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Oscars 2025: the complete list of winners
Anora, an independent film written and directed by Sean Baker, won five prizes including Best Picture, Best Director, Best original screenplay, Best editing and Best actress.
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted, by Conan O’Brien, aired live on ABC and Hulu on Sunday, March 2, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles. Anora is a favorite among the Academy. The film took home five trophies — best picture, best editing, best director, best original screenplay and best actress. It was the most of any film nominated. Anora also returned with the Palme d’Or award from the Cannes Film Festival.
Sean Baker, the auteur behind “Anora,” is now the first person to win four Oscars for the same film. Sean Baker, who has become one of the most important names in today’s American independent cinema, is back with the film Anora. Baker, who especially rose after Tangerine (2015), reached the peak of his career with The Florida Project (2017). Baker, who continued to maintain his rise with Red Rocket (2021), continued to prove why he is so successful with his latest film Anora.
Sean Baker’s highly praised film “Anora”, which has created a cult following by revealing the sympathetic aspects of the chaotic lives of those pushed to the margins, sex workers, and “others”, is a postmodern “Cinderella” story. Although the film focuses on the relationship between a young sex worker and a young man who is the heir of a Russian oligarch, it also delicately deals with sub-political texts such as power dynamics, class conflicts in the US, and how the “oligarchs” who emerged in Russia after the collapse of the USSR smuggled Russian wealth to the US.
One of the favorite candidates for an Oscar, Brutalist, written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, tells the story of a Jewish architect born in Hungary who escapes the concentration camps during World War II and immigrates to America in 1947. Adrien Brody picked up his second Best Actor trophy, this time for The Brutalist, while I’m Still Here upset the most nominated film of the year, Emilia Pérez to win Best International Feature.
“Flow” became the first Latvian film to claim an Academy Award, winning best animated feature, and Zoe Saldana became the first American of Dominican descent to win an Oscar, hoisting a statue for her role in Netflix’s “Emilia Pérez.” Brazila and Iran won with (“I’m Still Here”) and (“In the Shadow of the Cypress”). Wins for filmmakers from “No Other Land,” named best documentary film, tracks the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank by the Israeli military and comes from a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers.
Here’s the full list of 2025 Oscar winners:
Best picture
Anora – WINNER
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Best director
Sean Baker, Anora – WINNER
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best original screenplay
Anora – WINNER
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance
Best actress
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora – WINNER
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best editing
Anora – WINNER, Sean Baker
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
Best original score
The Brutalist – WINNER, Daniel Blumberg
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Best cinematography
The Brutalist – WINNER
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
Best actor
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist – WINNER
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best supporting actress
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez – WINNER
Best supporting actor
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain – WINNER
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Best adapted screenplay
A Complete Unknown
Conclave – WINNER
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Best international feature
I’m Still Here – WINNER (Brazil)
The Girl With the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of a Sacred Fig
Flow
Best animated feature
Flow – WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best animated short
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress – WINNER
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Best costume design
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked – WINNER, Paul Tazewell
Best makeup and hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance – WINNER
Wicked
Best production design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked – WINNER
Best original song
El Mal, Emilia Pérez – WINNER
The Journey, The Six Triple Eight
Like a Bird, Sing Sing
Mi Camino, Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late, Elton John: Never Too Late
Best documentary short
Death By Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra – WINNER
Best documentary feature
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land – WINNER
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Best sound
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two – WINNER
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Best visual effects
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two – WINNER
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
Best live action short
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot – WINNER
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent