FINAL 2025 Oscar Predictions

Best Picture

1
Anora
PREDICTION
2
The Brutalist
PERSONAL PICK
3
A Complete Unknown
4
Conclave
5
Dune: Part Two
6
Emilia Perez
7
I'm Still Here
8
Nickel Boys
9
The Substance
10
Wicked

Best Director

1
Sean Baker
Anora
PREDICTION
2
Brady Corbet
The Brutalist
PERSONAL PICK
3
James Mangold
A Complete Unknown
4
Jacques Audiard
Emilia Perez
5
Coralie Fargeat
The Substance

Best Actress

1
Cynthia Erivo
Wicked
2
Karla Sofía Gascón
Emilia Perez
3
Mikey Madison
Anora
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
4
Demi Moore
The Substance
5
Fernanda Torres
I'm Still Here

Best Actor

1
Adrien Brody
The Brutalist
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
2
Timothée Chalamet
A Complete Unknown
3
Colman Domingo
Sing Sing
4
Ralph Fiennes
Conclave
5
Sebastian Stan
The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

1
Monica Barbaro
A Complete Unknown
2
Ariana Grande
Wicked
3
Felicity Jones
The Brutalist
PERSONAL PICK
4
Isabella Rossellini
Conclave
5
Zoe Saldaña
Emilia Perez
PREDICTION

Best Supporting Actor

1
Yura Borisov
Anora
2
Kieran Culkin
A Real Pain
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
3
Edward Norton
A Complete Unknown
4
Guy Pearce
The Brutalist
5
Jeremy Strong
The Apprentice

Best Original Screenplay

1
Anora
Sean Baker
2
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
3
A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
4
September 5
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David
5
The Substance
Coralie Fargeat

Best Adapted Screenplay

1
A Complete Unknown
James Mangold, Jay Cocks
2
Conclave
Peter Straughan
PREDICTION
3
Emilia Perez
Jacques Audiard
4
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
PERSONAL PICK
5
Sing Sing
Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley

Best Animated Feature

1
Flow
2
Inside Out 2
3
Memoir of a Snail
PERSONAL PICK
4
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
5
The Wild Robot
PREDICTION

Best International Feature Film

1
Emilia Perez
France
2
Flow
Latvia
3
The Girl with the Needle
Denmark
4
I'm Still Here
Brazil
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
5
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Germany

Best Documentary Feature Film

1
Black Box Diaries
2
No Other Land
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
3
Porcelain War
4
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
5
Sugarcane

Best Original Score

1
The Brutalist
Daniel Blumberg
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
2
Conclave
Volker Bertelmann
3
Emilia Perez
Clément Ducol, Camille
4
Wicked
John Powell, Stephen Schwartz
5
The Wild Robot
Kris Bowers

Best Original Song

1
"El Mal"
Emilia Perez
PREDICTION
2
"The Journey"
The Six Triple Eight
3
"Like a Bird"
Sing Sing
PERSONAL PICK
4
"Mi Camino"
Emilia Perez
5
"Never Too Late"
Elton John: Never Too Late

Best Sound

1
A Complete Unknown
2
Dune: Part Two
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
3
Emilia Perez
4
Wicked
5
The Wild Robot

Best Production Design

1
The Brutalist
2
Conclave
3
Dune: Part Two
PERSONAL PICK
4
Nosferatu
5
Wicked
PREDICTION

Best Cinematography

1
The Brutalist
Lol Crawley
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
2
Dune: Part Two
Greig Fraser
3
Emilia Perez
Paul Guilhaume
4
Maria
Ed Lachman
5
Nosferatu
Jarin Blaschke

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

1
A Different Man
2
Emilia Perez
3
Nosferatu
4
The Substance
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
5
Wicked

Best Costume Design

1
A Complete Unknown
Arianne Phillips
2
Conclave
Lisy Christl
3
Gladiator II
Janty Yates, Dave Crossman
4
Nosferatu
Linda Muir
PERSONAL PICK
5
Wicked
Paul Tazewell
PREDICTION

Best Film Editing

1
Anora
Sean Baker
2
The Brutalist
Dávid Jancsó
PERSONAL PICK
3
Conclave
Nick Emerson
PREDICTION
4
Emilia Perez
Juliette Welfling
5
Wicked
Myron Kerstein

Best Visual Effects

1
Alien: Romulus
2
Better Man
3
Dune: Part Two
PREDICTION
PERSONAL PICK
4
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
5
Wicked

Best Documentary Short

1
Death By Numbers
2
I Am Ready, Warden
3
Incident
PERSONAL PICK
4
Instruments of a Beating Heart
5
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
PREDICTION

Best Live-Action Short

1
A Lien
PREDICTION
2
Anuja
3
I'm Not a Robot
PERSONAL PICK
4
The Last Ranger
5
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best Animated Short

1
Beautiful Men
2
In the Shadow of the Cypress
PERSONAL PICK
3
Magic Candies
4
Wander to Wonder
5
Yuck!
PREDICTION