Oscar Winner: Sean Baker, Best Original Screenplay For ‘Anora’on March 3, 2025 at 1:00 am

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Refresh for updates… The votes are in, the dresses and tuxes are ready, and the envelopes are sealed: It’s time for the 97th Academy Awards. Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, so check back often and see the list below. Sean Baker won the Original […]Refresh for updates… The votes are in, the dresses and tuxes are ready, and the envelopes are sealed: It’s time for the 97th Academy Awards. Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, so check back often and see the list below. Sean Baker won the Original

Refresh for updates… The votes are in, the dresses and tuxes are ready, and the envelopes are sealed: It’s time for the 97th Academy Awards. Deadline is posting the winners live as they are announced from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, so check back often and see the list below.

Sean Baker won the Original Screenplay Oscar for Anora,

Kieran Culkin surprised few with his show-opening Best Supporting Actor win for Searchlight’s A Real Pain, following up his awards-season run that included wins at the SAG Awards, Spirit Awards and elsewhere. It’s his first Oscar.

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Best Animated Feature then went to Sideshow/Janus Films’ Flow, in a mild upset over The Wild Robot, which had dominated won the Annie Awards last month. Winner of the Annie for Indie Feature, Flow is the first film from Latvia to win any Oscar, and it’s also up for Best Animated Feature tonight.

Best Costume Design went to Paul Tazewell for Wicked, who won for Excellence in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film at the Costume Designers Guild Awards. It’s not only his first Oscar, it’s the first for a Black man in the category, as he noted from the stage.

In the Shadow of the Cypress took the Animated Short Film prize.

The Best Picture race is as wide open as any in recent memory, with several of the nominated films scoring marquee wins at various awards shows this year. Focus Features’ Conclave took the Ensemble prize at the SAG Awards last weekend and Best Film at the BAFTAs, and Neon’s Palme d’Or champ Anora won Best Film at Indie Spirits, PGA and Critics Choice Awards and Best Director at the DGAs.

Deadline’s Awards Columnist Pete Hammond sees it being down to those two, but A24’s The Brutalist and Netflix’s Emilia Pérez scooped the respective Golden Globes for drama and comedy in January. Also in the running for Best Picture tonight are Searchlight’s A Complete Unknown, Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two, Sony Classics’ I’m Still Here, Orion/Amazon MGM’s Nickel Boys, Mubi’s The Substance and Universal’s Wicked.

Emilia Pérez comes into the ceremony with a leading 13 Oscar nominations, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 each, A Complete Unknown and Conclave with eight apiece and Anora with six. Netflix has 16 noms to lead all distributors, with A24 next at 14, followed by Universal (13), Focus Features (12) and Searchlight (10).

Conan O’Brien is the first-time host for the ceremony, which ABC is airing live coast-to-coast starting at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET. Hulu is streaming it live. You can check the star-packed presenters list here and the announced musical performers here.

Here are the 2025 Oscar winners announced so far, followed by the remaining nominees:

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Anora (Neon)
Written by Sean Baker

Related: WGA Awards Winners List

COSTUME DESIGN
Wicked (Universal)
Paul Tazewell

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Flow (Sideshow/Janus Films)
Gints Zilbalodis, Matīss Kaža, Ron Dyens and Gregory Zalcman

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain (Searchlight)

BEST PICTURE
Anora (Neon)
A Cre Films Production
Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, Producers

The Brutalist (A24)
An A24/Brookstreet Pictures/Kaplan Morrison Production
Nick Gordon, Brian Young, Andrew Morrison, D.J. Gugenheim and Brady Corbet

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)
A Veritas Entertainment Group/White Water/Range/Picture Company/Turnpike Films Production
Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman, Producers

Conclave (Focus Features)
A FilmNation Entertainment/Indian Paintbrush/House Production
Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman, Producers

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
A Legendary Pictures Production
Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve, Producers

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
A Netflix/Page 114/Why Not Productions/Pathé/France 2 Cinéma/Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello
in association with Library Pictures International Production
Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard, Producers

I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics)
A VideoFilmes/RT Features/Mact Production
Maria Carlota Bruno and Rodrigo Teixeira, Producers

Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
A Plan B Entertainment/Anonymous Content/Louverture Films Production
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Joslyn Barnes, Producers

The Substance (Mubi)
A Match Factory/Working Title/Blacksmith/A Good Story Production
Coralie Fargeat and Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Producers

