After months of speculation, the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards have finally been announced, and it is unsurprising that leading the pack with a whopping 13 nominations is “Emilia Perez”. Despite being largely disliked by audiences, the problematic musical crime-drama has swept this award season topping nominations at most guilds and precursors except BAFTA, where “Conclave” edged it out.
“Conclave” somewhat underperformed this morning with 8 nominations, but missed out on seemingly locked categories such as Cinematography and crucially Director. This marks the second time that Edward Berger has been snubbed by the Academy, despite him getting in literally everywhere else. Surprisingly it is James Mangold who has taken the decisive fifth director slot, repeating his success at DGA.
While on the topic of the guilds, PGA match 8 of this years nominees, these being the 8 films widely regarded to be secure of a nomination. The final two slots went to RaMell Ross‘ “Nickel Boys”, despite only receiving one other nomination, and Brazilian drama “I’m Still Here”, in which is undoubtedly the biggest shock of nomination morning. It was believed that the final two slots were between “Nickel Boys”, “Sing Sing”, “September 5” and “A Real Pain”, having all appeared in industry line-ups throughout the season, but the International voting body clearly got behind “I’m Still Here”, which also has nominations in Lead Actress and International Film.
It was a poor morning for “Dune: Part Two” which only recieved 5 nominations, having missed out on major categories including Director, Adapted Screenplay and Editing, as well as a couple other technical categories.
Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” manged to get 8 nominations having over performed in above the line categories, despite not doing so well in the techs. “The Brutalist”, “Anora” and “The Substance” all performed as expected, with 10, 6 and 5 nominations respectively, and “Wicked” also did well with 10 nominations despite missing out in Screenplay and Director.
Full list of nominations at the 97th Academy Awards:
Best Picture
- “Anora” | Neon | dir. Sean Baker
- “The Brutalist” | A24 | dir. Brady Corbet
- “A Complete Unknown” | Searchlight | dir. James Mangold
- “Conclave” | Focus Features | dir. Edward Berger
- “Dune: Part Two” | Warner Bros.| dir. Denis Villeneuve
- “Emilia Perez” | Netflix | dir. Jacques Audiard
- “I’m Still Here” | Sony Pictures Classics | dir. Walter Salles
- “Nickel Boys” | Amazon MGM | dir. RaMell Ross
- “The Substance” | Mubi | dir. Coralie Fargeat
- “Wicked” | Universal | dir. Jon M. Chu
Director
- Jacques Audiard “Emilia Perez”
- 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”
- Timothee Chalamet “A Complete Unknown”
- Colman Domingo “Sing Sing”
- Ralph Fiennes “Conclave”
- Sebastian Stan “The Apprentice”
Actress in a Leading Role
- Cynthia Erivo “Wicked”
- Karla Sofia Gascon “Emilia Perez”
- Mikey Madison “Anora”
- Demi Moore “The Substance”
- Fernanda Torres “I’m Still Here”
Actor in a Supporting Role
- 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
- Monica Barbaro “A Complete Unknown”
- Ariana Grande “Wicked”
- Felicity Jones “The Brutalist”
- Isabella Rossellini “Conclave”
- Zoe Saldana “Emilia Perez”
Original Screenplay
- “Anora” (Sean Baker)
- “The Brutalist” (Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold)
- “A Real Pain” (Jesse Eisenberg)
- “September 5” (Tim Fehlbaum, Moritz Binder)
- “The Substance” (Coralie Fargeat)
Adapted Screenplay
- “A Complete Unknown” (James Mangold, Jay Cocks)
- “Conclave” (Peter Straughan)
- “Emilia Perez” (Jacques Audiard)
- “Nickel Boys” (RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes)
- “Sing Sing” (Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar)
Animated Feature
- “Flow”| Janus | dir. Gints Zilbalodis
- “Inside Out 2” | Disney | dir. Kelsey Mann
- “Memoir of a Snail” | IFC | dir. Adam Elliot
- “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” | Netflix | dir. Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham
- “The Wild Robot” | Universal | dir. Chris Sanders
International Feature
- “Emilia Perez” | France | dir. Jacques Audiard
- “Flow” | Latvia | dir. Gints Zilbalodis
- “The Girl with the Needle” | Denmark | dir. Magnus von Horn
- “I’m Still Here” | Brazil | dir. Walter Salles
- “The Seed of a Sacred Fig” | Germany | dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
Documentary Feature
- “Black Box Diaries” | MTV
- “No Other Land” | Cinetic Media
- “Porcelain War” | Picturehouse
- “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” | Kino Lorber
- “Sugarcane” | Variance
Cinematography
- “The Brutalist” | Lol Crawley
- “Dune: Part Two” | Greig Fraser
- “Emilia Perez” | Paul Gulhaume
- “Maria” | Edward Lachman
- “Nosferatu” | Jarin Blaschke
Editing
- “Anora” | Sean Baker
- “The Brutalist” | David Jancso
- “Conclave” | Nick Emerson
- “Emilia Perez” | Juliette Welfling
- “Wicked” | Myron Kerstein
Production Design
- “The Brutalist”
- “Conclave”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Nosferatu”
- “Wicked”
Costume Design
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Conclave”
- “Gladiator II”
- “Nosferatu”
- “Wicked”
Makeup & Hairstyling
- “A Different Man”
- “Emilia Perez”
- “Nosferatu”
- “The Substance”
- “Wicked”
Visual Effects
- “Alien: Romulus”
- “Better Man”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
- “Wicked”
Sound
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Emilia Perez”
- “Wicked”
- “The Wild Robot”
Score
- “The Brutalist”
- “Conclave”
- “Emilia Perez”
- “Wicked”
- “The Wild Robot”
Song
- “Never Too Late” | Elton John: Never Too Late
- “Mi Camino” | Emilia Perez
- “El Mal” | Emilia Perez
- “Like a Bird” | Sing Sing
- “The Journey” | The Six Triple Eight
Documentary Short
- “Death by Numbers”
- “I Am Ready, Warden”
- “Incident”
- “Instruments of a Beating Heart”
- “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
Animated Short
- “Beautiful Men”
- “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
- “Maybe Elephants”
- “Wander to Wonder”
- “Yuck!”
Live Action Short
- “A Lien”
- “Anuja”
- “I’m Not a Robot”
- “The Last Ranger”
- “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
Films with most nominations:
- Emilia Perez – 13
- The Brutalist – 10
- Wicked – 10
- A Complete Unknown – 8
- Conclave – 8
- Anora- 6
- Dune: Part Two – 5
- The Substance – 5
- Nosferatu – 4
- Sing Sing – 3
- I’m Still Here – 3
- The Wild Robot – 3
- The Apprentice – 2
- Flow – 2
- Nickel Boys – 2
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday 2nd March 2025
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