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In the end, it was Sean Baker's night, with Anora sweeping five awards at the 97th Academy Awards, which took place March 2 in the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood, California. Anora took Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, with Baker's four wins (In addition to writing and directing the movie, he was also its editor; in accepting the editing award, he joked that the director of the movie should never work again) setting a new record in Oscars history, becoming the first person to win four awards for the same movie in the same night. 

Other big winners of the night were The Brutalist, which took Best actor, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography, and Dune: Part Two, which took Best Visual Effects and Best Sound. 

Want the full list of winners? Look below.

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Picture

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

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Director

• Sean Baker, Anora (Winner)
• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
• Jaques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
• Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Actor

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist (Winner)
• Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
• Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Actress

• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
• Mikey Madison, Anora (Winner)
• Dei Moor, The Substance
• Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here 

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Original Screenplay

• Sean Baker, Anora (Winner)
• Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, The Brutalist
• Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
• Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, co-written by Alex David, September 5
• Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay

• James Mangold & Jay Cocks, A Complete Unknown
• Peter Straughan, Conclave (Winner)
• Jaques Audiard (with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius, and Nicholas Livecchi), Emilia Pérez
• Ramell Ross & Joslyn Barnes, Nickel Boys
• Clint Bently, Greg Kwedar, Sing Sing

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Supporting Actor

• Yura Borisov, Anora
• Keiran Culkin, A Real Pain (Winner)
• Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
• Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Supporting Actress

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

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Short Film

• A Lien
• Anuja
• I'm Not a Robot (Winner)
• The Last Ranger
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Animated Feature

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

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Animated Short

• Beautiful Men
• In the Shadow of the Cypress (Winner)
• Magic Candles
• Wander to Wonder
• Yuck!

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Cinematography

• The Brutalist (Winner)
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Documentary Feature

• Black Box Diaries
• No Other Land (Winner)
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat
• Sugarcane

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Documentary Short

• Death by Numbers
• I am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra (Winner)

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Editing

• Anora (Winner)
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Sound

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

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Production Design

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Wicked (Winner)

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best International Feature

• I'm Still Here (Winner)
• The Girl with the Needle
• Emilia Pérez
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Flow

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Makeup & Hairstyling

• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Nosferatu
• The Substance (Winner)
• Wicked

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Original Score

• Daniel Blumberg, The Brutalist (Winner)
• Volker Bertelmann, Conclave
• Clément Ducol and Camille, Emilia Pérez
• John Powell and Stephen Schwartz, Wicked
• Kris Bowers, The Wild Robot

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Original Song

• 'El Mal,' Emilia Pérez (Winner)
• 'The Journey,' The Six Triple Eight
• 'Like a Bird,' Sing Sing
• 'Mi Camino,' Emilia Pérez
• 'Never Too Late,' Elton John: Never Too Late

The 2025 Academy Award Nominations for Best Visual Effects

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

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