Guy Pearce has scored a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this year’s Oscars for his role in The Brutalist.
His recognition at the 97th Academy Awards follows a run of nominations for the Australian, including supporting actor nods at the Golden Globes and the UK’s answer to the Oscars, the BAFTA Awards.
Pearce isn’t the only Aussie nominated, with Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot up for Best Animated Feature Film for Memoir of a Snail.
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Elliot’s stop-motion film won Best Film at the London Film Festival last October but failed to get a BAFTA nomination.
Clearly the film’s proved more popular in the US across awards season, where it snagged Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards nominations.
While Better Man scored a nod for Best Visual Effects, the film failed to deliver a nomination for Australian director Michael Gracey.
And Nicole Kidman, despite scoring a Golden Globe nomination for her erotic thriller Babygirl, missed out on an Oscar nomination in the Best Actress category.
Golden Globe nominee Angelina Jolie missed out on a nod for her turn as opera singer Maria Callas in Maria.
However, Golden Globe winner Demi Moore continued her awards season run with a nomination for Best Actress in The Substance.
She’ll go up against Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora) and Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here).
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Gascón’s Emilia Pérez co-star Zoe Saldaña scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination but Selena Gomez missed out.
Fellow popstar and actress Ariana Grande scored her first Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in the movie musical Wicked.
Should Erivo take out the Oscar, the 38-year-old will join an elite group of fewer than 30 performers to have the famed EGOT status – and will be the youngest – having already won Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards for her work in the Broadway revival of the musical The Colour Purple.
Elton John, who just earned his EGOT last year, aged 76, received a nomination for Best Original Song for Never Too Late, from his documentary Elton John: Never Too Late.
Emilia Pérez leads with 13 nominations – including nods in both the Best Picture and International Feature Film categories – followed by The Brutalist and Wicked, which both scored 10 each.
With Emilia Pérez and Wicked both scoring Best Picture nods, it marks the first time in 57 years that two musicals have vied for the coveted award, after Oliver! and Funny Girl were both up for the title in 1968.
Despite some controversies, Emilia Pérez was poised to stand among Roma and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as one of the most nominated non-English films ever.
In the end, it set the record for most nominations for a non-English-language film, surpassing the 10 nominations each for the other two movies.
Only three films – All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land – have scored more nominations in Academy Awards history.
Pearce’s The Brutalist co-star Adrien Brody scored a Best Actor nomination, alongside Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).
Jesse Eisenberg missed out on a leading actor nod but scored a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for his passion project A Real Pain.
Co-star Kieran Culkin did get nominated for the film in the Best Supporting Actor category and will go up against Pearce, Edward Norton, (A Complete Unknown), Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice) and Yura Borisov (Anora).
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Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott revealed the nominees in an announcement that was delayed almost a week due to the LA wildfires.
Conan O’Brien is set to host the Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2 (Monday, March 3 AEDT).
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FULL LIST OF 2025 OSCAR NOMINEES:
Best picture
Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I’m Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked
Best actor in a leading role
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes, Conclave
Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice
Best actress in a leading role
Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best actor in a supporting role
Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice
Best actress in a supporting role
Monica Barbara, A Complete Unknown
Ariana Grande, Wicked
Felicity Jones, The Brutalist
Isabella Rossellini, Conclave
Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best director
Sean Baker, Anora
Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
James Mangold, A Complete Unknown
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez
Coralie Fargeat, The Substance
Best cinematography
The Brutalist
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Maria
Nosferatu
Best international feature film
I’m Still Here
The Girl with the Needle
Emilia Pérez
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Flow
Best adapted screenplay
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Nickel Boys
Sing Sing
Best original screenplay
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
September 5
The Substance
Best live action short film
Alien
Anuja
I’m Not a Robot
The Last Ranger
A Man Who Would Not Remain Silent
Best animated short film
Beautiful Men
In the Shadow of the Cypress
Magic Candies
Wander to Wonder
Yuck!
Best animated feature film
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot
Best documentary short
Death By Numbers
I Am Ready, Warden
Incident
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Only Girl in the Orchestra
Best documentary feature film
Black Box Diaries
No Other Land
Porcelain War
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Best original song
El Mal, from Emilia Pérez
The Journey, from The Six Triple Eight
Like a Bird, from Sing Sing
Mi Camino, from Emilia Pérez
Never Too Late, from Elton John: Never Too Late
Best original score
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Best makeup and hairstyling
A Different Man
Emilia Pérez
Nosfroatue
The Substance
Wicked
Best costume design
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Gladiator II
Nosferatu
Wicked
Best editing
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
Best sound
A Complete Unknown
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
Wicked
The Wild Robot
Best production design
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nosferatu
Wicked
Best visual effects
“Alien Romulus”
“Better Man”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
“Wicked”
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