Oscars 2025: Cynthia Erivo closes in on EGOT status as ‘Emilia Pérez’ breaks record with 13 nominations

‘Emilia Pérez’, the French crime musical, has secured 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards better known as the Oscars.

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The nominees for the annual ceremony that celebrates artistic and technical merit in the film industry were announced on Thursday.

With its 13 nods, ‘Emilia Pérez’ has set new record for the most nominations for a non-English film.

It was followed closely by ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Wicked’ which were both nominated 10 times apiece.

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Cynthia Erivio, the British-Nigerian actress, also got nominated in the ‘Best Actress’ category for her role in ‘Wicked’.

The 38-year-old actress’ nomination has catapulted her back in the running to be the youngest recipient to earn the coveted EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Tony, Oscar) title.

In 2016, Erivo claimed a Tony Award for her role in the Broadway play ‘The Color Purple’. She also won a Grammy for ‘Best Musical Theater Album’ for the same role. She is a recipient of the Emmy Award.

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See the full list of nominees below:

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

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

Best supporting actress

• 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 original song

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• 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 adapted screenplay

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• ‘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 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
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra

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