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
The 2025 Oscar nominations for Best director became one of the most discussed categories in the morning after Twin surprises of “The Substance” filmmaker Coralie Fargeat Secure a nick, and “Conclave” director Edward Berger left the list.
The main reason for this caught people outside was it since then DGA -NOMINATIONS Turned the way for “a completely unknown” director James Mangold, the expectations of forecasters were that it would be the two who competed for the fifth place in the best director. After all, Berger had a lot of traction, with “Conclave” which premieres a couple of months before “a completely unknown” even began screening and the papal choice Thriller that earned more critical and commercial success than both of his said competitors.
But in the end, the director’s branch took the more Arcane road. None of the films nominated in the category did more than “Conclave”, which means that Berger seems to be an example of a larger trend of voters who have no taste for more traditional crowdpleasers like “wicked” and “Dune: part two” as well.
Although Golden Globes is not voted by by academy members for the most part, the “The Brutalist” film creator Brady Corbet won the best director There – and getting all the air time to go through call points about how the importance of artists finally – drove him to Frontrunner status. Especially when voters consider the story of stories that he could achieve on a tight budget.
Sure, “Anora” director Sean Baker is still fierce competition as a director who has long been on the bubble from prices that finally have its breakout via Palme d’Or winnerBut his film Got much fewer during the nominations.
Given how voters actually spread the wealth when it comes to ensuring that every director they liked gets an Oscar, the playing field currently looks like Baker who wins the best original script, Jacques Audiard get his Oscar for best international function for the nomination leader “Emilia Pérez, “And Corbet won this category.
The nominees are listed after probability of winning.
Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
Sean Baker, “Anora”
Jacques Audiard, “Emilia Pérez”
Coralie Fargeat, “Subject”
James Mangold, “A Completely Unknown”
