The Oscar shortlist for Makeup & Hairstyling, Original Score, Original Song, Sound and Visual Effects (as well as feature and short film categories for animated, documentary and international features) will be revealed on December 17, 2024. Academy Awards nominations will be announced January 17, 2025 and the 97th Oscars will be held on March 2.
Precursor nominations for Makeup & Hairstyling (the MUAHs) are set for December 10, Original Score has several guilds (including the Society of Composers and Lyricists and Hollywood Music in Media Awards), for Sound we have the Cinema Audio Society noms on January 7 and the Motion Picture Sound Editors noms on January 6 and the Visual Effects Society will reveal their nominations on January 14.
Here are my 2025 Oscar shortlist predictions in Makeup & Hairstyling (10), Original Score (now 20), Original Song (15), Sound (10) and Visual Effects (10) for November.
| 1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros) |
| 2. The Substance (MUBI) |
| 3. A Different Man (A24) |
| 4. Nosferatu (Focus Features) |
| 5. A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures) |
| 6. Wicked Part I (Universal Pictures) |
| 7. Sasquatch Sunset (Bleecker Street) |
| 8. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros) |
| 9. Maria (Netflix) |
| 10. The Animal Kingdom (Magnet Releasing) |
Next up: The Apprentice (Briarcliff Entertainment), Emilia Pérez (Netflix), Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures), Hit Man (Netflix), Saturday Night (Sony Pictures)
Other contenders: Alien: Romulus (20th Century Studios), Better Man (Paramount Pictures), Conclave (Focus Features), Deadpool and Wolverine (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios), Firebrand (Roadside Attractions), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros), Here (Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures), Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros), Nightbitch (Searchlight Pictures), September 5 (Paramount Pictures)
| 1. Conclave (Focus Features) Volker Bertelmann | HMMA (main) |
| 2. Dune: Part II (Warner Bros)* Hans Zimmer | HMMA (scifi/fantasy) |
| 3. Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Clément Ducol, Camille | HMMA (main) |
| 4. The Brutalist (A24) Daniel Blumberg | |
| 5. The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures/Dreamworks Animation) Kris Bowers | HMMA (animated) |
| 6. Blitz (Apple Original Films) Hans Zimmer | HMMA (main) |
| 7. Challengers (Amazon MGM) Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross | HMMA (main) |
| 8. The Room Next Door (Sony Pictures Classics) Alberto Iglesias | HMMA (independent) |
| 9. Gladiator II — Harry Gregson-Williams (Paramount Pictures) | HMMA (main) |
| 10. Saturday Night (Sony Pictures) Jon Batiste | HMMA (main) |
| 11. Queer (A24) Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross | |
| 12. White Bird (Lionsgate) Thomas Newman | |
| 13. Sing Sing (A24) Bryce Dessner | |
| 14. The Piano Lesson (Netflix) Alexandre Desplat | |
| 15. Nickel Boys (Amazon MGM) Alex Somers and Scott Alario | |
| 16. The Substance (MUBI) Raffertie | |
| 17. Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios) Andrea Datzman | HMMA (animated) |
| 18. Young Woman and the Sea (Walt Disney Pictures) Amelia Warner | |
| 19. September 5 (Paramount Pictures) Lorenz Dangel | |
| 20. Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Pictures) Dave Metzger |
Other contenders: Anora — Matthew Hearon-Smith (NEON), The Apprentice — Marti Dirkov (Briarcliff Entertainment), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Danny Elfman (Warner Bros)*, Civil War — Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow (A24), Flow — Gints Zilbalodis, Rihards Zalupe (Janus Films/Sideshow), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — Tom Holkenborg (Warner Bros), Here — Alan Silvestri (Sony Pictures/Columbia Pictures), Lee — Alexandre Desplat (Roadside Attractions), Memoir of a Snail — Elena Kats-Chernin, Moana 2 — Mark Mancina, Opetaia Foaʻi (Walt Disney Pictures)
*if eligible
| 1. “El Mal” by Clement Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard from Emilia Pérez (Netflix) | HMMA (main) |
