Anora claimed five 2025 Oscars. Photo: RNZ Graphic/Samuel Robinson
Anora sweeps up at the Oscars, bagging five awards including best picture.
The Brutalist won three awards - Best Cinematography, Best Score, and Best Actor (Adrien Brody).
Wicked won two awards in tech categories - Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.
Dune: Part Two won two awards - Best Sound and Best Visual Effects.
Emilia Perez also won two awards - Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana).
Conclave, The Substance, I'm Still Here, and A Real Pain won one award each - the latter for Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin).
All celebrities walked the red carpet in style at the 97th annual Academy Awards, hosted this year by Conan O'Brien.
Here's the list of winners highlighted in bold:
Best Picture
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- I'm Still Here
- Nickel Boys
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best 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
Best 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
Best 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
Best actress in a supporting role
- Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
- Ariana Grande, Wicked
- Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
- Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
- Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best director
- Sean Baker, Anora
- Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
- James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
- Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
- Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best cinematography
- The Brutalist
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Maria
- Nosferatu
Best international feature film
- I'm Still Here
- The Girl with the Needle
- Emilia Pérez
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig
- Flow
Best adapted screenplay
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Nickel Boys
- Sing Sing
Best original screenplay
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- A Real Pain
- September 5
- The Substance
Best live action short film
- A Lien
- Anuja
- I'm Not a Robot
- The Last Ranger
- A Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Best animated short film
- Beautiful Men
- In the Shadow of the Cypress
- Magic Candies
- Wander to Wonder
- Yuck!
Best animated feature film
- Flow
- Inside Out 2
- Memoir of a Snail
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- The Wild Robot
Best documentary short
- Death By Numbers
- I Am Ready, Warden
- Incident
- Instruments of a Beating Heart
- The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Best documentary feature film
- Black Box Diaries
- No Other Land
- Porcelain War
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- Sugarcane
Best original song
- El Mal, from Emilia Pérez
- The Journey, from The Six Triple Eight
- Like a Bird, from Sing Sing
- Mi Camino, from Emilia Pérez
- Never Too Late, from Elton John: Never Too Late
Best original score
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best makeup and hairstyling
- A Different Man
- Emilia Pérez
- Nosferatu
- The Substance
- Wicked
Best costume design
- A Complete Unknown
- Conclave
- Gladiator II
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best editing
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
Best sound
- A Complete Unknown
- Dune: Part Two
- Emilia Pérez
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
Best production design
- The Brutalist
- Conclave
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Wicked
Best visual effects
- Alien: Romulus
- Better Man
- Dune: Part Two
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Wicked
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