97th Academy Awards Nominees Breakdown: Surprises, Front-Runners, and Key Contenders

Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown) and Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) are shaping up as two of the most talked-about contenders in Best Actor, while Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) enters the race with a buzzworthy performance. On the Best Actress side, Demi Moore (The Substance) lands a career-redefining nomination, and Mikey Madison (Anora) emerges as an underdog to watch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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