And they’re off.
Awards season simply acquired solely official with the revealing of shortlists for the 97th Oscars in 10 classes immediately. See the lists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences under.
Fifteen films every are shifting ahead within the contests for International Feature Film, Documentary Feature, Original Song, Music Score and Documentary, Animated and Live Action Shorts. Ten movies every additionally superior within the classes of Sound, Visual Effects and Makeup & Hairstyling.
Celebrating the Oscar shortlists essentially the most immediately undoubtedly is Emilia Pérez with a towering six mentions, lacking solely from the Visual Effects listing of doable inclusion, although that may have been a longshot. This units up a doable big displaying for Jacques Audiard’s movie, which might additionally land two Best Song nominations, the one movie to have a pair among the many finalists.
Also having an excellent morning is Wicked with 4 mentions, essentially the most it might presumably have obtained contemplating none of its songs have been unique and thus ineligible. It was named for Makeup & Hair, Score, Sound and Visual Effects.
Universal (and DreamWorks Animation) additionally need to be cheering the displaying for his or her animated function The Wild Robot, which nailed mentions for Score, Sound and Song (“Kiss the Sky”), placing it above archrival Inside Out 2 — the yr’s top-grossing movie — which was named solely in Music Score. Also doing properly with three mentions is Paramount’s Gladiator II and Alien: Romulus, each offshoots from the world of Ridley Scott.
Other movies that obtained a couple of point out have been Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Deadpool & Wolverine, Nosferatu, Blitz, Better Man, Twisters, Mufasa: The Lion King, Will & Harper, Challengers and Irish International Feature hopeful Kneecap.
Of course, any shortlist of tune potentialities goes to incorporate Diane Warren. She goes for her seventeenth nomination — and not using a aggressive win but — with “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight, one in all 4 tune potentialities making the minimize for Netflix.
Every yr there’s a bizarre irony. Anora is taken into account of the front-runners for Oscars however obtained zero mentions — not that these classes are its energy — whereas the comparatively obscure Waltzing with Brando, which options Billy Zane as Marlon Brando and has not been formally launched to my data, landed a point out for Makeup & Hair. It should have certified quietly to make this listing.
Here are the total 2025 Oscar shortlists:
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
The Bibi Files
Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Daughters
Eno
Frida
Hollywoodgate
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Queendom
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Union
Will & Harper
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Chasing Roo
Death by Numbers
Eternal Father
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
Keeper
Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
Once upon a Time in Ukraine
The Only Girl within the Orchestra
Planetwalker
The Quilters
Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr
A Swim Lesson
Until He’s Back
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Brazil, I’m Still Here
Canada, Universal Language
Czech Republic, Waves
Denmark, The Girl with the Needle
France, Emilia Pérez
Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Iceland, Touch
Ireland, Kneecap
Italy, Vermiglio
Latvia, Flow
Norway, Armand
Palestine, From Ground Zero
Senegal, Dahomey
Thailand, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
United Kingdom, Santosh
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
The Apprentice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
The Substance
Waltzing with Brando
Wicked
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Alien: Romulus
Babygirl
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Blink Twice
Blitz
The Brutalist
Challengers
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
The Fire Inside
Gladiator II
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
Inside Out 2
Nosferatu
The Room Next Door
Sing Sing
The Six Triple Eight
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Young Woman and the Sea
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Forbidden Road” from Better Man
“Winter Coat” from Blitz
“Compress/Repress” from Challengers
“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late
“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez
“Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez
“Sick within the Head” from Kneecap
“Beyond” from Moana 2
“Tell Me It’s You” from Mufasa: The Lion King
“Piece by Piece” from Piece by Piece
“Like a Bird” from Sing Sing
“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
“Out of Oklahoma” from Twisters
“Kiss the Sky” from The Wild Robot
“Harper and Will Go West” from Will & Harper
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Au Revoir Mon Monde
A Bear Named Wojtek
Beautiful Men
Bottle George
A Crab within the Pool
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Maybe Elephants
Me
Origami
Percebes
The 21
Wander to Wonder
The Wild-Tempered Clavier
Yuck!
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Anuja
Clodagh
The Compatriot
Crust
Dovecote
Edge of Space
The Ice Cream Man
I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
A Lien
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
The Masterpiece
An Orange from Jaffa
Paris 70
Room Taken
SOUND
Alien: Romulus
Blitz
A Complete Unknown
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Gladiator II
Joker: Folie à Deux
Wicked
The Wild Robot
VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Civil War
Deadpool & Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Gladiator II
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Mufasa: The Lion King
Twisters
Wicked
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.
