A full list of 2025 Oscar nominations

Blaze (he/him)@feddit.org · 4 days ago

A full list of 2025 Oscar nominations

ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk · 4 days ago

I’m happy to see:

Best Film: The Substance

Best Actress: Demi Moore for The Substance (she fully committed to the role)

Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain (superb performance)

Best Director: Coralie Fargeat for The Substance

Best Animation: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (not their best outing but any Wallace & Gromit is going to be a top animation in any year)

Cinematography & Costume Design: Nosferatu (it left me a bit cold but it looked amazing)

Best Hair and Makeup: A Better Man (probably the best bit of it), Nosferatu and The Substance

Best Visual Effects: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (glad it didn’t get overlooked because it was earlier in the year, as they did an amazing job), Alien: Romulus being in this category is a joke

Who will win? Going on previous evidence The Brutalist and Wicked will likely steamroller the opposition, which will be a shame (it’ll be Interesting to see which wins more, probably The Brutalist as it is a more serious film, but we’ll see). However, if Kieran Culkin doesn’t walk away with an Oscar it would be a crime. Inside Out 2 has earned the big bucks and should win, Nosferatu and Dune 2 should get quite a few of the technical awards. It’ll be a pity if The Substance doesn’t get anything but such an outrageous film even getting nominated in major categories feels like a win.

I’m off to see The Brutalist in the next week or so, I’ll be in a better position to judge the lie of the land then.

golli@lemm.ee · edit-2 3 days ago

Some thoughts (althought not having seen many of the nominations yet, e.g. the Brutalist):

Considering the critical acclaim it got, i am somewhat suprised by the complete lack of nominations for “Challengers”
Glad to see Dune Part II and hope it wins some awards, could have maybe also deserved a nom in directing?
Haven’t seen it, but Emilia Pérez seems to be quite controversial in its reception and got a ton of nominations
For best international feature film “All We Imagine as Light” might have also been worth a nomination

edit: Totally forgot that Civil War was also this year. That could have maybe been a nominee for sound design?

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 day ago

I just finished watching Emilia Pérez, and saw it won best picture at the Golden Globes, but have no idea why? Anora, Challengers, and The Substance are objectively better movies yet Emilia Pérez won? It’s great to see there’s finally a trans actress to receive an Oscar nomination, but the performance wasn’t amazing, and I’d say Demi Moore or Mikey Madison had much better material to work with and really showed their talent.

golli@lemm.ee · edit-2 21 hours ago

I feel like i have to add it to my watchlist simply to be able to have an informed opinion, even if it isn’t necessarily what i’d be drawn to.

It’s great to see there’s finally a trans actress to receive an Oscar nomination, but the performance wasn’t amazing, and I’d say Demi Moore or Mikey Madison had much better material to work with and really showed their talent.

If it were just that, a single (or a few) nomination, but it just got 13 oscar nominations, twice for best original song. So depending on how you count the double entry it’s the most nominated film of the year or tied with The Brutalist at 10.

keyez@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

I’m very surprised Dune part II was not in there for directing and having seen both I think it should be in there over Emilia Perez. I’m glad Emilia Perez exists and it’s up there for it’s message and those involved but it was just okay and nobody else I know even on forums like these even talks about it nor seem to have seen it.

Syntha@sh.itjust.works · 3 days ago

All we imagine as light wasn’t submitted by India so not eligible to be nominated

BrikoX · 4 days ago

Not sure if I’m just not watching that many movies anymore, or I value different things in those that I watch, but I have seen 0 movies from this year’s list. Wild.

golli@lemm.ee · edit-2 3 days ago

I’d say it depends on how much new releases you’ve seen this year. But while I’d say having not seen a single one (assuming you’ve watched a decent number) is maybe a bit surprising, I can totally see reasons how someone could have ended up not seeing a single one of them.

Many are also still just in cinemas (like the brutality) or only available for digital rental, not streaming. With Wicked and Emilia Perez you have musicals that many (me included) don’t care for as much. You probably won’t go see a complete unknown or better man, if you aren’t a fan of the artist. And I could go on and list reasons for all other films.

But I’d be curious: of the ones you have seen this year which stood out to you or would you have liked to see nominated?

Personally from the nominated ones I’ve seen

In cinema: Dune part II, Alien Romulus, Nosferatu

At a festival: the substance, black box diaries

And otherwise I’ve seen Anora, Conclave, The wild robot, gladiator II

BrikoX · 3 days ago

I skipped 2 on purpose. Dune: Part Two (not watching until I finish the books) and Wicked (too overhyped, if you need $150 millions to spend on marketing something, it’s not worth watching in my mind).

I heard of Nosferatu, Inside Out 2 and Gladiator II, but many of the other entries didn’t even catch my eye throughout the year.

Looking at my stats, It has been a light year on movies for me. Only 9 movies I saw were released in 2024.

My standout was Hounds of War (2024), not worth any nominations, but it really surprised me.

golli@lemm.ee · edit-2 3 days ago

I skipped 2 on purpose. Dune: Part Two (not watching until I finish the books)

When you write books, plural, do you just want to read them all while not having the movies influence your own imagination? which i could totally understand. Because otherwise from a spoiler perspective the two movies just adapt the first novel.

(too overhyped, if you need $150 millions to spend on marketing something, it’s not worth watching in my mind).

I was under the impression that many large blockbuster productions nowadays have similar sized marketing budgets. Maybe $150m is a bit on the high side for Wicked, but from a quick search Dune Part II also seems like it had a roughly $100m one.

I heard of Nosferatu, Inside Out 2 and Gladiator II, but many of the other entries didn’t even catch my eye throughout the year.

Tbh not suprising for some of the reasons mentioned above. And i think particular something like Anora gets a lot of buzz on the critic side, but hardly any mainstream attention. So you’d have to actively pay attention to that.

Looking at my stats, It has been a light year on movies for me. Only 9 movies I saw were released in 2024.

Tbh while i thought that there were some great movies, it probably was a light year for movies in general, at least for me. I’d say it was more dominated by the large flops we had: Joker 2, Megalopolis, Madame Web, The Crow, Borderlands and so on.

BrikoX · 3 days ago

When you write books, plural, do you just want to read them all while not having them influence your own imagination? which i could totally understand. Because otherwise from a spoiler perspective the two movies just adapt the first novel.

I don’t particularly like adaptations in general since most of them are only made to cash in on the popular name. But when something not completely shit is made I like to go into it with having consumed original medium and then be able to compare and speculate the different reasons for the decisions made in the adaptation.

I was under the impression that many large blockbuster productions nowadays have similar sized marketing budgets. Maybe $150m is a bit on the high side for Wicked, but from a quick search Dune Part II also seems like it had a roughly $100m one.

It used to be rare. But with Barbie’s gamble paying off, everyone thinks it’s the winning strategy now. I’m just proving them wrong. :)