
Acting categories
Actor in a Leading Role
- Winner: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
- Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
- Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
- Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
- Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Winner: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
- Yura Borisov, Anora
- Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
- Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
- Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Actress in a Leading Role
- Winner: Mikey Madison, Anora
- Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
- Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
- Demi Moore, The Substance
- Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Winner: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
- Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
- Ariana Grande, Wicked
- Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
- Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Feature films and international cinema
Best Picture
- Winner: Anora (producers Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker)
- The Brutalist (Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim and Brady Corbet)
- A Complete Unknown (Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman)
- Conclave (Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman)
- Dune: Part Two (Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve)
- Emilia Pérez (Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard)
- I’m Still Here (Maria Carlota Bruno and Rodrigo Teixeira)
- Nickel Boys (Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Joslyn Barnes)
- The Substance (Coralie Fargeat and Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner)
- Wicked (Marc Platt)
Animated Feature Film
- Winner: Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens and Gregory Zalcman)
- Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen)
- Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney)
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham and Richard Beek)
- The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann)
Documentary Feature Film
- Winner: No Other Land (Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham)
- Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin)
- Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska and Paula DuPre’ Pesmen)
- Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety)
- Sugarcane (Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn)
International Feature Film
- Winner: Brazil, I’m Still Here
- Denmark, The Girl with the Needle
- France, Emilia Pérez
- Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
- Latvia, Flow
Short films
Animated Short Film
- Winner: In the Shadow of the Cypress (Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi)
- Beautiful Men (Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande)
- Magic Candies (Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio)
- Wander to Wonder (Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper)
- Yuck! (Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet)
Documentary Short Film
- Winner: The Only Girl in the Orchestra (Molly O’Brien and Lisa Remington)
- Death by Numbers (Kim A. Snyder and Janique L. Robillard)
- I Am Ready, Warden (Smriti Mundhra and Maya Gnyp)
- Incident (Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven)
- Instruments of a Beating Heart (Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Eric Nyari)
Live Action Short Film
- Winner: I’m Not a Robot (Victoria Warmerdam and Trent)
- A Lien (Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz)
- Anuja (Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai)
- The Last Ranger (Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw)
- The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek)
Craft, music and technical categories
Cinematography
- Winner: The Brutalist (Lol Crawley)
- Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
- Emilia Pérez (Paul Guilhaume)
- Maria (Ed Lachman)
- Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke)
Costume Design
- Winner: Wicked (Paul Tazewell)
- A Complete Unknown (Arianne Phillips)
- Conclave (Lisy Christl)
- Gladiator II (Janty Yates and Dave Crossman)
- Nosferatu (Linda Muir)
Film Editing
- Winner: Anora (Sean Baker)
- The Brutalist (David Jancso)
- Conclave (Nick Emerson)
- Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
- Wicked (Myron Kerstein)
Makeup and Hairstyling
- Winner: The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli)
- A Different Man (Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado)
- Emilia Pérez (Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini)
- Nosferatu (David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes-Munton)
- Wicked (Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth)
Music (Original Score)
- Winner: The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg)
- Conclave (Volker Bertelmann)
- Emilia Pérez (Clément Ducol and Camille)
- Wicked (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz)
- The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)
Music (Original Song)
- Winner: “El Mal,” from Emilia Pérez (music by Clément Ducol and Camille; lyrics by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard)
- “The Journey,” from The Six Triple Eight (music and lyrics by Diane Warren)
- “Like A Bird,” from Sing Sing (music and lyrics by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada)
- “Mi Camino,” from Emilia Pérez (music and lyrics by Camille and Clément Ducol)
- “Never Too Late,” from Elton John: Never Too Late (music and lyrics by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin)
Production Design
- Winner: Wicked (production design by Nathan Crowley; set decoration by Lee Sandales)
- The Brutalist (Judy Becker; Patricia Cuccia)
- Conclave (Suzie Davies; Cynthia Sleiter)
- Dune: Part Two (Patrice Vermette; Shane Vieau)
- Nosferatu (Craig Lathrop; Beatrice Brentnerová)
Sound
- Winner: Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill)
- A Complete Unknown (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco)
- Emilia Pérez (Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta)
- Wicked (Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis)
- The Wild Robot (Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts)
Visual Effects
- Winner: Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer)
- Alien: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan)
- Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs)
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke)
- Wicked (Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould)
Directing and writing
Directing
- Winner: Sean Baker, Anora
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
- Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
- Winner: Conclave (screenplay by Peter Straughan)
- A Complete Unknown (screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks)
- Emilia Pérez (screenplay by Jacques Audiard, in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi)
- Nickel Boys (screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
- Sing Sing (screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar; story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin and John "Divine G" Whitfield)
Writing (Original Screenplay)
- Winner: Anora (written by Sean Baker)
- The Brutalist (written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold)
- A Real Pain (written by Jesse Eisenberg)
- September 5 (written by Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum; co-written by Alex David)
- The Substance (written by Coralie Fargeat)
For the Academy’s complete official ceremony record, including category details and winners, see the 2025 Oscars page.
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