| 2. “Winter Coat” by Nicholas Britell, Steve McQueen, and Taura Stinson from Blitz (Apple Original Films) | HMMA (main) |
| 3. “Never Too Late” by Elton John & Brandi Carlile from Elton John: Never Too Late (Walt Disney Pictures) | HMMA (doc) |
| 4. “Mi Camino” by Clement Ducol and Camille from Emilia Pérez (Netflix) | HMMA (main) |
| 5. “The Journey” by Diane Warren from The Six Triple Eight (Netflix) | HMMA (main) |
| 6. “Kiss the Sky” by Delacey, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack & Ali Tamposi from The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures/Dreamworks Animation) | HMMA (animated) |
| 7. “Piece by Piece” by Pharrell Williams from Piece by Piece (Focus Features) | HMMA (doc) |
| 8. “Harper and Will Go West” by Sean Douglas, Kristen Wiig & Josh Greenbaum from Will & Harper (Netflix) | HMMA (doc) |
| 9. “I Always Wanted a Brother” by TBD from Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Pictures) | |
| 10. “Compress/Regress” by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Luca Guadagnino from Challengers (Amazon MGM) | HMMA (animated) |
| 11. “Out of Oklahoma” by Lainey Wilson, Luke Dick & Shane McAnally from Twisters (Universal Pictures/Warner Bros) | HMMA (main) |
| 12. “Sick In The Head” by Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí, Adrian Louis Richard Mcleod, and Toddla T from Kneecap (Sony Pictures Classics) | |
| 13. “Beyond” by Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear from Moana 2 (Walt Disney Pictures) | HMMA (animated) |
| 14. “Forbidden Road” by Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler & Sacha Skarbek from Better Man (Paramount Pictures) | HMMA (main) |
| 15. “Like a Bird” by Abraham Alexander, Brandon Marcel & Adrian Quesada from Sing Sing (A24) |
Next up:
Other contenders:
| 1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros) |
| 2. Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures) |
| 3. Emilia Pérez (Netflix) |
| 4. A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures) |
| 5. Twisters (Paramount Pictures/Warner Bros) |
| 6. Civil War (A24) |
| 7. Wicked Part I (Universal Pictures) |
| 8. Conclave (Focus Features) |
| 9. Better Man (Paramount Pictures) |
| 10. Blitz (Apple Original Films) |
Next up: The Brutalist (A24), Challengers (Amazon MGM), Maria (Netflix), Nosferatu (Focus Features), A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount Pictures), The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures/Dreamworks Animation)
Other contenders: Alien Romulus (20th Century Studios), Anora (NEON), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros), Deadpool and Wolverine (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros), Hit Man (Netflix), Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios), Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros), Megalopolis (Lionsgate), Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Pictures), The Piano Lesson (Netflix), The Seed of the Sacred Fig (NEON), The Substance (MUBI), Transformers One (Paramount Pictures)
| 1. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros) |
| 2. Gladiator II (Paramount Pictures) |
| 3. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (20th Century Studios) |
| 4. Twisters (Paramount Pictures/Warner Bros) |
| 5. Better Man (Paramount Pictures) |
| 6. Mufasa: The Lion King (Walt Disney Pictures) |
| 7. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros) |
| 8. Deadpool and Wolverine (Walt Disney Pictures/Marvel Studios) |
| 9. The Wild Robot (Universal Pictures/Dreamworks Animation) |
| 10. Nosferatu (Focus Features) |
Next up: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros), Here (Sony Pictures/Tri-Star) A Quiet Place: Day One (Paramount Pictures), Young Woman and the Sea (Walt Disney Pictures)
Other contenders: Argylle (Apple Original Films), Civil War (A24), A Complete Unknown (Searchlight Pictures), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Warner Bros), Inside Out 2 (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios), Joker: Folie à Deux (Warner Bros), Megalopolis (Lionsgate), Nightbitch (Searchlight Pictures), The Substance (MUBI), Transformers One (Paramount Pictures)
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