This Thursday, we’ll learn who was voted among the best of the best of 2024’s films. Of course, this year, the 2025 Oscar Nominees Luncheon has been canceled altogether as a result of the fires, per the AMPAS.

Here’s everything you need to know if you want to watch the announcement live.

When are the nominations being revealed?

The 2025 Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 23, 2025. Exact timing varies depending on which time zone you’re in, but those on each coast can watch at 5:30 a.m. PT/8:30 a.m. ET.

Can I stream the announcement?

Yes, you can! In fact, it’s almost solely happening via streaming. You can watch the announcement live on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s official social media pages (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook).

It will also be available via NY and LA Switch pool ports and satellite downlink feed, national broadcast news programs, including ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and streaming on ABCNews Live, Disney+ and Hulu.

Who will be announcing the noms?

This year, “Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang and “Saturday Night” star Rachel Sennott will share the duties of announcing the nominees.

Any idea who will be nominated?

As always, it’s pretty hard to predict with 100% certainty. But TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond does have his predictions.

When are the actual Oscars awarded?

The actual awards ceremony is currently scheduled for Sunday, March 2, barring any complications.

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In a letter to the membership, Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang said that the presentation would “move away  from live performances” and instead celebrate the nominated songwriters through “personal reflections.”

That decision would do away with performances that could include Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez performing the “Emilia Perez” songs “El Mal” and “Mi Camino,” respectively, as well as performances of new songs from Elton John, Maren Morris, H.E.R. and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

The move comes a year after an Oscar show whose most talked-about moment was Ryan Gosling’s performance of the nominated song “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie.”

The email does promise “powerful musical moments that connect film’s rich history to its bold and inspiring future.” It also says that this year’s show will be “a celebration of connection and collaboration – honoring the unifying spirit and creative synergy of moviemaking.” It promises a return to what it calls “Fab 5” moments, apparently the acting presentations in which five past winners each celebrate one of the nominees.

And it will pay special attention to Los Angeles, “showcasing its beauty and resilience.”

Oscar nominations will be announced on Thursday morning, with the show taking place on Sunday, March 2.

Read the email in full below:

Dear Academy members,

Our deepest thanks to all of you for your compassion and support over the last few weeks. Our thoughts remain with those who were impacted by the recent Los Angeles-area wildfires. If you would like to join the Academy in supporting the ongoing relief efforts, please click here for a list of aid resources.

After continued consultation with ABC, our board, and other key stakeholders in the Los Angeles and film communities, planning continues for the 97th Oscars ceremony on Sunday, March 2. This year’s Oscars will celebrate the work that unites us as a global film community and acknowledge those who fought so bravely against the wildfires.

As a reminder, our 97th Oscars Nominations will be announced tomorrow, January 23, at 5:30am PT via global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook), ABC’s Good Morning America, and ABC News Live, Disney+ and Hulu. American Sign Language (ASL) services will be available on YouTube.

As a precursor to tomorrow’s announcement, we wanted to share a little bit about this year’s show. Hosted by the incredible Conan O’Brien, our 97th Oscars will be a celebration of connection and collaboration – honoring the unifying spirit and creative synergy of moviemaking. We will highlight the transformative power of the teamwork that brings cinematic visions to life.

As part of this, we are thrilled to bring back our “Fab 5” moments, where individual film artists recognize nominees. Also, this year the Best Original Song category presentation will move away from live performances and will be focused on the songwriters. We will celebrate their artistry through personal reflections from the teams who bring these songs to life. All of this, and more, will uncover the stories and inspiration behind this year’s nominees.

And we will honor Los Angeles as the city of dreams, showcasing its beauty and resilience, as well as its role as a beacon for filmmakers and creative visionaries for over a century. We will reflect on the recent events while highlighting the strength, creativity, and optimism that defines Los Angeles and our industry.

There is so much more in store, including powerful musical moments that connect film’s rich history to its bold and inspiring future. We hope you will tune in tomorrow morning to watch the Nominations Announcement, and we greatly appreciate your ongoing commitment to the Academy and our film community. We are stronger together.

Bill Kramer and Janet Yang

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This Thursday, “Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang and “Saturday Night” star Rachel Sennott will reveal who was nominated for an Academy Award for their work in film last year. The actual awards ceremony is set to take place on Sunday, March 2, at the Dolby^® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC.

Here are all the details.

What time are the nominations being revealed?

The 2025 Oscar nominations will be revealed on Thursday, January 23, 2025. Exact timing varies depending on which time zone you’re in, so here’s how it breaks down:

• West Coast: 5:30 a.m. PT
• East Coast: 9:30 a.m. ET
• Midwest: 9:30 p.m. CT
• Mountain Time: 1:30 p.m. GMT

Where can I watch the announcement?

The good news for those forced to be early risers is that you don’t actually have to leave your bed to watch the nominations if you don’t want to. You can stream the announcement live on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s social media pages (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook).

Who will be nominated?

It’s hard to say with 100% certainty, but TheWrap’s awards editor Steve Pond does have his predictions.

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The ceremony will honor award winners in entertainment, documentary,
news, podcast and radio, arts, children’s and youth, immersive and interactive media as well as public service programming. The Peabody Board of Jurors serve six-year terms and is composed of media industry professionals in addition to journalists, critics and scholars. All award-winning programs must receive an unanimous vote by the Board of Jurors.

“Our 2024 debut in L.A. was a major success, and we look forward to continuing to introduce the wider Hollywood creative community to what makes Peabody the premier award for media that matters,” Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody, said in a statement to press. “In such polarized times, the stories that Peabody honors are unifying in their clear call to address injustices and see humanity in all its beauty and messiness. Honoring such programs remains our goal.”

This year, the new Board of Jurors chair is Dr. Dana Heller, who is the dean of the College of Arts at Eastern Michigan University. She has authored several books and articles about gender and sexuality, TV and pop culture. She will be joined by several new jurors including Emmy-winning broadcast journalist Cynthia McFadden, chief Variety correspondent Daniel D’Addario, Vulture and New York Magazine TV critic Roxana Hadadi and Michael X. Delli Carpini, the Oscar H. Gandy Emeritus Professor of Communication and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia serves as the home of the Peabody program.

Nominations for this year’s Peabody Awards will be announced in April, and the winners will be announced in May. Bob Bain Productions will produce the ceremony.

