“Emilia Pérez” leads the nominations, followed by “The Brutalist” and “Wicked”

The films selected for the 2025 Oscars were revealed this Thursday. “Emilia Pérez” received thirteen nominations, followed by “The Brutalist” and “Wicked”, each nominated ten times.

Dambient role for a record. Jacques Audiard is somewhere between Brazil and Uruguay when the Oscar nominations are announced in Los Angeles, where the fires have started again and where neighborhoods close to Hollywood are still evacuated. It is 5:30 a.m. this Thursday, January 23, in Beverly Hills, when the presenters of the express ceremony announce the results of the votes in a hotel lounge where the public is in evening wear and slaps, slightly apathetic. The Oscars, we are told, will take place on Sunday March 2 on Hollywood Boulevard. They will pay tribute to “the spirit of resistance and community” of the cinema industry, which is trying to find its senses in the midst of the ashes.

Not sure that the 2025 vintage, which could not be more atypical, will bring balm to his heart. Because it is a Frenchman who wins the prize and brings in his wake a cohort of art-house films on which the studios would not have bet heavily. With 13 nominations, Emilia Perez did better than at the Golden Globes and broke all records for a foreign film (10 nominations for Tiger and dragon, by Ang Lee, in 2001 and Roma, by Alfonso Cuarón, in 2019). Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman in the running for the best actress trophy. Clément Ducol and Camille strike with a nomination for the soundtrack and two compositions (The Evil et My Way), nominated for the Oscar for Best Song. Editing, image, sound, makeup, scenario complete the campaign orchestrated by Neflix with the air of a grand slam.

Near The Brutalist, which carries high the colors of auteur cinema, and Wickedthose of the Hollywood industry (10 nominations each), the French Coralie Fargeat shines in a surprising way with her conceptual gore film The Substance, which lands in the best film and best direction categories, and could propel the returning Demi Moore to the top. Fernanda Torres, the Brazilian actress I’m still here, carves out a place of choice among the favorites, and the film by Walter Salles also appears on the list of best films. Proof that voters in Los Angeles (60%) found the time, in the heart of the tragedy, to see little-anticipated films. Or that voices from abroad have, unwittingly, taken advantage of the astonishment to make themselves heard.

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All nominations

Best film

Anora, by Sean Baker
The Brutalistby Brady Corbe
A complete strangerby James Mangold
Conclaved’Edward Berger
Dune, part two, by Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Perezby Jacques Audiard
I’m still hereby Walter Salles
The Substance, by Coralie Fargeat
Nickel Boysby RaMell Ross
Wicked, of John M. Chu

Best achievement

Sean Baker for Anora
Brady Corbet pour The Brutalist
James Mangold, A Complete Stranger
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez
Coralie Fargeat for The Substance

Best actress

Cynthia Erivo in Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón dans Emilia Perez
Mikey Madison in Anora
Demi Moore in The Substance
Fernanda Torres in I’m still here

Best Actor

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet in A complete stranger
Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice
Colman Domingo in Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes in Conclave

Best Supporting Actress

Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Perez
Ariana Grande in Wicked
Isabella Rossellini in Conclave
Felicity Jones in The Brutalist
Monica Barbaro, in A Complete Stranger

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov dans Anora
Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain
Edward Norton in A complete stranger
Guy Pearce in The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice

Best International Film

Emilia Perez (France)
Flow (Latvia)
I’m still here (Brazil)
The Young Woman with a Needle (Denmark)
Seeds of the wild fig tree (Germany)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Emilia Perez
A complete stranger
Nickel Boys
Conclave
Sing Sing

Best Original Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

Best photography

Nosferatu
The Brutalist
Emilia Perez
Maria
Dune, part two

Best editing

Anora
Conclave
Wicked
Emilia Perez
The Brutalist

Best Animated Film

The Wild Robot
Vice-versa 2
Memoirs of a snail
Flow
Wallace and Gromit: The Palm of Vengeance

Best documentary film

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

Best film score

Conclave, music by Volker Bertelmann
The Brutalist, music by Daniel Blumberg
The Wild Robot, music by Kris Bowers
Emilia Perez, music by Clément Ducol and Camille
Wicked, music by John Powell and Stephen Schwartz

Best Original Song

The evil, In Emilia Perez
My Way, In Emilia Perez
The Journey, In Messengers of war
Like a Bird, In Sing Sing
Never too Late, In Elton John : Never too Late

Best sound mixing

A complete stranger
Dune, part two
Emilia Perez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best decors

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune, part two
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best visual effects

Alien : Romulus
Better Man
Dune, part two
Planet of the Apes: The New Kingdom
Wicked

Best Costume Design

A complete stranger
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Makeup and Hairstyle

A Different Man
Emilia Perez
The Substance
Wicked
Nosferatu

Best short fiction film

A Link
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
The 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 Documentary Short Film

Death by Numbers
I am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra