Oscars 2025, Anora triumphs, a Pretty Woman without a happy ending. Italy without awards

Triumph at the Oscars 2025 for the film Anora, a sort of Pretty woman without a happy ending starring a family of Russian oligarchs: Sean Baker’s film won five statuettes making it the most awarded film. A bitter 97th edition of the Oscars forItaly: no awards in fact for our country, despite the hopes of victory for Isabella Rossellini who was nominated for the best supporting actress statuette for Conclave. And disappointment, too, for one of the eve’s favorite films, A Complete Unknown, which despite eight nominations does not bring back even one win(Anora , on the other hand, won five awards out of six nominations). The film with the most nominations was Emilia Pérez with 13 nominations, immediately followed by The Brutalist and Wicked with 10 nominations each (three wins the former and two the latter).

Winning Best Picture 2025 on Oscar night held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles is Sean Baker’s Anora (which also wins Best Director). Best Actor in a Leading Role is Adrien Brody for The Brutalist, while Mikey Madison wins Best Actress in a Leading Role for Anora. Best supporting actor is Kieran Culkin for his role in A Real Pain while best supporting actress statuette wins Zoe Saldana for Emilia Pérez. The best foreign film award goes to Io sono ancora qui, a Brazilian film by Walter Salles, while the best animated film is, from Latvia, Flow - A World to Save by Gints Zilbalodis (it is the first Latvian film to win a statuette). Best documentary, on the other hand, is the Israeli-Palestinian No Other Land by Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal. Best non-original screenplay goes to Peter Straughan for Conclave, while again Sean Baker wins, for Anora, the award for best original screenplay.

The award for best cinematography goes to Lol Crawley for The Brutalist, while Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales win, with Wicked, best set design. Paul Tazewell wins best costume statuette for Wicked, while best makeup and hairstyling goes to Pierre-Oliver Persin, Stéphanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli for The Substance. Best visual effects are those of Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer for Dune - Part Two. Sean Baker wins another technical award, that for best editing. The award for best sound goes to Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill for Dune - Part Two, while it is Daniel Blumberg’s for The Brutalist for best original score. Also on the music side, Emilia Pérez ’s El mal is best original song (lyrics by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard, music by Clément Ducol and Camille). Finally, the awards for short films: best short film is I’m not a robot by Victoria Warmerdam, best documentary short is The Only Girl in the Orchestra - The Story of Orin O ’Brien by Molly O’Brien, and best animated short is Amedama by Daisuke Nishio.

Pictured: a scene from Anora.

Oscars 2025, Anora triumphs, a Pretty Woman without a happy ending. Italy without awards

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