After going into the 2025 Oscars with a promising array of nominations between them–including Best Picture–Dune, Wicked, and The Substance rounded out the awards ceremony last night with wins across an array of behind-the-scenes categories.
Sean Baker’s Anora was the big hit of the night, taking home 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress (for Mikey Madison), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Editing, giving Baker himself a record-breaking haul for most wins by a single person in one night, matching Walt Disney’s four-statue haul in 1954. Baker, however, became the first to do so for a single film.
While Dune: Part Two, Wicked, and The Substance all missed out on wins in the acting categories, each film found success in array of technical awards. Dune took home two wins in Best Sound and Best Visual Effects, while Wicked took Best Production Design and made history with Paul Tazewell’s win in Best Costume Design, making him the first Black man to win the category in Academy history. The Substance rounded out the night for genre media with a win for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
Check out the full list of winners and nominees below.
WINNER: Anora The Brutalist A Complete Unknown Conclave Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez I’m Still Here Nickel Boys The Substance Wicked
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez WINNER: Sean Baker, Anora Brady Corbet, The Brutalist Coralie Fargeat, The Substance James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
WINNER: 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 WINNER: Mikey Madison, Anora Demi Moore, The Substance Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Yura Borisov, Anora WINNER: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown Guy Pearce, The Brutalist Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown Ariana Grande, Wicked Felicity Jones, The Brutalist Isabella Rossellini, Conclave WINNER: Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
WINNER: Flow Inside Out 2 Memoir of a Snail Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl The Wild Robot
Beautiful Men WINNER: In the Shadow of the Cypress Magic Candies Wander to Wonder Yuck!
A Complete Unknown Conclave Gladiator II Nosferatu WINNER: Wicked
A Lien (Sam Cutler-Kreutz and David Cutler-Kreutz) Anuja (Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai) WINNER: I’m Not a Robot (Victoria Warmerdam and Trent) The Last Ranger (Cindy Lee and Darwin Shaw) The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Nebojša Slijepčević and Danijel Pek)
A Different Man Emilia Pérez Nosferatu WINNER: The Substance Wicked
WINNER: The Brutalist Conclave Emilia Pérez Wicked The Wild Robot
A Complete Unknown (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco) WINNER: Dune: Part Two (Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill) Emilia Pérez (Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldère, Maxence Dussère, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta) Wicked (Simon Hayes, Nancy Nugent Title, Jack Dolman, Andy Nelson and John Marquis) The Wild Robot (Randy Thom, Brian Chumney, Gary A. Rizzo and Leff Lefferts)
A Complete Unknown WINNER: Conclave Emilia Pérez Nickel Boys Sing Sing
WINNER: Anora The Brutalist A Real Pain September 5 The Substance
WINNER: The Brutalist Dune: Part Two Emilia Pérez Maria Nosferatu
Black Box Diaries WINNER: No Other Land Porcelain War Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Sugarcane
Death by Numbers I Am Ready, Warden Incident Instruments of a Beating Heart WINNER: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
WINNER: Anora The Brutalist Conclave Emilia Pérez Wicked
WINNER: Brazil, I’m Still Here Denmark, The Girl With the Needle France, Emilia Pérez Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig Latvia, Flow
“Never Too Late” from Elton John: Never Too Late WINNER: “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez “Mi Camino” from Emilia Pérez “Like A Bird” from Sing Sing “The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
The Brutalist Conclave Dune: Part Two Nosferatu WINNER: Wicked
Alien: Romulus (Eric Barba, Nelson Sepulveda-Fauser, Daniel Macarin and Shane Mahan) Better Man (Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft and Peter Stubbs) WINNER: Dune: Part Two (Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer) Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story and Rodney Burke) Wicked (Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, David Shirk and Paul Corbould)
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Source: Gizmodo