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97th Academy Awards

The 2024 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.

Year 2024
Nominations 139
Categories Decided All 29
Top Winner Anora
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97th Academy Awards — March 2, 2025

March 2, 2025

Anora won Best Picture, Sean Baker won Director, Adrien Brody won Actor, and Mikey Madison won Actress. Baker’s triumph was notable not just because he won multiple Oscars that night, but because it let a comparatively small-scale independent film dominate the ceremony. That gave the 97th a useful “Oscars still sometimes validate true indie energy” narrative that many recent ceremonies lacked.

Ceremony at a glance

Best Picture went to Anora. The winning leader is Anora with 5 wins. The most nominated title is Emilia Pérez with 13 nominations. 42 winners named across 29 categories.

Most awarded titles

  1. Anora 5 wins6 nominations
  2. The Brutalist 3 wins10 nominations
  3. Emilia Pérez 2 wins13 nominations
  4. Wicked 2 wins10 nominations
  5. Dune: Part Two 2 wins5 nominations

Best Picture Nominees

The major races

The 2024 ceremony centers on Anora. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 25 nominees in all.

Best Picture Winner
Anora poster

Anora

Alex Coco | Samantha Quan | Sean Baker

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Complete Ceremony Ledger

Every winner and nominee in every category, with film, person and review links.

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Ceremony Highlights

On Lunara Film

Lunara Film reviews of films from this ceremony.

Categories in this ceremony

Best Actor Best Supporting Actor Best Actress Best Supporting Actress ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Production Design Best Picture CINEMATOGRAPHY COSTUME DESIGN Best Director DOCUMENTARY (Feature) DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject) FILM EDITING HONORARY AWARD INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD JEAN HERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING MUSIC (Original Score) MUSIC (Original Song) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award) SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award) SHORT FILM (Animated) SHORT FILM (Live Action) Sound VISUAL EFFECTS WRITING (Adapted Screenplay) WRITING (Original Screenplay)

Winner Circle

Sortable ledger

Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.

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