The Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning from Los Angeles.
Soon after stars reacted to landing a covered spot on the Academy Award list.
Ariana Grande took to Instagram with a lengthy note after being nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Wicked.
She also shared a pH๏τo of herself as a child in a Dorothy from Wizard Of Oz costume.
‘Picking my head up in between sobs to say thank you so much to @theacademy for this unfathomable recognition,’ she began.
‘I cannot stop crying, to no one’s surprise.
‘I’m humbled and deeply honored to be in such brilliant company and sharing this with tiny ari who sat and studied Judy Garland singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow just before the big, beautiful bubble entered. i’m so proud of you, tiny.
The Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning from Los Angeles. Soon after stars reacted to landing a covered spot. Ariana Grande took to Instagram with a lengthy note after being nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Wicked. Seen January 22
She also shared a pH๏τo of herself as a child in a Dorothy from Wizard Of Oz costume
‘Picking my head up in between sobs to say thank you so much to @theacademy for this unfathomable recognition,’ she began. ‘I cannot stop crying, to no one’s surprise,’ she added
‘Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart, for this acknowledgement @theacademy.
‘Thank you @jonmchu for taking this chance on me and for being the most unbelievably brilliant leader, human being, and most fierce friend. i am so deeply proud of my beautiful Wicked family.
‘iI am so proud of my Elphie, my sister, my dear @cynthiaerivo. your brilliance is never ending and you deserve every flower (tulip) in every garden. i love you unconditionally, always.
‘I don’t quite have all my words yet, i’m still trying to breathe. but thank you. oh my goodness, thank you. Universal, Marc, my family, my heart.
‘Lemons and melons and pears, oh my.’
Her boyfriend Ethan Slater, who was also in Wicked, shared a pH๏τo of her holding balloons.
Karla Sofia Gascon was nominated for her turn as a drug lord male turned social activist female in Emilia Perez.
She took to Instagram to write, ‘Thank you so much @theacademy @emiliaperezfilm.’
British stars Ralph Fiennes and Cynthia Erivo have earned best acting Oscar nods, as Emilia Perez dominated the nominations, leading with 13.
Fiennes, who is nominated for Conclave, will face off against Adrien Brody for immigrant tale The Brutalist, Timothee Chalamet for Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, about prisoners becoming part of a theatre group, at the Oscars ceremony in March.
Sebastian Stan is also up for the category for playing Donald Trump before he became the US president in The Apprentice.
Grande in tears while promoting her December film last year
Ariana Grande, right, with Cynthia Erivo
Also leading the nominations are Wicked, based on the West End and Broadway musical of the same name, and The Brutalist on 10 nods, while Conclave, about the election of a Catholic pope in the Vatican, and A Complete Unknown are named in eight award categories.
They have all been nominated for the best picture, and acting categories, while The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown and Emilia Perez secured directing nods.
The nominations for the 97th Oscars were announced on Thursday at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Los Angeles, after being postponed twice amid the wildfires in Los Angeles.
Fiennes was last nominated in 1997 for his leading role as a Hungarian pilot and desert explorer in The English Patient, which came after his first nod in 1994 for war drama Schindler’s List, where he played an Austrian Nazi official.
Up for a best actress Oscar is Erivo, who secured her second acting Oscar nod for musical The Wizard Of Oz prequel Wicked, along with new nominations for Mikey Madison for playing a stripper who falls for a Russian oligarch’s son in Anora, and Hollywood actress Demi Moore for body horror The Substance.
Karla Sofia Gascon was nominated for her turn as a drug lord male turned social activist female in Emilia Perez. She took to Instagram to write, ‘Thank you so much @theacademy @emiliaperezfilm’
Spanish star Karla Sofia Gascon, who became the first transgender actress to be nominated, is also in the category for Emilia Perez alongside Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres for Portuguese-language film I’m Still Here, about a mother coping with the disappearance of her husband in 1970s authoritarian Brazil.
Erivo previously secured two Oscar nods for Harriet, along with the song from the film, Stand Up, after playing the American abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the 2019 film.
In the supporting actor categories, The Brutalist’s Felicity Jones has landed her second Oscar nomination as former Succession stars Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin secured their first Academy Awards nods.
This is Jones’s first nod in a decade after she received a best actress nomination for her role as Jane Hawking, the wife of British theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, in biopic The Theory Of Everything.
Ralph Fiennes
Former Succession star Kieran Culkin
Jones will compete against Emilia Perez star Zoe Saldana, for her role in the Netflix thriller about a Mexican drug lord who changes gender, and Italian-born US star Isabella Rossellini for playing a nun in papal election drama Conclave.
Also nominated in the category is US pop singer Ariana Grande for playing Glinda the good witch, an early friend to Cynthia Erivo’s green-skinned character in Wicked, and Monica Barbaro for A Complete Unknown.
Grande wrote on Instagram that she “cannot stop crying” after the “unfathomable recognition”.
She also said that she was “humbled and deeply honoured to be in such brilliant company”, and thanked director Jon M Chu for casting her.
