Hollywood’s biggest night, the 2025 OSCAR, revealed its winner 

The 2025 Oscars: The 97th Academy Awards  2025  will reveal winners in each category on the night of its biggest award show to join hands in prayer and admiration for their peers in film.

For Best Actor, Bluebird star Adrien Brody won for performing in The Brutalist with a record $227 million from producers till now and at least one nomination also for himself and two for Best Actress nominee Mikey Madison on Anora.

Best Supporting Actress was awarded to Emilia Pérez’ Zoë Saldaña while A Real Pain’s Kieran Culkin received Best Supporting Actor award.

Other than the awards, the ceremony paid tribute to the resilience of Los Angeles, commending the city for its strength to recover from the devastating Southern California wildfires. These tragic fires claimed at least 29 lives and destroyed thousands of homes.

The ceremony hosted by the legendary Conan O’Brien at the Dolby Theatre in Ovation Hollywood was broadcast live via ABC, and streaming live on Hulu was done for the first time thereafter.

History of OSCAR

The Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, are the prestigious annual awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to some of the best directors, actors, writers, and technicians in the film industry. The first-ever event in the ceremony took place in the year 1929, precisely on 16 May. The first awards were presented on 16 May 1929, at a private banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to an audience of 270. The Academy Awards after-party was held at Hotel Mayfair. Guest tickets cost $5. In total, 15 golden statuettes were awarded to honor actors, directors, and several other people associated with the filmmaking industry for their works carried out between 1927 and 1928.

They announced the winners three months earlier, which, for the Second Academy Awards in 1930, was changed so that for the first decade, results could be made available to newspapers for publication at 11 in the evening, on award night. This method continued until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the beginning of the ceremony. Because of this, since 1941, the Academy has announced the winners with a sealed envelope.

For the first seven years, films were eligible from two previous calendar years. For example, the second Academy Awards, held on 3 April 1930, considered films released from 1 August 1928 until 31 July 1929. This remained until the seventh Academy Awards, held in 1935, when the eligibility period changed to the previous complete calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Winners list 

Best Picture

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

Best Actress

• Winner: Mikey Madison (Anora)
• Other Nominees: Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Demi Moore (The Substance), Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here)

Best Director

• Winner: Sean Baker (Anora)
• Other Nominees: Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), James Mangold (A Complete Unknown), Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

Best Actor

• Winner: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
• Other Nominees: Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave), Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)

Best Original Score

• Winner: The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
• Other Nominees: Conclave – Volker Bertelmann, Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol and Camille, Wicked – John Powell and Stephen Schwartz, The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers

Best International Feature Film

• Winner: I’m Still Here (Brazil)
• Other Nominees: The Girl with the Needle (Denmark), Emilia Pérez (France), The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany), Flow (Latvia)

Best Cinematography

• Winner: The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
• Other Nominees: Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser, Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume, Maria – Ed Lachman, Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke

Best Live Action Short Film

• Winner: I’m Not a Robot
• Other Nominees: A Lien, Anuja, The Last Ranger, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best Visual Effects

• Winner: Dune: Part Two
• Other Nominees: Alien: Romulus, Better Man, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wicked

Best Sound

• Winner: Dune: Part Two
• Other Nominees: A Complete Unknown, Emilia Pérez, Wicked, The Wild Robot

Best Documentary Feature Film

• Winner: No Other Land
• Other Nominees: Black Box Diaries, Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État, Sugarcane

Best Documentary Short Film

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

Best Original Song

• Winner: “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez
• Other Nominees: “The Journey” (The Six Triple Eight), “Like A Bird” (Sing Sing), “Mi Camino” (Emilia Pérez), “Never Too Late” (Elton John: Never Too Late)

Best Production Design

• Winner: Wicked
• Other Nominees: The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Nosferatu

Best Supporting Actress

• Winner: Zoë Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)
• Other Nominees: Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown), Ariana Grande (Wicked), Felicity Jones (The Brutalist), Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)

Best Film Editing

• Winner: Anora – Sean Baker
• Other Nominees: The Brutalist – Dávid Jancsó, Conclave – Nick Emerson, Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling, Wicked – Myron Kerstein

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Winner: The Substance
• Other Nominees: A Different Man, Emilia Pérez, Nosferatu, Wicked

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Winner: Conclave – Peter Straughan
• Other Nominees: A Complete Unknown – Jay Cocks and James Mangold, Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard, Léa Mysius, Thomas Bidegain, and Nicolas Livecchi, Nickel Boys – Joslyn Barnes and RaMell Ross, Sing Sing – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best Original Screenplay

• Winner: Anora – Sean Baker
• Other Nominees: The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg, September 5 – Moritz Binder and Tim Fehlbaum, co-written by Alex David, The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Best Costume Design

• Winner: Wicked – Paul Tazewell
• Other Nominees: A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips, Conclave – Lisy Christl, Gladiator II – Janty Yates and Dave Crossman, Nosferatu – Linda Muir

Best Animated Short Film

• Winner: In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Other Nominees: Beautiful Men, Magic Candies, Wander to Wonder, Yuck!

Best Animated Feature Film

• Winner: Flow
• Other Nominees: Inside Out 2, Memoir of a Snail, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, The Wild Robot

Best Supporting Actor

• Winner: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
• Other Nominees: Yura Borisov (Anora), Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice)

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