It's all first-time nominees for the Best Director Oscar - for the first time in 27 years
All five Academy Award nominees for Best Director on Thursday - Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Sean Baker for Anora, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, James Mangold for A Complete Unknown, and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance - are first-timers in the category.
Oscar nominations 2025: See the full list of Academy Award nominees
Follow live updates and coverage of the Oscar nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards. Find out who will be nominated.
Coralie Fargeat Hails Oscar Nomination As Only Woman Director
France's Coralie Fargeat hailed her Oscars nomination in the best director category on Thursday, telling AFP it would give other women filmmakers confidence and hope.
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2025 Oscar Best Director Nominees - Complete List
Explore the captivating stories and directors behind the 2025 Oscar nominations for Best Director, each offering a unique narrative that has captured the hearts of audiences worldwide.
See Every Woman Nominated for Best Director in Oscars History
Only nine women have been nominated a total of ten times (with three wins so far) in the Academy Awards' 97-year history. The Substance's Coralie Fargeat is the latest female Best Director nominee — see who has preceded her for the honor.
97th Oscars announces nominations for Achievement in Directing
The nominees for Achievement in Directing have been announced. They are: Sean Baker for 'Anora,' James Mangold for 'A Complete Unknown,' Brady Corbet for 'The Brutalist,' Coralie Fargeat for 'The Substance,
Coralie Fargeat and ‘The Substance’ Smash the Horror Ceiling with Historic Best Director Nod
With Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, and Actress Oscar nominations, 'The Substance' smashes one of the Academy Awards ...
Oscars flashback: 20 years ago the director race was fierce
With Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Clint Eastwood and Taylor Hackford in the race, it could have gone a number of ways ...
2025 Oscars: Coralie Fargeat Gets Sole Female Best Director Nod
Last year, Triet was the only woman nominated for Anatomy of a Fall. The year before that, no female director received a nod, while two years ago, Campion won in the category. Zhao, who was nominated ...
Oscar Noms Snubs and Surprises: ‘The Substance’ Scores Best Picture Spot as Selena Gomez, Denis Villeneuve Miss Nods
The star earned some of the best reviews of her career out of the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of the opera icon ...
The Latest: Academy Award nominees announced
Actors Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” ...
Best Picture Leaderboard: 'Emilia Pérez' leads the pack in tight 2025 Oscar race
For the first official Leaderboard ranking, Emilia Pérez is in the lead. It earned the most Oscar nominations with 13 and has slowly become this awards season’s villain.
Studio Scorecard: Netflix Leads Oscars With 16 Nominations
Vengeance Most Fowl” in the best animated feature category and for Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” for cinematography. A24 followed close behind on the scoreboard with 14 nominations for a range of films ...