2025 Oscar nominations: ‘Emilia Pérez’ breaks records, leads with 13 nods

Last year, it was each astir the conflict of Oppenheimer and Barbie successful movie theatres and astatine the 2024 Academy Awards. But this twelvemonth the absorption is connected the euphony with philharmonic Emilia Pérez, Broadway philharmonic adaptation Wicked and Bob Dylan philharmonic biopic A Complete Unknown.

The much-anticipated 2025 Oscars nominations were revealed Thursday greeting by Rachel Sennott, who starred successful Saturday Night, and Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang. The nominations were pushed backmost astir a week from their archetypal day amid the ongoing California wildfires.

Emilia Pérez, a musical/melodrama/crime-thriller from filmmaker Jacques Audiard, acceptable a caller grounds for the astir nominations earned by an planetary movie with 13 nominations, including Best Picture. The movie broke the grounds acceptable by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Roma (2018), which antecedently earned 10 nominations each.

The film’s prima Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays Emilia Pérez, made Academy Award past by becoming the archetypal openly transgender histrion to beryllium nominated for an Oscar arsenic she’s nominated for Actress successful a Leading Role.

Zoe Saldaña besides received a information for Emilia Pérez, for Actress successful a Supporting Role. In the film, she plays Rita, a Mexico City lawyer hired by the cartel kingpin Manitas to assistance him fly Mexico for sex confirmation surgery.

Other starring films see The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, and Wicked, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, some earning 10 nominations.

Conan O’Brien is slated to big the 97th Oscars, taking spot connected March 2 astatine the Dolby Theatre, with a unrecorded tv broadcast opening astatine 7 p.m. ET.

Find the implicit database of the 2025 Oscar nominees successful each the large categories, below.

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Best Picture

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

Actor successful a Leading Role

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

Actress successful a Leading Role

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Actor successful 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 successful a Supporting Role

Monica Barbaro, A Completed Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Directing

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

Cinematography

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

Film Editing

Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

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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

Animated Feature Film

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

Animated Short Film

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

Live-Action Short Film

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

Music (Original Song)

El Mal, Emilia Pérez
The Journey, The Six Triple Eight
Like A Bird, Sing Sing
Mi Camino, Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late, Elton John: Never Too Late

Music (Original Score)

The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Sound

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

Documentary Feature

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

Makeup and Hairstyling

A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Costume Design

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

Production Design

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
Wicked
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— With files from The Associated Press

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