97th Academy Awards

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The ceremony was televised in the United States by ABC and streamed on Hulu for the first time.
Winners and nominees
Awards

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).


 Anora – Alex Coco, Samantha Quan, and Sean Baker, producers ‡
 The Brutalist – Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim, and Brady Corbet, producers
 A Complete Unknown – Fred Berger, James Mangold, and Alex Heineman, producers
 Conclave – Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, and Michael A. Jackman, producers
 Dune: Part Two – Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe, and Denis Villeneuve, producers
 Emilia Pérez – Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard, producers
 I'm Still Here – Maria Carlota Bruno and Rodrigo Teixeira, producers
 Nickel Boys – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Joslyn Barnes, producers
 The Substance – Coralie Fargeat, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner, producers
 Wicked – Marc Platt, producer 
 Sean Baker – Anora ‡
 Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
 James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
 Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
 Coralie Fargeat – The Substance 
 Adrien Brody – The Brutalist as László Tóth ‡
 Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown as Bob Dylan
 Colman Domingo – Sing Sing as John "Divine G" Whitfield
 Ralph Fiennes – Conclave as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence
 Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice as Donald Trump 
 Mikey Madison – Anora as Anora "Ani" Mikheeva ‡
 Cynthia Erivo – Wicked as Elphaba Thropp
 Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez as Emilia Pérez / Juan "Manitas" Del Monte
 Demi Moore – The Substance as Elisabeth Sparkle
 Fernanda Torres – I'm Still Here as Eunice Paiva 
 Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain as Benji Kaplan ‡
 Yura Borisov – Anora as Igor
 Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown as Pete Seeger
 Guy Pearce – The Brutalist as Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr.
 Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice as Roy Cohn 
 Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez as Rita Mora Castro ‡
 Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown as Joan Baez
 Ariana Grande – Wicked as Galinda "Glinda" Upland
 Felicity Jones – The Brutalist as Erzsébet Tóth
 Isabella Rossellini – Conclave as Sister Agnes 
 Anora – Sean Baker ‡
 The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
 A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
 September 5 – Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum; co-written by Alex David
 The Substance – Coralie Fargeat 
 Conclave – Peter Straughan; based on the novel by Robert Harris ‡
 A Complete Unknown – James Mangold and Jay Cocks; based on the book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald
 Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard; in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius, and Nicolas Livecchi; based on the opera libretto Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard and the novel Écoute by Boris Razon
 Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes; based on the novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
 Sing Sing – Screenplay by Greg Kwedar and Clint Bentley; story by Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, Clarence Maclin, and John "Divine G" Whitfield; based on the book The Sing Sing Follies by John H. Richardson and the play Breakin' the Mummy's Code by Brent Buell 
 Flow – Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens, and Gregory Zalcman ‡
 Inside Out 2 – Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen
 Memoir of a Snail – Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney
 Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham, and Richard Beek
 The Wild Robot – Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann 
 I'm Still Here (Brazil) in Portuguese – directed by Walter Salles ‡
 Emilia Pérez (France) in Spanish – directed by Jacques Audiard
 Flow (Latvia) – directed by Gints Zilbalodis
 The Girl with the Needle (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Magnus von Horn
 The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany) in Persian – directed by Mohammad Rasoulof 
 No Other Land – Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham ‡
 Black Box Diaries – Shiori Itō, Eric Nyari, and Hanna Aqvilin
 Porcelain War – Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska, and Paula DuPré Pesmen
 Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat – Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius, and Rémi Grellety
 Sugarcane – Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, and Kellen Quinn 
 The Only Girl in the Orchestra – Molly O'Brien and Lisa Remington ‡
 Death by Numbers – Kim A. Snyder and Janique L. Robillard
 I Am Ready, Warden – Smriti Mundhra and Maya Gnyp
 Incident – Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven
 Instruments of a Beating Heart – Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Eric Nyari 
 I'm Not a Robot – Victoria Warmerdam and Trent ‡
 A Lien – Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz
 Anuja – Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai
 The Last Ranger – Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw
 The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent – Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek 
 In the Shadow of the Cypress – Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi ‡
 Beautiful Men – Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande
 Magic Candies – Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio
 Wander to Wonder – Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper
 Yuck! – Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet 
 The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg ‡
 Conclave – Volker Bertelmann
 Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol and Camille
 Wicked – John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
 The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers 
 "El Mal" from Emilia Pérez – Music by Clément Ducol and Camille; lyrics by Clément Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard ‡
 "The Journey" from The Six Triple Eight – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren
 "Like a Bird" from Sing Sing – Music and lyrics by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada
 "Mi Camino" from Emilia Pérez – Music and lyrics by Camille and Clément Ducol
 "Never Too Late" from Elton John: Never Too Late – Music and lyrics by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, and Bernie Taupin 
 Dune: Part Two – Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett, and Doug Hemphill ‡
 A Complete Unknown – Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey, and David Giammarco
 Emilia Pérez – Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz, and Niels Barletta
 Wicked – Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson, and John Marquis
 The Wild Robot – Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo, and Leff Lefferts 
 Wicked – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales ‡
 The Brutalist – Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia
 Conclave – Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter
 Dune: Part Two – Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
 Nosferatu – Production Design: Craig Lathrop; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová 
 The Brutalist – Lol Crawley ‡
 Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser
 Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume
 Maria – Edward Lachman
 Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke 
 The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, and Marilyne Scarselli ‡
 A Different Man – Mike Marino, David Presto, and Crystal Jurado
 Emilia Pérez – Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier, and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini
 Nosferatu – David White, Traci Loader, and Suzanne Stokes-Munton
 Wicked – Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, and Sarah Nuth 
 Wicked – Paul Tazewell ‡
 A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips
 Conclave – Lisy Christl
 Gladiator II – Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
 Nosferatu – Linda Muir 
 Anora – Sean Baker ‡
 The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó
 Conclave – Nick Emerson
 Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling
 Wicked – Myron Kerstein 
 Dune: Part Two – Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, and Gerd Nefzer ‡
 Alien: Romulus – Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin, and Shane Mahan
 Better Man – Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, and Peter Stubbs
 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, and Rodney Burke
 Wicked – Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk, and Paul Corbould

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