The 97th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles, honoring excellence in cinema and hosted by Conan O’Brien.
Anora was the big winner of the evening, with the film named Best Picture and star Mikey Madison winning for Best Actress, while Sean Baker earned the honors for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing.
Adrien Brody was awarded the Best Actor Oscar for The Brutalist, while Kieran Culkin won for Best Supporting Actor in A Real Pain, and Zoe Saldaña was named Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez.
Flow was named Best Animated Feature, and Conclave writer Peter Straughan won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Best Picture
“Anora”
Nominees in this category: “The Brutalist”; “A Complete Unknown”; “Conclave”; “Dune: Part Two”; “Emilia Pérez”; “I’m Still Here”; “Nickel Boys”; “The Substance”; “Wicked”
Best Director
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Nominees in this category: Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”; Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”; Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”; James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
Best Actor
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Nominees in this category: Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”; Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”; Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”; Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Best Actress
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Best Supporting Actor
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Nominees in this category: Yura Borisov, “Anora”;Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”; Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”; Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
Best Supporting Actress
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
Nominees in this category: Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”; Ariana Grande, “Wicked”; Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”; Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Original Screenplay
“Anora”
Nominees in this category: “The Brutalist”; “A Real Pain”; “September 5”; “The Substance”
Adapted Screenplay
“Conclave”
Nominees in this category: “A Complete Unknown”; “Emilia Pérez”; “Nickel Boys”; “Sing Sing”
Animated Feature
“Flow”
Nominees in this category: “Inside Out 2”; “Memoir of a Snail”; “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”; “The Wild Robot”
Production Design
“Wicked”
Nominees in this category: “The Brutalist”; “Conclave”; “Dune: Part Two”; “Nosferatu”
Costume Design
“Wicked”
Nominees in this category: “A Complete Unknown”; “Conclave”; “Gladiator II”; “Nosferatu”
Cinematography
“The Brutalist”
Nominees in this category: “Dune: Part Two”; “Emilia Pérez”; “Maria”; “Nosferatu”
Editing
“Anora”
Nominees in this category: “The Brutalist”; “Conclave”; “Emilia Pérez”; “Wicked”
Makeup and Hairstyling
“The Substance”
Nominees in this category: “A Different Man”; “Emilia Pérez”; “Nosferatu”; “Wicked”
Sound
“Dune: Part Two”
Nominees in this category: “A Complete Unknown”; “Emilia Pérez”; “Wicked”; “The Wild Robot”
Visual Effects
“Dune: Part Two”
Nominees in this category: “Alien: Romulus”; “Better Man”; “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”; “Wicked”
Original Score
“The Brutalist”
Nominees in this category: “Conclave”; “Emilia Pérez”; “Wicked”; “The Wild Robot”
Original Song
“El Mal” (“Emilia Pérez”)
Nominees in this category: “The Journey” (“The Six Triple Eight”); “Like a Bird” (“Sing Sing”); “Mi Camino” (“Emilia Pérez”); “Never Too Late” (“Elton John: Never Too Late”)
Documentary Feature
“No Other Land”
Nominees in this category: “Black Box Diaries”; “Porcelain War”; “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”; “Sugarcane”\
International Feature
“I’m Still Here,” Brazil
Nominees in this category: “The Girl With the Needle,” Denmark; “Emilia Pérez,” France; “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Germany; “Flow,” Latvia
For a full list of 2025 Oscar winners, head to the link: HERE.
This year’s ceremony also honored the city of Los Angeles in the wake of the wildfires earlier this year, bringing firefighters onto the Oscars stage and hosting a charitable component to raise money for fire victims.
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