From Emilia Pérez and its 13(!) nominations to the profoundly gross The Substance getting a Best Picture nod, the 2025 Oscar nominees addressed big social and political issues, all to varying degrees.

Demi Moore is set to continue her awards season ... Demi will go head to head with Emilia Perez star Karla Sofía Gascón and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. The Spanish drama has received 11 BAFTA ...

Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and Demi Moore are among the nominees ... Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths.

It’s almost time to roll out the red carpet for one of the most popular awards events of the season, and there have been some fierce contenders for nominations this year. Managing editor Stella Shipman and arts editor Charlie Hickman of The Daily Iowan offer their predictions for the 2025 Oscar nominees in some

Daniel Craig gave one of his best performances as an American expat in Mexico in the torrid May-December romance in "Queer," but it hasn't been resonating with awards voters. The Oscar snub is the final piece in a puzzle that just never came together.

Movies like “Anora,” “Maria” and “The Brutalist” — which looked like sure things for slots in the big five categories only a few months ago — became less certain as late-breaking wildcard contenders like “Wicked” and “Conclave” picked up steam among general audiences,

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us what it was like to be so unhinged—and win awards for it.

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It follows a middle-aged North London misanthrope named Pansy, who's played, in the single greatest performance I saw in 2024, by Marianne Jean-Baptiste. You might know Jean-Baptiste from Leigh's ...

Jean-Baptiste is no stranger to working with Leigh, as she received her breakout role (and first Oscar nomination) for his brilliant drama Secrets & Lies. Although that film required her to play a warm,

Gold Derby has been handicapping the 2025 Oscars since July, and each of the 23 categories has cycled through several frontrunners in the intervening months. However, some of our favorite movies, performers,

Over in the best actor category, Adrien Brody (The Brutalist) is expected to return to the race for his performance as a Hungarian architect hired by a wealthy American after World War Two. Brody was last nominated in 2003, when he won for The Pianist.