Academy Awards 2025: ANORA Surprises With Wins In Major Categories; Zoe Saldaña Takes Home First Oscar

This year's Academy Awards ceremony just finished up, and you can find out which movies and their stars and directors took home statues right here...

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By MarkCassidy - Mar 02, 2025 11:03 PM EST

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The 97th Academy Awards ceremony has just finished up, and we have a full list of winners in all the major categories below.

The Oscars very rarely recognize superhero/comic book movies, but 2024 was a particularly bad year for the genre, so it was hardly surprising when even what would be widely regarded as the best of the bunch, Deadpool and Wolverine, didn't receive any nominations - though some feel the block-busting Marvel Studios team-up should have picked up a few in the technical categories.

Several movies we have covered were nominated in major categories, however, including Dune: Part Two, The Substance, and Wicked (all for Best Picture). In the end, though, it was Anora that wound up taking home surprise wins for Best Picture, Director (Sean Baker) and Best Actress (Mikey Madison).

One CBM favorite, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek and Avatar star Zoe Saldaña, did pick up her first ever Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Actress

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Actor

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Best Animated Feature

Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Best Original Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
The Substance
September 5

Best Original Score in a Motion Picture

The Brutalist
Emilia Pérez
Conclave
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best Original Song

El Mal, Emilia Pérez
Mi Camino, Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late, Elton John: Never Too Late
The Journey, The Six Triple Eight
Like a Bird, Sing Sing

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu

Best Sound

A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Wicked
Emilia Perez
The Wild Robot

Best Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes
Wicked

Best Costume Design

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Best Production Design

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Editing

Anora
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Brutalist

Best International Feature

I’m Still Here
The Girl with the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow

Best Documentary Feature

Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Sugarcane
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Best Documentary Short

Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Instruments of a Beating Heart

Best Live Action Short

Anuja
The Last Ranger
A Lien
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
I’m Not a Robot

Best Animated Short

In the Shadow of Cypress
Wander to Wonder
Yuck
Magic Candies
Beautiful Men

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MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:08 PM

Congratulations to all the deserving people!

Congratulations to all the Academy members who pushed Emilia Perez out of best actress and best picture!

Malatrova15 - 3/2/2025, 11:12 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea - the world Is healing

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:22 PM

@Malatrova15 -

Gotta pull the 8,000 thorns out one by one.

THEKENDOMAN - 3/3/2025, 3:29 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - Tell me about it.

Also, no more Conan.

He was obviously nervous.

Dry jokes. Tried too hard.

And that not too long, or whatever that performance was, was terrible.

And that James Bond tribute, I mean, who the [frick] came up with that idea.

And overall, he shouldn't be hired for that role again.

And Sing Sing, was also ripped off as well.

For [frick]s sake

Lisa89 - 3/2/2025, 11:08 PM

‘Anora’ deserved every single win. It was absolutely brilliant.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:23 PM

@Lisa89 -

It's nasty trash for trashy people.

Lisa89 - 3/2/2025, 11:25 PM

@MakeAmericaGrea - Glad that you loved it too.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/3/2025, 12:47 AM

@Lisa89 -

I haven't seen it.

UncleHarm1 - 3/3/2025, 2:00 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - 😂

Evansly - 3/3/2025, 8:20 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - Of course you haven't. You just bitch and moan about things you haven't seen.

You are a stain on this website

Matchesz - 3/2/2025, 11:08 PM

Caught some of it, anyone see Adrian Brody get scared when the guy that kissed the other guy grabbed him? 😆

Malatrova15 - 3/2/2025, 11:12 PM

@Matchesz - he was Pretty kissy himself too

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:12 PM

@Matchesz -

Ha.

He kissed a guy.

And gave a nasty Marxist globalist speech.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:13 PM

@Malatrova15 -

Yes he was.

A lot of those commie guys like kissing guys.

regularmovieguy - 3/3/2025, 8:35 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea

When’s the last time you got laid dude?

MrDandy - 3/2/2025, 11:10 PM

My favorite part was the young Mikey Madison beating out the older Demi More by playing the exact hyper sexualized character that The Substance was critiquing. Chef kiss Academy. Never change.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:14 PM

@MrDandy -

Karmic justice for Demitria signing on to such a trashy and grotesque flick.

NinnesMBC - 3/2/2025, 11:16 PM

@MrDandy - Agreed. They're really tone deaf and stupid. They proved them right.

This year's Oscars voters really showed how unqualified they are if we remember they didn't even bother to see Dune: Part II for "being too long" yet I am sure they saw the nearly 4 hours-long The Brutalist or not voting for Ralph Fiennes because they believe he had won years go so they went for Brody.

They're really dumb.

Malatrova15 - 3/2/2025, 11:11 PM

So how many Oscars for Captain DEI? ..oops...Time to go Feige ..this Is your fifiteen Oscar failure Boy

asherman93 - 3/3/2025, 1:34 AM

@Malatrova15 - ...what does Captain America or Feige have to do with this Oscar season?
I'm pretty sure that outside the first Black Panther movie - and to a lesser extent, Wakanda Forever - Marvel's been mostly content with crowd-pleasing popcorn flicks and the like.

