2025 Academy Awards Winners – Mikey Madison & Adrien Brody Win
by Alex Billington
March 2, 2025
The 97th Academy Awards are finally upon us and it’s time to watch the show and discover the winners of the most prestigious award in Hollywood. The Oscars are back in their normal routine playing out during the winter months, wrapping up this year’s intriguing & extensive awards season in March. All awards will be marked below in the complete list alongside the nominees. There are ten Best Picture noms from 2024, including The Brutalist and Brazil’s I’m Still Here and body horror The Substance. At this point, I’m excited for Anora to win everything (one of my favorites of 2024), and Demi Moore to get her time to shine on the stage as well. Will it be Brody or Chalamet or Fiennes winning Best Actor? After months of anticipation and anxiety, we’re looking forward to find out what The Academy members have chosen. All of these nominated movies are worthy contenders – including Dune: Part Two and Nickel Boys and Sing Sing and September 5. Now it’s time to discover who’s taking home Oscars, and who isn’t, at the annual Academy Awards. The full set of nominees below will be updated with the winners added once revealed live – refresh for updates.
Anora!!
Sean Baker for
Anora
Adrien Brody for
The Brutalist
Mikey Madison for
Anora
Continue reading for a complete list of #Oscars2025 nominees & winners. Comment on the winners below.
This will be updated throughout the night to reflect the winners as revealed. Additionally, I might be adding a small bit of personal commentary beneath each category. Winners are highlighted in BOLD below.
Picture:
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Thoughts: Woohoo! I had a feeling – I knew it was going to win all of them! Go Anora, go. Love this.
Director: Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Perez
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Thoughts: Yay Sean Baker! Big night for Anora! And I love his speech about going to movie theaters.
Actor: Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothee Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice
Thoughts: Adrien! Adrien! Adrien! The Brutalist takes another, what a fabulous win – another for him.
Actress:
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofia Gascon – Emilia Perez Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
Thoughts: Wow! A bit of an upset over Demi More, but also come on what an astonishing performance. Incredible.
Supporting Actor:
Yura Borisov – Anora Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice
Thoughts: An expected and still fantastic victory just to see Kieran give an amazing speech. Perfect win.
Supporting Actress:
Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave Zoe Saldana – Emilia Perez
Original Screenplay: Anora – Sean Baker
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
September 5 – Moritz Binder & Tim Fehlbaum; co-written by Alex David
The Substance – Coralie Fargeat
Thoughts: Yes! The first of many for Anora tonight I think and a great win so far.
Adapted Screenplay:
A Complete Unknown – James Mangold and Jay Cocks Conclave – Peter Straughan
Emilia Perez – Jacques Audiard; in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius, Nicolas Livecchi
Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing – Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield
Animated Feature: Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Thoughts: The black cat takes it! Gints Zilbalodis brings it home! Everyone loved Flow this deserves it. So glad a little film from Latvia can finally take home the Oscar – even without a single word of dialogue.
International Feature: I’m Still Here (Brazil)
The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
Emilia Perez (France)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
Flow (Latvia)
Thoughts: Brazil! A big win for Brazil and for Walter Salles and for Fernanda Torres.
Cinematography: The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser
Emilia Perez – Paul Guilhaume
Maria – Edward Lachman
Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke
Documentary Feature:
Black Box Diaries No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Thoughts: A major & important win! For a doc that didn’t even get distribution. Congrats, Basel & Yuval.
Documentary Short:
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Animated Short:
Beautiful Men In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Live-Action Short:
Alien
Anuja I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Would Not Remain Silent
Visual Effects:
Alien: Romulus
Better Man Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
Production Design:
The Brutalist – PD: Judy Becker; Set: Patricia Cuccia
Conclave – PD: Suzie Davies; Set: Cynthia Sleiter
Dune: Part Two – PD: Patrice Vermette; Set: Shane Vieau
Nosferatu – PD: Craig Lathrop; Set: Beatrice Brentnerová Wicked – PD: Nathan Crowley; Set: Lee Sandales
Costume Design:
A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips
Conclave – Lisy Christl
Gladiator II – Janty Yates & Dave Crossman
Nosferatu – Linda Muir Wicked – Paul Tazewell
Thoughts: An important and massive and exciting win for Wicked tonight! Congrats.
Make-Up & Hair:
A Different Man – Mike Marino, David Presto, Crystal Jurado
Emilia Perez – Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, Jean-Christophe Spadaccini
Nosferatu – David White, Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, Marilyne Scarselli
Wicked – Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, Sarah Nuth
Thoughts: Yay! One of many that should be coming tonight for The Substance knowing Hollywood loved it.
Editing: Anora – Sean Baker
The Brutalist – David Jancso
Conclave – Nick Emerson
Emilia Perez – Juliette Welfling
Wicked – Myron Kerstein
Sound:
A Complete Unknown Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Thoughts: Yes! Denis Villenueve! He gets a real shoutout during the speech.
Original Score: The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
Conclave – Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Perez – Clément Ducol and Camille
Wicked – John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers
Thoughts: Yes! It’s a phenomenal score. Another all-timer win in this category with Oppenheimer last year.
Original Song: “El Mal” from Emilia Perez
“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
“Like a Bird” from Sing Sing
“Mi Camino” from Emilia Perez
“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late
Honorary: Quincy Jones & Juliet Taylor (More info)
[For last year’s Academy Awards winners, when Nolan’s Oppenheimer won the top three prizes, click here.]
Chime in below after reviewing the list of 2025 Oscars winners updated throughout the night and tell us if you’re satisfied with this year’s awards, and your take on the hilarious ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien – the main event being held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. One final congratulations to all of 2025’s winners as well as every last nominee! Huzzah cinema! Your thoughts on the 97th Academy Awards?
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Article by:Source: Alex Billington
