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The first batch of presenters for the 2025 Oscars has been revealed, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has stuck with tradition, calling on last year’s winners to present in their respective categories.
Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph will present the respective 2025 Oscars for Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress at the 97th ceremony.
The Scientific and Technical Oscar Awards have been rescheduled to Tuesday, April 29. 37 individual award recipients, have been selected to be honored across 14 scientific and technical feats.
Bowen Yang (SNL, Wicked) plus Rachel Sennott (Bottoms, Shiva Baby) paired up to deliver the announcement of the Oscar nominations Jan. 23. The duo announced all 23 Academy Award categories live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Thursday via global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the Academy’s digital platforms.
The Los Angeles wildfires threw a wrench into the normal flow of events ahead of the 97th Academy Awards. The date of the nominations announcement has been postponed twice, and the voting period extended twice, and the 2025 Oscar Nominees Luncheon, which was set for February 10, has been canceled. The ceremony is still slated for March 2.
At first, the nominees announcement was pushed back from Friday, January 17, to Sunday, January 19, after the initial wave of fires broke out in the greater Los Angeles. The voting period was also extended by two days, set to end January 14. As the blazes continued to burn with the smallest amount of containment belonging to the Palisades Fire, the nominees announcement date was pushed even further to Thursday, January 23, with the voting period extended three more days to end at 5 p.m. PT on Friday, January 17.
The Oscars will be handed out Sunday, March 2 — a week earlier than the March 10, 2024 show. The ceremony will start at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET — a welcome time change that began with the 96th Academy Awards last March. The show had typically run from 5 p.m./8 p.m. (and often much later depending on speeches).
Plenty of great actors and directors have been nominated for the awards, including Timothée Chalamet for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in ‘A Complete Unknown’ and the biopic director James Mangold. Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton are also nominated for their supporting roles in the music movie. Netflix’s Emilia Pérez has the most nominations with 13 potential trophies. Star Karla Sofía Gascon has made history as the first openly transgender person ever nominated for an acting Oscar.
Sebastian Stan is nominated for his portrayal of Donald Trump in ‘The Apprentice’, and his costar Jeremy Strong is also nominated for his supporting role in the film as lawyer Roy Cohn. Strong will compete against his Succession costar Kieran Culkin for the supporting actor trophy. Culkin is nominated for his role in Jessie Eisenberg’s A Real Pain.
In 2025, the Academy Awards again will be handed out at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. It will mark the show’s 24th consecutive year at the venue
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