The 2025 Oscars are getting closer, and soon we will know who the nominees are for the highest honor awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the best in cinema.
The shortlist of finalists in 10 categories for the 97th edition of the Academy Awards was revealed last December, but when will the final list be announced? Here’s what you need to know.
When will the 2025 Oscar nominees be announced?
The voting process for the nominations will take place from Wednesday, January 8, 2025, to Sunday, January 12. After the voting concludes, the list of nominees will be revealed on Friday, January 17, 2025.
When will the 2025 Academy Awards take place?
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Ovation, located in Hollywood.
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Where can I watch the Oscars?
The awards ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC and Hulu, reaching over 200 territories around the world.
List of Finalists for the 2025 Oscars
The categories that were announced include: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short, Live Action Short, Sound, and Visual Effects.
Documentary Feature
- “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’Etat”
- “Sugarcane”
- “Union”
- “Will & Harper”
Documentary Short
- “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
- 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
- “The Apprentice”
- “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
- “A Different Man”
- “Dune: Part Two”
- “Emilia Pérez”
- “Maria”
- “Nosferatu”
- “The Substance”
- “Waltzing with Brando”
- “Wicked”
Music (Original Score)
- “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)
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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”
