Emilia Pérez, Wicked dominate Oscar nominations

As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry lined up behind Emilia Pérez, the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity, in Oscar nominations on Thursday.

A Spanish-language, French-made film, Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez led with 13 nominations, including best picture and best actress for Karla Sophia Gascon, making her the first openly trans actor ever nominated for an Oscar.

Another musical — Wicked, the smash Broadway adaptation — came away with nearly as many nominations. Jon M. Chu’s lavish riff on Wizard of Oz scored 10 nominations, including best picture and acting nods for its stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. 

The Brutalist, a haunting postwar period drama about an architect, came away with 10 nominations as well, including a nomination for director Brady Corbet, a best picture nod and acting nominations for Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones. 

The nominees for best picture are:

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

Best actor:

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

Best actress:

• Demi Moore, The Substance
• Cynthia Erivo, Wicked
• Mikey Madison, Anora
• Karla Sofía Gascón, Emilia Pérez
• Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Original song:

• El Mal from Emilia Perez
• 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 animated film: 

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

Best supporting actor:

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

Best supporting actress:

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

Best original screenplay:

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

Best adapted screenplay:

• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Nickel Boys
• Sing Sing

Best directing:

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

Best documentary feature film:

• Black Box Diaries
• No Other Land
• Porcelain War
• Soundtrack to a Coup D’etat
• Sugarcane

Best original score:

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

Best international feature film:

• I’m Still Here – Brazil
• The Girl with the Needle – Denmark
• Emilia Pérez – France
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Germany
• Flow – Latvia

Best costume design:

• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• Gladiator II
• Nosferatu
• Wicked

Makeup and hair styling: 

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

Production design:

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

Best film editing: 

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

Best sound: 

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

Visual effects:

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

Best cinematography:

• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part Two
• Emilia Pérez
• Maria
• Nosferatu

Live action short film:

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

Animated short film:

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

Documentary short film:

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