Nominations are coming in for the 2025 Academy Awards this morning. Observe alongside right here as we publish dwell updates by way of the announcement livestream, hosted by Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang from the academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. You can even watch alongside beneath.
Among the many favorites on this 12 months’s main classes are A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic that includes a freewheeling Timothée Chalamet; the singing, dancing, finger-squeezing Wicked adaptation starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo; and The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s architectural epic with a score by former Yuck frontperson Daniel Blumberg.
This time final 12 months, Barbenheimer dominated the Oscars nominations, with the twin launch occasion of cinema executives’ desires securing 20 nominations collectively. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer went on to brush the 2024 fundamental occasion, profitable Greatest Image; Greatest Director; Greatest Main Actor for Cillian Murphy; and Greatest Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. Poor Issues, one other main contender that 12 months, earned Emma Stone the Greatest Main Actress award. Within the music classes, Ludwig Göransson received Best Original Score for Oppenheimer, whereas Billie Eilish nabbed Barbie its sole statuette for her Best Original Song “What Was I Made For?”
This 12 months’s music shortlists featured Bryce Dessner’s Sing Sing—additionally a Greatest Image contender—Blumberg’s The Brutalist, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ Challengers within the Greatest Unique Rating class, in addition to Elton John and Brandi Carlile, Kneecap, Reznor and Ross, and Pharrell Williams in Greatest Unique Music.
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