Oscars 2025: The full list of winners
Anora wins best picture, best actress and best director, among others, at the 97th Academy Awards
Anora, a movie about a young stripper who falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch, won best picture at this year's Oscars, marking the end to one of the most scandalous awards seasons in recent memory.
The 97th Academy Awards, held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles Sunday, also featured other major wins, including Mikey Madison, who won best actress for her leading turn in Anora, and The Brutalist's Adrien Brody, who took home best actor for his role as a Hungarian Holocaust survivor starting a new life in the U.S.
Sean Baker won best director for Anora; while Kieran Culkin's performance in A Real Pain earned him best supporting actor and Zoe Saldaña won best supporting actress for playing a lawyer-turned-fixer in musical crime drama Emilia Pérez.
Host and comedian Conan O'Brien had plenty of material to work with, after several awards campaigns were nearly undone by controversy over the last several months. Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón torpedoed her best actress campaign after a slew of old, offensive tweets she made resurfaced.
The Brutalist also got caught in the crossfire when it emerged that the immigration epic used artificial intelligence to enhance lead actor Adrien Brody's Hungarian accent. Even Baker was criticized for not using an intimacy co-ordinator on set while filming Anora's sex scenes.
That was a lot of whiplash for Oscar voters receptive to headline-making controversies — but Anora emerged victorious, taking home a handful of major awards in addition to the top prize.
Below is a full list of this year's winners. Miss the show? Here's a minute-by-minute recap.
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 actor
Adrien 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 actress
Mikey Madison, Anora — WINNER
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here
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 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!
Cinematography
The Brutalist — WINNER
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
Costume design
Wicked — WINNER
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Best documentary short
The Only Girl in the Orchestra — WINNER
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
Editing
Anora, Sean Baker — WINNER
The Brutalist, Dávid Jancsó
Conclave, Nick Emerson
Emilia Pérez, Juliette Welfling
Wicked, Myron Kerstein
Best documentary feature
No Other Land — WINNER
Black Box Diaries
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Porcelain War
Sugarcane
International feature
I'm Still Here, Brazil — WINNER
The Girl with the Needle, Denmark
Emilia Pérez, France
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Germany
Flow, Latvia
Makeup and hairstyling
The Substance, Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli — WINNER
A Different Man, Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado
Emilia Pérez, Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini
Nosferatu, David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes-Munton
Wicked, Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth
Original Score
The Brutalist, Daniel Blumberg — WINNER
Conclave, Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez, Clément Ducol and Camille
Wicked, John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot, Kris Bowers
Original Song
El Mal from Emilia Pérez — WINNER
The Journey from The Six Triple Eight
Like A Bird from Sing Sing
Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late
Production design
Wicked — WINNER
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Best live action short
I'm Not a Robot — WINNER
A Lien
Anuja
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Sound
Dune: Part Two — WINNER
A Complete Unknown
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Visual effects
Dune: Part Two — WINNER
Alien: Romulus
Better Man
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Wicked
Adapted screenplay
Conclave, screenplay by Peter Straughan — WINNER
A Complete Unknown, screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks
Emilia Pérez, screenplay by Jacques Audiard; In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi
Nickel Boys, screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Sing Sing, screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John (Divine G) Whitfield
Original Screenplay
Anora, written by Sean Baker — WINNER
The Brutalist, written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
A Real Pain, written by Jesse Eisenberg
September 5, written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; co-written by Alex David
The Substance, written by Coralie Fargeat
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