Oscar winners 2025 :Full List of Winners, Highlights & Surprises
The most important night in Hollywood has finally come! After being pushed back several times because of the terrible wildfires in Los Angeles, the 97th Oscar Awards were held at the famous Dolby Theatre to honour the best movies of the past year.
The categories were very competitive, and Anora and The Brutalist both won big. On the other hand, Wicked, which everyone was looking forward to, got fewer awards than expected.
The Oscar winners 2025 were marked by historic wins and moving award speeches. Here is a full list of all the winners:
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Full List of Academy Award Winners 2025
Best Picture
WINNER: Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
ConclaveDune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Best Director
WINNER: Sean Baker (Anora)
Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
James Mangold (A Complete Unknown)
Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)
Best Leading Actor
WINNER: Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)
Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)
Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)
Best Leading Actress
Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)
Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)
WINNER: Mikey Madison (Anora)
Demi Moore (The Substance)
Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here)
Best Supporting Actor
Yura Borisov (Anora)
WINNER: Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown)
Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice)
Best Supporting Actress
Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown)
Ariana Grande (Wicked)
Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)
WINNER: Zoe Saldana (Emilia Pérez)
Best Animated Feature Film
WINNER: Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best Cinematography
WINNER: The Brutalist – Lol Crawley
Dune: Part Two – Greig Fraser
Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume
Maria – Ed Lachman
Nosferatu – Jarin Blaschke
Best Costume Design
A Complete Unknown – Arianne Phillips
Conclave – Lisy Christl
Gladiator II – Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
Nosferatu – Linda Muir
WINNER: Wicked – Paul Tazewell
Best Documentary Feature Film
Black Box Diaries
WINNER: No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Éta
tSugarcane
Best Documentary Short Film
Death by Numbers,
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
WINNER: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Best Film Editing
WINNER: Anora – Sean Baker
The Brutalist – David Jancsó
Conclave – Nick Emerson
Emilia Pérez – Juliette Welfling
Wicked – Myron Kerstein
Best International Feature Film
WINNER: Brazil: I’m Still Here
Denmark: The Girl with the Needle
France: Emilia Pérez
Germany: The Seed of the Sacred FigLatvia: Flow
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
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
WINNER: The Substance – Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, and Marilyne Scarselli
Wicked – Frances Hannon, Laura Blount, and Sarah Nuth
Best Original Score
WINNER: The Brutalist – Daniel Blumberg
Conclave – Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol and Camille
Wicked – John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
The Wild Robot – Kris Bowers
Best Original Song
WINNER: El Mal from Emilia Pérez – Clément Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard
- The Journey from The Six Triple Eight – Diane Warren
- Like A Bird from Sing Sing – Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada
- Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez – Camille and Clément Ducol
- Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late – Elton John, Brandi Carlile,Andrew Watt, and Bernie Taupin
Best Production Design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
WINNER: Wicked
Best Sound
WINNER: Dune: Part Two
Best Visual Effects
WINNER: Dune: Part Two
Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER: Conclave
Best Original Screenplay
WINNER: Anora – Sean Baker
Final Thoughts
This year’s Oscar Awards delivered some thrilling victories and surprises. Anora and The Brutalist dominated several major categories, while Dune: Part Two swept the technical awards.
