All the 2025 Oscar-nominated movies, short films or documentaries that I’ve seen, ranked from best to worst according to my opinion.

[This list is in progress.] [Todavía no puedo creer que la mejor película del 2024, Challengers, tenga 0 nominaciones.]

Winner: 🏆
My favorite: ❤️

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

Directing
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker, Anora ❤️ 🏆
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

Actor in a Leading Role
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist 🏆
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown ❤️
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Actress in a Leading Role
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora 🏆
Demi Moore, The Substance ❤️
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Actor in a Supporting Role
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain 🏆
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown ❤️
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Actress in a Supporting Role
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown ❤️
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez 🏆

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
A Complete Unknown (Screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks)
Conclave (Screenplay by Peter Straughan) ❤️ 🏆
Emilia Pérez (Screenplay by Jacques Audiard; In collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi)
Nickel Boys (Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes)
Sing Sing (Screenplay by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar; Story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John “Divine G” Whitfield)

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Anora (Written by Sean Baker) ❤️ 🏆
The Brutalist (Written by Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold)
A Real Pain (Written by Jesse Eisenberg)
September 5 (Written by Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum; Co-Written by Alex David)
The Substance (Written by Coralie Fargeat)

Animated Feature Film
Flow 🏆
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Animated Short Film
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress 🏆
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!

Cinematography
The Brutalist (Lol Crawley) 🏆
Dune: Part Two (Greig Fraser)
Emilia Pérez (Paul Guilhaume)
Maria (Ed Lachman) ❤️
Nosferatu (Jarin Blaschke)

Costume Design
A Complete Unknown (Arianne Phillips)
Conclave (Lisy Christl)
Gladiator II (Janty Yates and Dave Crossman)
Nosferatu (Linda Muir)
Wicked (Paul Tazewell) ❤️ 🏆

Film Editing
Anora (Sean Baker) ❤️ 🏆
The Brutalist (David Jancso)
Conclave (Nick Emerson)
Emilia Pérez (Juliette Welfling)
Wicked (Myron Kerstein)

Makeup and Hairstyling
A Different Man (Mike Marino, David Presto and Crystal Jurado) ❤️
Emilia Pérez (Julia Floch Carbonel, Emmanuel Janvier and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini)
Nosferatu (David White, Traci Loader and Suzanne Stokes-Munton)
The Substance (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli) 🏆
Wicked (Frances Hannon, Laura Blount and Sarah Nuth)

Live-Action Short Film
A Lien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot 🏆
The Last Ranger
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Music (Original Score)
The Brutalist (Daniel Blumberg) ❤️ 🏆
Conclave (Volker Bertelmann)
Emilia Pérez (Clément Ducol and Camille)
Wicked (John Powell and Stephen Schwartz)
The Wild Robot (Kris Bowers)

Music (Original Song)
“El Mal” from Emilia Pérez (Music by Clément Ducol and Camille; Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard) ❤️ 🏆
“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight (Music and Lyric by Diane Warren)
“Like a Bird” from Sing Sing (Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada)
“Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez (Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol)
“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late (Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin)

Documentary Feature Film
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land 🏆
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane

Documentary Short Film
Death by Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart ❤️
The Only Girl in the Orchestra 🏆

International Feature Film
I’m Still Here (Brazil) ❤️ 🏆
The Girl With the Needle (Denmark)
Emilia Pérez (France)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
Flow (Latvia)

Production Design
The Brutalist (Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Patricia Cuccia) ❤️
Conclave (Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Cynthia Sleiter)
Dune: Part Two (Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau)
Nosferatu (Craig Lathrop; Set Decoration: Beatrice Brentnerová)
Wicked (Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales) 🏆

Sound
A Complete Unknown (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco) ❤️
Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill) 🏆
Emilia Pérez (Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta)
Wicked (Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis)
The Wild Robot (Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts)

Visual Effects
Alien: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan)
Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs)
Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer) 🏆
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke)
Wicked (Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould)