Oscar Predictions

Here are the 2025 Oscar winners from the 97th Academy Awards! Check back regularly as we begin looking to the 2026 Oscar season.

 

 

Best Picture

Rank Picture
1 Anora 
2 Conclave 
3 The Brutalist 
4 A Complete Unknown
5 Wicked
6 The Substance
7 I’m Still Here
8. Emilia Pérez
9 Dune: Part Two 
10 Nickel Boys

Best Director

Rank Director
1 Sean Baker, Anora 
2 Brady Corbet, The Brutalist 
3 Coralie Fargeat, The Substance 
4 James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
5 Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez 
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Best Actor

Rank Actor
1 Adrien Brody, The Brutalist  
2 Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
3 Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
4 Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
5 Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
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Best Actress

Rank Actress
1 Mikey Madison, Anora 
2 Demi Moore, The Substance
3 Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
4 Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
5 Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez 
6 —–
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Best Supporting Actor

Rank Supporting Actor
1 Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
2 Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown 
3 Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
4 Yura Borisov, Anora
5 Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice 
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Best Supporting Actress

Rank Supporting Actress
1 Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
2 Isabella Rossellini, Conclave 
3 Ariana Grande, Wicked
4 Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
5 Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
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Best Original Screenplay

Rank Screenplay
1 Anora (Written by Sean Baker)
2 A Real Pain (Written by Jesse Eisenberg) 
3 The Substance (Written by Coralie Fargeat) 
4 The Brutalist (Written by Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold)
5 September 5 (Written by Moritz Binder & Tim Fehlbaum; Co-Written by Alex David)
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Best Adapted Screenplay

Rank Screenplay
1 Conclave (Screenplay by Peter Straughan)
2 A Complete Unknown (Screenplay by James Mangold & Jay Cocks)
3 Nickel Boys (Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes) 
4 Emilia Pérez (Screenplay by Jacques Audiard. In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius & Nicolas Livecchi)
5 Sing Sing (Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin & John “Divine G” Whitfield)
6 —–
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Best Animated Film

Rank Picture
1 Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens & Gregory Zalcman)
2 The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders & Jeff Hermann) 
3 Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham & Richard Beek) 
4 Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann & Mark Nielsen)
5 Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot & Liz Kearney)
6 —–
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Best International Film

Rank Picture
  I’m Still Here (Brazil)
2 Emilia Pérez (France)
3. Flow (Latvia)
4 The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany) 
5 The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
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Best Documentary

Rank Picture
1 No Other Land (Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham)
2 Porcelain War (Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska & Paula DuPre’ Pesmen)
3 Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius & Rémi Grellety)
4 Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari & Hanna Aqvilin) 
5 Sugarcane (Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie & Kellen Quinn)
6 —–
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Best Editing

Rank Picture
1 Sean Baker, Anora 
2 Nick Emerson, Conclave 
3. David Jancso, The Brutalist
4 Myron Kerstein, Wicked 
5 Juliette Welfling, Emilia Pérez 
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Best Cinematography

Rank Picture
1 Lol Crowley, The Brutalist 
2 Jarin Blaschke, Nosferatu
3 Greg Fraser, Dune: Part Two 
4 Paul Guilhaume, Emilia Pérez 
5 Edward Lachman, Maria
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Best Visual Effects

Rank Picture
1 Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe & Gerd Nefzer)
2 Wicked (Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk & Paul Corbould)
3 Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft & Peter Stubbs)
4 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke)
5 Alien: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin & Shane Mahan)
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Best Original Score

Rank Picture
1 Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist
2 Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot 
3 Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
4 John Powell & Stephen Schwartz, Wicked 
5 Clément Ducol & Camille, Emilia Pérez
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Best Original Song

Rank Picture
“El Mal”  Music by Clément Ducol & Camille; Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille & Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
2 “The Journey” Music & Lyric by Diane Warren (The Six Triple Eight
3

“Never Too Late” Music & Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt & Bernie Taupin (Elton John: Never Too Late)

4 “Mi Camino” Music & Lyric by Camille & Clément Ducol (Emilia Pérez) 
5 “Like a Bird” Music & Lyric by Abraham Alexander & Adrian Quesada (Sing Sing)
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Best Production Design

Rank Picture
1 Wicked (Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales)
2 The Brutalist (Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia) 
3 Dune: Part Two (Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau) 
4 Conclave (Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter)
5 Nosferatu (Production Design: Craig Lathrop; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová)
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Best Costume Design

Rank Picture
1 Paul Tazewell, Wicked
2 Arianne Phillips, A Complete Unknown 
3 Lisy Christl, Conclave
4 Linda Muir, Nosferatu 
5 Janty Yates & Dave Crossman, Gladiator II 
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Best Make-Up & Hairstyling

Rank Picture
1 The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon & Marilyne Scarselli)
2 Wicked (Frances Hannon, Laura Blount & Sarah Nuth)
3 Nosferatu (David White, Traci Loader & Suzanne Stokes-Munton) 
4
A Different Man (Mike Marino, David Presto & Crystal Jurado) 
5 Emilia Pérez (Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier & Jean-Christophe Spadaccini) 
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Best Sound

Rank Picture
1 Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard  King, Ron Bartlett & Doug Hemphill) 
2 A Complete Unknown (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey & David Giammarco) 
3 Wicked (Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson & John Marquis) 
4 Emilia Pérez (Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz & Niels Barletta)
5 The Wild Robot (Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo & Leff Lefferts)
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Best Live-Action Short Film

Rank Picture
1 I’m Not a Robot (Victoria Warmerdam & Trent) 
2

A Lien (Sam Cutler-Kreutz & David Cutler-Kreutz) 

3 Anuja (Adam J. Graves & Suchitra Mattai) 
4 The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Nebojša Slijepčević & Danijel Pek) 
5 The Last Ranger (Cindy Lee & Darwin Shaw)
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Best Animated Short Film

Rank Picture
1 In the Shadow of the Cypress (Shirin Sohani & Hossein Molayemi)
2 Wander to Wonder (Nina Gantz & Stienette Bosklopper) 
3 Yuck! (Loïc Espuche & Juliette Marquet)
4

Beautiful Men (Nicolas Keppens & Brecht Van Elslande)

5 Magic Candies (Daisuke Nishio & Takashi Washio)
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Best Documentary Short Subject

Rank Picture
1 The Only Girl in the Orchestra (Molly O’Brien & Lisa Remington)
2 Incident (Bill Morrison & Jamie Kalven) 
3  I Am Ready, Warden (Smriti Mundhra & Maya Gnyp)
4 Death by Numbers (Kim A. Snyder & Janique L. Robillard)
5 Instruments of a Beating Heart (Ema Ryan Yamazaki & Eric Nyari)
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