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The Scripters have been given out since 1988 and are awarded to the writers of adapted screenplays and the authors of the works that were adapted. The unusual decision to reward original authors means that “A Complete Unknown” writers James Mangold and Jay Cocks share their nomination with Elijah Wald, who wrote the book “Dylan Goes Electric!”; “Conclave” screenwriter Peter Straughan is joined as a nominee by novelist Robert Harris; “Nickel Boys” writers RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes are nominated alongside author Colson Whitehead; “Sing Sing” writers Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield are nominated with Esquire magazine journalist John H. Richardson; and “The Wild Robot” writer Chris Sanders shares his nomination with novelist Peter Brown.

In the Scripters television category, the finalists are “Baby Reindeer” (Richard Gadd), “Ripley” (Steven Zaillian and the late novelist Patricia Highsmith), “Say Nothing” (Joshua Zetumer and nonfiction author Patrick Radden Keefe), “Shōgun” (Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks and the late novelist James Clavell) and “Slow Horses” (Will Smith and novelist Mick Herron).

Gadd is the only finalist in either category who is nominated for adapting his own work. “Slow Horses” will be looking for its third straight win in the episodic series category, where no other program has been nominated more than once.

Over the past 15 years, about 70% of Scripter finalists have gone on to receive Oscar nominations in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. In the 36 years of the Scripters’ existence, the two groups have matched exactly only once, in 2016.

This year’s Scripter finalists are all considered strong candidates for the adapted-screenplay Oscar, alongside other films that include “Emilia Pérez,” “Dune: Part Two,” “I’m Still Here” and “Wicked.”

Scripter finalists were chosen by a selection committee chaired by screenwriter and USC professor Howard Rodman and made up of screenwriters, authors, entertainment industry executives and USC faculty. The committee made its selections from among 42 films and 66 episodic series.

Winners will be announced at a ceremony on the USC campus on Saturday, Feb. 22, which will be a very busy day for awards: The Film Independent Spirit Awards, Cinema Audio Society Awards and NAACP Image Awards are also scheduled to take place that day.

Film finalists:

“A Complete Unknown” – screenplay by James Mangold and Jay Cocks, based on the nonfiction book “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald

“Conclave” – screenplay by Peter Straughan, based on the novel by Robert Harris

“Nickel Boys” – screenplay by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, based on the book “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead

“Sing Sing” – screenplay and story by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, story by Clarence Maclin and John “Divine G” Whitfield, based on the Esquire magazine article “The Sing Sing Follies” by John H. Richardson

“The Wild Robot” – screenplay by Chris Sanders, based on “The Wild Robot” by novelist Peter Brown

Episodic series finalists:

“Baby Reindeer” – written by Richard Gadd, based on his stage play of the same name

“Ripley,” episode “V Lucio,” written by Steven Zaillian, based on “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith

“Say Nothing,” episode “The People in the Dirt” – written by Joshua Zetumer, based on the nonfiction book “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Radden Keefe

“Shōgun,” episode “Anjin” – written by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, based on the novel by James Clavell

“Slow Horses,” episode “Hello Goodbye” – written by Will Smith, based on the novel “Spook Street” by Mick Herron

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GLAAD, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer media advocacy organization, leaned heavily toward smaller independent films in its nominations, with “Wicked” and “Mean Girls” the most high-profile films in the top category. It did not nominate “Emilia Pérez,” the Netflix film about a Mexican drug lord (played by transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón) who undergoes gender-affirming surgery.

Television nominees included “Abbott Elementary,” “Hacks,” “Loot” and “Shrinking” in the comedy category, “9-1-1: Lone Star,” “Arcane” and “Interview With the Vampire” in drama and “Agatha All Along,” “Diarra From Detroit” and “Palm Royale” in the Outstanding New Series category.

GLAAD also nominated documentaries, reality programs, children’s programming, music artists, stage productions, podcasts, comic books and journalism.

In a statement, GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said, “The GLAAD Media Awards were created nearly four decades ago to champion LGBTQ stories amid a deeply hostile and unsafe time for our community. Today, this mission holds true and ever-more important as attacks against LGBTQ people are not only growing, but finding new avenues. Whether it’s rampant misinformation or defamation of transgender people, LGBTQ youth, or the shocking corporate rollback of policies and programs that keep LGBTQ people seen and safe in a workforce, what will always prevail is our truth and talent.

“This year’s nominees for the 36th GLAAD Media Awards represent the best of our vibrant community, spanning across all media, genres and mediums, and send a loud and global message to industry leaders that our stories are not only popular and entertaining, but necessary and culture-changing.”

The 36th annual GLAAD Media Awards will take place in Los Angeles on March 27.

Here is a list of nominees. Additional credits and Spanish-language categories are available at glaad.org.

Outstanding Film – Wide Theatrical Release
Cuckoo (Neon)
Drive-Away Dolls (Focus Features)
Love Lies Bleeding (A24)
Mean Girls (Paramount Pictures)
My Old Ass (Amazon MGM Studios)
Problemista (A24)
Queer (A24)
Wicked (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Comedy Series
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Ghosts (CBS)
Hacks (Max)
Loot (Apple TV+)
The Sex Lives of College Girls (Max)
Shrinking (Apple TV+)
Somebody Somewhere (HBO)
Sort Of (Max)
We Are Lady Parts (Peacock)
What We Do in the Shadows (FX)

Outstanding Drama Series
9-1-1: Lone Star (Fox)
Arcane (Netflix)
The Chi (Showtime)
Doctor Who (Disney+)
Found (NBC)
Heartbreak High (Netflix)
Interview with the Vampire (AMC)
Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+)
The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)
Wicked City (ALLBLK)

Outstanding New Series
Agatha All Along (Disney+)
Black Doves (Netflix)
Brilliant Minds (NBC)
Diarra from Detroit (BET+)
Fantasmas (HBO)
Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime Video)
How to Die Alone (Hulu)
Kaos (Netflix)
No Good Deed (Netflix)
Palm Royale (Apple TV+)

Outstanding Film – Streaming Or TV
Am I Ok? (Max)
Fancy Dance (Apple TV+)
Good Grief (Netflix)
The Groomsmen: Second Chances (Hallmark)
The Holiday Exchange (Amazon Prime Video / Peacock)
Mother of the Bride (Netflix)
Ricky Stanicky (Amazon Prime Video)
Season’s Greetings from Cherry Lane (Hallmark)
Sweethearts (Max)
Wynonna Earp: Vengeance (Tubi)

Outstanding Documentary
“Breaking the News” Independent Lens (PBS)
“Campbell Addy” Photographer (National Geographic)
Chasing Chasing Amy (Level 33 Entertainment)
Down in the Valley (Starz)
Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes (Greenwich Entertainment)
“Hummingbirds” POV (PBS)
Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero (HBO)
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution (Netflix)
“Who I am Not” POV (PBS)
Will & Harper (Netflix)

Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Becoming Karl Lagerfeld (Disney+)
Carol & The End of the World (Netflix)
Eric (Netflix)
Expats (Amazon Prime Video)
Feud: Capote vs The Swans (FX)
Get Millie Black (Max)
Mary & George (Starz)
The New Look (Apple TV+)
Under the Bridge (Hulu)

Outstanding Film – Limited Theatrical Release
20,000 Species of Bees (Film Movement)
Backspot (XYZ Films)
Before I Change My Mind (Epic Pictures)
Big Boys (Dark Star Pictures)
Close to You (Greenwich Entertainment)
Crossing (MUBI)
Fitting In (Blue Fox Entertainment)
High Tide (Strand Releasing)
Housekeeping for Beginners (Focus Features)
A Place of Our Own (Dark Star Pictures)

Outstanding Reality Program
Bargain Block (HGTV)
Big Freedia Means Business (Fuse)
The Boyfriend (Netflix)
Queer Eye (Netflix)
Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo)
Selling Sunset (Netflix)
Southern Charm (Bravo)
Wayne Brady: The Family Remix (Freeform)
We’re Here (HBO)
Wiggin’ Out with Tokyo Stylez (We TV)

Outstanding Reality Competition Program
The Amazing Race (CBS)
The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula (Shudder / AMC+)
The Challenge 40: Battle of the Eras (MTV)
Finding Mr. Christmas (Hallmark+)
Hell’s Kitchen: Head Chef’s Only (Fox)
I Kissed a Boy (Hulu)
I Kissed a Girl (Hulu)
RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV)
Top Chef (Bravo)
The Voice (NBC)

Outstanding Children’s Programming
“Aunt Praline’s Sweetie Pie” Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City (Paramount+)
The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish (Nickelodeon)
Firebuds (Disney Jr.)
“I’m Pogey” Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (Apple TV+)
Let’s Go, Bananas! (Cartoonito)
Monster High (Nickelodeon)
“Our Family Musical” Sesame Street (Max)
“Princess Royal Wedding” Princess Power (Netflix)
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures (Disney Jr. / Disney+)
Vida the Vet (Netflix)

Outstanding Kids & Family Programming or Film – Live Action
Empire Waist (Blue Fox Entertainment)
Heartstopper (Netflix)
“If You Love Me” Beyond Black Beauty (Amazon Prime Video)
Jane (Apple TV+)
“Louds in Love” The Really Loud House (Nickelodeon)

Outstanding Kids & Family Programming or Film – Animated
The Bravest Knight (Hulu)
The Dragon Prince (Netflix)
Fright Krewe (Hulu / Peacock)
Kiff: The Haunting of Miss McGravy’s House (Disney Channel)
“I Wanna Dance with My Buddy” Hailey’s On It! (Disney Channel)
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (Netflix)
The Loud House (Nickelodeon)
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Disney Channel)
“Powerless” Monsters at Work (Disney Channel)
“Summer of Heart Eyes” Primos (Disney Channel)

Outstanding Music Artist
Adam Lambert, AFTERS (More is More)
Billie Eilish, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (Darkroom/Interscope)
Doechii, Alligator Bites Never Heal (Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records)
Elton John, Never Too Late: Soundtrack to the Disney+ Documentary (UMG Recordings)
Joy Oladokun, OBSERVATIONS FROM A CROWDED ROOM (Verve Forecast/Republic Records)
Kali Uchis, ORQUÍDEAS (Geffen Records)
Omar Apollo, God Said No (Warner Records)
Orville Peck, Stampede (Warner Records)
Tove Lo, HEAT (Pretty Swede Records)
Victoria Monét, JAGUAR II: Deluxe (Lovett Music/RCA Records)

Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist
Beabadoobee (Dirty Hit)
The Blessed Madonna (Warner Records)
Durand Bernarr (DSing Records)
Gigi Perez (Gigi Perez PS/Island)
The Last Dinner Party (Island Records)
Medium Build (Island Records)
Michaela Jaé (TribeDisciples)
Remi Wolf (Island Records)
Villano Antillano (La Buena Fortuna Music)
Young Miko (Wave Music Group/Capitol Records)

Outstanding Broadway Production
Cult of Love
Illinoise
Lempicka
Mother Play
Oh, Mary!

Outstanding Podcast
Baby, This is Keke Palmer (Wondery)
But We Loved (iHeart)
Las Culturistas (iHeart)
Made it Out (Made It Out Media)
Queer West (Audible)
Rooted Recovery (Promises Behavioral Health)
“The Science Of Transgender Healthcare, Puberty Blockers, & Conversion Therapy with Dr. Jack Turban” The Checkup with Dr. Mike (DM Operations Inc.)
Sibling Rivalry (Studio 71)
Surface Level
Tres Leches

Outstanding Video Game
Caravan SandWitch (Studio Plane Toast / Dear Villagers)
Dragon Age: The Veilguard (BioWare / Electronic Arts)
Dread Delusion (Lovely Hellplace / DreadXP)
Dustborn (Red Thread Games / Spotlight by Quantic Dream)
Fear the Spotlight (Cozy Game Pals / Blumhouse Games)
Life is Strange: Double Exposure (Deck Nine / Square Enix)
Minds Beneath Us (BearBone Studio)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Intelligent Systems / Nintendo)
Sorry We’re Closed (à la mode games / Akupara Games)
Until Then (Polychroma Games / Maximum Entertainment)

Outstanding Comic Book
Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (DC Comics)
Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices (Marvel Infinity Comics)
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics)
I Heart Skull-Crusher (BOOM! Studios)
The Nice House by the Sea (DC Comics)
NYX (Marvel Comics)
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos (Dark Horse Comics)
Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Spectregraph (DSTLRY)
Suicide Squad: Dream Team (DC Comics)

Outstanding Original Graphic Novel/Anthology
Ash’s Cabin (First Second)
Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story (DC Comics)
Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans (A Wave Blue World)
Deadendia: The Divine Order (Union Square & Co.)
The Deep Dark (Graphix)
The Fox Maidens (HarperAlley)
Lunar Boy (HarperAlley)
My Fairy Godfather (Fantagraphics)
The Ribbon Skirt (Graphix)
The Science of Ghosts (Legendary Comics)

