2025 Oscar Predictions: Who Are the Likely Winners?

The Oscars season has arrived and with nominations set to be blazoned on 17 January, it’s time to make some” bold” prognostications, said Screen Rant. While certain flicks are” well deposited” to win, with colorful sets of data enabling” educated protrusions”, it’s important to flash back that” there is always room for surprises”.
Last time,” Oppenheimer” dominated the Oscars, lading seven prizes including stylish film, stylish actor and stylish director( Christopher Nolan’s first Oscar). Will this time’s awards be as clear cut? Then is what the critics are saying.

Best picture
” Award- winning jubilee notables”” Anora” and” Conclave” have surfaced as the” cream of the crop”, while” The Brutalist” is also a strong contender, said Entertainment Weekly. The Academy’s growing” transnational voting base” means” Emilia Perez” is likely structure significant” behind- the- scenes support”.
” Anora” is” veritably much in the lead”, when it comes to” precursor recognitions”, said Cooper Hood in Screen Rant. Sean Baker’s film about a coitus worker from Brooklyn who marries the son of an oligarch has formerly won the Palme d’Or from Cannes, as well as nominations from the Golden Globes, NBR, Gotham Awards, AFI and Film Independent Spirit Awards.” Wicked” has also started to” climb up vaticination maps”, having been awarded Best Film from NBR. Universal’s film adaption of the hit Broadway musical comedy will appeal to choosers looking for a further” feel-good movie”.

Best director
While Variety predicts Brady Corbet will lade stylish director for” The Brutalist”, The Hollywood journalist is vaticinating Edward Berger will snap up the award with his riddle suspenser about the selection of a new pope,” Conclave”.
numerous choosers will follow suit, backing a” sprinkle of filmmakers behind the time’s most- praised filmland”, but there are generally” one or two surprises” in the Best Director order, said Entertainment Weekly. The global voting base might see an” transnational director squeezing past more well- known directors”; French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat could land herself a spot this time with her body horror” visionary spectacle”,” The Substance”.
Best actor in a commanding part
Looking through the list of former Oscar winners who bagged stylish actor for playing a music legend, you can” fluently be converted” that this could be Timothée Chalamet’s time for his” persuading” depiction of Bob Dylan in” A Complete Unknown”, said Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Times. This would make him one of the youthful- ever Oscar winners.

Choosers will also” nearly clearly” nominate Colman Domingo for his performance as an capture serving time for a crime he did not commit in” deeply moving” captivity drama,” Sing Sing”. Last time, Domingo entered a nomination for his depiction of gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in Netflix’s eponymous biopic but lost out to Cillian Murphy for his starring part in” Oppenheimer”.

” Falling behind Chalamet for now is Ralph Fiennes”, said Hood in Screen Rant. While he is been nominated for an Oscar doubly, it’s been nearly three decades since he was last recognised. Still, if choosers decide to favour a” heritage angle”, he could” crop victorious” for his part as Cardinal Lawrence in” Conclave”.

Best actress in a commanding part
Angelina Jolie’s turn as” ill- fated pieces songster Maria Callas” in” Maria” could lade her the Best Actress award, said Entertainment Weekly. Pablo Larrain has formerly directed two stars to nominations for the coveted prize( Natalie Portman for her depiction of Jackie Kennedy in” Jackie” and Kristen Stewart for her portrayal of Princess Diana in” Spencer”). Jolie’s” megastar status” muscle bag her Oscar number three. But rising star Mikey Madison” occupies the other side of that coin”; a nomination for her commanding part in” Anora” would mark the” budding” actress’s” first nod at the top of a promising career”.

Variety is vaticinating Cynthia Erivo to win Best Actress for her starring part as Elphaba in” Wicked”. The British actress has formerly been shortlisted for the Golden Globes stylish womanish actor in a comedy or musical film; if nominated for an Oscar she’d come the alternate Black woman in history to earn two supereminent actress nominations.

Demi Moore is” absolutely meritorious” of a nomination for her commanding part in” The Substance”, said Screen Rant. While the film does not tick the typical boxes as an Oscar contender, and Moore is commodity of an” stranger” in the race, a nomination would be an excellent occasion to draw attention to her important performance.

Best actor in a supporting part
Denzel Washington’s extensively praised performance in” Gladiator II” feels like a” sure thing” for a nomination in this order, said Entertainment Weekly. Other” safe bets” include the” long overdue” Guy Pearce for his supporting part in” The Brutalist”, and the” relative unknown” Yuriy Borisov who’ll” go on for the lift”, given his well- entered performance in” Anora”.

” Kieran Culkin has surfaced as a steamrolling seeker in the supporting actor race,” said Variety. He is formerly been awarded numerous accolades for his” nuanced, deeply emotional turn” as Benji Kaplan in” A Real Pain”, and his success will probably continue. But that” does n’t mean it’s a done deal”; rout star Clarence Maclin is” still feasible for significant recognition” following his turn in” Sing Sing”, for which he has formerly bagged Outstanding Supporting Performance at the Gotham Awards.

Best actress in a supporting part
Zoe Saldaña’s” commanding turn” as Rita,” a counsel entangled with a medicine combination master” in” Emilia Perez”, has caused quite a stir, said Variety. She looks set to be one of this time’s” near-certain” appointees in this fiercely competitive order. But Ariana Grande’s depiction of Glinda in” Wicked” will also” force Oscar choosers – and sceptics – to take notice”. Her” bouncy depiction of the iconic’ good witch'”, will likely bag her a nomination and,” dare we say, a palm”.

Following her ignominious” Till” rebuff at last time’s awards, Danielle Deadwyler may eventually admit a nomination for her” inversely meritorious” sweats in” The Piano Assignment”, added Entertainment Weekly.
Other contenders include Monica Barbaro for her “delightfully assured” portrayal of Joan Baez in “A Complete Unknown”, and any of the stars from “His Three Daughters”, but “especially” Natasha Lyonne, said Marcus Jones in Indie Wire.