‘Emilia Pérez’ Leads Oscar Nominations With 13

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The Academy announced the nominations for the upcoming Oscars on Thursday morning, with the Spanish-language, French-produced crime musical “Emilia Perez” leading the way with 13 nominations, the most ever for a non-English film. movie, along with “The Brutalist” and “Wicked.” right behind.

Key facts

Oscar nomination for Best Picture

• “Anora”
• “brutalist”
• “A Complete Unknown”
• “conclave”
• “Devon: Part Two”
• “Emilia Perez”
• “I’m still here”
• “Knuckle Boys”
• “substance”
• “wicked”

Oscar nomination for Best Director

• Sean Baker, “Anora”
• Brady Corbett, “Brutalist”
• James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
• Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Perez”
• Corelli Forget, “Matter”

Oscar nomination for Best Actress

• Cynthia Ario, “Wicked”
• Carla Sofia Gaskin, “Emilia Perez”
• Mickey Madison, “Anora”
• Demi Moore, “The Material”
• Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”

Oscar nomination for Best Actor

• Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
• Timothee Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
• Coleman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
• Ralph Fiennes, “The Conclave”
• Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress

• Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
• Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
• Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
• Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
• Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Perez”

Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor

• Yura Borisov, “Anora”
• Karen Culkin, “A Real Pain”
• Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
• Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
• Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”

Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay

• “Anora”
• “brutalist”
• “A Real Pain”
• “September 5th”
• “substance”

Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay

• “A Complete Unknown”
• “conclave”
• “Emilia Perez”
• “Knuckle Boys”
• “Sing Gao”

Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature

• “flow”
• “Inside Out 2”
• “Memoir of a Snail”
• “Wallace and Grommet: Vagueness’s Most Foul”
• “Wild Robot”

Oscar nomination for Best Production Design

• “brutalist”
• “conclave”
• “Devon: Part Two”
• “Nosferatu”
• “wicked”

Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design

• “A Complete Unknown”
• “conclave”
• “Gladiator II”
• “Nosferatu”
• “wicked”

Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography

• “brutalist”
• “Devon: Part Two”
• “Emilia Perez”
• “Maria”
• “Nosferatu”

Oscar nomination for Best Editing

• “Anora”
• “brutalist”
• “conclave”
• “Emilia Perez”
• “wicked”

Oscar nomination for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• “A Different Man”
• “Emilia Perez”
• “Nosferatu”
• “substance”
• “wicked”

Oscar nomination for Best Sound

• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Devon: Part Two”
• “Emilia Perez”
• “wicked”
• “Wild Robot”

Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects

• “Alien: Romulus”
• “better man”
• “Devon: Part Two”
• “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
• “wicked”

Oscar nomination for Best Original Score

• “brutalist”
• “conclave”
• “Emilia Perez”
• “wicked”
• “Wild Robot”

Oscar nomination for Best Original Song

• “El Mal” (“Emilia Perez”)
• “Journey (“The Six Triple Eight”)
• “Like a Bird” (“Sing Sing”)
• “Mi Camino” (“Emilia Pérez”)
• “Never Be Late” (“Elton John: Never Be Late”)

Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary Feature

• “Black Box Diaries”
• “No Other Land”
• “The Porcelain War”
• “The Soundtrack of Rebellion D’Eight”
• “fold”

Oscar nomination for Best International Feature

• “I’m Still Here,” Brazil
• “The Girl with the Needle,” Denmark
• “Emilia Perez,” France
• “Sacred fig seed,” Germany
• “Flow,” Latvia

Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short

• “Beautiful Men”
• “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
• “Magic Candies”
• “wondering”
• “Back!”

Oscar Nomination for Best Documentary Feature

• “Death by Numbers”
• “I’m ready Warden”
• “event”
• “Instruments of a Beating Heart”
• “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”

Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short

• “a right”
• “Anoja”
• “I’m not a robot”
• “The Last Ranger”
• “The Man Who Can’t Keep Quiet”

When are the Oscars held?

The Academy Awards will air March 2 at 7pm EST on ABC and Hulu. Conan O’Brien will host the event for the first time.

What’s next on the awards calendar?

A few major awards ceremonies are yet to take place before the Oscars, including Critics Choice Awardswhich was pushed back from the originally planned date of January 12 to February 7 due to the Los Angeles fires. Other upcoming awards ceremonies include the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the British Academy Film Awards, both of which have membership overlap with the Academy Awards and could indicate who could win the Oscars in March. gave SAG Awards will air on Netflix on February 23, and the BAFTAs will air in the UK on February 16.

Key background

The deadly wildfires in Los Angeles delayed the announcement of the Oscars nominations twice and extended the voting period by several days. The deadly fire, which devastated the Pacific neighborhood, affected many celebrities, some of whom lost their homes—including Eugene Levy, Mel Gibson, Billy Crystal and Anthony Hopkins—and the Los Angeles-based Many film and television productions were put on hold. Some celebrities, including Gene Smart and Stephen King, called for the Oscars to be canceled because of the wildfires The Hollywood Reporter Last week, unnamed academy sources said the ceremony would still take place.

Tangent

Two of the biggest contenders for best picture—“The Brutalist” and “Emilia Perez”—A dispute arose weekend for their use of artificial intelligence. “The Brutalist” editor David Jancsó said in an interview Red Shark NewsA video technology publication, that editors used AI to adapt actors’ Hungarian line delivery to sound like native speakers. In a statement on Monday, Director Brady Corbett He said that AI technology was used only for editing the Hungarian-language dialogue, specifically to improve certain syllables and characters for accuracy, adding that the actors’ performances were “completely their own.” Own” and worked with a speech coach for months. “Emilia Perez’s” sound mixer, Cyril Holtz, said in a statement. The interview At the Cannes Film Festival in May, it recently resurfaced on social media that the film used AI to alter the range of Gaskin’s voice. The use of AI in film production is controversial and was the focus of strikes by both actors and writers in 2023.

Further reading

Conan O’Brien to host 2025 Oscars — here’s why it could mean fewer Trump jokes (Forbes)

Oscar Shortlist Announced: ‘Emilia Perez’ and ‘Wicked’ Lead (Forbes)