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LOS ANGELES: The 97th Academy Awards, best known as the Oscars, will honour the past year’s finest films and actors this Sunday, March 2, 2025.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present awards for artistic and technical excellence at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. The ceremony will air from 7-10 PM EST.

The Academy unveiled its Oscar nominees last month, which includes a broad range of films, from the nearly four-hour historical drama “The Brutalist” to the fantasy musical blockbuster “Wicked.”

Leading the pack for the most nominations is Netflix’s crime musical “Emilia Pérez” with 13 Oscar nominations, followed closely by “The Brutalist” and “Wicked,” both of which scored 10 nods each.

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The evening’s biggest prize, best picture, features a stacked lineup including the three films listed above, and “Anora,” “A Complete Unknown,” “Conclave,” “I’m Still Here,” “The Substance,” “Dune: Part Two” and “Nickel Boys.”

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Timothée Chalamet, Zoe Saldaña, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Adrien Brody and Demi Moore are among the stars nominated for a 2025 Oscar:

Actress in a leading role

Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked”

Karla Sofía Gascón, “Emilia Pérez”

Mikey Madison, “Anora”

Demi Moore, “The Substance”

Fernanda Torres, “Maria”

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”

Actress in a supporting role

Monica Barbaro, “A Complete Unknown”

Ariana Grande, “Wicked”

Felicity Jones, “The Brutalist”

Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave”

Zoe Saldaña, “Emilia Pérez”

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”

The Oscars’ venue is none other than the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, which has been the venue for the Academy Awards since 2001. It was previously known as the Kodak Theatre, located inside the Ovation Hollywood shopping center.

The state-of-the-art theatre, designed with the Academy Awards broadcast in mind, has a seating capacity of 3,300.