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Netflix led Thursday’s twice-delayed Oscar nominations with 18 mentions, 13 of which went to this year’s most-nominated film, Emilia Pérez. 

Besides being nominated for both best picture and best international feature film, Emilia Pérez also scored nods for best director and best adapted screenplay for Jacques Audiard, best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón and best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña, as well as mentions for cinematography, film editing, makeup and hairstyling and sound. The movie’s music also impressed Oscar voters with the score and two original songs, “El Mal” and “Mi Camino,” all receiving nominations. Gascón made history as the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for an Oscar.

Netflix’s other five nominations were for documentary short film forThe Only Girl in the Orchestra; live action short film for Anuja; cinematography for Maria, starring Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas; best animated feature for Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl; and best song for The Six Triple Eight’s “The Journey,” which earned songwriter Diane Warren her 16th Oscar nomination.

Following Emilia Pérez with 10 nominations each was Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half hour epic, The Brutalist, and John H. Chu’s elaborate musical Wicked. 

‍The Brutalist stars Adrian Brody, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones with 10 nominations, including best picture, best director, best actor for Brody, best supporting actor for Pearce and best supporting actress for Jones. The film also is nominated for original screenplay, cinematography, film editing, original score and production design.

‍Wicked, which was nominated for best picture, missed out in the director category but both Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande were nominated best actress and best supporting actress, respectively. Wicked nabbed more mentions in the below-the-line categories of costume design, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, production design, sound and visual effects. 

Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and Vatican thriller Conclave each scored eight nominations, including best picture; best actor for respective leads Timothée Chalamet and Ralph Fiennes; and best supporting actress for Monica Barbaro, playing Dylan love and foil Joan Baez, and Isabella Rosellini, earning her first Oscar nomination playing a dissident nun. At 29, Chalamet is now the youngest man since James Dean posthumously in 1956 to be nominated for two Academy Awards.

‍A Complete Unknown also earned a best director nom for James Mangold, while Conclave missed in this category, and a best supporting actor nod for Edward Norton as folk founding father Pete Seger. A Complete Unknown also earned mentions for adapted screenplay, costume design and sound.

‍Conclave also was nominated for adapted screenplay, costume design, film editing, original score and production design. 

Filling out the best-picture category were Anora, Dune: Part Two, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys and The Substance. 

After winning the Palme D’Or at Cannes last May, Anora was seen as the early Oscar favorite, although those chances have seemed to fade as the season has worn on. Still, Anora scored a coveted best director nomination for Sean Baker, an expected best actress nod for Mikey Madison, and an audience favorite best supporting actor nomination for Yura Borisov, who plays a Russian thug with a heart. Anora also was nominated for original screenplay and film editing.

‍The Substance, starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, built steam throughout awards season, culminating in Moore's win at the Golden Globes, where she gave an impressive speech. As a result, Moore is currently considered the best-actress frontrunner. Director Coralie Fargeat was the only woman to be nominated for best director this year. The Substance, which was heavy on body horror, also was nominated for original screenplay and makeup and hairstyling. 

Giving Moore a run for her money will be I’m Still Here’s Fernanda Torres. Earlier this month, both actresses won a Golden Globe, because those awards split films into two categories – drama and musical/comedy. I’m Still Here, which hails from Brazil, also is nominated for international feature film, where it will go head to against Emilia Pérez as well as Denmark’s The Girl with the Needle, Germany’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Lativa’s Flow, which also is nominated for best animated feature. 

Sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two, starring Oscar nominee Chalamet, was likely hurt by its release in March 2024, when the previous year’s awards season was just wrapping. Besides its best-picture listing, Dune: Part Two notched nominations for cinematography, production design and visual effects, but was noticeably left out of the key acting, directing and writing categories.

Finally, Nickel Boys, which hasn’t yet been released to most audiences, also earned a nomination for adapted screenplay. The movie is based on Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed novel.

