The 2025 Academy Awards
March 27, 2025
Mark Murphy Director
The Oscars took place on Sunday, the 2nd of March this year, and brought the awards season to a close. With a star-studded list of nominees, here’s who the big Winners were on the night.
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: Mikey Madison – Anora
- Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
- Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
- Demi Moore – The Substance
- Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
Best Actor
- Winner: Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
- Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
- Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
- Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
- Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice
Best Supporting Actress
- Winner: Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
- Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
- Ariana Grande – Wicked
- Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
- Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
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 Director
- Winner: Sean Baker – Anora
- Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
- 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 Animated Feature
- Winner: Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
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 Costume Design
- Winner: Wicked
- Nosferatu
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Gladiator II
Best Make-Up And Hairstyling
- Winner: The Substance
- A Different Man
- Emilia Pérez
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best Production Design
- Winner: Wicked
- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Conclave
Best Sound
- Winner: Dune: Part Two
- A Complete Unknown
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best Film Editing
- Winner: Anora
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
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 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!
Best Documentary Short
- Winner: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
- Death by Numbers
- I Am Ready, Warden
- Incident
- Instruments of a Beating Heart
Anora was the biggest winner of the night taking home 5 awards. Zoe Saldana continued her amazing award season run of winning supporting actress despite the controversy surrounding Emilia Perez. Unfortunately, Wicked did not win many awards, but with Wicked Part 2 due to come out later this year, Cynthia Erivo may be able to reach EGOT status next time the Oscars come around.
Written by Mark Murphy Director