LAST UPDATE | 23 Jan 2025

BELFAST-BORN SCREEN EDITOR Nick Emerson, who edited the the Vatican thriller Conclave, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Editing.

Kneecap and Saoirse Ronan have missed out on high-profile nominations while Emilia Pérez, a Spanish-language thriller, picked up 13 nods including Best Picture.

It was followed by immigrant saga The Brutalist and the musical adaptation of Wicked – which each picked up 10 nominations. Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown and  Conclave bagged eight nods each.

Belfast-born Nick Emerson, who edited Conclave, has picked up a nomination for his work. 

Nick Emerson was nominated for Best Editing for the film Conclave. Alamy Alamy

Belfast rap group Kneecap had been shortlisted for the Best International Feature Film and Best Original Song for their semi-biographical film of the same name, but missed out on a nomination today.

Musicians Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, who made their acting debuts in the movie, have already picked up a number of awards for the film and were nominated for a number of Baftas last week.

Simone Kirby, who appears in the film, told a Fís Éireann event earlier today that, regardless whether the film got nominated, the trio should be proud of the achievement and the movie they created.

“I thought we were making a small, little film – it was really good fun. It was a first-time narrative-feature director, three first-time actors, a really great script, but you never know how it’s going to come together.

“The music was incredible and the editing was brilliant. It just shows you what a group of really good talent can do,” she said. “I saw it at Sundance [...] and I was really amazed.”

Actor Saoirse Ronan was not nominated for an award. She was nominated for leading actress for her role in The Outrun in the Baftas earlier this month.

Jeremy Strong was nominated for Best Actor in a supporting role for his performance in The Apprentice, a dramatised biopic about the upbringing of Donald Trump which was produced by an Irish production company Tailored Films.

Sebastian Stan also picked up a nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in The Apprentice.

Here is the full list of nominations: 

Best Picture:

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• I’m Still Here
• Nickel Boys
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Actress:

• Cynthia Erivo (Wicked)
• Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez)
• Mickey Madison (Anora)
• Demi Moore (Substance)
• Fernanda Torres (I’m Still Here)

Best Actor:

• Adrien Brody (The Brutalist)
• Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown)
• Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice)
• Ralph Fiennes (Conclave)
• Colman Domingo (Sing Sing)

Best Supporting Actor:

• Kieran Culkin (A Real Pain)
• Yura Borisov (Anora)
• Guy Pearce (The Brutalist)
• Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown)
• Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice)

Best Supporting Actress:

• Monica Barbaro (A Complete Unknown)
• Ariana Grande (Wicked)
• Felicity Jones (The Brutalist)
• Isabella Rossellini (Conclave)
• Zoe Saldaña (Emilia Pérez)

Best Director:

• Sean Baker (Anora)
• Brady Corbet (The Brutalist)
• James Mangold (A Complete Unknown)
• Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez)
• Coralie Fargeat (The Substance)

Best Animated Film:

• Flow
• Inside Out 2
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Wild Robot

Best Original Screenplay:

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• A Real Pain
• September 5
• The Substance

Best International Feature Film:

• I’m Still Her (Brazil)
• The Girl With the Needle (Denmark)
• Emilia Pérez (France)
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
• Flow (Latvia)

Best Documentary Feature Film:

• Black Box Diaries
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
• Sugarcane

Best Original Song:

• El Mal from Emilia Pérez
• Like A Bird from Sing Sing
• The Journey from The Six Triple Eight
• Mi Camino from Emilia Pérez
• Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late

Best Editing:

• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked

Best Visual Effects:

• Alien: Romulus
• Better Man
• Dune: Part Two
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Wicked

Best Cinematography:

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part 2
• Emilia Perez
• Maria
• Nosferatu

Best Sound:

• A Complete Unknown
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Perez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best Original Score:

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Wicked
• The Wild Robot

Best Live-Action Short Film:

• Anuja
• A Lien
• I’m Not a Robot
• The Last Ranger
• The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

Best Animated Short Film:

• Beautiful men
• In the Shadow of the Cypress
• Magic Candies
• Wander to Wonder
• Yuck!

Best Documentary Short Film:

• Death by Numbers
• I Am Ready, Warden
• Incident
• Instruments of a Beating Heart
• The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

• A Different Man
• Emilia Pérez
• Nosferatu
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Costume Design:

• A Complete Unknown (Arianne Phillips)
• Conclave (Lisy Christl)
• Gladiator II (Janty Yates and David Crossman)
• Nosferatu (Linda Muir)
• Wicked (Paul Tazewell)

Best production design:

• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part Two
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

This year’s Oscar nominations were unveiled in an announcement delayed by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. Voting deadlines had to be extended this month, as the US entertainment capital was devastated by multiple blazes.

As areas in Los Angeles are still impacted by the fires, nominees were announced virtually – with the glitzy ceremony itself still set for 2 March.