Oscar 2025: "Anora" Wins Big, India’s"Anuja" Misses Out


Oscar 2025: "Anora" Wins Big,  India’s"Anuja" Misses Out

Academy Awards 2025 concludes

 
Oscar 2025

Udaipur, March 3, 2025 - The 97th Academy Awards took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien, the ceremony honored winners across 23 categories. For the first time, the Oscars were streamed live on JioHotstar.

India-set short film "Anuja," backed by Guneet Monga and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, was nominated in the Best Live Action Short category. However, the award went to "I’m Not a Robot," a sci-fi short directed by Victoria Warmerdan.

Director Sean Baker’s romantic comedy-drama "Anora" won five awards, including

  • Best Picture

  • Best Actress (Mikey Madison)

  • Best Director

  • Best Film Editing

  • Best Original Screenplay

Anora Film

Adrien Brody Wins Best Actor

Adrien Brody won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Laszlo Toth in The Brutalist, directed by Brady Corbet.

Brutalist Film

"Emilia Perez" Leads NominationsAn

Emilia Perez received the most nominations, with 13 nods, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Emilia Parez

Palestinian and Israeli Documentary Wins

The documentary "No Other Land," which highlights Palestinians' struggle to protect their homes from demolition by Israel’s military, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The film, a collaboration between Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, triumphed over Porcelain War, Sugarcane, Black Box Diaries, and Soundtrack to a Coup d’État at the Academy Awards.

No Other Land

Best Picture

  • WINNER: Anora

  • The Brutalist

  • A Complete Unknown

  • Conclave

  • Dune: Part Two

  • Emilia Pérez

  • I'm Still Here

  • Nickel Boys

  • The Substance

  • Wicked

Best Actress

  • WINNER: Mikey Madison - Anora

  • Cynthia Erivo - Wicked

  • Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez

  • Demi Moore - The Substance

  • Fernanda Torres - I'm Still Here

Best Actor

  • WINNER: Adrien Brody - The Brutalist

  • Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown

  • Colman Domingo - Sing Sing

  • Ralph Fiennes - Conclave

  • Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

  • WINNER: Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez

  • Monica Barbaro - A Complete Unknown

  • Ariana Grande - Wicked

  • Felicity Jones - The Brutalist

  • Isabella Rossellini - Conclave

Best Supporting Actor

  • WINNER: Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain

  • Yura Borisov - Anora

  • Edward Norton - A Complete Unknown

  • Guy Pearce - The Brutalist

  • Jeremy Strong - The Apprentice

Best Director

  • WINNER: Sean Baker - Anora

  • Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez

  • Brady Corbet - The Brutalist

  • Coralie Fargeat - The Substance

  • James Mangold - A Complete Unknown

Best International Feature

  • WINNER: 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

  • WINNER: Flow

  • Inside Out 2

  • Memoir of a Snail

  • Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

  • The Wild Robot

Best Original Screenplay

  • WINNER: Anora - Sean Baker

  • The Brutalist - Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold

  • A Real Pain - Jesse Eisenberg

  • September 5 - Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David

  • The Substance - Coralie Fargeat

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • WINNER: Conclave - Peter Straughan

  • A Complete Unknown - Jay Cocks and James Mangold

  • Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard

  • Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes

  • Sing Sing - Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best Original Song

  • WINNER: El Mal - Emilia Pérez

  • Never Too Late - Elton John: Never Too Late

  • Mi Camino - Emilia Pérez

  • Like A Bird - Sing Sing

  • The Journey - The Six Triple Eight

Best Original Score

  • WINNER: The Brutalist

  • Conclave

  • Emilia Pérez

  • Wicked

  • The Wild Robot

Best Documentary Feature

  • WINNER: No Other Land

  • Black Box Diaries

  • Porcelain War

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

  • Sugarcane

Best Costume Design

  • WINNER: Wicked

  • Nosferatu

  • A Complete Unknown

  • Conclave

  • Gladiator II

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

  • WINNER: The Substance

  • A Different Man

  • Emilia Pérez

  • Nosferatu

  • Wicked

Best Production Design

  • WINNER: Wicked

  • The Brutalist

  • Dune: Part Two

  • Nosferatu

  • Conclave

Best Sound

  • WINNER: Dune: Part Two

  • A Complete Unknown

  • Emilia Pérez

  • Wicked

  • The Wild Robot

Best Film Editing

  • WINNER: Anora

  • The Brutalist

  • Conclave

  • Emilia Pérez

  • Wicked

Best Cinematography

  • WINNER: The Brutalist

  • Dune: Part Two

  • Emilia Pérez

  • Maria

  • Nosferatu

Best Visual Effects

  • WINNER: Dune: Part Two

  • Alien: Romulus

  • Better Man

  • Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

  • Wicked

Best Live Action Short

  • WINNER: I'm Not a Robot

  • Anuja

  • The Last Ranger

  • A Lien

  • The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best Animated Short

  • WINNER: In the Shadow of the Cypress

  • Beautiful Men

  • Magic Candies

  • Wander to Wonder

  • Yuck!

Best Documentary Short

  • WINNER: The Only Girl in the Orchestra

  • Death by Numbers

  • I Am Ready, Warden

  • Incident

  • Instruments of a Beating Heart

Source: Media Reports












 

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