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 If the previous decade saw a trend of Best Picture winners that felt esoteric to the greater public (i.
e. “The Artist”), then the new trend shaping what is pegged to win the most prestigious category at the Academy Awards is much more focused on what resonates with a wider crowd. Think about it as films we did not realize would unite us going in, given whatever unconventional elements they are offering.
“CODA” was something to watch with the whole family, and was a new take on depicting disabilities on screen. “Everything Everywhere All at Once” was an action comedy that put the spotlight on Asian American characters like we have rarely seen before, and packed a wallop of emotion. And then “Oppenheimer,” of course, was proof that biopics could be done on a greater scale, with audiences hooked by the thriller-like intensity of what the characters are trying to accomplish, and left pondering all these philosophical ideas.
With the latter two films, their awards appeal can be summed up more simply as the box office successes that proved audiences were still open to origi.