Outstanding Variety or Talk Show Episode
The 77th Tony Awards (CBS)
The 98th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (CBS)
“Bernie Sanders Rips the Democratic Establishment; Trump Allies Claim Massive Mandate: A Closer Look” Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC)
“D.C. Woman Turns Childhood Home Into Communal Living For LGBTQ+ Seniors” The Kelly Clarkson Show (syndicated)
“DNA: This is Not My Child / Mom, Why Can’t You Accept Me?” Karamo (syndicated)
“Elliot Page Talks Season 4 of ‘The Umbrella Academy,’ Fighting Anti-LGBTQ Legislation” The View (ABC)
“Laverne Cox Unpacks Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Bullying & Transness for Spirit Day” The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
“Libraries” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
“Queer Teacher Gets a Life-Changing Surprise!” The Jennifer Hudson Show (syndicated) 
“A Special Monologue for the Republican in Your Life” Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)

Outstanding TV Journalism Segment
“Becoming Che” SC Featured (ESPN)
“Big Gay Football” CBS Sports (CBS)
“Demystifying Trans Identities” (Spectrum News 1 Ohio)
“Pete and Chasten Buttigieg on Fatherhood” CBS News Sunday Morning (CBS)
“Project Asylum: Transgender Asylum Seekers Find Hope Through San Francisco’s LGBTQ Asylum Project” CBS News Bay Area (KPIX-TV CBS 5 Bay Area)
“Small Town in Arkansas a Safe Haven For LGBTQ+ Residents” GMA3 (ABC)
“Spectrum Indigenous Celebrates Pride Month With Two Spirit Powwows” KREM 2 News (KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane)
“Stonewall House” NBC News Now (NBC)
“Transgender Pastor In California Builds Inclusive Church For LGBTQ+ Community” CBS Mornings (CBS)
“Vogue Realness: Billy Porter & LGBTQIA Community Celebrate Dancer O’Shae Sibley” America In Black (BET+)

Outstanding TV Journalism – Long-Form
“American Problems, Trans Solutions” Local, USA (PBS via WORLD Channel)
“The Cure for HIV” Scripps News Reports (Scripps News)
“Chella Man” It’s Ok to Ask Questions (WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago)
“The Life and Death of Blaze Bernstein” 48 Hours (CBS)
“Proud Legacy: A NY1 Special” (Spectrum News NY1)

Outstanding Live TV Journalism – Segment or Special
“Africa’s Anti-LGBTQ Laws: Impact on Uganda’s Economy, Ghana Wants Bill Accelerated” Horizons Middle East & Africa (Bloomberg Television)
“Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif Names J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk in Cyberbullying Suit” NBC News Now (NBC)
“Democrats are Learning The Wrong Message on Trans Youth” Inside with Jen Psaki (MSNBC)
“Finding Love & Light in Unexpected Places: Small Towns Celebrate Pride Across America” Good Morning America (ABC)
“Ina Fried Talks Imane Khelif” The Saturday/Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart (MSNBC)
“LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers flee to U.S. to Save Their Lives” José Díaz-Balart Reports (MSNBC)
“Pride Across America” ABC News Live (ABC)
“Rep. Leigh Finke Discusses Gender Affirming Healthcare with Pamela Brown” CNN Newsroom (CNN)
“Sarah McBride reflects on Becoming First Openly Transgender Person Elected To Congress” PBS NewsHour (PBS)
“Young Voters Could Decide The 2024 Election” Inside the 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle (MSNBC)

Outstanding Print Article
“After Trump’s Election Win, Local Trans Community Concerned About Their Future” by DeAsia Paige (The Atlanta Journal Constitution)
“‘Changing The Narrative’: Advocates Fight HIV Stigma in Dallas’ Latino Community” by Abraham Nudelstejer (The Dallas Morning News)
“‘I Want To Exist’: Three Days at a Texas Summer Camp for LGBTQ Kids.” by Erin Allday (San Antonio Express-News)
“Joe Locke on ‘Heartstopper’ Embracing Sex, Being a Queer Marvel Star in ‘Agatha’ and Why ‘There Are Days I Never Want to Play a Gay Character Again'” by Adam B. Vary (Variety)
“Meet the Young Transgender Teens Changing America and the World” by Ryan Adamczeski (The Advocate)
“Noah J. Ricketts Brings the Bluegrass to Hollywood and Broadway” by Spencer Jenkins (Queer Kentucky)
“Opinion: Celebrating 10 Years of Marriage Equality, More LGBTQ+ History Left to Write” by Josiah Robinson (Tulsa World)
“Our Queerest Century” [special project] (Los Angeles Times)
“Paris Olympics: More Queer Athletes, More Medals, More Pride, Less Grindr” by Dawn Ennis (Washington Blade)
“Sasha Velour Sashays Into The Culture Wars” by Maura Judkis (The Washington Post)

Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage
The Advocate
Allure
Cosmopolitan
The Hollywood Reporter
Metro Weekly
OUT
People
Plus
Variety
Vogue

Outstanding Online Journalism Article
“Afraid Your Child Will Regret Their Transition? Let’s Talk About It!” by Ben V. Greene (Romper.com)
“CeCé Telfer Was Barred From Competing at The 2024 Paris Olympics as a Trans Woman Athlete. She Has Her Sights Set On L.A. In 2028.” by David Artavia (Yahoo.com)
“First They Tried to ‘Cure’ Gayness. Now They’re Fixated on ‘Healing’ Trans People.” by Madison Pauly with Henry Carnell (MotherJones.com)
“Fleeing the Country and Rationing Testosterone: Transgender Americans’ New Reality Under a Trump Presidency” by Beth Greenfield (Fortune.com)
“Friends Remember Nex Benedict, Oklahoma Student Who Died After School Fight, as ‘Fiery Kid'” by Jo Yurcaba (NBCNews.com)
“He’s 23 and in an Ohio Prison for Exposing Someone to HIV – Even Though He Couldn’t Transmit the Virus” by Ken Schneck (TheBuckeyeFlame.com)
“Missouri Republican’s Antigay Slur-Filled Posts Remain on Instagram Despite Violating Meta’s Policies” by Christopher Wiggins (Advocate.com)
“Thailand Could Soon Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. It Would Change Lives.” by Rebecca Root (them.us)
“These Trans People And Their Families Can’t Afford To Flee To A Friendlier State” by Nico Lang (HuffPost.com)
“Your Guide to Accessing Gender-Affirming Care” by Madison Feller (Elle.com)

