The Oscar nominations for 2025 are here, and they are a historic list with actress Karla Sofía Gascón becoming the first trans woman nominated for Best Actress in a movie that we’re sure won’t rile up social media.

Especially if they win.

They star in Emilia Perez, which has also been nominated for best picture, alongside Dune: Part Two, The Brutalist, The Substance, and Wicked.

It is the latest PR stunt to get the Academy Awards to move the needle again in some way, shape, or form. Every year the awards ceremony seems to have a big viral moment that makes international news like the Will Smith slap and the Moonlight Best Picture mistake and yet viewership continues to circle the drain.

We think that by the end of the event this year, everyone will be upset especially as there are calls to cancel or at least postpone the Oscars because of the destructive wildfires still running rampant through Los Angeles in which 28 people have lost their lives.

Indeed no-one wants to luxuriate in red carpets, expensive clothes and enormously rich people when their entire lives have burned down around them. But the show must go on or at least that is what the organisers will say.

The biggest winners in terms of Oscar nods is quasi-musical Emilia Perez, which saw 13 nominations and is the standout from the pack this year, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and more.

Another notable nominee is Dune: Part Two, a rare science fiction film that sees a Best Picture nomination, though not as rare as it once was thanks to Everything Everywhere All At Once winning Best Picture in 2022.

2025 is clearly the year of the musical as Disney’s Wicked is the runner-up in terms of nominations with 10, including Best Picture, Best Actress and a Supporting Actress nod for Ariana Grande. Adrien Brody’s The Brutalist is sharing the 10 nomination score, while veteran Demi Moore has received her first career nomination for The Substance.

Timothée Chalamet is seeing his second Best Actor nomination, but not for Dune and instead for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. He will duke it out against the Winter Soldier, Sebastian Stan, who played Donald Trump in The Apprentice.

Here are all the 2025 Oscar Nominations

Best picture

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

Best actor

• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
• Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

Best actress

• Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
• Mikey Madison – Anora
• Demi Moore – The Substance
• Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here

Best supporting actress

• Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
• Ariana Grande – Wicked
• Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
• Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best supporting actor

• Yura Borisov – Anora
• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
• Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
• Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice

Best director

• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
• Sean Baker – Anora
• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
• James Mangold – A Complete Unknown

Best adapted screenplay

• A Complete Unknown – Jay Cocks and James Mangold
• Conclave – Peter Straughan
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard
• Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
• Sing Sing – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best original screenplay

• Anora – Sean Baker
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
• A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
• September 5 – Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Best original song

• Never Too Late – Elton John: Never Too Late
• El Mal – Emilia Pérez
• Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez
• Like A Bird – Sing Sing
• The Journey – The Six Triple Eight

Best original score

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

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

Best animated feature

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

Best documentary feature

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

Best costume design

• Wicked
• Nosferatu
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Gladiator II

Best make-up and hairstyling

• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best production design

• Wicked
• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Conclave

Best sound

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

Best film editing

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

Best cinematography

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu

Best visual effects

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

Best live action short

• Anuja
• I’m Not a Robot
• The Last Ranger
• A Lien
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best animated short

• Beautiful Men
• In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Magic Candies
• Wander to Wonder
• Yuck!

Best documentary short

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