Joining Brody, Chalamet and Fiennes in the best actor category are Sing Sing’s Colman Domingo and The Apprentice’s Sebastian Stan. Domingo also was nominated best actor last year for his work in Netflix’s Rustin, making him the first back-to-back acting nominee since Denzel Washington for Fences in 2017 and Roman J. Israel, Esq. in 2018. Stan was nominated for two Golden Globes this year for both The Apprentice and A Different Man. At the Globes, Stan won for A Different Man, which only received one Oscar nom: for makeup and hairstyling. 

Stan’s co-star, Jeremy Strong, was nominated best supporting actor for playing young Trump’s mentor, attorney Roy Cohn. Joining Strong is his Succession co-star, Kieran Culkin, for A Real Pain. Culkin is the front-runner in this category after having secured most of the major wins leading up to Oscars. Strong and Culkin join Borisov, Norton and Pearce.

The 97th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will air live Sunday, March 2, at 4 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET on ABC and Hulu.

A complete list of nominees follows: 

Best Picture

Anora (Neon)
A Cre Films Production
Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker, Producers

The Brutalist (A24)
An A24/Brookstreet Pictures/Kaplan Morrison Production
Nominees to be determined

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)
A Veritas Entertainment Group/White Water/Range/Picture Company/Turnpike Films Production
Fred Berger, James Mangold and Alex Heineman, Producers

Conclave (Focus Features)
A FilmNation Entertainment/Indian Paintbrush/House Production
Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Michael A. Jackman, Producers

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
A Legendary Pictures Production
Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Tanya Lapointe and Denis Villeneuve, Producers

Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
A Netflix/Page 114/Why Not Productions/Pathé/France 2 Cinéma/Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello
in association with Library Pictures International Production
Nominees to be determined

I'm Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics)
A VideoFilmes/RT Features/Mact Production
Nominees to be determined

Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
A Plan B Entertainment/Anonymous Content/Louverture Films Production
Nominees to be determined

The Substance (Mubi)
A Match Factory/Working Title/Blacksmith/A Good Story Production
Nominees to be determined

Wicked (Universal)
A Universal Pictures/Marc Platt Production
Marc Platt, Producer

Actor in a Leading Role

Adrien Brody in The Brutalist (A24)

Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)

Colman Domingo in Sing Sing (A24)

Ralph Fiennes in Conclave (Focus Features)

Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)

Actress in a Leading Role

Cynthia Erivo in Wicked (Universal)

Karla Sofía Gascón in Emilia Pérez (Netflix)

Mikey Madison in Anora (Neon)

Demi Moore in The Substance (Mubi)

Fernanda Torres in I'm Still Here (Sony Pictures Classics)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Yura Borisov in Anora (Neon)

Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain (Searchlight)

Edward Norton in A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)

Guy Pearce in The Brutalist (A24)

Jeremy Strong in The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Monica Barbaro in A Complete Unknown (Searchlight)

Ariana Grande in Wicked (Universal)

Felicity Jones in The Brutalist (A24)

Isabella Rossellini in Conclave (Focus Features)

Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez (Netflix)

Directing

Anora (Neon) Sean Baker

The Brutalist (A24) Brady Corbet

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight) James Mangold

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Jacques Audiard

The Substance (Mubi) Coralie Fargeat

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight) Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks

Conclave (Focus Features) Screenplay by Peter Straughan

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Screenplay by Jacques Audiard, in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi

Nickel Boys (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios) Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes

Sing Sing (A24) Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Anora (Neon) Written by Sean Baker

The Brutalist (A24) Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold

A Real Pain (Searchlight) Written by Jesse Eisenberg

September 5 (Paramount) Written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; co-Written by Alex David

The Substance (Mubi) Written by Coralie Fargeat

International Feature Film

I'm Still Here (Brazil)
A VideoFilmes Produções Artísticas Production

The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
A Nordisk Film Creative Alliance Production

Emilia Pérez (France)
A Pathé Production

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
A Run Way Pictures Production

Flow (Latvia)
A Dream Well Studio Production

Animated Feature Film 

Flow (Sideshow/Janus Films) Nominees to be determined

Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney) Kelsey Mann and Mark Nielsen