Outstanding Online Journalism – Video or Multimedia
“Ballin’ Out” (OutSports.com)
“The Legacy of Cecilia Gentili: First Pride Without Mother” (Time.com)
“A Life In Fear: The Dangers Of Finding Love Online As A Queer Woman In Nigeria” (CNN.com)
“Love to the Max: Family Bonds Protect a Trans Teen in Texas”(NewYorker.com)
“The Past, Present, and Future of Trans Visibility in Fashion” (InStyle.com)
“Rainbow Girls: 10 Years of Protection and Prejudice” The Picture Show (NPR.org)
“RuPaul, Tina Knowles, Billy Eichner & More Give Ts Madison Her Flowers” (LogoTV.com)
“The Uncertain Future Of A Historic LGBTQ+ Safe Space: New York City’s People’s Beach” (ABCNews.com)
“War On Woke: How a Gay Rights Index Once Touted By Walmart And Others Became a Conservative Target” (CNBC.com)
“Seat 31” (NewYorker.com)

Outstanding Independent Journalism
The 19^th
Assigned Media
The Buckeye Flame
The Don Lemon Show
Erin in the Morning
Gaye Magazine
Queer News Daily
The Queer Review
TransLash Media
Under the Desk News

Special Recognition
“DRAG: The Musical”
OUTLOUD
Q.Digital
“Red Ink: A Tribute to Cecilia Gentili”
The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center
The New York Liberty

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But if you’re talking about what’s going to be nominated, things aren’t quite so unpredictable. A consensus has formed around eight of the 10 Best Picture nominees, four of the five Best Actor ones, four of the five for Best Director …

And yet, who really knows? The Academy is much bigger than it was a decade ago, with 9,905 voting members as of December, and it’s far more international. And while the majority of members are still based in Los Angeles, how many of them made the effort to watch the movies and vote during a month when the city was in flames?

This, after all, is a year in which nominations voting was extended twice, the date of the nomination announcement was pushed back twice and the Nominations Luncheon was canceled. It’s a year with a lot of distractions and without a “Barbenheimer” to get voters and viewers engaged.

With those uncertainties hanging over Oscar season, here are our best guesses as to what films will come out on top when nominations are announced on Thursday morning. We’re betting (not literally, mind you) that “Emilia Pérez” winds up with the most nominations, followed by “The Brutalist” and “Conclave.”

Note: As we’ve explained many times before, the Academy uses ranked-choice voting in the nominations round, which requires voters to rank their favorites in order of preference. Each person’s vote goes only to the film ranked first on the ballot unless that film already has enough votes or has been eliminated from contention, in which case the vote shifts to the highest-ranked choice that’s still in the running on the ballot. The bottom line: It’s better to be ranked first on a third of the ballots than to be ranked third or fourth on almost all of them.  

Best Picture

The sure-thing nominees in this category, and the ones that could possibly win, seem to be “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez” and “Wicked.” Beyond that, “Dune: Part Two” will have huge below-the-line support, while “The Substance” will likely benefit from the way ranked-choice voting rewards films with passionate support, even if they’re too bold and too weird to have mass appeal.

For the last two spots, “A Real Pain” and “Sing Sing” have the advantage of having almost certain acting nominees in Kieran Culkin and Colman Domingo, respectively. That may give them a slight edge over “Nickel Boys,” “September 5” and the real wild card, “All We Imagine as Light.”

Predicted nominees: “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez,” “A Real Pain,” “Sing Sing,” “The Substance,” “Wicked”

Watch out for: “All We Imagine as Light,” “Nickel Boys,” “September 5”

Best Director

This is the category where major contenders have often been bypassed in recent years, mostly in favor of international directors: Justine Triet for “Anatomy of a Fall” over Greta Gerwig for “Barbie,” Ruben Östlund for “Triangle of Sadness” over James Cameron for “Avatar: The Way of Water,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi for “Drive My Car” over Denis Villeneuve for “Dune,” Thomas Vinterberg for “Another Round” over Aaron Sorkin for “The Trial of the Chicago 7” … Two of the most obvious candidates are from France (Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez”) and Germany (Edward Berger for “Conclave”), with Sean Baker (“Anora”) and Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”) edging out Jon M. Chu (“Wicked”) as the U.S. directors with the best shot at a nomination.

Chu could squeeze in as well, as could Directors Guild Award nominee James Mangold for “A Complete Unknown.” But it seems highly characteristic of the Directors Branch to go instead for Coralie Fargeat, the French auteur behind “The Substance.” And it wouldn’t be unlike them to bypass another big name in favor of Indian director Payal Kapadia for “All We Imagine as Light” or exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof for “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.”

Predicted nominees: Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez” ; Sean Baker, “Anora”; Edward Berger, “Conclave”; Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”; Coralie Fargeat, “The Substance”

Watch out for: Jon M. Chu, “Wicked”; Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light”; Denis Villeneuve, “Dune: Part Two”

Best Actor

The weaker of the two lead acting categories feels as if it has four clear favorites in Adrien Brody for “The Brutalist,” Timothee Chalamet for “A Complete Unknown,” Colman Domingo for “Sing Sing” and Ralph Fiennes for “Conclave.” The question is who else will join them – and barring a shocking nom for Hugh Grant in “Heretic” or a slightly less shocking one for Jesse Eisenberg in “A Real Pain,” the strongest candidates seem to be Daniel Craig for “Queer” and Sebastian Stan for “The Apprentice.”

Will Donald Trump’s victory drive people toward or away from Stan, who plays him in “The Apprentice?” That’s a tough call, but Craig seems like a safer call. (And no, the online furor over the use of AI for Adrien Brody’s Hungarian-language scenes wouldn’t have really hurt his chances even if it had happened during the voting window; for the most part, Oscar voters don’t follow the discourse on what used to be called Film Twitter.)

Predicted nominees: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”; Timothee Chalamet, “A Complete Unknown”; Daniel Craig, “Queer”; Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing”; Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave”

Watch out for: Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain”; Hugh Grant, “Heretic”; Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice”

Best Actress

This is the most fiercely competitive of all the acting categories, with at least eight women who feel as if it’d be crazy for them not to be included – Cynthia Erivo for “Wicked,” Marianne Jean-Baptiste for “Hard Truths,” Angelina Jolie for “Maria,” Nicole Kidman for “Babygirl,” Mikey Madison for “Anora,” Demi Moore for “The Substance,” Karla Sofía Gascón for “Emilia Pérez” and Fernanda Torres for “I’m Still Here” – and a couple of other potential surprises in Pamela Anderson for “The Last Showgirl” and Kate Winslet for “Lee.”

