Oscar nominations 2025: ‘Emilia Pérez’ leads, adopted by ‘Depraved’

LOS ANGELES — Within the wake of devastating wildfires in Los Angeles that struck on the coronary heart of the film {industry}, an embattled Hollywood lined up behind the Netflix narco-musical about trans identification “Emilia Pérez” in Oscar nominations Thursday.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish language, French-made movie, dominated the nominations with a number one 13 nominations, together with greatest image and greatest actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, making her the primary brazenly trans actor ever nominated for an Oscar. The movie additionally landed nominations for steering, authentic screenplay, two of its songs and for Zoe Saldaña.

Netflix, regardless of its starring function in Hollywood, has by no means received greatest image. A lot of its prime contenders have beforehand racked up giant numbers of nominations (together with “Mank,” “The Irishman” and “Roma”) however gone dwelling with solely a handful of trophies.

“Emilia Pérez,” although, could also be its greatest probability but. It grew to become essentially the most nominated non-English language movie ever, surpassing Netflix’s personal “Roma,” which landed 10 nominations. Solely three movies — “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land” — have scored extra nominations in Academy Awards historical past.

One other musical — “Depraved,” the smash Broadway adaptation — got here away with almost as many nominations. Jon M. Chu’s lavish “Wizard of Oz” riff collected 10 nominations, together with greatest image and performing nods for its stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

“The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet’s postwar epic filmed in VistaVision and launched by A24, additionally got here away with a commanding 10 nominations, together with greatest image, greatest director and nominations for actor Adrien Brody, Man Pearce and Felicity Jones.

The ten nominees for greatest image are: “Anora”; “The Brutalist”; “A Full Unknown”; “Conclave”; “Dune: Half Two”; “Emilia Pérez”; “I’m Nonetheless Right here.”; “Nickel Boys”; “The Substance”; “Depraved.”

In a wide-open Oscar race, the six most honored movies — “Emilia Pérez,” “Depraved,” “The Brutalist,” “Anora” (six nominations) “Conclave” (eight nominations) and “A Full Unknown” (eight nominations) — all fared as anticipated. The largest surprises have been the Brazilian movie “I am Nonetheless Right here,” a portrait of political resistance underneath Brazil’s army dictatorship that additionally landed Fernanda Torres a greatest actress nomination, and RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” a daringly crafted first-person POV-shot drama that had been ignored by many guilds in earlier voting.

These nominees doubtless displaced a couple of best-picture potentialities within the jail drama “Sing Sing,” the journalism thriller “September 5” and the tender comedy “A Actual Ache,” although these movies all landed nominations elsewhere.

Certainly one of 2024’s most audacious movies, “The Apprentice″ landed a shocking pair of nominations, for Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Sturdy. The movie dramatizes the adolescence of President Donald Trump’ s emergence in New York actual property underneath the tutelage of lawyer Roy Cohn. Trump has referred to as these concerned with the movie “human scum.”

In one of the best actor class, the place Stan and Brody have been nominated, the opposite nominees have been Timothée Chalamet (“A Full Unknown”), Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) and Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”). Most notably disregarded was Daniel Craig, acclaimed for his very un-James Bond efficiency in “Queer.”

Finest actress, a class that Demi Moore has appeared to have locked up for her full-bodied efficiency in “The Substance,” noticed nominations for Moore, Gascón, Torres, Erivo and the star of “Anora,” Mikey Madison. Arguably the yr’s best class, that disregarded Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Exhausting Truths”), Pamela Anderson, “The Final Showgirl”), Nicole Kidman (“Babygirl”) and Angelina Jolie (“Maria”).

“I’m a Los Angeles native and so there’s been a lot devastation these previous few weeks and my coronary heart breaks for L.A. nevertheless it’s actually stunning to see everybody coming collectively,” Madison mentioned Thursday. “Hollywood coming collectively and celebrating movie proper now’s actually stunning.”

Within the directing class, “The Substance” filmmaker Coralie Fargeat managed to crack into the in any other case all-male group of Sean Baker (“Anora”), Corbet, Audiard and James Mangold (“A Full Unknown”). Most had anticipated Edward Berger to be nominated for steering the papal thriller “Conclave.”

Supporting actor was led by Kieran Culkin, the favourite for the award, for his efficiency in “A Actual Ache.” The opposite nominees have been: Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Man Pearce (“The Brutalist”), Edward Norton (“A Full Unknown”) and Sturdy. Supporting actress nominations went to Grande, Saldaña, Jones, Monica Barbaro (“A Full Unknown”) and Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”).

