Watch: Oscar Nominations 2025: Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, Angelina Jolie and More Snubs and Surprises
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Hollywood’s biggest night is just hours away with the 2025 Oscars set to kick off on Sunday, March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
Hosted for the very first time by Conan O’Brien, the 97th Academy Awards will honor the year’s critically acclaimed movies, groundbreaking filmmakers and breakout acting performances.
The 2025 nominations are stacked with A-listers like Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Ralph Fiennes and Adrien Brody. (See the full list of 2025 Oscar nominees here.)
But after winning big all award season, it’s likely that first-time nominees and frontrunners Demi Moore (The Substance), A Real Pain‘s Kieran Culkin and Emilia Pérez‘s Zoe Saldaña will take home trophies in three of the four main acting categories following success at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. However, don’t sleep on fellow first-time nominees and Anora‘s breakout stars Mikey Madison and Yura Borisov.
As for the top honor of Best Picture, Anora, Emilia Pérez and The Substance will battle it out against Dune: Part 2, Wicked, Nickel Boys, Conclave, I’m Still Here, The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown for the final award of the night.
But awards aside, the Oscars is sure to be a night filled with unmatched entertainment and unexpected moments that everyone will be talking about the next day.
Especially after new emcee O’Brien recently teased, “I am going to go into the audience, and I’m going to shave Stanley Tucci‘s chest. He has not consented. He’s heard about it, and he said no, but I’m going to still do it.”
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Jokes aside, the former late night talk show host has been putting in the work to ensure the show is anything but boring.
“I don’t care if my ideas are bad ideas. I care that they’re new and you haven’t seen it before,” he told ABC News. “You know what I mean? Wrestling a giant cobra, you know, for the first time onstage hasn’t been done.”
Plus, with performances by Erivo, Grande, Doja Cat, Queen Latifah and Lisa from BLACKPINK, and presenters like Halle Berry, Sterling K. Brown, Penélope Cruz, Whoopi Goldberg, Selena Gomez, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, Oprah Winfrey, Harrison Ford and Bowen Yang, prepare to be wowed.
Keep reading to see all the big winners from tonight’s 2025 Academy Awards.
The 2025 Oscars air tonight, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC.
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Monica Barbaro—A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande—Wicked
Felicity Jones—The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini—Conclave
Zoe Saldaña—Emilia Pérez
Adrien Brody—The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet—A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo—Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes—Conclave
Sebastian Stan—The Apprentice
Yura Borisov— Anora
Kieran Culkin—A Real Pain
Edward Norton —A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce—The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong—The Apprentice
Sean Baker—Anora
Brady Corbet—The Brutalist
James Mangold—A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard—Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat—The Substance
Mike Marino, Dave Presto and Crystal Jurado—A Different Man
Julia Floch Carbonel & Simon Livet—Emilia Pérez
Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton & David White—Nosferatu
Pierre-Olivier Persin—The Substance
Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount—Wicked
A Lien
I’m Not a Robot
Anuja
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
I’m Still Here
The Girl with the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
Arianne Phillips—A Complete Unknown
Lisy Christy—Conclave
Janty Yates—Gladiator II
Linda Muir—Nosferatu
Paul Tazewell—Wicked
Sean Baker—Anora
Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold—The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg—A Real Pain
Tim Fehlbaum & Moritz Binder—September 5
Coralie Fargeat—The Substance
Jay Cocks & James Mangold—A Complete Unknown
Peter Straughan—Conclave
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Nicolas Livecchi—Emilia Pérez
Joslyn Barnes & RaMell Ross—Nickel Boys
Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar—Sing Sing
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Judy Becker—The Brutalist
Suzie Davies & Roberta Federico—Conclave
Zsuzsanna Sipos, Shane Vieau & Patrice Vermette—Dune: Part Two
Beatrice Brentnerova, Paul Ghirardani & Craig Lanthorp—Nosferatu
Nathan Crawley—Wicked
“El Mal” written by Clement Ducol, Camille & Jacques Audiard, performed by Zoé Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascon—Emilia Pérez
“The Journey” written by Diane Warren, performed by H.E.R.—The Six Triple Eight
“Like a Bird” written by Adrian Quesada and Abraham Alexander—Sing Sing
“Mi Camino” written by Clement Ducol & Camille, performed by Selena Gomez & Edgar Ramirez—Emilia Pérez
“Never Too Late” written by written by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin, and Andrew Watt, performed by Elton John—Elton John: Never Too Late
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Lol Crawley—The Brutalist
Greig Fraser—Dune: Part Two
Paul Guilhaume—Emilia Pérez
Edward Lachman—Maria
Jarin Blaschke—Nosferatu
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Sugarcane
I Am Ready, Warden
Death By Numbers
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
The 2025 Academy Awards air tonight, Mar. 2, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC and Hulu.
