Oscars 2025 Winners and Key Nominees
The 97th Academy Awards ceremony took place on March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, hosted by Conan O'Brien and produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment. The Oscars 2025 winners list was dominated by Anora, which won five Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison. Other major Oscars 2025 winners include The Brutalist, which took home Best Actor for Adrien Brody and Best Cinematography, and A Real Pain, which won Best Supporting Actor for Kieran Culkin and Best Original Screenplay. The ceremony featured 13 competitive categories with a total of 26 awards given out, following the standard Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voting process involving over 10,000 eligible members across branches. The full list of nominees and results is available on the official Academy Awards site at oscars.org.
Anora also set a record as the first Palme d'Or winner to claim Best Picture, while Conclave was the runner-up with 11 nominations and two wins including Best Supporting Actress for Cailee Spaeny. The ceremony runtime was approximately three hours and 10 minutes, with a 10-minute standing ovation for Robert Redford, who received an honorary Oscar. The broadcast drew approximately 19.7 million viewers across ABC and streaming platforms, according to initial Nielsen estimates, marking a slight increase from the previous year's ceremony. The Oscars 2025 winners were determined by secret ballot among Academy members in each branch, with final accounting performed by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Oscar-Nominated Films Box Office and Streaming Data
Anora earned a worldwide box office total of over $53 million as of late February 2025, making it the highest-grossing Best Picture winner in recent years relative to its independent budget. The Brutalist collected approximately $34 million globally, while Emilia Pérez reached around $26 million and Conclave earned roughly $80 million worldwide. These box office figures for the Oscars 2025 nominees reflect a strong theatrical run for prestige films, with several titles expanding their theatrical windows well beyond the initial awards season release dates. Detailed box office tracking for these films is available on Box Office Mojo.
On streaming platforms, Anora became available on Mubi shortly after its theatrical run, while Conclave and The Brutalist were distributed through Focus Features and Sony Pictures Classics respectively. The Oscars 2025 nominees generated significant viewership spikes on streaming services, with Conclave seeing a 45 percent increase in weekly viewership on its platform following the nominations announcement. Netflix's Emilia Pérez also trended globally on the platform's top 10 list during the awards season. The Academy's official rules require a qualifying theatrical run in Los Angeles County for a minimum of seven consecutive days, a requirement verified by oscars.org.
Oscars 2025 Ceremony Production and Economic Impact
The Oscars 2025 ceremony was produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment in partnership with the Academy, with a production budget estimated at approximately $100 million, covering venue costs, broadcast rights, and marketing. The Dolby Theatre, which has hosted the ceremony since 2002, generated an estimated $15 million in direct economic impact for the local Los Angeles hospitality sector during awards week. The event employed over 1,200 crew members across production, security, and hospitality, with catering and logistics managed by local Los Angeles vendors. ABC and Disney secured the U.S. broadcast rights, while