The nominations had initially been deliberate for Jan. 17. However after wildfires on Jan. 7 started burning by way of the Pacific Palisades, Altadena and different areas round Los Angeles, abandoning historic ranges of destruction, the academy prolonged its voting window and twice postponed the nominations announcement. Contemporary fires exterior Los Angeles continued Thursday throughout the nominations, introduced by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott.

With so many within the movie {industry} reeling from the fires, some referred to as on the academy to cancel the Oscars altogether. Academy leaders have argued the March 2 ceremony should go forward, for his or her financial impression on Los Angeles and as a logo of resilience for the {industry}. Organizers have vowed this yr’s awards will “have a good time the work that unites us as a worldwide movie group and acknowledge those that fought so bravely in opposition to the wildfires.”

“We’ll replicate on the latest occasions whereas highlighting the energy, creativity, and optimism that defines Los Angeles and our {industry},” Invoice Kramer, academy chief government, and Janet Yang, president, mentioned in an e mail to members Wednesday.

However a lot of the same old frothiness Hollywood’s award season has been severely curtailed as a result of fires. The movie academy canceled its annual nominees luncheon. Different occasions have been postponed or downsized. On Wednesday, Kramer and Yang mentioned authentic music nominees will not be carried out this yr. Conan O’Brien, whose Pacific Palisades dwelling was spared by the fires, is internet hosting.

The Oscar nominations adopted a up-and-down yr for Hollywood that noticed expansive post-strike delays, broad swaths of unemployed staff as a consequence of an industry-wide manufacturing slowdown and the tragedy of the California fires in January. Most humbling, maybe, was the presidential election that returned Trump to workplace in a race the place podcaster Joe Rogan appeared to carry extra sway than all A-listers mixed.

On the similar time, even amidst a downturn for the superhero movie, the {industry} rallied behind some galvanizing hits, together with Common Photos’ “Depraved,” and three Walt Disney Co. $1 billion grossers in “Inside Out 2,” “Deadpool and Wolverine” and “Moana 2,” a movie initially developed as a sequence for Disney+.

These movies missed nominations Thursday aside from “Inside Out 2,” which joined one of the best animated nominees of “The Wild Robotic,” “Circulation,” “Memoir of a Snail” and “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.” In any other case, the largest hits to hitch the Oscar combine have been “Depraved” ($710.3 million worldwide) and “Dune: Half Two” ($714.6 million). Netflix does not report field workplace, so “Emilia Pérez” has no tallied ticket gross sales, and hasn’t been among the many streamer’s prime watches, both.

That unsure state of the flicks appeared to be mirrored within the nominations, which have been unfold throughout movies each broadly seen and little observed, theatrically launched and predominantly streaming.

However not like final yr, when Hollywood rallied across the success of “Oppenheimer,” the 2024 film yr supplied up no clear frontrunner for the {industry}’s prime honor. With 5 weeks to go till the Oscar ceremony, not less than 4 or 5 motion pictures – together with “The Brutalist,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Anora,” “Conclave” and “Depraved” – are seen having a shot at greatest image.

The nominees for greatest actor are: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”; Timothée Chalamet, “A Full Unknown”; Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”; Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”; Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice.”

The nominees for greatest actress are: Demi Moore, “The Substance”; Cynthia Erivo, “Depraved”; Mikey Madison, “Anora”; Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”; Fernanda Torres, “I’m Nonetheless Right here”

The nominees for authentic music are: “El Mal” from “Emilia Perez”; “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”; “Like a Chicken” from “Sing Sing”; “Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez”; “By no means Too Late” from “Elton John: By no means Too Late.”

The nominees for greatest animated movie are: “Circulation”; “Inside Out 2”; “Memoir of a Snail”; “Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”; “The Wild Robotic.”

The nominees for greatest supporting actor are: Yura Borisov, “Anora”; Kieran Culkin, “A Actual Ache”; Edward Norton, “A Full Unknown”; Man Pearce, “The Brutalist”; Jeremy Sturdy, “The Apprentice.”

The nominees for Finest Supporting Actress are: Monica Barbaro, “A Full Unknown”; Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”; Ariana Grande, “Depraved”; Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”; Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez.”

The nominees for authentic screenplay are: “Anora”; “The Brutalist”; “A Actual Ache”; “September 5”; “The Substance.”