Really, you can flip a coin to narrow that group down, though Madison and Moore seem safe with Erivo close behind. Beyond that, Gascón will probably be representing the film with the most nominations, while I refuse to believe that voters won’t recognize Jean-Baptiste’s fearsome performance. And even if things break the way I expect, I’ll be mourning the absence of Torres and Jolie.

Predicted nominees: Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”; Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths”; Mikey Madison, “Anora”; Demi Moore, “The Substance”; Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”

Watch out for: Angelina Jolie, “Maria”; Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”; Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”

Best Supporting Actor

Kieran Culkin is the obvious frontrunner for portraying the real pain in “A Real Pain,” with Edward Norton for “A Complete Unknown” and Yura Borisov for “Anora” strong as well. Guy Pearce was overlooked by SAG Awards voters for “The Brutalist,” but he seems a likelier Oscar nominee than, say, SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey for “Wicked.” The fifth spot could go to Jeremy Strong for “The Apprentice” or Clarence Maclin for “Sing Sing,” though once upon a time Denzel Washington seemed to have a firm grasp on a nom for the relish with which he tackled “Gladiator II.”   

Predicted nominees: Yura Borisov, “Anora”; Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”; Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown”; Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist”; Jeremy Strong, “The Apprentice”

Watch out for: Clarence Maclin, “Sing Sing”; Stanley Tucci, “Conclave”; Denzel Washington, “Gladiator II”

Best Supporting Actress

This is another category where SAG voters picked a couple of likely Oscar nominees – Ariana Grande for “Wicked” and Zoe Saldaña for “Emilia Pérez” – while overlooking others, notably Isabella Rossellini for her short but potent performance in “Conclave.” Beyond those three, “The Substance” seems to be picking up enough support to boost Margaret Qualley.

Other contenders include Felicity Jones for “The Brutalist” (where she has the disadvantage of appearing in the second half of the long film, which most people don’t like as much as the first half), Selena Gomez for “Emilia Pérez,” Danielle Deadwyler for “The Piano Lesson,” Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor for “Nickel Boys” and two late-surging SAG nominees, Monica Barbaro for “A Complete Unknown” and Jamie Lee Curtis for “The Last Showgirl.”

Predicted nominees: Ariana Grande, “Wicked”; Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”; Margaret Qualley, “The Substance”; Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”; Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Pérez”

Watch out for: Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”; Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl”; Selena Gomez, “Emilia Pérez”

Best Original Screenplay

This category has a solid consensus in favor of four likely Best Picture nominees – “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “A Real Pain” and “The Substance” – plus the tense Munich Olympics drama “September 5.” But that doesn’t mean that “All We Imagine as Light” couldn’t sneak in, or even Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” with the director’s unique method of workshopping a screenplay into existence over a period of months.

Predicted nominees: “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5,” “The Substance”

Watch out for: “All We Imagine as Light,” “Challengers,” “Hard Truths”

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy’s Writers Branch likes to sprinkle in some indies along with bigger films, which is why “Sing Sing” and “Nickel Boys” could well end up in the mix alongside larger productions like “Conclave,” “A Complete Unknown” and maybe even “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked.” “Emilia Pérez” will likely grab a spot for a non-English screenplay, but don’t rule out the Brazilian film “I’m Still Here.”

Predicted nominees: “A Complete Unknown,” Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Nickel Boys,” “Sing Sing”

Watch out for: “Dune: Part Two,” “I’m Still Here,” “Wicked”

Best Cinematography

The American Society of Cinematographers nominations are usually a solid predictor of four out of the five Oscar nominees – but with the ASC supersizing its category to seven nominees this year, it lost its ability to do anything other than narrow the field to “The Brutalist,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Maria,” “Nosferatu” and “Wicked.” And it didn’t even do that, really, because the groundbreaking POV film “Nickel Boys,” nominated by the ASC in a special category for smaller productions, is a clear Oscar contender as well.

Predicted nominees: “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Nickel Boys,” “Nosferatu”

Watch out for: “A Complete Unknown,” “Maria,” “Wicked”

Best Film Editing

It used to be a hard-and-fast rule that no film could win Best Picture without at least being nominated for editing – and while “Birdman” and “CODA” punctured that certainty, it’s still a pretty good guideline, with only one film in the last six years getting a nom in this category without getting one for best pic. That means the top contenders for picture are also the top contenders here.

Predicted nominees: “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez”

Watch out for: “A Complete Unknown,” “September 5,” “Wicked”

Best Costume Design

“Wicked” is a lock, of course. But what else? There are spooky designs (“Nosferatu” for serious spooky, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” for silly spooky), period re-creations (“Blitz” for the 1940s, “A Complete Unknown” for the ’60s) and even a movie that dresses all the men in matching black, white and red gowns and all the women in black ones (“Conclave”).

Predicted nominees: “Blitz,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “Nosferatu,” “Wicked”

Watch out for: “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Maria”

Best Production Design

A lot of the top contenders are pretty monumental, creating everything from an acclaimed architect’s masterwork to a couple of planets to the land of Oz to the Vatican to a vampire’s castle. Greenwich Village in the 1960s, Maria Callas’ Paris apartment and a creepy fantasy version of Hollywood glam ‘n’ grime were pretty cool, too.

Predicted nominees: “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Nosferatu,” “Wicked”

Watch out for: “A Complete Unknown,” “Maria,” “The Substance”

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

This category has a habit of nominating films that don’t show up in any other category, including “Norbit,” “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa,” “House of Gucci” and last year’s “Golda.” Will “Waltzing With Brando” (Billy Zane looking amazingly like Marlon Brando at several different points in his career) fulfill that function this year? It just might, though the competition includes a sequel to a past nominee (“Dune: Part Two”), a couple of horrifying tour de forces (“The Substance” and “Nosferatu”), two different jobs of transforming Sebastian Stan (“A Different Man” and “The Apprentice”) and a movie that paints Cynthia Erivo green (“Wicked”).

Predicted nominees: “A Different Man,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Nosferatu,” “The Substance,” “Waltzing With Brando”

Watch out for: “The Apprentice,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Wicked”

Best Original Score

The newly-expanded 20-film shortlist in this category, up from its usual 15, found room for a lot of smaller films scored by female composers – but the nominations are likely to go largely to men, albeit ones who mostly haven’t been nominated before. Top contenders include Daniel Blumberg, Robin Carolan and the French team of Clément Ducol and Camille, who bring the drama to “The Brutalist,” “Nosferatu” and “Emilia Pérez,” respectively.

