HOLLYWOOD—The nominees for the 2025 Critic’s Choice Awards were unveiled on Thursday, December 12. Do I personally think they have an impact on Awards Season? No, plain and simple, they can create buzz, but they are in no way a predictor of what the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, Directors Guild or the Academy Awards will pick as their contenders of the year.
Leading the pack of films were “Conclave” and “Wicked” which each picked up 11 nominations each, including Best Picture. Followed close behind were, “Dune: Part Two” and “Emilia Perez” with 10 nominations each. I’m sorry I’m still baffled by all this love for “Dune: Part Two.” Yes, it was a major improvement from its predecessor, but I’m not sure I would consider it award worthy. Other films earning multiple nominations include “The Brutalist” with nine and “The Substance” and “Anora” with seven nods each.
Was surprised to see Nicole Kidman missing from the list for Best Actress for her work in “Babygirl.”
A partial list of this year’s nominees can be viewed below:
Best Picture
-“A Complete Unknown”
-“Anora”
-“The Brutalist”
-“Conclave”
-“Dune: Part Two”
-“Emilia Perez”
-“Nickel Boys”
-“Sing Sing”
-“The Substance”
-“Wicked”
Best Director
-Jacques Audiard “Emilia Perez”
-Sean Baker “Anora”
-Edward Berger “Conclave”
-Brady Corbet “The Brutalist”
-Jon M. Chu “Wicked”
-Coralie Fargeat “The Substance”
-RaMell Ross “Nickel Boys”
-Denis Villeneuve “Dune: Part Two”
Best Actress
-Cynthia Erivo “Wicked”
-Karla Sofia Gascon “Emilia Perez”
-Marianne Jean-Baptiste “Hard Truths”
-Angelina Jolie “Maria”
-Mikey Madison “Anora”
-Demi Moore “The Substance”
Best Actor
-Adrien Brody “The Brutalist”
-Timothee Chalamet “A Complete Unknown”
-Daniel Craig “Queer”
-Colman Domingo “Sing Sing”
-Ralph Fiennes “Conclave”
-Hugh Grant “Heretic”
Best Supporting Actor
-Yura Borisov “Anora”
-Kieran Culkin “A Real Pain”
-Clarnce Maclin “Sing Sing”
-Edward Norton “A Complete Unknown”
-Guy Pearce “The Brutalist”
-Denzel Washington “Gladiator II”
Best Supporting Actress
-Danielle Deadwyler “The Piano Lesson”
-Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor “Nickel Boys”
-Ariana Grande “Wicked”
-Margaret Qualley “The Substance”
-Isabella Rossellini “Conclave”
-Zoe Saldana “Emilia Perez”
Best Original Screenplay
-Sean Baker “Anora”
-Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum and Alex David “September 5”
-Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold “The Brutalist”
-Jesse Eisenberg “A Real Pain”
-Coralie Fargeat “The Substance”
-Justin Kuritzkes “Challengers”
Best Adapted Screenplay
-Jacques Audiard “Emilia Perez”
-Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox “Wicked”
-Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley “Sing Sing”
-RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes “Nickel Boys”
-Peter Straughan “Conclave”
-Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts “Dune: Part Two”
Best Animated Feature
-“Flow”
-“Inside Out 2”
-“Memoir of a Snail”
-“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
-“The Wild Robot”
The ceremony will be hosted once again by Chelsea Handler on January 12, 2025, at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar. It will air on E! from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. making a move from The CW which televised the ceremony for a number of years.
