2025 Oscars Shortlist Announced in 10 Award Categories: Wicked, Challengers, & more Among top Contenders

The 2025 Oscars shortlist has been revealed, and the race is already getting exciting! With ten categories announced, including Best Documentary Feature, Best Animated Short, and Best Original Song, films like Emilia Pérez, Wicked, and Dune: Part Two are leading the pack. As the 97th Academy Awards approaches, this list gives us a thrilling preview of what’s to come.

What surprises await? Stay tuned for updates as we bring you the latest news!

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Here’s the 2025 Oscars shortlist for 10 award categories:

International Feature Film

• Brazil, I’m Still Here
• France, Emilia Pérez
• Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Iceland, Touch
• Canada, Universal Language
• Denmark, The Girl with the Needle
• Ireland, Kneecap
• Palestine, From Ground Zero
• Senegal, Dahomey
• Italy, Vermiglio
• Latvia, Flow
• Norway, Armand
• Thailand, How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies
• Czech Republic, Waves
• United Kingdom, Santosh

Documentary Short Film

• Chasing Roo
• Death by Numbers
• Eternal Father
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• Keeper
• Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World
• Once upon a Time in Ukraine
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra
• Planetwalker
• The Quilters
• Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr
• A Swim Lesson
• Until He’s Back

Documentary Feature Film

• Eno
• Frida
• The Bibi Files
• Union
• Dahomey
• Will & Harper
• Black Box Diaries
• The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
• Porcelain War
• Hollywoodgate
• No Other Land
• Queendom
• Daughters
• Sugarcane
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Music (Original Score)

• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Blitz
• Alien: Romulus
• The Wild Robot
• Babygirl
• The Brutalist
• Emilia Pérez
• The Fire Inside
• Blink Twice
• Gladiator II
• Challengers
• Conclave
• Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
• The Room Next Door
• Sing Sin
• Wicked
• Inside Out 2
• Nosferatu
• The Six Triple Eight
• Young Woman and the Sea

Music (Original Song)

• Kiss The Sky from The Wild Robot
• Forbidden Road from Better Man
• Piece By Piece from Piece by Piece
• Compress/Repress from Challengers
• Out Of Oklahoma from Twisters
• El Mal from Emilia Pérez
• Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late
• Sick In The Head from Kneecap
• Beyond from Moana 2
• Tell Me It’s You from Mufasa: The Lion King
• Like A Bird from Sing Sing
• Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez
• The Journey from The Six Triple Eight
• Winter Coat from Blitz
• Harper And Will Go West from Will & Harper

Animated Short Film

• A Bear Named Wojtek
• Beautiful Men
• The Wild-Tempered Clavier
• Yuck!
• Bottle George
• A Crab in the Pool
• In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Au Revoir Mon Monde
• Me
• Origami
• Percebes
• The 21
• Magic Candies
• Maybe Elephants
• Wander to Wonder

Live Action Short Film

• Dovecote
• Edge of Space
• The Ice Cream Man
• I’m Not a Robot
• Anuja
• Crust
• Paris 70
• Room Taken
• The Last Ranger
• A Lien
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
• The Masterpiece
• Clodagh
• The Compatriot
• An Orange from Jaffa

Sound

• Alien: Romulus
• Blitz
• A Complete Unknown
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Gladiator II
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Visual Effects

• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Civil War”
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Dune: Part Two
• Gladiator II
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Mufasa: The Lion King
• Twisters
• Wicked

Makeup And Hairstyling

• The Apprentice
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• A Different Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Waltzing with Brando
• Wicked

When & Where to Watch the Oscars 2025?

The 97th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The event will be broadcast live on ABC and streamed on Hulu, with availability in over 200 territories worldwide.

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