The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were revealed live this week.

Emilia Pérez is the top nominee with 13 total, making the musical the most-nominated non–English language film in Oscars history. Next in line this year are Wicked and The Brutalist with 10 nominations each.

The only movies I have seen on this list are The Substance with 5 nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling; Flow (with the cat) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4772188/ with 2 nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best International Feature; Alien: Romulus nominated for Best Visual Effects and Gladiator II nominated for Best Costume Design.

What can I say? I prefer to watch old movies.

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 Supporting Actress

Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown
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

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

Best Original Screenplay

Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance

Best Adapted Screenplay

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing

Best Cinematography

The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu

Best Original Score

The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot

Best Original Song

“El Mal” - Emilia Pérez
“The Journey” - The Six Triple Eight
“Like a Bird” - Sing Sing
“Mi Camino” - Emilia Pérez
“Never Too Late” - Elton John: Never Too Late

Best Editing

Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked

Best Production Design

The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Costume Design

A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosferatu
The Substance
Wicked

Best Sound

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

Best Visual Effects

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

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 and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

The 97th Oscars ceremony will air live from Hollywood on Sunday, March 2nd, at 7 pm Eastern.

  

Anora wins best picture? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28607951/awards/

The movie about the street worker that marries into the Russian Mafia?

Considering the subject matter of the movie is the Russian Mafia, I suspect many of the voting members of the Academy got threatened and bought out.

I did not see Anora but I did see The Substance with Demi Moore and what Demi had to do on camera, she earned her Best Actress Oscar nomination and she should had won.

Full list of Nominees in each category and winners:

https://abc.com/news/8d96bb37-bd59-4c28-a470-46f244f63b3b/category/3590742

On the other hand, I am very happy Flow won Best Animated Feature beating out a Disney $200 million budget animated film.

It was also nominated for Best International Feature Film but it didn't win.

What the Latvian filmmakers of Flow did to make it on a very tight budget where every frame is the difference between a finished movie or no movie at all, without a $200-250 million budget like Disney has with each of their animated films, it's nothing short of a miracle.

If you have not seen Flow, you need to. Don't think of it as a cartoon and that you are too old for it.

 

 

The Oscars this year was a hot mess:

they left out many names in the Memoriam segment.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/michelle-trachtenberg-snubbed-oscars-in-memoriam-1236152583/

Some might say Memoriam is for 2024 passings so Michelle Trachtenberg would be in next year's Academy Awards Memoriam.

But they did include Gene Hackman who passed in 2025, so the 2024 argument is moot.