Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.
m. ET/ 4:00 p.m.
PT. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions. Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” has become the early Oscar favorite as 2024’s surprise box office phenomenon ($355 million in 10 days), putting the animation powerhouse back on top theatrically after its recent drought.
For the follow-up to Pete Docter’s imaginative Oscar winner, newbie director Kelsey Mann tapped into anxiety as the newest and most resonant emotion for 13-year-old Riley (Kensington Tallman), and audiences responded beyond expectations. Voiced brilliantly by Maya Hawke, the hyper-active, orange, and stringy Anxiety mounts a hostile takeover of Riley’s emotions with cohorts Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser). It’s up to Joy (Amy Poehler) to set things right with Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale), and Disgust (Liza Lapira).
While Riley goes into overdrive to impress at summer hockey camp, Joy and the regulars attempt to restore Riley’s Belief System and Sense of Self, which represent the latest world-building wonders from Pixar. The former is a glowing, translucent environment with a river and pulsing .
