97th Annual Oscar Nominations: Emilia Pérez, Wicked, The Brutalist Lead Way

The nominations for the 97th Annual Academy Awards are out with Emilia Pérez, Wicked, and The Brutalist topping the list. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for this year’s ceremony on Thursday morning, which saw the French-language musical take home the most nods with 13. It was followed by Wicked and The Brutalist (10 nominations each) as well as Conclave and A Complete Unknown (8 nods).

Those five films all earned Best Picture nominations alongside Sean Baker’s Anora, Dune: Part Two, Portuguese-language biographical drama I’m Still Here, historical drama Nickel Boys, and Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body horror film The Substance. Anora earned six nods while The Substance and Dune: Part Two earned five.

The biggest surprises came in the Best Actress race where Nicole Kidman (Babygirl) and Angelina Jolie (Maria) were left out in the cold. Instead the field includes four of five first-time nominees in expected nods for Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance) and Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez) and a minor surprise in Fernanda Torres for I’m Still Here. Cynthia Erivo is the sole previous nominee, earning a nod for her role in Wicked. She was previously nominated for Harriet in 2019.

Also snubbed were Selena Gomez, who was not nominated for Emilia Pérez although her co-star Zoe Saldana was and is a frontrunner for the win. Luca Guadagnino’s two acclaimed films from this year were left out in Challengers and Queer, neither of which scored any nods despite Daniel Craig earning awards buzz for the latter film and Challengers’ score taking home the Golden Globes win. And while Conclave earned a host of nominations, director Edward Berger was not nominated for the film and in a surprise, James Mangold earned a nod for A Complete Unknown.

Among the other relative surprises were Sebastian Stan earning a Best Actor nomination for The Apprentice and Monica Barbaro earning a Best Supporting Actress nomination for A Complete Unknown. And Better Man, despite being barely seen in the US, earned a Best Visual Effects nod.

You can see the full list below. Final voting for the Oscars begins on February 11nd, with the ceremony taking place on March 2nd on ABC and Hulu.

Best Picture
* Anora
* The Brutalist
* A Complete Unknown
* Conclave
* Dune: Part Two
* Emilia Pérez
* I’m Still Here
* Nickel Boys
* The Substance
* Wicked

Directing
* Sean Baker – Anora
* Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
* James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
* Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
* Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

Actor in a Leading Role
* Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
* Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
* Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
* Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
* Sebastian Stan – The Apprentice

Actress in a Leading Role
* Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
* Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
* Mikey Madison – Anora
* Demi Moore – The Substance
* Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here

Actor in a Supporting Role
* Yura Borisov – Anora
* Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
* Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown
* Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
* Jeremy Strong – The Apprentice

Actress in a Supporting Role
* Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
* Ariana Grande – Wicked
* Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
* Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
* Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
* Jay Cocks and James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
* Peter Straughan – Conclave
* Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
* RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
* Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield – Sing Sing

Writing (Original Screenplay)
* Sean Baker – Anora
* Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
* Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain
* Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5
* Coralie Fargeat – The Substance

International Feature Film
* I’m Still Here
* The Girl with The Needle
* Emilia Perez
* The Seed of a Sacred Fig
* Flow

Animated Feature Film
* Flow
* Inside Out 2
* Memoir of a Snail
* Wallace & Gromit
* The Wild Robot

Documentary Feature Film
* Black Box Diaries
* No Other Land
* Porcelain War
* Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
* Sugarcane

Film Editing
* Anora
* The Brutalist
* Conclave
* Emilia Pérez
* Wicked

Cinematography
* The Brutalist
* Dune: Part Two
* Emilia Perez
* Maria
* Nosferatu

Production Design
* The Brutalist
* Conclave
* Dune: Part Two
* Nosferatu
* Wicked

Costume Design
* A Complete Unknown
* Conclave
* Gladiator II
* Nosferatu
* Wicked

Music (Original Score)
* The Brutalist
* Conclave
* Emilia Pérez
* Wicked
* The Wild Robot

Music (Original Song)
* “El Mal” – Emilia Pérez
* “The Journey” – The Six Triple Eight
* “Like A Bird” – Sing Sing
* “Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez
* “Never Too Late” – Elton John: Never Too Late

Live Action Short Film
* A Lien
* Anuja
* I’m Not a Robot
* The Last Ranger
* The Man Who Would Not Remain Silent

Animated Short Film
* Beautiful Men
* In the Shadow of the Cypress
* Magic Candies
* Wander to Wonder
* Yuck!

Documentary Short Film
* Death By Numbers
* I Am Ready, Warden
* Incident
* Instruments of a Beating Heart
* The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Makeup and Hairstyling
* A Different Man
* Emilia Pérez
* Nosferatu
* The Substance
* Wicked

Sound
* A Complete Unknown
* Dune: Part Two
* Emilia Pérez
* Wicked
* The Wild Robot

Visual Effects
* Alien: Romulus
* Better Man
* Dune: Part Two
* The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
* Wicked