Memoir of a Snail (IFC Films) Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (Netflix) Nominees to be determined

The Wild Robot (Universal) Chris Sanders and Jeff Hermann

Documentary Feature Film 

Black Box Diaries (MTV Documentary Films)
A Hanashi Films/Cineric Creative/Star Sands Production
Shiori Ito, Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin

No Other Land
An Antipode Films Production
Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham

Porcelain War (Picturehouse)
A Songbird Studios/Imaginary Lane Production
Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Aniela Sidorska and Paula DuPre’ Pesmen

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Kino Lorber)
An Onomatopee Films/Warboys Films Production
Johan Grimonprez, Daan Milius and Rémi Grellety

Sugarcane (National Geographic Documentary Films)
A Hedgehog Films/Kassie Films/Impact Partners/Fit Via Vi Production
Nominees to be determined

Film Editing

Anora (Neon) Sean Baker

The Brutalist (A24) David Jancso

Conclave (Focus Features) Nick Emerson

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Juliette Welfling

Wicked (Universal) Myron Kerstein

Cinematography 

The Brutalist (A24) Lol Crawley

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) Greig Fraser

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Paul Guilhaume

Maria (Netflix) Ed Lachman

Nosferatu (Focus Features) Jarin Blaschke

Production Design

The Brutalist (A24)
Production Design: Judy Becker
Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia

Conclave (Focus Features)
Production Design: Suzie Davies
Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.)
Production Design: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Shane Vieau

Nosferatu (Focus Features)
Production Design: Craig Lathrop
Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová

Wicked (Universal)
Production Design: Nathan Crowley
Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Costume Design

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight) Arianne Phillips

Conclave (Focus Features) Lisy Christl

Gladiator II (Paramount) Janty Yates and Dave Crossman

Nosferatu (Focus Features) Linda Muir

Wicked (Universal) Paul Tazewell

Music (Original Score)

The Brutalist (A24) Daniel Blumberg

Conclave (Focus Features) Volker Bertelmann

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Clément Ducol and Camille

Wicked (Universal) John Powell and Stephen Schwartz

The Wild Robot (Universal) Kris Bowers

Music (Original Song)

“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Music by Clément Ducol and Camille
Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard

“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight (Netflix)
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

“Like A Bird” from Sing Sing (A24)
Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada

“Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez (Netflix)
Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol

“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late (Disney+)
Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin

Live Action Short Film

“A Lien” Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz

“Anuja” Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai

“I’m Not a Robot” (The New Yorker) Victoria Warmerdam and Trent

“The Last Ranger” Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw

“The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent” (Manifest) Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek

Animated Short Film

“Beautiful Men” (Miyu Distribution) Nicolas Keppens and Brecht Van Elslande

“In the Shadow of the Cypress” Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi

“Magic Candies” (Toei Animation) Daisuke Nishio and Takashi Washio

“Wander to Wonder” (Miyu Distribution) Nina Gantz and Stienette Bosklopper

“Yuck!” (Miyu Distribution) Loïc Espuche and Juliette Marquet

Documentary Short Film

“Death by Numbers” Kim A. Snyder and Janique L. Robillard

“I Am Ready, Warden” (MTV Documentary Films) Smriti Mundhra and Maya Gnyp

“Incident” (The New Yorker) Bill Morrison and Jamie Kalven

“Instruments of a Beating Heart” (The New York Times OpDocs/Cineric Creative)
Ema Ryan Yamazaki and Eric Nyari

“The Only Girl in the Orchestra” (Netflix) Molly O’Brien and Lisa Remington

Makeup and Hairstyling

A Different Man (A24) Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini

Nosferatu (Focus Features) David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes Munton

The Substance (Mubi) Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli

Wicked (Universal) Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth

Sound

A Complete Unknown (Searchlight) Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill

Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta

Wicked (Universal) Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis

The Wild Robot (Universal) Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts

Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus (20th Century) Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan

Better Man (Paramount) Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs

Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros.) Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century) Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke

Wicked (Universal) Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould

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