Oscars 2025 live updates: Complete list of winners

Oscars evening has reached its important 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 “Residence” 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 the very best image race.

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

The final time two musicals had been nominated for greatest image was 1969 with “Humorous Lady” and “Oliver.”

“Oliver” finally took residence greatest image, alongside greatest director, greatest rating, greatest sound and greatest artwork path.

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

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

— Sarah Whitten

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

Adrien Brody is hoping to go 2-for-2 within the class together with his nomination for “The Brutalist” this yr, after his win in 2003 for “The Pianist.” He could be the primary individual to take action. Seven others have received two or extra appearing Oscars with out shedding one, however none have completed so in the very best actor class.

Brody already holds the excellence of being the youngest greatest actor winner, however Timothée Chalamet is seeking to seize that title this yr. 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 received 20 years in the past.

— Russell Leung

As Hollywood celebrates the very best of cinema, it is also protecting its give attention to wildfire restoration after devastating blazes left hundreds homeless.

“We had properly over 150 workers 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, notably for many who misplaced a lot,” he added.

Iger was on the Oscars supporting his firm’s many nods this yr 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 greatest animated characteristic. The corporate’s twentieth Century Studios can be nominated for greatest visible results of “Alien: Romulus” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”

— Sarah Whitten

Oscar nominees get somewhat greater than a nod.

This yr, the swag bag for nominees is valued at nearly $220,000, in line with CNBC Make It is Nicolas Vega. The “Everyone Wins” present bag is from Los Angeles-based advertising firm Distinctive Belongings, not the precise Academy, and it consists of goodies like lodge stays and premium skincare.

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

— Sara Salinas

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

An unique membership, EGOT winners have received 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 greatest main actress in a musical for enjoying Celie in “The Shade Purple” on Broadway. She snagged a Grammy for greatest musical theater album for the Broadway forged recording of that musical in addition to an Emmy for excellent musical efficiency in a daytime program alongside her Broadway costars of “The Shade Purple.”

The actress and singer was beforehand nominated for 2 Academy Awards: greatest actress and greatest unique tune for 2019’s “Harriet.” If she does not pull off the win this yr, Erivo is already anticipated to be within the working for greatest unique tune at subsequent yr’s Oscar ceremony, as “Depraved: For Good” will characteristic 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 in relation 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, greatest 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 yr “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 greatest image.

The movie can be nominated for greatest unique screenplay, greatest director, greatest make-up and coiffure and greatest actress, for Demi Moore.

— Sarah Whitten

For the primary time because the 1978 Oscars, in line with the BBC, each movie with a greatest actress nominee additionally obtained a nod for greatest image.

This yr’s Actress in a Main Position 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, the very best actress nominees had 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 Lady.” Keaton finally received the award.

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

— Russell Leung

Two administrators are aspiring to turn out to be the primary individual to win 4 Oscars for a similar movie.

Sean Baker is up for the very best image, greatest director, greatest unique screenplay and greatest movie enhancing awards for “Anora,” whereas Jacques Audiard might win Oscars for greatest image, greatest director, greatest tailored screenplay and greatest unique tune for “Emilia Pérez.”

Just one individual has received 4 Oscars in a single evening, in line with the BBC: Walt Disney in 1953, although for 4 completely different movies.

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

— Russell Leung

Because the Academy added a greatest animated characteristic class to the Oscar poll in 2002, Disney’s animation studios have lapped up a document 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 residence the prize, and in 2024 Studio Ghibli’s “The Boy and the Heron” received.

The stiffer competitors is much less of a critique of Disney’s current string of movies and extra a showcase of how dynamic the animation house has turn out to be in recent times.

This yr, Disney’s “Inside Out 2” is up in opposition to Latvian animated movie “Circulation” 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 should not at all times the top-grossing field workplace options of a given yr. Nevertheless, for the 2025 ceremony, huge blockbuster movies obtained plenty of nominations for high prizes.

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

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

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

Globally, the ten greatest 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 yr.

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

“He’s the proper individual to assist lead our world celebration of movie together 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 assertion.

— 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 final yr’s ceremony. ABC has broadcast the present greater than 50 occasions and is about to take action by 2028.

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

In line with the Academy, over 200 territories world wide may even broadcast the Oscars. Native listings can be found on the Academy’s web site.

— Russell Leung