Emilia Perez leads the Oscar nominations with 13 nods including best picture, actress for Karla Sofia Gascon, supporting actress for Zoe Saldana and director for Jacques Audiard.
The French-made, Spanish-language musical about a transgender woman has been a wild success story across the awards season and goes into the race a leading contender.
It also broke the record for most nominations ever for a non-English language film, a title previously held by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma, which both had 10 nods.
In second place in the nominations stakes are The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 nominations apiece.
Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown also performed well with eight nominations including for stars Timothee Chalamet and Monica Barbaro and a somewhat surprising nod for director James Mangold.
Demi Moore will chase her first Oscar in the actress race for The Substance, which was nominated in five categories overall. Moore won a Golden Globe for her performance and her widely praised acceptance speech put momentum behind her awards campaign.
Among the Australians nominated were Guy Pearce for his role in The Brutalist, as well film Memoir of a Snail in animated feature which was directed by Adam Elliot.
Sebastian Stan was a surprise name in the actor category having nabbed a nomination for playing Donald Trump in The Apprentice. The film struggled to secure American distribution after its Cannes premiere. Stan’s co-star, Jeremy Strong, was also nominated.
Another head-turner was Brazilian film I’m Still Here sneaking into the best picture category but it gained considerable notice after its lead actor, Fernanda Torres, won a Golden Globe for her performance, which likely helped push it onto Oscar voters’ viewing lists.
Notable misses include Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Angelina Jolie for Maria, Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths, Daniel Craig for Queer and Conclave director Edward Berger.
Kidman was a favourite for a nod earlier but, like Jolie and Gladiator II’s Denzel Washington, she had missed out on key nominations by other awards bodies in the lead-up, and, for the past few weeks, was considered an outside chance.
The nominations were delayed as a result of the Los Angeles wildfires which coincided with the nominations voting period. The Academy extended the deadline.
Despite speculation and some UK media reporting that the Oscars were on the verge of cancellation, the Academy stridently denied the rumours.
The ceremony will go ahead but it’s expected that it will feature a component to “honour Los Angeles as a city of dreams, showcasing its beauty and resilience,” according to a letter sent by Academy chief executive Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang.
But there will not be any live musical performances from the nominated songs. At the 2024 ceremony, Ryan Gosling stole the show with his energetic rendition of “I’m Just Ken”.
The Oscars are voted on by its invitation-only membership, which consists of roughly 10,000 industry professionals. Each branch, for example, actors, writers or documentaries, nominate in their corresponding category while everyone can nominate in the best picture category. All members can vote in every category for the final result.
The ceremony will be held on March 3 with Conan O’Brien to serve as host.
PICTURE
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
DIRECTOR
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
ACTOR
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothee Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
ACTRESS
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Perez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David, September 5
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
James Mangold and Jay Cocks, A Complete Unknown
Peter Straughan, Conclave
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Lea Mysius and Nicholas Livecchi, Emilia Perez
Ramell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
Clint Bentley, Greg Kewdar, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield, Sing Sing
ANIMATED FEATURE
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
I’m Still Here, Brazil
The Girl with the Needle, Denmark
Emilia Perez, France
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Germany
Flow, Latvia
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat
Sugarcane
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Maria
Nosferatu
FILM EDITING
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Perez
Wicked
ORIGINAL SCORE
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Perez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
ORIGINAL SONG
“El Mal”, Emilia Perez
“The Journey”, Six Triple Eight
“Like a Bird”, Sing Sing
“Mi Camino”, Emilia Perez
“Never Too Late”, Elton John: Never Too Late
SOUND
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked
COSTUME DESIGN
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked
MAKE-UP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Different Man
Emilia Perez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/oscar-nominations-2025-emilia-perez-the-brutalist-and-wicked-in-the-lead-c-17486492
