Only one of the 10 films nominated for best picture was directed by a woman- Coralie Fargeat’s controversial horror  The Substance, and Fargeat was also the only female screenwriter with solo credit across the 10 scripts in contention.

Brady Corbet’s three-and-half hour epic, The Brutalist, about a Hungarian Holocaust survivor of second world war played by Adrien Brody coming to post war America to be an architect, took 10 nominations, as did Wicked, the hit adaptation of the Broadway show. James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, came away with eight nominations, as did Edward Berger’s papal thriller Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes, who was nominated for best actor, 

Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard’s musical about a transgender gangster escaping from Mexican mob, has effectively broken the record for the most Oscar nominations earned by a film not in the English language, as the film took 13 nominations, including best supporting actress, director, picture, feature, editing, cinematography, and original song, three more nominations than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in 2001 and Roma in 2018.

Its star Karla Sofia Gascón, marks the first time an out trans actor has been nominated for an Oscar. Elliot Page was nominated for Juno in 2008. 

Denzel Washington, failed to secure his 11^th nomination for his show stopping role in Gladiator II. Demi Moore is nominated for the Best Actress in The Substance.

Timothée Chalamet May conceivably win the best actor award.

Thirty-eight- year-old, Indian film maker Payal Kapadia’s new film with street scenes of contemporary Mumbai and follows two women navigating careers and love in All We Imagine as Light. The film does not show us the rich, elite Mumbai of Bollywood stars and billionaire industrialists, but overlays street images with voices of real immigrants of Mumbai who are the city’s heartbeat. Kapadia tracks the lives and struggles of two Indian nurses from the southern state of Kerala working in a hospital and living together in a small, congested apartment in Mumbai. One nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) is married and her husband works in Germany barely ever communicates with her. But she suddenly receives a surprise gift from her husband – a rice cooker. She hugs the machine, as if it is the last sing of love in her marriage. The second nurse Anu (Divya Prabha, a Hindu, is carrying a secret romance with a young Muslim man Shiaz who is also from Kerala. Mumbai’s congested environment with 22 million people clamouring for space and its harsh monsoon season does not allow Anu and Shiaz any privacy.

Demi Moor’s new horror-thriller, The Substance,  set in Los Angeles, showing an aerial view of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, where a new star is being installed. The Substance ultimately becomes a straight-up body horror, packed full of blood gor, but perhaps visually stimulating, without knowing how it would end up which made it even more risky and juicy. Sixty-one-year-old Moore embraces being unglamorous, highlighting her ageing character’s own fading beauty. This is a feminist film about ageism and unrealistic beauty standards is not unusual. The movie sees Sparkle use the black-market drug to split herself in two, creating a younger, more beautiful version of herself played by (Margaret Qualley). Moore impressive as Sparkle descends into madness.

The Oscars will take place on 2 March hosted by the TV host and comedian Conan O’Brien. 

Best picture

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

Best actor

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

Best actress

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

Best supporting actress

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

Best supporting actor

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

Best director

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

Best adapted screenplay

• A Complete Unknown – Jay Cocks and James Mangold
• Conclave – Peter Straughan
• Emilia Pérez – Jacques Audiard
• Nickel Boys – RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
• Sing Sing – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best original screenplay

• Anora – Sean Baker
• The Brutalist – Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold
• A Real Pain – Jesse Eisenberg
• September 5 – Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
• The Substance – Coralie Fargeat

Best original song

• Never Too Late – Elton John: Never Too Late
• El Mal – Emilia Pérez
• Mi Camino – Emilia Pérez
• Like A Bird – Sing Sing
• The Journey – The Six Triple Eight

Best original score

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best international feature

• I’m Still Here – Brazil 
• The Girl with the Needle – Denmark 
• Emilia Pérez – France
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Germany
• Flow – Latvia

Best animated feature

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

Best documentary feature

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

Best costume design

• Wicked
• Nosferatu
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Gladiator II

Best make-up and hairstyling

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

Best production design

• Wicked
• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Conclave

Best sound

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

Best film editing

• Anora
• The Brutalist 
• Conclave 
• Emilia Pérez 
• Wicked

Best cinematography

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two 
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu 

Best visual effects

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

Best live action short

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

Best animated short

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

Best documentary short

• Death by Numbers
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart

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