Oscar 2025 Highlights: Winners, Nominees and Performances

It is essential to learn current affairs for any competitive exams. Whether you are an aspirant preparing for state PSC, SSC or UPSC exams, it is essential to have a good grasp of current affairs. Starting from the beginning of the year is the key to scoring the best in current affairs sections. When we discuss March 2025 current affairs, it would be impossible to go without mentioning the Oscar 2025. So, let us read about the groundbreaking nominations, cultural reflections, beautiful red-carpet moments, historic wins, and everything you might need to know about Hollywood’s biggest night of the year. This Oscar 2025 blog will act as a valuable resource for aspirants for the GK section as well as the essay writing section.

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97^th Academy Awards: Introduction

There is some preliminary information you should know about the Oscar 2025 or 97^th Academy Awards. Look at the table below.

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Oscar Predictions for 2025

There were many expectations before the announcement of the Oscars. The nominations have only increased the anticipation. What were the predictions though? Let us look at some of the Oscar 2025 predictions.

The best movie predictions for the 2025 Oscars were:

• Anora
• Emilia Pérez
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Concave
• Wicked
• Dune: Part Two
• The Substance
• Nickel Boys
• I’m Still Here

The best director predictions were:

• Brady Corbet for The Brutalist
• Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
• Sean Baker for Anora
• James Mangold for A Complete Unknown
• Coralie Fargeat for The Substance

The Best Actress Award predictions are:

• Demi Moore for The Substance
• Mikey Madison for Anora
• Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez
• Fernanda Torres for I’m Still Here
• Cynthia Erivo for Wicked

The predictions for the Best Actor award winner are:

• Timothée Chalamet for A Complete Unknown
• Adrien Brody for The Brutalist
• Ralph Fiennes for Conclave
• Sebastian Stan for The Apprentice
• Colman Domingo for Sing Sing

The best supporting actress predictions are:

• Zoe Saldaña for Emilia Pérez
• Ariana Grande for Wicked
• Isabella Rossellini for Conclave
• Felicity Jones for The Brutalist
• Monica Barbaro for A Complete Unknown

Predictions for the best supporting actor are:

• Kieran Culkin for A Real Pain
• Guy Pearce for The Brutalist
• Edward Norton for A Complete Unknown
• Jeremy Strong for The Apprentice
• Yura Borisov for Anora

Oscar 2025 Nominees and Oscar 2025 Winners

In this section, we will see Oscar 2025 nominees and Oscar 2025 winners from various categories.

Oscar 2025 Best Picture

The winner of the 97^th Academy Award for Best Picture is “Anora”. The best picture award nominees for Oscar 2025 are listed below for reference.

• “The Brutalist”
• “Anora”
• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Conclave”
• “Dune: Part Two”
• “Emilia Pérez”
• “I’m Still Here”
• “Nickel Boys”
• “The Substance”
• “Wicked”

Oscar 2025 Best Actor

The Oscar 2025 Best Actor award was won by Adrian Brody for their work in the movie “The Brutalist. The nominees for this award are provided below.

• Adrian Brody
• Timothée Chalamet
• Colman Domingo
• Ralph Fiennes
• Sebastian Stan

Oscar 2025 Best Actress

The winner of the Oscar 2025 Best Actress category is Mikey Madison for the movie “Anora”. The nominees for the Best Actress awards are listed below.

• Mikey Madison
• Cynthia Erivo
• Karla Sofia Gascón
• Demi Moore
• Fernanda Torres

Oscar 2025 Best Supporting Actor

The winner of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2025 is Kieran Culkin for the movie “A Real Pain”. The nominees for the same award are given below.

• Kieran Culkin
• Yura Borisov
• Edward Norton
• Guy Pearce
• Jeremy Strong

Oscar 2025 Best Supporting Actress

The Oscar 2025 for Best Supporting Actress is won by Zoe Saldaña for the movie “Emilia Pérez”. She was chosen from the below set of nominees.

• Monica Barbaro
• Zoe Saldaña
• Ariana Grande
• Isabella Rossellini
• Felicity Jones

Oscar 2025 Best Director

The Best Director Oscar award was won by Sean Baker for the movie “Anora”. The rest of the nominees for this category are listed below.

• Sean Baker
• Brady Corbet
• James Mangold
• Jacques Audiard
• Coralie Fargeat

Oscar for Best Cinematography

The Oscar award for the best cinematography of 2025 was awarded to Lol Crawley for the movie “The Brutalist”. The names of the nominees from which he was chosen are listed below.

• Lol Crawley
• Greig Fraser
• Paul Guillaume
• Edward Lachman
• Jarin Blaschke

Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film

The Oscar Award for Best Animated Feature Film was given to the picture “Flow”. The list of nominees is provided below.

• “Inside Out 2”
• “Flow”
• “Memoir of a Snail”
• “The Wild Robot”
• “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”

Best Animated Short Film

The best animated short film Oscar of 2025 was “In the Shadow of the Cypress”. This was chosen from below list of nominees.

• “Beautiful Men”
• “In the Shadow of the Cypress”
• “Magic Candies”
• “Yuck!”
• “Wander to Wonder”

Best Costume Design

The Oscar for Best Costume Design of 2025 was given to Paul Tazewell for his work in the movie “Wicked”. The nominee list for best costume design is given below.

• Paul Tazewell
• Arianne Phillips
• Lisy Christl
• Janty Yates
• Linda Muir

Best Original Screenplay

The 97^th Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay was awarded to Sean Baker for the movie “Anora”. The list of nominees is given below.

• Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
• Sean Baker
• Jesse Eisenberg
• Coralie Fargeat
• Tim Fehlbaum and Moritz Binder

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar of the year was awarded to Peter Straughan for the movie “Conclave”. This movie was chosen from the following list of nominees.

• Peter Straughan
• Jay Cocks and James Mangold
• Thomas Bidegain, Jacques Audiard, and Nicolas Livecchi
• RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
• Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The best hair and makeup award in Oscar 2025 was given to the movie “The Substance”, the nominees in the hair and makeup category are listed below.

• “A Different Man”
• “The Substance”
• “Emilia Pérez”
• “Wicked”
• “Nosferatu”

Best Film Editing

The Oscar for Best Film Editing was given to Sean Baker for the movie” Anora”. The nominees in the film editing category are given in the list below.

• Sean Baker
• Nick Emerson
• Dávid Jancsó
• Myron Kerstein
• Juliette Welfling

Best Production Design

The Oscar for Best Production Design category was awarded to Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales for their work in the movie “Wicked”. The nominees in the best production category are listed below.

• Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales
• Judy Becker
• Suzie Davies
• Patrice Vermette
• Craig Lathrop

Best Original Song

The Oscar for Best Original Song was awarded to Clement Ducol, Camille & Jacques Audiard for the song “El Mal” from the movie “Emilia Pérez”. The nominees from this category are listed below.

• “Never Too Late”
• “El Mal”
• “Mi Camino”
• “The Journey
• “Like a Bird”

Best Documentary Short Film

The movie “The Only Girl in the Orchestra” gained the 2025 Oscar award in the category the best documentary short film. The nominees for best documentary short film are given below.

• Death by Numbers”
• “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”
• “I Am Ready, Warden”
• “Instruments of a Beating Heart”
• “Incident”

Best Documentary Feature Film

The film “No Other Land” won the best documentary feature film award category of the 2025 in Oscars. The nominees of this category are listed below.

• “Black Box Diaries”
• “No Other Land”
• “Porcelain War”
• “Sugarcane”
• “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”

Best Sound

Best sound awards this year were given to the movie “Dune: Part Two”. The nominees in the Oscar Best Sound category are listed below.

• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Dune: Part Two”
• “Emilia Pérez”
• “The Wild Robot”
• “Wicked”

Best Visual Effects

Oscar Award for Best Visual Effects was awarded to the popular movie “Dune: Part Two”. The nominees for the best visual effects category are given below.

• “Alien: Romulus”
• “Dune: Part Two”
• “Better Man”
• “Wicked”
• “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”

Best Live-Action Short Film

The best live-action short film Oscar o this year was awarded to the movie “I’m Not a Robot”. The nominees for best live-action short film are listed below.

• “A Lien”
• “I’m Not a Robot”
• “Anuja”
• “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent”
• “The Last Ranger”

Best International Feature Film

The best international feature film title was awarded to “I’m Still Here” by Walter Salles to in Oscar 2025. This movie is from Brazil. The nominees are given in the list below.

• “I’m Still Here”
• “Emilia Pérez”
• “The Girl with the Needle”
• “Flow”
• “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

Best Original Score

The best original score at the Oscars this year was composed by Daniel Blumberg for the movie “The Brutalist”. The nominees for this category are listed below.

• Volker Bertelmann
• Daniel Blumberg
• Clément Ducol and Camille
• Kris Bowers
• John Powell and Stephen Schwartz

Oscar 2025 Performances

There were many performances in Oscar 2025. Some of them are given below

• Orchestral music by Michael Bearden.
• Wicked medley performance by the singer Ariana Grande and actress Cynthia Erivo.
• James Bond tribute by Margaret Qualley (only dancing), Lisa, Doja Cat and Raye.
• “Ease Down the Road” sung by the singer Queen Latifah at the time of tribute to Quincy Jones.
• Lacrimosa by Los Angeles Master Chorale.

India in Oscar 2025

India’s hope for this year’s Oscars was a short film called Anuja by the filmmaker/ philosopher Adam J. Graves.

Oscar 2025 Study Material for PSC, SSC and UPSC

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Oscar 2025 Sample Questions

Some sample questions from the 97^th Academy Award ceremony are given here. Try to answer them by yourself before looking at the solution section.

1. Who won the Oscar 2025 for Best Actor?

• Adrian Brody
• Timothée Chalamet
• Colman Domingo
• Sebastian Stan

2. Who won the best supporting actress award at the 97^th Academy Awards?

• Monica Barbaro
• Zoe Saldaña
• Ariana Grande
• Isabella Rossellini

3. The Best Director Oscar was awarded to Sean Baker for which movie?

• “The Brutalist”
• “Anora”
• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Conclave”

4. Best sound award in the 2025 Oscar ceremony was awarded to which movie?

• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Dune: Part Two”
• “Emilia Pérez”
• “The Wild Robot”

5. Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales were awarded the Best Production Design award at the Oscars. Which was the movie that helped achieve this?

• “Wicked”
• “Anora”
• “A Complete Unknown”
• “Conclave”

Oscar 2025 Sample Questions Answers

The answers to the above-discussed questions are given below.

1. Adrian Brody
2. Zoe Saldaña
3. “Anora”
4. “Dune: Part Two”
5. “Wicked”

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97^th Academy Awards: Final Thoughts

It is important to learn the categories and awards from this year’s Oscar ceremony if you aim to score high in the current affairs section of SSC, PSC and UPSC exams. Learn them and revise them often to keep your memory fresh.