Oscars 2025: Winners List of the 97th Academy Awards. Best picture, best actor, best actress and other winners

The highly anticipated 97th Academy Awards has finally announced its winners, adding another page to the history of cinema at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. While the world's largest stars walked the red carpet, the evening lived up to its reputation for drama, glamour, and history-making moments. The Oscars 2025 celebrated not only the best works in cinema but also broke age-old barriers with history-making wins.

Anora bagged all the top awards this year taking home 5out of 6 the categories it received a nomination for, such as Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, solidifying the dominance of the film. Meanwhile, Adrien Brody won another feather in his cap as Best Actor for The Brutalist, and Paul Tazewell became the first Black man to win Best Costume Design for his efforts on Wicked. Latvia also won a milestone moment when it took home its first-ever Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film with Flow.

With emotional acceptance speeches, upset victories, and a few surprises along the way, the 2025 Oscars showed that the biggest night in Hollywood is still full of surprises, magic, and tales to be remembered for years to come.

Below is list of this year's winners in every category -

Best Picture:

Anora by Alex Coco, Samantha Quan and Sean Baker

Best Director

Sean Baker for Anora

Best Actor in a leading role

Adrien Brody for THE BRUTALIST

Best Actress in a leading role

Mikey Madison for Anora

Best Cinematography

Lol Crawley for THE BRUTALIST

Best Production Design

Nathan Crowley (Production Design) and Lee Sandales (Set Decoration) for Wicked

Best Adapted Screenplay

Peter Straughan for Conclave

Best Sound

Gareth John, Richard King, Ron Bartlett and Doug Hemphill for Dune: Part Two

Best Animated Short Film

Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi for IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS

Best Live Action Short Film

Victoria Warmerdam and Trent for I'M NOT A ROBOT

Best Editing

Sean Baker for Anora

Best Original Score

Daniel Blumberg for THE BRUTALIST

Best Original Song

Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard for the song El Mal from EMILIA PÉREZ

Best Supporting Actor

Kieran Culkin for 'A Real Pain'

Best Supporting Actress

Zoe Saldaña for EMILIA PÉREZ

(Zoe Saldaña is the first American of Dominican descent to win an Oscar)

Best Visual Effects

Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe and Gerd Nefzer for Dune: Part Two

Best Original Screenplay

Sean Baker for Anora

Best Documentary Short Film

Molly O'Brien and Lisa Remington for THE ONLY GIRL IN THE ORCHESTRA

Best Documentary Feature Film

Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham for NO OTHER LAND

Best International Feature Film

I'M STILL HERE from Brazil directed by Walter Salles

Best Costume Design

Paul Tazewell for Wicked

(Paul Tazewell is the first African American to achieve Best Costume Design at Academy Awards)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Pierre-Oliver Persin, Stephanie Guillon and Marilyne Scarselli for The Substance

Best Animated Feature Film

FLOW (Latvia's first Oscar)