Volker Bertelmann is definitely not in the first-timers club, winning for “All Quiet on the Western Front” two years ago and a strong contender for the less assaultive “Conclave” this year, while Kris Bowers’ lavish score to “The Wild Robot” has the potential to make him the first person to win (or even be nominated) in Best Documentary Short one year and Best Original Score the next.

Predicted nominees: “The Brutalist,” Daniel Blumberg; “Conclave,” Volker Bertelmann; “Emilia Pérez,” Clément Ducol and Camille; “Nosferatu,” Robin Carolan; “The Wild Robot,” Kris Bowers

Watch out for: “Challengers,” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross; “The Room Next Door,” Alberto Iglesias; “Wicked,” John Powell and Stephen Schwartz

Best Original Song

Rule No. 1: Until further notice, never pick against Diane Warren getting nominated. This year, precedent suggests that “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight” will be her eighth consecutive nomination and her 16th overall.  Rule No. 2: Songs performed on screen have an advantage, which is good news for “El Mal” and “Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez,” and maybe for Kristen Wiig’s charming “Harper and Will Go West” from “Will & Harper” and the thumping rap track “Sick in the Head” from “Kneecap.”

But that list leaves out the marvelously retro Elton John/Brandi Carlile collaboration “Never Too Late,” Maren Morris’ rousing “Kiss the Sky” from “The Wild Robot” and Trent Reznor and Atticus’ Ross techno workout “Compress/Repress” from “Challengers,” among others.

Predicted nominees: “Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”; “El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”; “Mi Camino” from “Emilia Pérez”; “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”; “Harper and Will Go West” from “Will & Harper”

Watch out for: “Compress/Repress” from “Challengers”; “Sick in the Head” from “Kneecap”; “Kiss the Sky” from “The Wild Robot”

Best Sound

With the old sound editing and sound mixing categories combined into a single award, the slate of nominees is typically a mixture of big, loud movies and music-oriented ones. “A Complete Unknown,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Wicked” and “Joker: Folie a Deux” are all on the 10-film shortlist, which means that music films should have a strong showing this year, but theater-shaking flicks like “Blitz,” “Dune” and “Gladiator II” won’t allow music to hog too many slots.

Predicted nominees: “Blitz,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Emilia Pérez,” “Wicked”

Watch out for: “Gladiator II,” “The Wild Robot,” “Deadpool & Wolverine”

Best Visual Effects

“Dune” won three years ago, and its sequel is every bit as formidable. The latest string of “Planet of the Apes” movies were all nominated – and if voters love how Wētā FX created a world full of apes, they should also appreciate how the same company plopped a single ape in the middle of a music biopic in “Better Man.” Then there’s “Mufasa: The Lion King,” a movie that was essentially created in the computer. “Wicked” is in the running, too, though voters could also reward Ridley Scott’s emphasis on in-camera effects in “Gladiator II” or the skillful supporting effects of the lower-key “Civil War.”

Predicted nominees: “Better Man,” “Dune: Part Two,” “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” “Mufasa: The Lion King,” “Wicked”

Watch out for: “Civil War,” “Gladiator II,” “Twisters”

Best International Feature Film

For months, the big three in this category have been “Emilia Pérez,” “I’m Still Here” and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” the submissions from France, Brazil and Germany, respectively. All three of them seem to be locks for nomination, and the animated Latvian film “Flow” is likely to be included both here and in the animated feature category. The Academy’s love for Italian films could fill the fifth spot with “Vermiglio,” though Ireland’s brash rap movie “Kneecap” or one of the Scandinavian entries, Norway’s “Armand” or Denmark’s “The Girl With the Needle,” could break into the lineup instead. If there’s a dark horse, it may be Palestine’s “From Ground Zero,” which is made up of 22 short films made by directors in Gaza over the past year.  

Predicted nominees: Brazil, “I’m Still Here”; France, “Emilia Pérez”; Germany, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”; Italy, “Vermiglio”; Latvia, “Flow”

Watch out for: Denmark, “The Girl With the Needle”; Ireland, “Kneecap”; Palestine, “From Ground Zero”

Best Documentary Feature

The Israeli/Palestinian doc “No Other Land” and the chronicle of the abuse of indigenous children, “Sugarcane,” have won the most awards for nonfiction films this season, and they should both appeal to Documentary Branch voters. The adventurous approach of “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” and the emotional punch of the Ukraine-set “Porcelain War” could prove irresistible as well, though you can’t discount the equally adventurous “Dahomey” or the emotional “Daughters.”

The big question: Will the branch nominate the Will Ferrell/Harper Steele road movie “Will & Harper,” a wildly enjoyable doc that deals with Steele’s coming out as transgender – or will voters continue their reluctance to nominate enjoyable movies, apparently out of fear that those films will overshadow weightier nominees once the ballots are in the hands of the entire membership?

Predicted nominees: “No Other Land,” “Porcelain War,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” “Sugarcane,” “Union”

Watch out for: “Dahomey,” “Daughters,” “Will & Harper”

Best Documentary Short

The shortlist in the doc short category is filled with dark stories from significant filmmakers, including ones with previous Oscar nominations (Skye Fitzgerald for the eye-opening story of kangaroo hunting, “Chasing Roo,” Smriti Mundhra for the death row story “I Am Ready, Warden,” Betsy West for the heartbreaking story of children in a war zone, “Once Upon a Time in Ukraine”). Other strong entries include Peabody winner Kim A Snyder’s “Death by Numbers,” a story from the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting, and the immersive, formally adventurous “Incident” from celebrated artist and filmmaker Bill Morrison.

Predicted nominees: “Chasing Roo,” “Death by Numbers,” “I Am Ready, Warden,” “Incident,” “Once Upon a Time in Ukraine”

Watch out for: “Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World,” “Planetwalker,” “A Swim Lesson”

Best Animated Feature

The three biggest contenders are clearly Pixar’s “Inside Out 2,” the top-grossing animated film of all time and the entry from the company that has dominated this category; “The Wild Robot,” the best shot in years for DreamWorks Animation to win the award it hasn’t held since “Shrek” won the first animated-feature Oscar back in 2002; and “Flow,” the Latvian indie that became a critics’ darling and won the Golden Globe.

Beyond that, voters in the Animation Branch love stop-motion and they love Aardman, which bodes well for that company’s “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.” In the past, the film with the best shot at landing the last spot might well have been the imaginative, dour indie “Memoir of a Snail” – but ever since the Academy allowed volunteers from all branches of the Academy to vote for this category in the nomination round, big-studio films have done better and indies have done worse. That could potentially help Disney’s “Moana 2.”

