Ariana Grande marked her Oscar nomination for Wicked with a touching nod to her childhood dreams. Sharing a photo of herself dressed as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, Grande reflected on her journey and the influence of Judy Garland's iconic role.

When it comes to predicting Oscar nominations it is always a crap shoot, but I think it is safe to say that there is music in the air in the Best Picture race with original musical Emilia Pérez, Bob Dylan musical biopic A Complete Unknown and the Broadway musical adaptation Wicked all likely to be

You get an Oscar, you get an Oscar, every Best Picture nominee gets an Oscar? Not always. For most of the past decade when the Oscars used the sliding scale in Best Picture, most, if not all, of the Best Picture nominees every year walked away with at least one Oscar.

Another musical, the Spanish-language French Oscar entry “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), is poised to dominate the delayed Oscar nominations announcement on January 23 with 12 nods, by my estimation, followed by papal thriller “Conclave” (Focus Features) with 10,

Things shifted a bit at the start of the 21st century with “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and the rise of Pedro Almodóvar, whose films have earned nominations for score, screenplay and actors like Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.

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The Oscar nominations are out after being delayed by the California wildfires, and the musical crime thriller "Emilia Pérez" leads the field.

We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions. While the other acting categories have a very clear frontrunner, the Best Actor Oscar race is pretty evenly split between "A Complete Unknown" star Timothée Chalamet and "The Brutalist" star Adrien Brody,

The Oscars 2025 are rapidly approaching, and with nominations now officially announced, we're predicting the winners of all 23 categories.