Grande also said Erivo’s brilliance was “never ending”, and added: “I love you unconditionally, always.”
In the supporting actor category, Culkin, for playing a cousin to Jesse Eisenberg’s character who goes on a trip to retrace his Jewish grandmother’s past escaping the Holocaust in Poland in A Real Pain, and Strong, who portrayed former Trump mentor Roy Cohn in The Apprentice, are going head-to-head.
Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini and Stanley Tucci, who were in Conclave (Ian West/PA)
They were nominated alongside Russian actor Yura Borisov for Anora, and Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown and Australian star Guy Pearce for The Brutalist.
Meanwhile, Sir Elton John has secured his fifth original song nod after the release of his music documentary song Never Too Late for the Disney+ film Elton John: Never Too Late, about his Farewell Yellow Brick Road concert tour.
The British singer-songwriter was nominated three times for The Lion King, winning for Can You Feel The Love Tonight, and also snapping up the gong for a second time with Sir Elton biopic Rocketman’s (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again.
He will face compeтιтion from Emilia Perez, who has two songs El Mal, and Mi Camino up for original song, along with Sing Sing’s Like A Bird, and The Six Triple Eight’s The Journey.
Sir Elton hailed his latest Oscar nod as an “incredible honour” on Instagram, along with paying tribute to his collaborators Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt, and “to everyone who helped bring this beautiful song to the world”.
The best picture category is a crowded field with Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Emilia Perez, I’m Still Here, The Substance, and Wicked all nominated.
David Furnish and husband Sir Elton John (Ian West/PA)
Also up for the prize is Chalamet-starring science fiction blockbuster Dune: Part Two, and Nickel Boys, based on the Colson Whitehead book of the same name about children sent to an abusive reform school in the 1960s.
James Mangold, who previously secured an adapted screenplay nod for co-writing Logan and a best picture nomination for producing Ford V Ferrari, has earned his first directing nod for A Complete Unknown.
The category also includes first time nominees Sean Baker for Anora, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance.
British screenwriter Peter Straughan, who brought Robert Harris’s novel Conclave to the big screen, called the film a “labour of love from the beginning” after his nomination for best adapted screenplay, where he competes against A Complete Unknown, Emilia Perez, Nickle Boys, and Sing Sing.
His statement to the PA news agency added: “I am mindful that the backdrop to these nominations is the ongoing threat to communities posed by the wildfires and my thoughts are very much with the people of LA at this terrible time.”
For animated feature film, Wallace And Gromit are once again nominated for an Oscar gong after the release of the BBC Christmas hit Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – which sees the return of evil penguin Feathers McGraw from Academy Award-winning short The Wrong Trousers.
They will compete against Latvian cat film Flow, Inside Out 2, the second film from Disney that dramatises emotions in the brain, Memoir Of A Snail, starring Succession star Sarah Snook, and The Wild Robot.
Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez, Jacques Audiard, Zoe Saldana and Adriana Paz (Jeff Moore/PA)
Those who had been in the running for awards, but missed out on nominations include Oscar winner Nicole Kidman for erotic thriller Babygirl, and James Bond star Daniel Craig for Mexico-set Queer, about an older man pursuing the love of a young man.
Also left out of the acting categories are Pamela Anderson for playing a faded showgirl in The Last Showgirl along with her supporting co-star Jamie Lee Curtis, and Angelina Jolie for portraying the final days of dramatic opera singer Maria Callas in Maria, along with Selena Gomez for Emilia Perez.
The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with first-time host Conan O’Brien taking over the helm this year.
British TV presenter Jonathan Ross will return as host of ITV’s Oscars companion show this March for the second year running, accompanied by celebrity guests and film experts to discuss nominated films on the night.
Oscar nominations 2025 – see who received nods for this year’s Academy Awards
Best Picture
Wicked
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Perez
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked has received multiple Oscar nods, including one for Best Picture
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
Actress in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascon – Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison – Anora
Demi Moore – The Substance
Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here
The Substance has been nominated for numerous Oscars, including Best Actress for Demi Moore
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
Actress in a Supporting Role
Monica Barbaro – A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande – Wicked
Felicity Jones – The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez
Directing
Sean Baker – Anora
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
James Mangold – A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
Music (Original Song)
El Mal – Emilia Pérez
The Journey – The Six Triple Eight
Like A Bird – Sing Sing
Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late – Elton John: Never Too Late
Emilia Pérez has also earned numerous nominations
Music (Original Score)
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Animated Feature Film
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengence Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
International Feature Film
I’m Still here
The Girl with the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow
Cinematography
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
Makeup and Hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked
Dune: Part Two is competing for numerous Oscars
Costume Design
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked
Production Design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked
Animated Short Film
Beautiful Men
In The Shadow of The Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Live Action Short Film
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not A Robot
The Last Ranger
The An Who Could Not Remain Silent
Sound
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
A Complete Unknown received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, among others
Visual Effects
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Dune: Part Two
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
Film Editing
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
Documentary Feature Film
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to Coup D’etat
Sugarcane
Documentary Short Film
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instrumenting of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