BraveNewClunge - 3/3/2025, 4:13 AM

@asherman93 - the inclusion of POC in marvel movies burns some of these lot lol.

HistoryofMatt - 3/2/2025, 11:14 PM

For the last 20 years or so, the Oscars are routinely awful and full of terrible, out of touch people who nominate and vote for movies most normal people don't care about and wouldn't watch if given a free ticket.

That The Wild Robot didn't win for Best Animated Feature is just more proof of how out of touch these people are with their audience.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:18 PM

@HistoryofMatt -

Pampered liberal Marxist commies living in mansions with walls and locked doors who demand America's front door stay wide open all day and night.

People who don't hurt when rent, food, and gas prices go up.

People who don't have to walk on sidewalks in big cities.

GeneralZod - 3/3/2025, 1:42 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - People who only shop at Whole Foods or Fresh Market and shudder the thought of journeying to Safeway, Acme or Walmart.

Usernametaken - 3/3/2025, 2:58 AM

@HistoryofMatt - Meh, we shouldn't care about who wins.

All I care about is the list of nominated movies, most of those are great or are at least worth a watch.

Already saw Conclave, Dune 2, The wild Robot, Wallace & Gromit, Alien Romulus, Gladiator II.

So I thank them for making that curated list of great to good movies, who wins should only be meaningful for the people who are working in the industry.

vectorsigma - 3/3/2025, 3:14 AM

@HistoryofMatt - have you seen flow? It was great

MaxPaint - 3/3/2025, 7:31 AM

@HistoryofMatt - Agreed, Wild Robot should've won.

NinnesMBC - 3/2/2025, 11:14 PM

I'm happy for Zoe Saldana.

I was enjoying the ceremony with the wins for Wicked, Dune: Part II and The Brutalist even if I wanted Ralph Fiennes to win Best Actor. Losing against Adrien Brody isn't nothing to be bitter about so that for me was acceptable.

Unfortunately the evening was soured for me with the wins for Anora as Best Picture and for Mickey Madison. Now that she's won the biggest award in the business so early in her career I don't know what could be next for her to top this. And it's in her first time she is nominated. Not even Jennifer Lawrence was rewarded that years ago with Winter's Bone and had to wait for another nomination to win.

And also can't help but feel that they just proved Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore and the whole point behind The Substance right. All those claims of "renaissance" to Moore for her performance and hyping her so much for this comeback just to end up losing against the newest and shiniest girl is literally what their movie was trying to communicate. And they just did that. (Same thing with Fernanda Torres' nomination)

Dissapointing results.

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/2/2025, 11:21 PM

Zoe Saldana winning an award for her performance in Emilia Perez proves that the Hollywood commies don't have credibility and don't want to entertain. They just want to indoctrinate people with The Message and annoy conservatives.

asherman93 - 3/3/2025, 1:31 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - ...except that's basically the only arguably legit win the film got? And Anora managed to get all the big awards except Best Actor.

NinnesMBC - 3/2/2025, 11:28 PM

With that said, I did like Sean Baker's speech about movies. And that they should stay longer on theaters.

Equivocal - 3/3/2025, 1:15 AM

@NinnesMBC -

I agree, there's nothing like experiencing a movie on the big screen, even independent films get to shine on the silver screen, don't release them too soon on streaming.
I watch movies on the big screen whenever possible, more than a tradition for me, a real experience !

GeneralZod - 3/3/2025, 1:30 AM

@NinnesMBC - [directed at Sean Baker:] But why are movie theaters struggling? Gee, i wonder whether the big studios incapable of doing anything original (other than relying on sequels and reboots) + the way Hollywood has self-policed creativity these last 7 to 8 years or so has anything to do with it? I feel bad for us (the viewers) and the owners and employees of movie theaters, but have zero sympathy for Hollywood. They killed the golden goose.

Usernametaken - 3/3/2025, 3:26 AM

@NinnesMBC - It's just too expensive now.

I hope that at some point some smart person will realize that there is a need for a low-cost movie theater chain that everybody can afford to go to.

Otherwise people will keep choosing streaming over theaters and it will just get worse.

RegularPoochie - 3/2/2025, 11:34 PM

I predicted the supporting role winners right, now it's my time to shine!

Nomis929 - 3/2/2025, 11:39 PM

Hollywood loves movies about hookers.

BlackStar25 - 3/3/2025, 12:16 AM

@Nomis929 - Right? I thought Anora was great. A bit too long but great nonetheless. Never thought it would get nominated though

MakeAmericaGrea - 3/3/2025, 12:51 AM

@Nomis929 -

The Shape of Water and the Emma Stone Frankenhooker movie are more evidence the Hollywood lefties love degeneracy.

Oh, and Emilia Perez.

GeneralZod - 3/3/2025, 1:19 AM

@Nomis929 - Bro! They're not hookers, that patriarchical term marginalizes them. They're sex workers.

JacobsLadder - 3/3/2025, 7:10 AM

@GeneralZod - sometimes I don't know if you guys are being serious or cheeky. I hope in this instance it's the latter.

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Academy Awards 2025: ANORA Surprises With Wins In Major Categories; Zoe Saldaña Takes Home First Oscar

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