Oscars 2025: Full list of winners and nominees

The much anticipated 97th Academy Awards, otherwise known as Oscars, came to a close this year with historical wins.

This year’s theme, community and spirit, honours all the 29 lives that was lost and thousands of homes destroyed to wildfire in the city of Los Angeles, which happened early this year, 2025.

The awards also honours films, actors and actresses who have put in extra work to ensure excellence in the roles, pushing intriguing stories to audience all over the globe. Here is the full list of nominees and winners at the Academy Awards:

Actors in a leading role

WINNER: Adrien Brody
Timothée Chalamet
Colman Domingo
Ralph Fiennes
Sebastian Stan

Best picture

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

Best actress

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

Best supporting actress

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

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Best animated feature

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

Best supporting actor

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

Best film editing

WINNER: Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

Best director

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

Best international feature

WINNER: I’m Still Here – Brazil
The Girl with the Needle – Denmark
Emilia Pérez – France
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Germany
Flow – Latvia

Best costume design

WINNER: Wicked
Nosferatu
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II

Best original screenplay

WINNER: 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 adapted screenplay

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

Best original song

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

Best original score

WINNER: The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best documentary feature

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

Best make-up and hairstyling

A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
WINNER: The Substance
Wicked

Best production design

The Brutalist
WINNER: Wicked
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Conclave

Best sound

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

Best cinematography

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

Best visual effects

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

Best documentary short

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

Best live action short

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

Best animated short

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

The Academy Awards, which took place in Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, United States of America, started at about 10pm (WAT) with quests and celebrities arriving at the red carpets. The show kicked started at about 1am and lasted till 4am (WAT), March, 3, 2025, with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s opening song Defy Gravity. It saw historical wins that will become great topics in pop culture.