Wicked (Universal)
A Universal Pictures/Marc Platt Production
Marc Platt, Producer

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Adrien Brody in The Brutalist (A24)
Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)
Colman Domingo in Sing Sing (A24)
Ralph Fiennes in Conclave (Focus Features)
Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cynthia Erivo in Wicked (Universal)
Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Mikey Madison in Anora (Neon)
Demi Moore in The Substance (Mubi)
Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Monica Barbaro in A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)
Ariana Grande in Wicked (Universal)
Felicity Jones in The Brutalist (A24)
Isabella Rossellini in Conclave (Focus Features)
Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez (Netflix)

DIRECTING
Anora (Neon) Sean Baker
The Brutalist (A24) Brady Corbet
A Complete Unknown (Searchlight) James Mangold
Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Jacques Audiard
The Substance (Mubi) Coralie Fargeat

Related: DGA Awards Winners List

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)
Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks

Conclave (Focus Features)
Screenplay by Peter Straughan

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Screenplay by Jacques Audiard, in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi

Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes

Sing Sing (A24)
Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence
Maclin, John Divine G Whitfield

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
I’m Still Here (Brazil)
A VideoFilmes Produções Artísticas Production

The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
A Nordisk Film Creative Alliance Production

Emilia Pérez (France)
A Pathé Production

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
A Run Way Pictures Production

Flow (Latvia)
A Dream Well Studio Production

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Black Box Diaries (MTV Documentary Films)
A Hanashi Films/Cineric Creative/Star Sands Production
Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin

No Other Land
An Antipode Films Production
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham

Porcelain War (Picturehouse)
A Songbird Studios/Imaginary Lane Production
Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska and Paula DuPre’ Pesmen

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber)
An Onomatopee Films/Warboys Films Production
Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety

Sugarcane (National Geographic Documentary Films)
A Hedgehog Films/Kassie Films/Impact Partners/Fit Via Vi Production
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie and Kellen Quinn

FILM EDITING
Anora (Neon)
Sean Baker

The Brutalist (A24)
David Jancso

Conclave (Focus Features)
Nick Emerson

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Juliette Welfling

Wicked (Universal)
Myron Kerstein

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Brutalist (A24)
Lol Crawley

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Greig Fraser

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Paul Guilhaume

Maria (Netflix)
Ed Lachman

Nosferatu (Focus Features)
Jarin Blaschke

PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Brutalist (A24)
Production Design: Judy Becker
Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia

Conclave (Focus Features)
Production Design: Suzie Davies
Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Production Design: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Shane Vieau

Nosferatu (Focus Features)
Production Design: Craig Lathrop
Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová

Wicked (Universal)
Production Design: Nathan Crowley
Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Related: SCL Awards Winners List

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
The Brutalist (A24)
Daniel Blumberg

Conclave (Focus Features)
Volker Bertelmann

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Clément Ducol and Camille

Wicked (Universal)
John Powell and Stephen Schwartz

The Wild Robot
(Universal) Kris Bowers

Related: Grammy Awards Winners List

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
El Mal from Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Music by Clément Ducol and Camille
Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard

The Journey from The Six Triple Eight (Netflix)
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Like A Bird from Sing Sing (A24)
Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada

Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol

Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late (Disney+)
Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
A Lien
Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz

Anuja
Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai

I’m Not a Robot (The New Yorker)
Victoria Warmerdam and Trent

The Last Ranger
Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Manifest)
Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek

Related: Annie Awards Winners List

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Death by Numbers
Kim A. Snyder and Janique L. Robillard

I Am Ready, Warden (MTV Documentary Films)
Smriti Mundhra and Maya Gnyp

Incident (The New Yorker)
Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven

Instruments of a Beating Heart (The New York Times OpDocs/Cineric Creative)
Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Eric Nyari

The Only Girl in the Orchestra (Netflix)
Molly O’Brien and Lisa Remington

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
A Different Man (A24)
Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini

Nosferatu (Focus Features)
David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes Munton

The Substance (Mubi)
Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli

Wicked
(Universal) Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth

SOUND
A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)
Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta

Wicked (Universal)
Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis
The Wild Robot (Universal) Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts

Related: VES Awards Winners List

VISUAL EFFECTS
Alien: Romulus (20th Century)
Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan

Better Man (Paramount)
Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century)
Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke

Wicked (Universal)
Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould

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