Guy Pearce continues awards season run with Oscar nomination

Guy Pearce has scored a Best Supporting Actor nomination for this year's Oscars for his role in The Brutalist.

His recognition at the 97th Academy Awards follows a run of nominations for the Australian, including supporting actor nods at the Golden Globes and the UK's answer to the Oscars, the BAFTA Awards.

Pearce isn't the only Aussie nominated, with Oscar-winning animator Adam Elliot up for Best Animated Feature Film for Memoir of a Snail.

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Elliot's stop-motion film won Best Film at the London Film Festival last October but failed to get a BAFTA nomination.

Clearly the film's proved more popular in the US across awards season, where it snagged Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards nominations.

Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser, who took out the Oscar in 2022 for Dune: Part One, is again nominated for his work on the sequel, Dune: Part Two.

While Better Man scored a nod for Best Visual Effects, the film failed to deliver a nomination for Australian director Michael Gracey.

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And Nicole Kidman, despite scoring a Golden Globe nomination for her erotic thriller Babygirl, missed out on an Oscar nomination in the Best Actress category.

Golden Globe nominee Angelina Jolie missed out on a nod for her turn as opera singer Maria Callas in Maria.

However, Golden Globe winner Demi Moore continued her awards season run with a nomination for Best Actress in The Substance.

She'll go up against Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez), Mikey Madison (Anora) and Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here).

Gascón's Emilia Pérez co-star Zoe Saldaña scored a Best Supporting Actress nomination but Selena Gomez missed out.

Fellow popstar and actress Ariana Grande scored her first Oscar nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in the movie musical Wicked.

Should Erivo take out the Oscar, the 38-year-old will join an elite group of fewer than 30 performers to have the famed EGOT status - and will be the youngest - having already won Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards for her work in the Broadway revival of the musical The Colour Purple.

Elton John, who just earned his EGOT last year, aged 76, received a nomination for Best Original Song for Never Too Late, from his documentary Elton John: Never Too Late.

Emilia Pérez leads with 13 nominations - including nods in both the Best Picture and International Feature Film categories - followed by The Brutalist and Wicked, which both scored 10 each.

With Emilia Pérez and Wicked both scoring Best Picture nods, it marks the first time in 57 years that two musicals have vied for the coveted award, after Oliver! and Funny Girl were both up for the title in 1968.

Despite some controversies, Emilia Pérez was poised to stand among Roma and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as one of the most nominated non-English films ever.

In the end, it set the record for most nominations for a non-English-language film, surpassing the 10 nominations each for the other two movies.

Only three films – All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land – have scored more nominations in Academy Awards history.

Pearce's The Brutalist co-star Adrien Brody scored a Best Actor nomination, alongside Timothée Chalamet (A Complete Unknown), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), Ralph Fiennes (Conclave) and Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice).

Jesse Eisenberg missed out on a leading actor nod but scored a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for his passion project A Real Pain.

Co-star Kieran Culkin did get nominated for the film in the Best Supporting Actor category and will go up against Pearce, Edward Norton, (A Complete Unknown), Jeremy Strong (The Apprentice) and Yura Borisov (Anora).

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Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott revealed the nominees in an announcement that was delayed almost a week due to the LA wildfires.

Conan O'Brien is set to host the Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 2 (Monday, March 3 AEDT).

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FULL LIST OF 2025 OSCAR NOMINEES:

Best picture

Anora

The Brutalist

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

I'm Still Here

Nickel Boys

The Substance

Wicked

Best actor in a leading role

Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice

Best actress in a leading role

Cynthia Erivo, Wicked

Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez

Mikey Madison, Anora

Demi Moore, The Substance

Fernanda Torres, I'm Still Here

Best actor in a supporting role

Yura Borisov, Anora

Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

Edward Norton, A Complete Unknown

Guy Pearce, The Brutalist

Jeremy Strong, The Apprentice

Best actress in a supporting role

Monica Barbara, 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 cinematography

The Brutalist

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Maria

Nosferatu

Best international feature film

I'm Still Here

The Girl with the Needle

Emilia Pérez

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Flow

Best adapted screenplay

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Nickel Boys

Sing Sing

Best original screenplay

Anora

The Brutalist

A Real Pain

September 5

The Substance

Best live action short film

Alien

Anuja

I'm Not a Robot

The Last Ranger

A Man Who Would Not Remain Silent

Best animated short film

Beautiful Men

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Magic Candies

Wander to Wonder

Yuck!

Best animated feature film

Flow

Inside Out 2

Memoir of a Snail

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

The Wild Robot

Best documentary short

Death By Numbers

I Am Ready, Warden

Incident

Instruments of a Beating Heart

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

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

The Journey, from The Six Triple Eight

Like a Bird, from Sing Sing

Mi Camino, from Emilia Pérez

Never Too Late, from Elton John: Never Too Late

Best original score

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

The Wild Robot

Best makeup and hairstyling

A Different Man

Emilia Pérez

Nosfroatue

The Substance

Wicked

Best costume design

A Complete Unknown

Conclave

Gladiator II

Nosferatu

Wicked

Best editing

Anora

The Brutalist

Conclave

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

Best sound

A Complete Unknown

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Wicked

The Wild Robot

Best production design

The Brutalist

Conclave

Dune: Part Two

Nosferatu

Wicked

Best visual effects

Alien Romulus

Better Man

Dune: Part Two

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked

- Reported with CNN and Associated Press.

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