Oscars 2025: ‘Emilia Perez’, ‘Wicked’ and ‘The Brutalist’ lead the nominations

Emilia Perez led the nominations for the 2025 Oscars, followed closely by Wicked and The Brutalist. Jacques Audiard’s largely Spanish-language musical, about a Mexican drug lord who transitions into a woman, bagged 13 nominations on Thursday, including for Directing, Best Picture and International Feature Film.

Although Payal Kapadia’s globally feted All We Imagine As Light didn’t get any nominations, Anuja, about street children in India and produced by Guneet Monga Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra Jonas among others, was nominated in the live action short film category. Anuja is scheduled for a Netflix release in the coming weeks.

The official synopsis describes Adam J Graves’s film as the “hopeful tale of two sisters struggling to find joy and opportunity in a world intent on their exploitation and exclusion”. According to a press release from Netflix, “The film is grounded in deep research and filmed in collaboration with several community partners, including Mira Nair’s Salaam Baalak Trust. This nonprofit organization focuses on empowering street and working children, and the lead actor, Sajda Pathan, is herself a beneficiary of the Trust.”

Brady Corbet’s 215 minute-long The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody as a Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor who struggles in America, and the…

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