‘Anora’ wins big at Oscars 2025: Here’s the complete list of winners
Samantha Quan, front center, accepts the award for best picture for “Anora” during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Alex Coco, from rear left, Darya Ekamasova, Lindsey Normington, Vache Tovmasyan, Karren Karagulian, Vincent Radwinsky, Luna Sofía Miranda, Mikey Madison, Sean Baker, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Meg Ryan, and Billy Crystal look on from back. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
HOLLYWOOD – “Anora” was the big winner at Sunday night’s 97th Academy Awards, capturing five Oscars from among its six nominations, including best picture, best actress and best director.
The Brooklyn-set comedy-drama about the beleaguered marriage of a sex worker and the son of a Russian oligarch garnered the best actress award for star Mikey Madison as well as director honors for Sean Baker. “Anora” also delivered Oscars to Baker for original screenplay and film editing.
Meanwhile, “The Brutalist” won three Oscars, including one for Adrien Brody for best actor. The film also took trophies for cinematography and original score.
The award for best supporting actor went to Kieren Culkin for “A Real Pain,” while Zoe Saldaña took the Oscar for best supporting actress for “Emília Pérez” — capping an awards-season run for those two in which they basically ran the table in award shows.
Zoe Saldana arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Conan O’Brien made his debut as Oscar host at the ceremonies, which were held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
“Emília Pérez” went into the evening with a leading 13 nominations and won two trophies — Saldaña’s best supporting actress award, plus best original song, “El Mal.”
“Wicked,” which, like “The Brutalist” went into the night with 10 nominations, joined “Dune: Part 2” as the only other multiple winner Sunday.
The “Wizard of Oz”-themed musical “Wicked” captured Oscars for costume design and production design, while “Dune: Part Two” won for sound and visual effects.
“Conclave,” the papal thriller that entered the evening with eight nominations, took one Oscar — for adapted screenplay. “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, also took eight nominations into the night — but was shut out Sunday.
The best picture win for “Anora” was hardly as surprise, as the film had won last month’s Producers Guild Award, traditionally a strong indicator of which movie will win the best picture Oscar.
Since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expanded from five to 10 nominees in 2010, only four films have won the best picture Oscar without first winning the PGA Award. “Anora” had also won the best picture awards at this year’s Critics Choice and Film Independent Spirit awards.
Overall, it was a good night for low-budget films, with “The Brutalist” having been shot for a mere (by Hollywood standards) $15.8 million.
“Emilia Pérez,” with its 13 nominations, went into the evening as the most-nominated non-English-language film in Academy Awards history, topping 2000’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and 2018’s “Roma,” which each got 10 nods. Included in “Pérez’s” nomination haul was a nod for international feature film, but it lost out Sunday to “I’m Still Here,” from Brazil.
In addition, in a nod to the LA-area firefighters who battled the recent wildfires, a group of dress-uniform-clad firefighters took the stage at
one point, with O’Brien allowing them to do Oscar-style zingers — and warning the audience, “Everyone in the audience HAS to laugh, these are heroes!”
Actor Morgan Freeman paid tribute to the late Gene Hackman during his introduction to the ceremonies’ In Memoriam segment, saying, “This (past) week our community lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend, Gene Hackman. He received two Oscars and more importantly he won the hearts of film lovers all over the world.”
Later, Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg jointly paid tribute to the late composer Quincy Jones, with Goldberg saying, “When we’re talking about Black excellence, we’re talking about Quincy,” and calling him “a true American legend.” Added Winfrey: “Quincy was love, lived out loud in human form. And he poured that love into others.”
Sunday’s ceremonies also featured the usual galaxy of A-List presenters, including Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Robert Downey Jr., Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez, Goldie Hawn, Scarlett Johansson, John Lithgow and Cillian Murphy.
Mick Jagger even made a surprise appearance as a presenter, doling out the award for best original song.
Also presenting at the ceremonies — which stretched just under four hours — were Saldaña, Gal Gadot, Dave Bautista, Andrew Garfield, Margaret Qualley, Alba Rohrwacher, Rachel Zegler, Joe Alwyn, Sterling K. Brown, Ana de Armas, Lily-Rose Depp, Connie Nielsen, Amy Poehler, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, June Squibb, Ben Stiller, Emma Stone, Oprah Winfrey and Bowen Yang.
Harrison Ford had been scheduled to be a presenter, but he withdrew on Saturday, reportedly after a diagnosis of shingles.
Here is a complete list of Sunday’s winners.
Best Picture
— “Anora”
Best Actor
— Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Best Supporting Actor
— Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Best Actress
— Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Best Supporting Actress
— Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”
Best Director
— Sean Baker, “Anora”
Best Animated Feature Film
— “Flow”
Best Animated Short Film
— “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
Cinematography
— Lol Crawley, “The Brutalist”
Costume Design
— Paul Tazewell, “Wicked”
Documentary Feature Film
— “No Other Land”
Documentary Short Film
— “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
Film Editing
— Sean Baker, “Anora”
International Feature Film
— “I’m Still Here” (Brazil)
Makeup and Hairstyling
— “The Substance”
Original Score
— “The Brutalist,” Daniel Blumberg
Original Song
— “El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”
Production Design
— “Wicked”
Live Action Short Film
— “I’m Not a Robot”
Sound
— “Dune: Part Two”
Visual Effects
— “Dune: Part Two”
Adapted Screenplay
— “Conclave”
Original Screenplay
— “Anora”
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