2025 Oscar nominations announced

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards on Thursday, and the Internet is ablaze with reaction.

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This year's Oscar nominations were sorely lacking in melanin, but some celebs took home awards for Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

Cynthia Erivo nominated for Best Actress, Zoe Saldaña nominated for Best Supporting Actress

Cynthia Erivo earned her third Oscar nomination, bringing her one step closer to becoming the youngest EGOT winner ever.

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Cynthia already has a Tony for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical in 2016, a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album in 2017, and a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program in 2017. If she wins, she will meet tastes. of Whoopi Goldberg, Viola Davis and John Legend as EGOT.

that of Cynthia Wicked her co-star Ariana Grande was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Wicked, and she said on Instagram that she was honored by the “unfathomable recognition.”

“lifting my head between sobs to say thank you so much to @theacademy for this unfathomable recognition,” she captioned a carousel of photos.

“I can't stop crying, no surprise. I am honored and deeply humbled to be in such brilliant company and to share this with little Ari who sat and studied Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow just before the big beautiful bubble entered,” she added. “I don't have all my words yet, I'm still trying to breathe. but thank you. oh my god, thank you.

Zoe Saldaña was also nominated for an Oscar this year.

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The star is up for Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez, and the Netflix film garnered 13 nominations in total, setting an all-time Oscar record for a non-English-language film.

Colman Domingo was nominated for best actor, but was Denzel Washington snubbed?

Colman Domingo is also celebrating his Oscar nomination this morning.

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With today's nomination, he follows in the footsteps of Denzel Washington in receiving two consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actor. Colman was nominated for Rustin last year and is up for Best Actor this year for Sing Sing.

Speaking of Denzel, some movie fans think he was one of the biggest Oscar snubs this year for his portrayal of Macrinus in Ridley Scott's film. Gladiator II. Deadline called it a “crime,” and others agree.

What do you think?

The 2025 Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, will air live from the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.m. ET on ABC and Hulu.

See the full list of 2024 Oscar nominations on the front.

Best picture
Anora (Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, producers)
The Brutalist (Nominated to be determined)
A Complete Stranger (Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman, producers)
Conclave (Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman, producers)
Dune: Part Two (Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve, producers)
Emilia Pérez (Nominees to be determined)
I'm still here (Nominees to be determined)
Nickel Boys (Nominees TBD)
The substance (candidates to be determined)
Villain (Marc Platt, producer)

Direction
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, the brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, a complete unknown

Actor in a leading role
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, a complete stranger
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, the apprentice

Actress in a leading role
Cynthia Erivo, wicked
Karla Sofia Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I'm still here

Supporting actor
Youra Borissov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, a real pain
Edward Norton, a complete unknown
Guy Pearce, the brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Supporting actress
Monica Barbaro, a complete stranger
Ariana Grande, nasty
Felicity Jones, the brutalist
Isabelle Rossellini, Conclave
Zoé Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Writing (adapted screenplay)
A Complete Unknown (Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks)
Conclave (Screenplay by Peter Straughan)
Emilia Pérez (Screenplay by Jacques Audiard; In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi)
Nickel Boys (Screenplay by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes)
Sing Sing (Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield)

Writing (original screenplay)
Anora (Written by Sean Baker)
The Brutalist (written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold)
Real Pain (written by Jesse Eisenberg)
September 5 (written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; co-written by Alex David)
The substance (written by Coralie Fargeat)

Animated feature film
Stream (Nominees to be determined)
Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen)
Memory of a Snail (Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney)
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Nominated to be determined)
The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann)

Animated short film
Beautiful Men (Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande)
In the shade of the cypress (Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi)
Magic Candy (Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio)
Stroll into Wonder (Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper)
Yuck! (Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet)

Cinematography
The Brutalist (Lord Crawley)
Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
Emilia Pérez (Paul Guilhaume)
Maria (Ed Lachman)
Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke)

Costume design
A complete stranger (Arianne Phillips)
Conclave (Lisy Christl)
Gladiator II (Janty Yates and Dave Crossman)
Nosferatu (Linda Muir)
Villain (Paul Tazewell)

Film editing
Anora (Sean Baker)
The Brutalist (David Jancso)
Conclave (Nick Emerson)
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
Villain (Myron Kerstein)

Makeup and hairstyling
A Different Man (Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado)
Emilia Pérez (Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini)
Nosferatu (David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes-Munton)
The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli)
Villain (Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth)

Live short film
A Link (Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz)
Anuja (Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai)
I'm Not a Robot (Victoria Warmerdam and Trent)
The Last Ranger (Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw)
The Man Who Couldn't Stay Silent (Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek)

Music (original music)
The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg)
Bedroom (Volker Bertelmann)
Emilia Pérez (Clément Ducol and Camille)
Villain (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz)
The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)

Music (original song)
“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez (Music by Clément Ducol and Camille; Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard)
“The Journey” by The Six Triple Eight (music and lyrics by Diane Warren)
“Like a Bird” by Sing Sing (music and lyrics by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada)
“Mi Camino” by Emilia Pérez (Music and lyrics by Camille and Clément Ducol)
“Never Too Late” by Elton John: Never Too Late (music and lyrics by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin)

Feature documentary
Black Box Diaries – The Best of Black Box Diaries
No Other Land (Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham)
Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska and Paula DuPre' Pesmen)
Original soundtrack of a coup d'état (Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety)
Sugar Cane (Nominees to be determined)

Documentary short film
Death by Numbers (Kim A. Snyder and Janique L. Robillard)
I'm ready, director (Smriti Mundhra and Maya Gnyp)
Incident (Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven)
Instruments of a Beating Heart (Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Eric Nyari)
The only girl in the orchestra (Molly O'Brien and Lisa Remington)

International feature film
I'm still here (Brazil)
The Needlegirl (Denmark)
Emilia Pérez (France)
The seed of the sacred fig (Germany)
Flow (Latvia)

Production design
The Brutalist (director: Judy Becker; decoration: Patricia Cuccia)
Conclave (Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter)
Dune: Part Two (Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau)
Nosferatu (director: Craig Lathrop; decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová)
Wicked (Production design: Nathan Crowley; Set decoration: Lee Sandales)

Her
A Complete Unknown (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco)
Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill)
Emilia Pérez (Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta)
Villain (Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis)
The Wild Robot (Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts)

Visual effects
Extraterrestrial: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan)
Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs)
Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke)
Villain (Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould)