The 2025 Oscar nominations secured 13 nominations, with classics like Wind With The Wind and Mary Poppins as well as modern hits like Oppenheimer and The Shape of Water.
Netflix’s Spanish crime drama has won nods in multiple categories, including Best Picture, Best Original Song (two different tracks), and acting nominations for Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña.
Initially considered the forefront of Best Picture, Emilia Perez faced backlash after past racist and aggressive tweets by Gascon. Actor – The first openly nominated actress got hooked on a public apology tour, but the controversy deepened.
The film sets the record for most nominations that non-English films have ever received in Oscar history.
Directed by Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez is a musical crime drama about leaders of Mexican cartels who have undergone gender transitions to escape the past.
Following closely there are brutal and evil, each securing ten nominations. The Brutal explores the journey of Holocaust survivors as they pursue his American dreams as an architect, but Wicked acts as a cinematic adaptation of a hit Broadway musical, telling the story of the origins of the evil witches of the West.
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Best photo candidate
The Best Picture category has a diverse lineup of 10 films.
- Anora
- A brutal person
- The complete unknown
- conclave
- Dunes: Part 2
- Emilia Perez
- I’m still here
- Nickel Boys
- material
- evil
Best manager candidate
- Shawn Baker (Anora))
- Brady Corbett (A brutal person))
- Luca Guadagnino (The complete unknown))
- Jack Audide (Emilia Perez))
- Dennis Villeneuve (Dunes: Part 2))
Best Actor Candidate
- Adrien Brody (A brutal person))
- Timothy chalamet (The complete unknown))
- Colman Domingo (sing))
- Ralph Fiennes (conclave))
- Sebastian Stun (apprentice))
Best actress candidate
- Cynthia Eribo (evil))
- Karla Sofia Gascon (Emilia Perez))
- Mikey Madison (Anora))
- Demi Moore (material))
- Fernanda Torres (I’m still here))