Predicted nominees: “Flow,” “Inside Out 2,” “Memoir of a Snail,” “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” “The Wild Robot”

Watch out for: “Chicken for Linda!,” “Moana 2,” “That Christmas”

Best Animated Short

The best of this year’s shortlisted animated films are wildly varied and range from the surreal line drawings of animation pioneer Don Hertzfeld’s “ME” to the Coptic imagery of the sobering “The 21” to the imaginative “The Wild-Tempered Clavier,” in which each frame was hand-painted on a sheet of toilet paper. The shorts categories are fiendishly difficult to predict in the nomination phase, but these are the animated films we think have the best chance.

Predicted nominees: “In the Shadow of the Cypress,” “Maybe Elephants,” “ME,” “The 21,” “The Wild-Tempered Clavier”

Watch out for: “A Bear Named Wojtek,” “Beautiful Men,” “Wander to Wonder”

Best Live Action Short

If you liked “Conclave,” the short “Clodagh” is another story from the Catholic Church. If you liked “Emilia Pérez,” “Dovecote” is another film starring Zoe Saldaña. They’re both among the live-action shorts that made the strongest impression.

Predicted nominees: “Clodagh,” “Dovecote,” “I’m Not a Robot,” “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,” “The Masterpiece”

Watch out for: “Anuja,” “The Ice Cream Man,” “An Orange From Jaffa”

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The former “Daily Show” host, who previously hosted the 63rd, 64th, 65th and 66th installments of the Grammys, will also serve as a producer on the show.

The 2025 ceremony will return to Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, Feb. 2 from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET/5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PT on CBS and stream live for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers and on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the next day.

The 67th annual Grammy Awards will be produced by Fulwell 73 Productions for the Recording Academy. Ben Winston, Raj Kapoor and Jesse Collins are executive producers.

Per CBS, the telecast will “carry a renewed sense of purpose” by raising additional funds to support wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles and honoring the bravery and dedication of first responders who risk their lives to protect others.

In response to the wildfires, the Recording Academy and MusiCares launched the Los Angeles Fire Relief Effort, initially contributing $1 million to support impacted music creatives and professionals. Additional contributions helped the fund distribute over $2 million in “emergency aid to those most in need.”

Nominations for the 67th annual awards show saw Beyoncé bring in the biggest number of 2025 nods with 11 in total — including Best Country Album — for “Cowboy Carter.” Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone scored seven nominations each, while Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift earned six nods apiece.

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Starting at 5:30 a.m. PST, the “Wicked” actor and the “Bottoms” actress will reveal the nominees for all 23 categories via livestream and on social media. The nods were originally supposed to be read on Jan. 17, but were postponed due to the Los Angeles wildfires.

Final voting will take place Feb. 11-18. Conan O’Brien will then host (for the first time) on March 2, with Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan producing.

In addition to postponing the initial nominations announcement, the 2025 Oscar Nominees Luncheon has been canceled altogether, per the AMPAS.

Yang is best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live” as well as his “Las Culturistas” podcast with Matt Rogers, while Sennott has starred in “Shiva Baby,” “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” “I Used to Be Funny” and “Saturday Night.” The pair’s upcoming gig as Oscar nominee announcers was first revealed on “Good Morning America” early Tuesday.

The 97th Academy Awards air live March 2 on ABC and Hulu.

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Other nominees in the category are “Dune: Part Two,” “A Real Pain,” “September 5” and “The Substance.”

While last year’s PGA nominations included a record three films directed by women and three predominantly not in English,”The Substance” was this year’s only female-directed nominee and “Emilia Perez” its only non-English one.

The nominations include most of the top contenders for the Oscar for Best Picture, with the indies “Nickel Boys” and “Sing Sing” being the highest-profile films that were left out. “September 5,” the European-made film about the terrorist attacks at the Munich Olympics in 1972, is the biggest surprise among the nominees after receiving little awards attention from other guilds.

In the television categories, the nominees included “Bad Sisters,” “The Diplomat,” “Shogun,” “Abbott Elementary,” “The Bear,” “Hacks,” “Baby Reindeer” and “The Penguin.”

Since the Academy and the Producers Guild both expanded to 10 Best Picture nominees in 2009, almost 90% of the Oscar nominees have first been nominated by the PGA. With the Academy moving to a variable number of nominees for 10 of those years, there has only been one instance of the two groups matching exactly — and that came last year, when the 10 PGA nominees all went on to receive Oscar nods.

Since the Producers Guild began announcing a slate of nominees in 1991, “Braveheart” is the only film to win Best Picture at the Oscars without first being nominated by the guild.

The nomination announcement had been delayed for six days by the L.A. wildfires. The delay made the PGA the last of the four major guilds to announce its nominations.

The results made “Anora” and “A Complete Unknown” the only films to be nominated by the Directors Guild, Producers Guild and Writers Guild and to receive an ensemble-cast nomination from the Screen Actors Guild. “Conclave” and “Emilia Perez” received nominations from SAG, DGA and PGA and were ineligible for WGA noms, while “The Brutalist” received an individual acting nomination at SAG, nods from the DGA and PGA and was ineligible for WGA.

The Producers Guild Awards will take place on Feb. 8 in Los Angeles.

The nominations:

Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance
Wicked

Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
Flow
Inside Out 2
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama
Bad Sisters
The Diplomat
Fallout
Shōgun
Slow Horses

Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy
Abbott Elementary
The Bear
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building

David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television
Baby Reindeer
FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans
The Penguin
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country

Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures
Carry On
The Greatest Night in Pop
The Killer
Rebel Ridge
Unfrosted

Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television
30 for 30
Conan O’Brien Must Go
The Jinx – Part Two
STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
Welcome to Wrexham

Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television
Ali Wong: Single Lady
The Daily Show
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live

Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television
The Amazing Race
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Traitors
The Voice

The following nominees were previously announced.

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture
Gaucho Gaucho
Mediha 
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
Porcelain War
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 
We Will Dance Again 

The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program
Avatar: The Last Airbender 
Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock 
Percy Jackson and the Olympians 
Sesame Street 
SpongeBob SquarePants 

The Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program
The Crown: Farewell To A Royal Epic 
Hacks: Bit By Bit
The Penguin: Inside Gotham
Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime 
Shōgun – The Making of Shōgun 

The Award for Outstanding Sports Program
Formula 1: Drive to Survive 
Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants 
Messi’s World Cup: The Rise of a Legend
Simone Biles Rising 
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics 

The PGA Innovation Award
Critterz
Emperor
Impulse: Playing with Reality
Orbital
The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu
What If…? – An Immersive Story

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