Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams, Tilda Swinton and Daniel Craig are just some of the big names and precursor award winners excluded from this year’s Academy Awards. 2025 Oscar Nominations It was announced.
A little history was also made when the list of nominees was announced Thursday morning. Carla Sofia Gascónthe “Emilia Perez” star became the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for an Oscar.
Best Actress Award
Kidman won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival for her role as a company executive who has an affair with a younger subordinate in Baby Girl, but was not nominated.
Also excluded is Angelina Jolie, who played opera star Maria Callas in “Maria.” Amy Adams plays a young mother who undergoes a horrifying transformation in “Night Bitch.” kate winsletplayed the role of battlefield photographer Lee Miller in “Lee.” Saoirse Ronan plays a recovering alcoholic in “Outrun.” tilda swinton As a woman trying to end her life in the “next room”. Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays a wife and mother who lashes out at the world’s humiliation in “Hard Truth.” Pamela Anderson played a Las Vegas dancer in “The Last Showgirl.”
Gascon was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for his performance as a Mexican drug lord who transitions into a woman. She also won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival with her “Emilia Perez” co-star Zoe Saldaña. selena gomez And Adriana Paz.
Nominated: Gascon, Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (Substance), Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here).
Best Supporting Actress Award
Golden Globe winner Saldaña was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but Gomez was not. There were also no other major candidates in the category, such as Margaret Qualley for “Substance.” Elle Fanning in “Completely Unknown.” Jamie Lee Curtis in “The Last Showgirl” and Daniel Deadwyler in “The Piano Lesson.”
Nominated: Saldaña, Monica Barbaro (“Completely Unknown”), Ariana Grande (“Wicked”), Felicity Jones (“The Brutalist”), Isabella Rossellini (“Conclave”).
Best Actor Award
The list of Best Actor nominees roughly mirrors the Screen Actors Guild lineup, with the following differences: daniel craigHis role as a gay man pursuing a younger man in “Queer” didn’t make it onto the Oscar nomination list. In his place was Sebastian Stan, who played a young Donald Trump on “The Apprentice.”
What is missing among actors: paul mescal Hugh Grant stars in Gladiator II and Hugh Grant stars in Heretic.
Nominated: Stan, Adrien Brody (The Brutalist), Timothée Chalamet (The Completely Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ralph Fiennes (The Conclave).
Best Supporting Actor Award
Denzel Washington, who played a slave owner in Gladiator II, was not nominated for Best Supporting Actor, Stanley Tucci for Conclave, Peter Sarsgaard for September Five, and SAG, who played Fierro in the film. Candidate Jonathan Bailey also did not make the cut. “It’s evil.”
Clarence Maclinplayed the role of himself, an incarcerated man who joins a prison theater group, in Sing Sing, which shared a nomination for Best Original Screenplay but no nominations for Best Acting.
Nominated: Yura Borisov (“Anora”), Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), Edward Norton (“Completely Unknown”), Guy Pearce (“Brutalist”), Jeremy Strong (“ The Apprentice).
Best Director Award
“Wicked” garnered 10 nominations overall, but missed out on one for director. John M. Chu.
But he was good company. Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part 2), Edward Berger (Conclave), and Ridley Scott (Gladiator II) were also not nominated in this category.
Nominated: Sean Baker (“Anora”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”), James Mangold (“Completely Unknown”), Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Perez”), Coralie Falger. (“Substance”).
below the line
Other notable nominations this year include two-time Oscar winner Elton John, who won again for “Never Too Late” from the documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late.” Nominated. Nosferatu received nominations in four categories: costumes, production design, cinematography, and hair and makeup.
Some notable omissions: “Dune: Part 2” was missing from the Costumes, Hair/Makeup, and Editing categories. Golden Globe winner Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ “Challengers” was not nominated. And Completely Missing: A Dystopian Political Drama “civil war,” and “Knee Cap,” the somewhat true origin story of the Irish rap group.
97th Academy Awards
whole, “Emilia Perez” It leads the Oscar race with 13 nominations. “Brutalist” and “evil” There are 10 of each.
The Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 2nd at the Dolby Theater. hollywood.
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