Oscar Nominations 2025
Who's in, who's out, who cares? (Well, I do.)
The 2025 Oscar nominations were announced this morning for movies released in calendar year 2024, and "Emilia PĂ©rez" led the field with 13 nominations, including best picture, best international film, director (Jacques Audiard), actress (Karla SofĂa GascĂłn), supporting actress (Zoe Saldaña), original screenplay and a load of production nominations. That the movie's been all over Netflix for the past months is absolutely a factor, and I think you can argue that the various strategies of release timing (or lack thereof) played a bigger part than usual in this year's line-up. The Academy Awards are only partly about perceived quality, of course; the larger narrative surrounding a movie or a performance as it functions in the popular culture – and when that narrative is at the forefront of Academy voters' brains – are, to my mind, much more critical in who gets a nod and who doesn't.
