The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced on Thursday, marking a significant morning for Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist, and Wicked.
Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez, a Spanish-language film produced in France, led the pack with an impressive 13 nominations. Among these were nods for Best Picture and Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, who made history as the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Oscar.
Another musical, Wicked, the celebrated adaptation of the Broadway hit, closely followed with 10 nominations. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the opulent reimagining of The Wizard of Oz earned recognition for Best Picture and acting nominations for its stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.
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Brady Corbet’s postwar epic The Brutalist, shot in VistaVision and distributed by A24, also secured 10 nominations. These included Best Picture, Best Director, and acting nods for Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, and Felicity Jones.
A list of nominees follows below.
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 in a leading role
- Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
- Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
- Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
- Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
- Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Best actress in a leading role
- Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
- Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
- Mikey Madison, “Anora”
- Demi Moore, “The Substance”
- Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
Best 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”
Best actress in a supporting role
- Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
- Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
- Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
- Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
- Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
Best director
- Sean Baker, “Anora”
- Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
- James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
- Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
- Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
Best cinematography
- “The Brutalist”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Maria”
- “Nosferatu”
Best international feature film
- “I’m Still Here”
- “The Girl with the Needle”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
- “Flow”
Best adapted screenplay
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Conclave”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Nickel Boys”
- “Sing Sing”
Best original screenplay
- “Anora”
- “The Brutalist”
- “A Real Pain”
- “September 5”
- “The Substance”
Best live action short film
- “A Lien”
- “Anuja”
- “I’m Not a Robot”
- “The Last Ranger”
- “A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
Best animated short film
- “Beautiful Men”
- “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
- “Magic Candies”
- “Wander to Wonder”
- “Yuck!”
Best animated feature film
- “Flow”
- “Inside Out 2”
- “Memoir of a Snail”
- “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
- “The Wild Robot”
Best documentary short
- “Death By Numbers”
- “I Am Ready, Warden”
- “Incident”
- “Instruments of a Beating Heart”
- “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
Best documentary feature film
- “Black Box Diaries”
- “No Other Land”
- “Porcelain War”
- “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”
- “Sugarcane”
Best original song
- Selena Gomez in “Emilia Pérez.”
- Selena Gomez in “Emilia Pérez.”
- “El Mal,” from “Emilia Pérez”
- “The Journey,” from “The Six Triple Eight”
- “Like a Bird,” from “Sing Sing”
- “Mi Camino,” from “Emilia Pérez”
- “Never Too Late,” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”
Best original score
- “The Brutalist”
- “Conclave”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Wicked”
- “The Wild Robot”
Best makeup and hairstyling
- “A Different Man”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Nosferatu”
- “The Substance”
- “Wicked”
Best costume design
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Conclave”
- “Gladiator II”
- “Nosferatu”
- “Wicked”
- Best editing
- “Anora”
- “The Brutalist”
- “Conclave”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Wicked”
Best sound
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Wicked”
- “The Wild Robot”
Best production design
- “The Brutalist”
- “Conclave”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Nosferatu”
- “Wicked”
Best visual effects
- “Alien: Romulus”
- “Better Man”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
- “Wicked”
