Oscars 2025 live updates: Complete list of winners

Oscars evening has reached its principal occasion. The ceremony started with a montage of Los Angeles landmarks and a efficiency by Ariana Grande singing “Someplace Over the Rainbow.”

After Grande opened the present — a ruby slipper-esque embellishment on her robe — her “Depraved” co-star Cynthia Erivo sang a rendition of “Dwelling” from “The Wiz” and the pair joined forces to sing “Defying Gravity” from the 2024 blockbuster.

— Sara Salinas

For the primary time in additional than 5 many years two musicals are going through off in one of the best image race.

“Depraved” and “Emilia Pérez” are two of 10 movies up for the evening’s greatest prize, and each function choreographed musical numbers.

The final time two musicals have been nominated for finest image was 1969 with “Humorous Woman” and “Oliver.”

“Oliver” in the end took dwelling finest image, alongside finest director, finest rating, finest sound and finest artwork path.

Notably, that 12 months was additionally the primary, and solely, time that there was a tie for finest actress. Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn shared the award for “Humorous Woman” and “The Lion in Winter,” respectively.

The final musical to win finest image was “Chicago” in 2003.

— Sarah Whitten

Two finest actor nominees are competing for Oscar data, as famous by the BBC.

Adrien Brody is hoping to go 2-for-2 within the class along with his nomination for “The Brutalist” this 12 months, after his win in 2003 for “The Pianist.” He could be the primary individual to take action. Seven others have gained two or extra performing Oscars with out dropping one, however none have performed so in one of the best actor class.

Brody already holds the excellence of being the youngest finest actor winner, however Timothée Chalamet is seeking to seize that title this 12 months. Chalamet is nominated for his position in “A Full Unknown.” The 29-year-old could be about 9 months youthful than Brody was when he gained 20 years in the past.

— Russell Leung

As Hollywood celebrates one of the best of cinema, it is also protecting its concentrate on wildfire restoration after devastating blazes left 1000’s homeless.

“We had properly over 150 staff who misplaced their properties,” stated Disney CEO Bob Iger throughout a pink carpet interview Sunday. “It was necessary for us not solely to handle them, however to handle the group that we stay and work in.”

“I’ll say that whereas LA is resilient, it is also going to to take a very long time to recover from this, significantly for individuals who misplaced a lot,” he added.

Iger was on the Oscars supporting his firm’s many nods this 12 months together with eight nominations for “A Full Unknown,” and two for “A Actual Ache.” Disney’s newest Pixar movie “Inside Out 2,” which was the highest-grossing movie domestically in 2024, is up for finest animated function. The corporate’s twentieth Century Studios can also be nominated for finest visible results of “Alien: Romulus” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”

— Sarah Whitten

Oscar nominees get slightly greater than a nod.

This 12 months, the swag bag for nominees is valued at nearly $220,000, based on CNBC Make It is Nicolas Vega. The “Everyone Wins” reward bag is from Los Angeles-based advertising firm Distinctive Property, not the precise Academy, and it contains goodies like lodge stays and premium skincare.

See what else goes to every nominee, whether or not they win or not.

— Sara Salinas

Cynthia Erivo’s finest actress nomination has put her one step nearer to a coveted Hollywood feat — an EGOT.

An unique membership, EGOT winners have gained the 4 greatest awards within the leisure enterprise: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.

Eriva, 38, has already snared a Tony for finest main actress in a musical for enjoying Celie in “The Coloration Purple” on Broadway. She snagged a Grammy for finest musical theater album for the Broadway solid recording of that musical in addition to an Emmy for excellent musical efficiency in a daytime program alongside her Broadway costars of “The Coloration Purple.”

The actress and singer was beforehand nominated for 2 Academy Awards: finest actress and finest authentic music for 2019’s “Harriet.” If she does not pull off the win this 12 months, Erivo is already anticipated to be within the working for finest authentic music at subsequent 12 months’s Oscar ceremony, as “Depraved: For Good” will function new music.

— Sarah Whitten

Within the practically 100-year historical past of the Academy Awards, movies designated into the horror style have struggled to win over Academy voters with regards to the highest prize.

Horror movies have lengthy been awarded statues for his or her technical achievements in sound, make-up and manufacturing design and even for the performances of its actors. However solely seven have been nominated for the largest honor of the ceremony, finest image. “Silence of the Lambs” is the one horror flick to ever hoist that golden trophy — and that was all the way in which again in 1992.

