The vote of the nominations is from 8-17 January 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 23, 2025. Final vote is February 11-18 2025. And finally the 97th Oscar Telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and Air Live at ABC at. 19.00 et/ 16:00 pt. We update our elections through the award season, so keep checking indieview for all our 2025 Oscar pre -prospects.
The race permit
While the other acting categories have a very clear frontunner, Best actor The Oscar race is fairly evenly divided between “a complete unknown” star Timothée Charamet and “The Brutalist” star Adrien Brodywith “The Apprentice” star Sebastian Stan Coming in the 11th hour as the dark horse.
Focusing on the former pair of actors, a fascinating element that connects the couple is that, was the Chalamet to win, he would break Brody’s record for the youngest best best actor. . decades since his Oscar victory.
It may well be the right strategy, and the academy in recent years has been about breaking expectations, but it would be an outstanding performance for Brody to win again for what is just his second Oscar nomination. What actually has a precedent is a young actor who wins Oscar for a Biopik in particular, with Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) and Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) as recently example.
While Brody assembles a more traditional comeback campaign, the Chalamet brings out something exciting and new, whether it is guest commentator at “College GameDay” or takes on Host and musical guests at “Saturday Night Live,” Debuts new arrangements of unclear Bob Dylan songs. The academy is still a little more snapped, so his individualized efforts can go unnoticed by older voters, but how he has shaken prices is quite charming for the average viewer. There is also a concern that if he does not win Oscar now, the Chalamet will suffer through the same fate as an actor as Al Pacino or Leonardo DiCaprio, and finally win an Oscar for a minor role just because he is due.
As for town, the reason he has been a dark horse that his campaign has been more appealing than the actual film He has been nominated for. “The Apprentice” is clearly a favorite among international voters at the academy, which is teased by the actor’s Golden Globes and Bafta nominations for the film where he plays a young Donald Trump, but his turn in “Another Man” has been the show and the performance to Critics pressed. His overall story about ensuring that Hollywood is a place that still takes risks is one that voters can come behind, but having to talk about Trump more often in these times can be uneven.
Although Domingo and Fiennes are welcome returns to the Oscar race, the first movie “Sing Sing” is frustrating a bit, and the latter just doesn’t have a campaign for “Conclave” on the same level as his comrades. Do more things like his Living comic monologue Reading under CNN New Year’s Eve Special would actually have given him more chance of winning.
The nominees are listed after probability of winning.
Timothée Charamet (“a complete unknown”)
Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”)
Sebastian Stan (“The Apprentice”)
Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”)
Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”)
