‘Emilia Pérez’ Leads Oscar Nominations With 13

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The Academy announced nominations for the upcoming Oscars Thursday morning, with the Spanish-language, French-produced crime musical “Emilia Pérez” leading with 13 nominations, the most ever for a non-English movie, with “The Brutalist” and “Wicked” right behind.

Zoe Saldana won a Golden Globe for “Emilia Pérez.” (Photo by Michael Buckner/GG2025/Penske Media via … [+] Getty Images)

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Key Facts

“Emilia Pérez” is just one nomination short of the most-ever nominations for a film, narrowly missing the record of 14 nominations earned by “La La Land” (2016), “Titanic” (1997) and “All About Eve” (1950).

Among the 10 nominations for “Wicked” are nominations for Cynthia Erivo in the lead actress category and Ariana Grande in supporting actress.

Other leading nominees include “A Complete Unknown” and “Conclave” with eight, followed by “Anora” with six.

Oscar Nominations For Best Picture

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

Oscar Nominations For Best Director

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

Oscar Nominations For Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
Karla Sofia Gascon, “Emilia Pérez”
Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”

Oscar Nominations For Best Actor

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

Oscar Nominations For Best Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unkown”
Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”

Oscar Nominations For Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov, “Anora”
Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”

Oscar Nominations For Best Original Screenplay

“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“A Real Pain”
“September 5”
“The Substance”

Oscar Nominations For Best Adapted Screenplay

“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nickel Boys”
“Sing Sing”

Oscar Nominations For Best Animated Feature

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

Oscar Nominations For Best Production Design

“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”

Oscar Nominations For Best Costume Design

“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Gladiator II”
“Nosferatu”
“Wicked”

Oscar Nominations For Best Cinematography

“The Brutalist”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Maria”
“Nosferatu”

Oscar Nominations For Best Editing

“Anora”
“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”

Oscar Nominations For Best Makeup And Hairstyling

“A Different Man”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Nosferatu”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”

Oscar Nominations For Best Sound

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

Oscar Nominations For Best Visual Effects

“Alien: Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”

Oscar Nominations For Best Original Score

“The Brutalist”
“Conclave”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Wicked”
“The Wild Robot”

Oscar Nominations For Best Original Song

“Evil” (“Emilia Pérez”)
“The Journey (”The Six Triple Eight”)
“Like A Bird” (”Sing Sing”)
“My Way” (“Emilia Pérez”)
“Never Too Late” (”Elton John: Never Too Late”)

Oscar Nominations For Best Documentary Feature

“Black Box Diaries”
“No Other Land”
“Porcelain War”
“Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat”
“Sugarcane”

Oscar Nominations For Best International Feature

“I’m Still Here,” Brazil
“The Girl with the Needle,” Denmark
“Emilia Pérez,” France
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Germany
“Flow,” Latvia

Oscar Nominations For Best Animated Short

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

Oscar Nominations For Best Documentary Short

“Death By Numbers”
“I Am Ready, Warden”
“Incident”
“Instruments of a Beating Heart”
“The Only Girl in the Orchestra”

Oscar Nominations For Best Live-Action Short

“A Link”
“Anuja”
“I’m Not A Robot”
“The Last Ranger”
“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”

When Do The Oscars Take Place?

The Academy Awards will air March 2 at 7 p.m. EST on ABC and Hulu. Conan O’Brien will host the ceremony for the first time.

What’s Next On The Awards Calendar?

A few major awards ceremonies still have to take place before the Oscars, including the Critics Choice Awards, which was delayed to Feb. 7 from its originally planned date of Jan. 12 because of the Los Angeles fires. Other upcoming awards ceremonies include the Screen Actors Guild Awards and British Academy Film Awards, both of which have membership overlap with the Academy Awards and could indicate who might win Oscars come March. The SAG Awards air Feb. 23 on Netflix, and the BAFTAs air in the United Kingdom on Feb. 16.

Key Background

The lethal Los Angeles wildfires caused the Oscars nominations announcement to be delayed twice, and the voting period was extended by several days. The deadly fires, which ravaged the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, impacted many celebrities, some of whom lost homes—including Eugene Levy, Mel Gibson, Billy Crystal and Anthony Hopkins—and caused many Los Angeles-based film and television productions to be paused. Some celebrities, including Jean Smart and Stephen King, called for the Oscars to be canceled because of the wildfires, though The Hollywood Reporter cited unnamed Academy sources last week stating the ceremony will still happen.

Tangent

Two of the biggest Best Picture contenders—”The Brutalist” and “Emilia Pérez”—stirred controversy over the weekend for their use of artificial intelligence. “The Brutalist” editor Dávid Jancsó said in an interview with Red Shark News, a video technology publication, that the editors used AI to tweak the actors’ Hungarian line deliveries to make them sound more like native speakers. In a statement Monday, director Brady Corbet said the AI technology was used for “Hungarian language dialogue editing only, specifically to refine certain vowels and letters for accuracy,” adding the actors’ performances are “completely their own” and they worked for months with a dialect coach. Cyril Holtz, sound mixer for “Emilia Pérez,” had said in an interview in May at the Cannes Film Festival, which recently resurfaced on social media, that the film employed AI to alter Gascon’s vocal range. The use of AI in film production is controversial and was central to both the actors’ and writers’ strikes in 2023.