The 2025 Oscar nominations are in, and Emilia Pérez has plenty to sing about.
Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical crime drama leads the field with 13 nominations. They include Best Picture, directing and acting recognition for Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña.
The Brutalist and Wicked follow with 10 nominations each. A Complete Unknown and Conclave earned eight apiece, while Anora collected six. Dune: Part Two and The Substance received five each.
This year’s Best Picture field stretches from papal politics and architectural ambition to sandworms, witches and musical reinvention. It also includes a beauty treatment with terms and conditions that really should have been read more carefully.
Karla Sofía Gascón became the first openly transgender performer nominated in an acting category. Fernanda Torres earned a leading actress nomination for I’m Still Here.
The acting categories also include several first-time nominees. Among them are Ariana Grande, Monica Barbaro, Yura Borisov, Isabella Rossellini and Jeremy Strong.
Here is a look at the nominees in several of the ceremony’s biggest categories.
Best Picture
Anora
Producers Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker
The Brutalist
Producers Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim and Brady Corbet
A Complete Unknown
Producers Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman
Conclave
Producers Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman
Dune: Part Two
Producers Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Pérez
Producers Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard
I’m Still Here
Producers Maria Carlota Bruno and Rodrigo Teixeira
Nickel Boys
Producers Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Joslyn Barnes
The Substance
Producers Coralie Fargeat, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
Wicked
Producer Marc Platt
Actor in a Leading Role
The leading actor category includes Adrien Brody as an architect rebuilding his life in America and Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan. Ralph Fiennes plays a cardinal trying to manage a papal election where everyone appears to have brought both a secret and an agenda.
Adrien Brody
The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet
A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo
Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes
Conclave
Sebastian Stan
The Apprentice
Actress in a Leading Role
The leading actress nominees are Cynthia Erivo, Karla Sofía Gascón, Mikey Madison, Demi Moore and Fernanda Torres. Their performances cover political resistance, ambition, reinvention and survival. There is also one increasingly alarming attempt to reclaim youth.
Cynthia Erivo
Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón
Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison
Anora
Demi Moore
The Substance
Fernanda Torres
I’m Still Here
Actor in a Supporting Role
The supporting actor race includes Yura Borisov, Kieran Culkin, Edward Norton, Guy Pearce and Jeremy Strong. Between them, they play a reluctant fixer, an unpredictable cousin, a folk music legend, a wealthy industrialist and a political adviser with complicated loyalties.
Yura Borisov
Anora
Kieran Culkin
A Real Pain
Edward Norton
A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce
The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong
The Apprentice
Actress in a Supporting Role
The supporting actress nominees are Monica Barbaro, Ariana Grande, Felicity Jones, Isabella Rossellini and Zoe Saldaña. The category features musicians, wives, confidantes and one relentlessly cheerful good witch who makes arriving by bubble look completely reasonable.
Monica Barbaro
A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande
Wicked
Felicity Jones
The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini
Conclave
Zoe Saldaña
Emilia Pérez
Animated Feature Film
The animated feature category includes anxiety, memory, mechanical parenting and a silent cat surviving a flood. It also brings back a cheese-loving inventor whose latest adventure confirms that even garden gnomes cannot always be trusted.
Flow
Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens and Gregory Zalcman
Inside Out 2
Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen
Memoir of a Snail
Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham and Richard Beek
The Wild Robot
Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann
The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. ABC will broadcast the ceremony live, while Hulu will stream it. Conan O’Brien will host the Oscars for the first time.