Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7 p.
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PT. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions . As we enter the fall/holiday season, “Wicked” (Universal) and “Gladiator II” (Paramount) are gathering great early buzz.
Other standouts include “Conclave” (Focus Features), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “Blitz” (Apple TV+), and “Maria” (Netflix). Still to come are the highly anticipated “Nosferatu” (Focus Features), and “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight Pictures). Also in the running, of course, is “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.
). “Wicked,” Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical fantasy by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, explores the teen friendship between the Wicked Witch and Glinda the Good Witch before they become rivals.
Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba Thropp, the compassionate girl born with green skin, and Ariana Grande plays the conceited Galinda Upland. Costume designer Paul Tazewell (who previously teamed up with Chu on “In the Heights”) is no stranger to the world of Oz. He previously designed five productions of “The Wiz” and worked on “The Wiz Live!” Tazewell’s approach to Elphaba and Glinda’s costumes was to create intentional d.