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Oscars 2025 Nominees at Hammer to Nail

The 2025 Academy Awards nominations were announced last week. We thought you’d like to know which ones have received coverage from us over the past year. Below you will find the complete list of nominees, and any titles that are hyperlinked point to either a review or interview. If a title is linked twice, that means we have both a review and an interview. The actual Oscars ceremony takes place in Los Angeles on March 2. Before then, we will post our reviews of the 15 short films (live action, animation, and documentary) that will soon be playing in theaters. Happy viewing!

BEST PICTURE

DIRECTING

  • Jacques Audiard — Emilia Pérez
  • Sean BakerAnora
  • Brady Corbet — The Brutalist
  • Coralie Fargeat — The Substance
  • James Mangold — A Complete Unknown

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

  • Flow
  • Inside Out 2
  • Memoir of a Snail
  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  • The Wild Robot

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

  • Cynthia Erivo — Wicked
  • Karla Sofía Gascón — Emilia Pérez
  • Mikey Madison — Anora
  • Demi Moore — The Substance
  • Fernanda Torres — I’m Still Here

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

  • Adrien Brody — The Brutalist
  • Timothée Chalamet — A Complete Unknown
  • Colman Domingo — Sing Sing
  • Ralph Fiennes — Conclave
  • Sebastian Stan — The Apprentice

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

  • Monica Barbaro — A Complete Unknown
  • Ariana Grande — Wicked
  • Felicity Jones — The Brutalist
  • Isabella Rossellini — Conclave
  • Zoe Saldaña — Emilia Pérez

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

  • Yura Borisov — Anora
  • Kieran Culkin — A Real Pain
  • Edward Norton — A Complete Unknown
  • Guy Pearce — The Brutalist
  • Jeremy Strong — The Apprentice

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCRENPLAY)

  • Anora — Sean Baker
  • The Brutalist — Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
  • A Real Pain — Jesse Eisenberg
  • September 5 — Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
  • The Substance — Coralie Fargeat

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

  • A Complete Unknown — Jay Cocks and James Mangold
  • Conclave — Peter Straughan
  • Emilia Pérez — Jacques Audiard (in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi)
  • Nickel Boys — Joslyn Barnes and RaMell Ross
  • Sing Sing — Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar (story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • The Brutalist — Lol Crawley
  • Dune: Part Two — Greig Fraser
  • Emilia Pérez — Paul Guilhaume
  • Maria — Ed Lachman
  • Nosferatu — Jarin Blaschke

FILM  EDITING

  • Anora — Sean Baker
  • The Brutalist — David Jancso
  • Conclave — Nick Emerson
  • Emilia Pérez — Juliette Welfling
  • Wicked — Myron Kerstein

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

  • The Brutalist — Daniel Blumberg
  • Conclave — Volker Bertelmann
  • Emilia Pérez — Clément Ducol and Camille
  • Wicked — John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
  • The Wild Robot — Kris Bowers

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

  • “El Mal” — from Emilia Pérez: Music by Clément Ducol and Camille; Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard
  • “The Journey” — from The Six Triple Eight: Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
  • “Like a Bird” — from Sing Sing: Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada
  • “Mi Camino” — from Emilia Pérez  Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol
  • “Never Too Late” — from Elton John: Never Too Late: Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin

SOUND

  • A Complete Unknown — Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco
  • Dune: Part Two — Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill
  • Emilia Pérez — Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta
  • Wicked — Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis
  • The Wild Robot — Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts

PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • The Brutalist — Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia
  • Conclave — Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter
  • Dune: Part Two — Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
  • Nosferatu — Production Design: Craig Lathrop; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová
  • Wicked — Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

VISUAL EFFECTS

  • Alien: Romulus — Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan
  • Better Man — Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs
  • Dune: Part Two — Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer
  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes — Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke
  • Wicked — Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould

COSTUME DESIGN

  • Arianne Phillips — A Complete Unknown
  • Lisy Christl — Conclave
  • Janty Yates and Dave Crossman — Gladiator II
  • Linda Muir — Nosferatu
  • Paul Tazewell — Wicked

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
  • The Substance — Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli
  • Wicked — Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

  • Anuja
  • I’m Not a Robot
  • The Last Ranger
  • A Lien
  • The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

  • Beautiful Men
  • In the Shadow of the Cypress
  • Magic Candies
  • Wander to Wonder
  • Yuck!

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

  • Death by Numbers
  • I Am Ready, Warden
  • Incident
  • Instruments of a Beating Heart
  • The Only Girl in the Orchestra

– Christopher Llewellyn Reed (@ChrisReedFilm)

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a film critic, filmmaker, and educator. A member of both the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic, he is: lead film critic at Hammer to Nail; editor at Film Festival Today; formerly the host of the award-winning Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed, from Dragon Digital Media; and the author of Film Editing: Theory and Practice. In addition, he is one of the founders and former cohosts of The Fog of Truth, a podcast devoted to documentary cinema.

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