A Complete Unknown receives eight Oscar nominations – see full list here

23 January 2025, 15:58

The Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet is one of this year’s most nominated films.

A Complete Unknown has received an impressive eight nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards.

The Timothée Chalamet fronted Bob Dylan biopic clearly impressed Oscars voters, as it’s been nominated in categories including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Sound.

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Timothée Chalamet has been nominated for his role as Bob Dylan in the highly competitive Best Actor category, and Edward Norton – who recently spoke to Gold’s Kirsty Gallagher about the film – has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for his role as Dylan’s music mentor Pete Seeger.

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Monica Barbaro, who stars in A Complete Unknown as fellow folk music sensation Joan Baez, has also received a Best Supporting Actress nomination, and the film’s director James Mangold is up in the Best Director category as well.

The film, which tells the story of Bob Dylan’s rise to fame in the folk music scene and his later shift towards making music with electric instruments during the mid 60s, is also nominated for Best Costume Design.

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Netflix’s musical crime film Emilia Pérez received the most nominations this year, breaking the record for the greatest number of nominations earned by a film not in the English language with its 13 nods.

Last year’s blockbuster musical adaptation Wicked and epic period drama The Brutalist followed with ten nominations each, meanwhile papal thriller Conclave tied with A Complete Unknown as the third most nominated film, after it earned eight nominations too.

The 2025 Oscars nominations in full are:

Best Picture

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• I’m Still Here
• Nickel Boys
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Director

• Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
• Sean Baker, Anora
• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
• Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
• James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

Best Actor

• Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
• Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
• Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best Actress

• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Actor

• Yura Borisov, Anora
• Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
• Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
• Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
• Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Best Supporting Actress

• Monica Barbaro, A Complete Unknown
• Ariana Grande, Wicked
• Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
• Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
• Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez

Adapted Screenplay

• A Complete Unknown, James Mangold and Jay Cocks
• Conclave, Peter Straughan
• Emilia Pérez, Jacques Audiard in collaboration with Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius and Nicolas Livecchi
• Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes
• Sing Sing, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar from a story by Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Clarence Maclin, John 'Divine G' Whitfield

Original Screenplay

• Anora, Sean Baker
• The Brutalist, Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold
• A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg
• September 5, Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, and co-writer Alex David
• The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

Animated Feature

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot

Animated Short Film

• Beautiful Men
• In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Magic Candies
• Wander to Wonder
• Yuck!

Cinematography

• The Brutalist, Lol Crawley
• Dune: Part Two, Greig Fraser
• Emilia Pérez, Paul Guilhaume
• Maria, Ed Lachman
• Nosferatu, Jarin Blaschke

Costume Design

• A Complete Unknown, Arianne Phillips
• Conclave, Lisy Christl
• Gladiator II, Janty Yates and Dave Crossman
• Nosferatu, Linda Muir
• Wicked, Paul Tazewell

Editing

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

Makeup and Hairstyling

• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

Live-Action Short Film

• A Lien
• Anuja
• I’m Not a Robot
• The Last Ranger
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Music (Original Score)

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Music (Original Song)

• ‘The Journey’ from The Six Triple Eight
• 'Never Too Late’ from Elton John: Never Too Late
• 'El Mal’ from Emilia Pérez
• ‘Mi Camino’ from Emilia Pérez
• ‘Like A Bird’ from Sing Sing

Documentary Feature Film

• Sugarcane
• Black Box Diaries
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Documentary Short Film

• The Only Girl in the Orchestra
• Death by Numbers
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart

International Feature

• Latvia, Flow
• Brazil, I’m Still Here
• Denmark, The Girl With the Needle
• France, Emilia Pérez
• Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Production Design

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Conclave
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

Sound

• The Wild Robot
• A Complete Unknown
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

Visual Effects

• Wicked
• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes