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.
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PT. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions . The State of the Race Despite the last two Best Director winners being Christopher Nolan and the filmmaker duo Daniels, for box office hits “Oppenheimer” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” respectively, commerciality is not as much a factor in determining what filmmakers are bound for an Oscar nomination as it is for what films are.
So something like “ Kinds of Kindness ” may be too niche and unconventional to win over the full Academy voting for a Best Picture nomination, but you should never count Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos out of the Best Director conversation these days. Part of that is because this category is where we have seen the biggest changes since the Academy spent a decade welcoming filmmakers from across the globe, despite the Oscars still being primarily focused on awarding American film . “Another Round” director Thomas Vinterberg and “Cold War” director Paweł Pawlikowski are two recent examples of filmmakers that received a Best Director nomination without their films scoring a Best Picture nomination, and the biggest contributing factor to that recognitio.
