Oscar 2025 Winners: Townflex brings to you the complete list of winners at the just-ended 97th Academy Awards.
The 2025 Oscar Awards came off on Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles held to honor the finest achievements in cinema for the year 2024.
This year’s Oscars was hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien, and it was the comedian’s first time hosting the ceremony.
The likes of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, Lisa, Doja Cat, and Reye, graced the 97th Academy Awards with powerful musical performances, as well as Queen Latifah who paid tribute to the late Quincy Jones by performing ‘Ease on Down the Road” from The Wiz.
At the 2025 Oscars, Sean Baker made history by winning four awards in a single night for his work on Anora: Best Picture (as producer), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.
Mikey Madison won Best Actress for her role in Anora, marking her first Oscar win. Adrien Brody won Best Actor for The Brutalist, which also received awards for Best Cinematography and Best Original Score. Zoe Saldaña won Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez, marking her first Oscar win.
Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor for A Real Pain, marking his first Oscar win. While actors and actresses typically receive individual awards, directors and producers like Baker can be recognized in multiple categories, as seen in this year’s ceremony.
Without taking much of your time, let’s just go straight to the point by closely examining the full 2025 Oscar Winners & Nominees list below.
2025 Oscar Winners List
Best picture
- “Anora” — Winner
- “The Brutalist”
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Conclave”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “I’m Still Here”
- “Nickel Boys”
- “The Substance”
- “Wicked”
Best Actress
- Mikey Madison, “Anora” — Winner
- Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”
- Karla Sofia Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”
- Demi Moore, “The Substance”
- Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
Best actor
- Adrian Brody, “The Brutalist” — Winner
- Timothée Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”
- Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”
- Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”
- Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”
Best supporting actor
- Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” — Winner
- Yura Borisov, “Anora”
- Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”
- Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”
- Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”
Best supporting actress
- Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez” — Winner
- Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”
- Ariana Grande, “Wicked”
- Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”
- Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”
Best director
- Sean Baker, “Anora” — Winner
- Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
- James Mangold, “A Complete Unknown”
- Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
- Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”
Best cinematography
- “The Brutalist,” Lol Crawley — Winner
- “Dune: Part Two,” Greig Fraser
- “Emilia Pérez,” Paul Guillaume
- “Maria,” Edward Lachman
- “Nosferatu,” Jarin Blaschke
Best animated feature
- “Flow” — Winner
- “Inside Out 2”
- “Memoir of a Snail”
- “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
- “The Wild Robot”
Best animated short
- “In the Shadow of the Cypress” — Winner
- “Beautiful Men”
- “Magic Candies”
- “Wander to Wonder”
- “Yuck!”
Best costume design
- “Wicked,” Paul Tazewell — Winner
- “A Complete Unknown,” Arianne Phillips
- “Conclave,” Lisy Christl
- “Gladiator II,” Janty Yates
- “Nosferatu,” Linda Muir
Best original screenplay
- “Anora,” Sean Baker — Winner
- “The Brutalist,” Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
- “A Real Pain,” Jesse Eisenberg
- “September 5,” Tim Fehlbaum & Moritz Binder
- “The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat
Best adapted screenplay
- “Conclave,” Peter Straughan — Winner
- “A Complete Unknown,” Jay Cocks & James Mangold
- “Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain & Nicolas Livecchi
- “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
- “Sing Sing,” Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin & John “Divine G” Whitfield
Best makeup and hairstyling
- “The Substance” — Winner
- “A Different Man”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Nosferatu”
- “Wicked”
Best film editing
- “Anora,” Sean Baker — Winner
- “The Brutalist,” Dávid Jancsó
- “Conclave,” Nick Emerson
- “Emilia Pérez,” Juliette Welfling
- “Wicked,” Myron Kerstein
Best production design
- “Wicked,” Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales — Winner
- “The Brutalist,” Judy Becker
- “Conclave,” Suzie Davies
- “Dune: Part Two,” Patrice Vermette
- “Nosferatu,” Craig Lathrop
Best original song
- “El Mal,” “Emilia Pérez” (Clement Ducol, Camille & Jacques Audiard) — Winner
- “Never Too Late,” “Elton John: Never Too Late” (Elton John & Brandi Carlile)
- “Mi Camino,” “Emilia Pérez” (Clement Ducol & Camille)
- “Like a Bird,” “Sing Sing” (Adrian Quesada & Abraham Alexander)
- “The Journey,” “The Six Triple Eight” (Diane Warren)
Best documentary short
- “The Only Girl in the Orchestra” — Winner
- Death by Numbers”
- “I Am Ready, Warden”
- “Incident”
- “Instruments of a Beating Heart”
Best documentary feature
- “No Other Land,” Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor — Winner
- “Black Box Diaries,” Shiori Itō
- “Porcelain War,” Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev
- “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” Johan Grimonprez
- “Sugarcane,” Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie
Best sound
- “Dune: Part Two” — Winner
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Wicked”
- “The Wild Robot”
Best visual effects
- “Dune: Part Two” — Winner
- “Alien: Romulus”
- “Better Man”
- “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
- “Wicked”
Best live-action short
- “I’m Not a Robot” — Winner
- “A Lien”
- “Anuja”
- “The Last Ranger”
- “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
Best international feature
- “I’m Still Here,” Walter Salles (Brazil) — Winner
- “The Girl with the Needle,” Magnus von Horn (Denmark)
- “Emilia Pérez,” Jacques Audiard (France)
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Mohammad Rasoulof (Germany)
- “Flow,” Miguel Gomes (Latvia)
Best original score
- “The Brutalist,” Daniel Blumberg — Winner
- “Conclave,” Volker Bertelmann
- “Emilia Pérez,” Clément Ducol & Camille
- “Wicked,” John Powell & Stephen Schwartz
- “The Wild Robot,” Kris Bowers
