Oscars 2025: Winners at 97th Academy Awards-'Anora' and 'The Brutalist'-Emerge Dominant
With Sean Baker's "Anora" and Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist" multiple winners across categories, the 97th Academy Awards have officially wrapped. Here are some interesting highlights from the 2025 Oscars.
Hollywood's Biggest Night-A Night of Glitz, Glamour, and Surprises
Another year has passed, and with it another Oscars! As the stage was set and the stars aligned, Hollywood prepared for its biggest (and most controversial) night, this being the 97th.
The 2025 Academy Awards are here with the extravagant red carpet, subtle political undertones, and a celebration of industry self-congratulation that seems now an inevitability. The Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles was the host yet again for an awards race that almost defied straightforward predictions, where indie darling "Anora" was up against heavyweight European drama "The Brutalist." The final showdown had everyone guessing.
A Tussle Race for Oscars with Surprises.—The 97th Academy Awards
While Sean Baker's character study, winning the Palme d'Or, racked up key guild victories, Edward Berger's Vatican-set drama surged through BAFTA wins and a SAG ensemble award—two of the honors that suggest vastly different voting tendencies within the Academy. Dark horse contenders at this stage, like Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist" and James Mangold's "A Complete Unknown," let the race tremble quietly in bid for their surprises!
Now, History Is Made-If the Academy Likes It or Not
One of the biggest milestones of the night? Emilia Pérez set a new record for the number of nominations at the Oscars-13 nominations, the first time a non-English language film has achieved that. But the film's awards-season momentum looked to be threatened, no thanks to off-screen controversies that had been big news.
Veteran Demi Moore found herself in the midst of a late-career renaissance thanks to "The Substance", while budding star Mikey Madison scored his breakthrough in "Anora". This created the classic dilemma of the Academy: reward long-standing actors or crown the new?" Ironically, Hollywood rarely ends up rewarding someone for too long."Anyway, this would create the first real face-off between Adrien Brody and Timothée Chalamet for Best Actor: a poetic passing of the torch or the open reminder of how Hollywood loves a familiar face?" It may have been another historic night, but Oscars 2025 left room for one more lesson, showing that the race is never as predictable as it might appear—and that's the way Hollywood loves it.