This 12 months “The Substance” joins “Silence of the Lambs” alongside “The Exorcist,” “Get Out,” “Jaws,” “The Sixth Sense” and “Black Swan” because the seventh horror movie to be nominated for finest image.

The movie can also be nominated for finest authentic screenplay, finest director, finest make-up and coiffure and finest actress, for Demi Moore.

— Sarah Whitten

For the primary time because the 1978 Oscars, based on the BBC, each movie with a finest actress nominee additionally obtained a nod for finest image.

This 12 months’s Actress in a Main Function contenders are Cynthia Erivo in “Depraved,” Karla Sofía Gascón in “Emilia Pérez,” Mikey Madison in “Anora,” Demi Moore in “The Substance” and Fernanda Torres in “I am Nonetheless Right here.”

In 1978, one of the best actress nominees have been Diane Keaton in “Annie Corridor,” Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine in “The Turning Level,” Jane Fonda in “Julia” and Marsha Mason in “The Goodbye Woman.” Keaton in the end gained the award.

The feat was much more spectacular on the time as a result of there have been solely 5 finest image nominees. That quantity expanded to 10 beginning in 2010.

— Russell Leung

Two administrators are aspiring to change into the primary individual to win 4 Oscars for a similar movie.

Sean Baker is up for one of the best image, finest director, finest authentic screenplay and finest movie modifying awards for “Anora,” whereas Jacques Audiard may win Oscars for finest image, finest director, finest tailored screenplay and finest authentic music for “Emilia Pérez.”

Just one individual has gained 4 Oscars in a single evening, based on the BBC: Walt Disney in 1953, although for 4 completely different movies.

“Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho gained finest director, finest image and finest authentic screenplay in 2020 however missed out on the film’s finest worldwide function movie win since that award is formally given to the nation the place the movie originated, not any single contributor.

— Russell Leung

For the reason that Academy added a finest animated function class to the Oscar poll in 2002, Disney’s animation studios have lapped up a report 15 awards out of the 23 which were doled out.

Lately, nonetheless, the Academy’s voting physique has opted to reward different studio’s work with the highest prize.

In 2023, Netflix and Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio” took dwelling the prize, and in 2024 Studio Ghibli’s “The Boy and the Heron” gained.

The stiffer competitors is much less of a critique of Disney’s latest string of movies and extra a showcase of how dynamic the animation area has change into in recent times.

This 12 months, Disney’s “Inside Out 2” is up in opposition to Latvian animated movie “Move” in addition to Madman Leisure’s “Memoir of a Snail,” Netflix’s “Wallace & Gromit: Vengence Most Fowl” and Common’s “The Wild Robotic.”

Academy Award-nominated options will not be at all times the top-grossing field workplace options of a given 12 months. Nevertheless, for the 2025 ceremony, large blockbuster movies obtained numerous nominations for high prizes.

“Inside Out 2,” which was the highest-grossing movie of 2024 is up for finest animated function. The flick snared $653 million on the home field workplace and greater than $1 billion globally.

In one of the best image race “Depraved” and “Dune: Half Two” have been field workplace standouts. Ticket gross sales for “Depraved” signify greater than half of the full field workplace of all 10 finest image nominees, with $472.8 million in receipts.

In the meantime, “Dune: Half Two” accounted for 30% of the home finest image haul, accumulating $282.7 million.

Globally, the ten finest image movies, not together with “Emilia Pérez,” as a result of Netflix doesn’t share field workplace information for its limited-run movies, topped $900 million on the home field workplace and $1.7 billion globally.

Comic Conan O’Brien will host the Academy Awards for the primary time this 12 months.

The choice comes after late-night host Jimmy Kimmel emceed the ceremony for 2 consecutive years. O’Brien has fronted three late-night speak exhibits, together with “The Tonight Present,” and at present hosts the podcast “Conan O’Brien Wants a Pal.”

“He’s the right individual to assist lead our international celebration of movie along with his sensible humor, his love of flicks, and his stay TV experience,” Academy CEO Invoice Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang stated in a November statement.

— Russell Leung

The 97th Academy Awards will air on ABC on Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. Japanese Time, sticking with the sooner begin time that started with last year’s ceremony. ABC has broadcast the present greater than 50 instances and is ready to take action by way of 2028.

The Oscars may also stream stay on Hulu for the primary time. As in earlier years, the ceremony will stream on on-line TV companies like YouTube TV and Fubo, and it is going to be obtainable to look at on ABC’s web site and app.

In keeping with the Academy, over 200 territories all over the world may also broadcast the Oscars. Native listings can be found on the Academy’s website.

— Russell Leung