This Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the Oscars shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th edition of the 2025 Academy Awards.
The categories include Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound, and Visual Effects.
Here are the lists so you can start choosing your favorites.
Documentary Feature Film
In this category, 15 films, selected from an initial 169, will compete for a nomination at the 2025 Oscars. The finalists are:
- “The Bibi Files”
- “Black Box Diaries”
- “Dahomey”
- “Daughters”
- “Eno”
- “Frida”
- “Hollywoodgate”
- “No Other Land”
- “Porcelain War”
- “Queendom”
- “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
- “Soundtrack to a Coup d’État”
- “Sugarcane”
- “Union”
- “Will & Harper”
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Documentary Short Film
In this category, 15 films also advance:
- “Chasing Roo”
- “Death by Numbers”
- “Eternal Father”
- “I Am Ready, Warden”
- “Incident”
- “Instruments of a Beating Heart”
- “Keeper”
- “Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World”
- “Once Upon a Time in Ukraine”
- “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
- “Planetwalker”
- “The Quilters”
- “Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr”
- “A Swim Lesson”
- “Until He’s Back”
International Feature Film
The 15 finalist films are:
- Brazil, “I’m Still Here”
- Canada, “Universal Language”
- Czech Republic, “Waves”
- Denmark, “The Girl with the Needle”
- France, “Emilia Pérez”
- Germany, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
- Iceland, “Touch”
- Ireland, “Kneecap”
- Italy, “Vermiglio”
- Latvia, “Flow”
- Norway, “Armand”
- Palestine, “From Ground Zero”
- Senegal, “Dahomey”
- Thailand, “How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies”
- United Kingdom, “Santosh”
Makeup and Hairstyling
In this category, 10 films advance as finalists:
- “The Apprentice”
- “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
- “A Different Man”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Maria”
- “Nosferatu”
- “The Substance”
- “Waltzing with Brando”
- “Wicked”
Music (Original Score)
A total of 20 scores advance in the Original Score category for the 97th Academy Awards. The scores, listed alphabetically by film title, are:
- “Alien: Romulus”
- “Babygirl”
- “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
- “Blink Twice”
- “Blitz”
- “The Brutalist”
- “Challengers”
- “Conclave”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “The Fire Inside”
- “Gladiator II”
- “Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1”
- “Inside Out 2”
- “Nosferatu”
- “The Room Next Door”
- “Sing Sing”
- “The Six Triple Eight”
- “Wicked”
- “The Wild Robot”
- “Young Woman and the Sea”
Music (Original Song)
The 15 songs advancing in the Original Song category are:
- “Forbidden Road” from “Better Man”
- “Winter Coat” from “Blitz”
- “Compress/Repress” from “Challengers”
- “Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”
- “El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”
- “Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez”
- “Sick in the Head” from “Kneecap”
- “Beyond” from “Moana 2”
- “Tell Me It’s You” from “Mufasa: The Lion King”
- “Piece by Piece” from “Piece by Piece”
- “Like a Bird” from “Sing Sing”
- “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”
- “Out of Oklahoma” from “Twisters”
- “Kiss the Sky” from “The Wild Robot”
- “Harper and Will Go West” from “Will & Harper”
Animated Short Film
From 88 films, 15 advance in the Animated Short Film category. The films, listed alphabetically, are:
- “Au Revoir Mon Monde”
- “A Bear Named Wojtek”
- “Beautiful Men”
- “Bottle George”
- “A Crab in the Pool”
- “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
- “Magic Candies”
- “Maybe Elephants”
- “Me”
- “Origami”
- “Percebes”
- “The 21”
- “Wander to Wonder”
- “The Wild-Tempered Clavier”
- “¡Yuck!”
Live Action Short Film
The finalists in this category are 15 films:
- “Anuja”
- “Clodagh”
- “The Compatriot”
- “Crust”
- “Dovecote”
- “Edge of Space”
- “The Ice Cream Man”
- “I’m Not a Robot”
- “The Last Ranger”
- “A Lien”
- “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
- “The Masterpiece”
- “An Orange from Jaffa”
- “Paris 70”
- “Room Taken”
Sound
In the Sound category, 10 films advance as finalists:
- “Alien: Romulus”
- “Blitz”
- “A Complete Unknown”
- “Deadpool & Wolverine”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Gladiator II”
- “Joker: Folie à Deux”
- “Wicked”
- “The Wild Robot”
Visual Effects
The finalists in the Visual Effects category are 10 films:
- “Alien: Romulus”
- “Better Man”
- “Civil War”
- “Deadpool & Wolverine”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Gladiator II”
- “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
- “Mufasa: The Lion King”
- “Twisters”
- “Wicked”
When will the 2025 Oscar nominations be announced?
According to the Academy, voting for nominations will begin on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and conclude on Sunday, January 12.
The list of nominees will be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025.
When are the 2025 Academy Awards?
The 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Ovation, Hollywood.
Where to watch the 2025 Oscars?
The awards ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC and Hulu, reaching more than 200 territories worldwide.
