Oscars 2025: Adrien Brody, Mikey Madison win Best Actor and Best Actress; Anora takes Best Picture

Los Angeles: The 97th Academy Awards have kicked off at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. “Emilia Pérez” leads the pack with 13 Oscar nominations, but “Wicked” and “The Brutalist” are close behind.

In a major surprise, Adrien Brody won the best actor award for his role in The Brutalist. Kieran Culkin took home the award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Benji Kaplan in Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain. Meanwhile, actress Zoe Saldana won the award for the Best Supporting Actress for her role in Emilia Pérez. 

Meanwhile, Anora has won the Academy Award for best original screenplay and the best picture, with the film’s writer-director Sean Baker taking the honours.

“Flow” beat “The Wild Robot” for best animated feature film while “In the Shadow of the Cypress” won for best animated short. Paul Tazewell became the first Black man to win an Oscar for costume design for his work on “Wicked.”

The 2025 Oscars opened with its biggest musical voices. “Wicked” star Ariana Grande launched into “The Wizard of Oz” classic “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” following a visual package celebrating the city of Los Angeles.

Oscars 2025 nominations and winners (updating):

Best Actor
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist (Winner)
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

Best Actor in supporting role
Yura Borisov – Anora
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain (winner)
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice

Best Actress
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison – Anora (Winner)
Demi Moore – The Substance
Fernanda Torres – I'm Still Here

Best Actress in supporting role
Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez (Winner)

Best Picture
Anora – Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, Sean Baker (Winner)
The Brutalist – Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim, Brady Corbet
A Complete Unknown – Fred Berger, James Mangold, Alex Heineman
Conclave – Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Michael A. Jackman
Dune: Part Two – Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe, Denis Villeneuve
Emilia Pérez – Pascal Caucheteux, Jacques Audiard
I'm Still Here – Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira
Nickel Boys – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joslyn Barnes
The Substance – Coralie Fargeat, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner

Best Director
Anora – Sean Baker (Winner)
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet
A Complete Unknown – James Mangold
Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard

Animated Feature Film
Flow – Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, Gregory Zalcman (Winner)
Inside Out 2 – Kelsey Mann, Mark Nielsen
Memoir of a Snail – Adam Elliot, Liz Kearney
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, Richard Beek
The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders, Jeff Hermann

Best animated short
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress (Winner)
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!

Best documentary short
Death By Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra (Winner)

Best documentary feature
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land (Winner)
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane

Best original screenplay
Anora, Sean Bake (Winner)
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

Best adapted screenplay
A Complete Unknown
Conclave, Peter Straughan (Winner)
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

Cinematography
The Brutalist – Lol Crawley (Winner)
Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser
Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume
Maria – Ed Lachman
Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke

Costume Design
A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips
Conclave – Lisy Christl
Gladiator II – Janty Yates, Dave Crossman
Nosferatu – Linda Muir
Wicked – Paul Tazewell (Winner)

Music (Original Song)
El Mal – Emilia Pérez (Music by Clément Ducol and Camille; Lyrics by Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard) (Winner)
The Journey – The Six Triple Eight (Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren)
Like A Bird – Sing Sing (Music and Lyrics by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada)
Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez (Music and Lyrics by Camille and Clément Ducol)
Never Too Late – Elton John: Never Too Late (Music and Lyrics by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, Bernie Taupin)

Best original score
The Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg (Winner)
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best editing
Anora, Sean Baker (Winner)
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

Visual Effects
Alien: Romulus – Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin, Shane Mahan
Better Man – Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs
Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke
Wicked – Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk, Paul Corbould

Best makeup and hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance, Pierre Olivier Persin (Winner)
Wicked

Best production design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked (Winner)

Best sound
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two (Winner)
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best visual effects
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two (Winner)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked

Best live action short
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot (Winner)
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent