There's been so much brilliant music in films this past year, so let's see who the nominees for best original score are:

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

Lavish looks don't just grace the runway on Oscars' night - they're splashed on the silver screen, too.

Here are the nominees for best costume design:

• A Complete Unknown (Arianne Phillips)
• Conclave (Lisy Christl)
• Gladiator II (Janty Yates and David Crossman)
• Nosferatu (Linda Muir)

• Wicked (Paul Tazewell)

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It's not just the costuming that bring characters to life - hair and makeup play key roles in making sure actors can truly inhabit their roles.

This year's makeup and hairstyling nominees are:

• A Different Man

• Emilia Pérez

• Nosferatu
• The Substance

• Wicked

There is no shortage of acting talent in the list of best supporting actor nominations for the Oscars this year.

Here's a look at who made the list:

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

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We're now heading to Los Angeles where the 97th Academy Awards nominations announcement is just kicking off.

Stay tuned as we bring you the latest and you can follow the latest by clicking Watch Live at the top of the page.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

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The frontrunner in the best supporting actor category is Kieran Culkin, the actor best known for his role as the snarky Roman Roy in HBO's Succession.

He could score a nomination for his performance in the excellent A Real Pain, about two cousins who travel across Poland in remembrance of their grandmother.

But one of Culkin's competitors is his own Succession co-star Jeremy Strong, who could be recognised for his terrific performance in The Apprentice as lawyer Roy Cohn, who mentored Donald Trump in his younger years.

The pair could be joined in the best supporting actor category by Yura Borisov (Anora), Guy Pearce (The Brutalist), Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing) and Edward Norton (A Complete Unknown).

And what about Culkin and Strong’s on-screen sister Sarah Snook? Well, she has a film in the awards race too, although not in the acting categories. The Australian voices the main character in the beguiling animated film contender Memoir of a Snail.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

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We're only minutes away from the unveiling of this year's Academy Awards nominees for the 23 categories under consideration and our colleague Steven McIntosh has some top advice on how to watch the 2025 Oscar-tipped films.

Most of the films in this year's awards race have now been released in UK cinemas or on streaming platforms.

If you still have a few films left to watch, you can find their cinema release dates and streaming availability here.

Several of the films, including Emilia Pérez and The Piano Lesson, were picked up by major streamers such as Netflix and have therefore been available to watch for several weeks.

Others, such as Conclave and Anora, were released in cinemas a few months ago but have since become available to buy or rent digitally.

But there are still a couple which haven't yet been released on any platform in the UK. You can expect to see Hard Truths, The Last Showgirl, I'm Still Here and The Seed of the Sacred Fig hit cinemas in the coming weeks.

• You can follow the nomination ceremony by clicking Watch Live at the top of the page from 13:30 GMT (08:30 EST).

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

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Wildfires in Los Angeles over the last fortnight have devastated several neighbourhoods, leaving 27 people dead and hundreds without homes.

With the city reeling from the fires’ impact, the Academy extended the Oscars’ voting period and delayed the announcement of nominations to allow voters more time to consider this year’s crop of films. They also cancelled the annual nominees’ luncheon scheduled for February.

Around 60% of the Academy's 10,000 members live in LA, and, for them, there have been far more important things to worry about than the awards race, and campaigning in the city was effectively brought to a close a week early.

This could shape the Oscar nominations in all kinds of ways. LA-based voters will have had less time to check out films which got a late surge in momentum – such as I’m Still Here, A Different Man and Flow, which scored surprise wins at the Golden Globes just two days before the fires began.

Some members may understandably not have voted at all. With their minds rightly elsewhere, something as trivial as filling out an Oscars ballot may have taken a back seat.

As a result, we could see more international films make the shortlists this year as non-US voters potentially have a bigger share of the vote.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

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British actress Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) could be nominated today for her role as the Wizard of Oz character Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.

The British actress is an Oscar win away from achieving EGOT status, having already won a Grammy, Tony and Emmy Award.

Erivo would also be the first black British woman to receive two Oscar nominations for acting - a possibility she shares with another of this year's contenders, Marianne Jean-Baptiste for Hard Truths.

Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez) is also likely to be recognised for playing a Mexican cartel leader who leaves the world of crime to live a new life as a trans woman.

Gascón would become the first trans person to be nominated in an acting category. There is one caveat - Elliot Page was nominated for Juno in 2008, but that was more than a decade before the actor transitioned.

But it's a competitive category, with Fernanda Torres, Mikey Madison, Demi Moore, Angelina Jolie, and Pamela Anderson also in the running.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

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One of the reasons Moonlight is thought to have won best picture in 2017 over frontrunner La La Land was the election of President Trump a few months earlier.

It’s understood Academy voters, generally a left-leaning bunch, wanted to send a message and reflect their mood at the time by awarding a more serious and artistic film led by a black cast, instead of an escapist, feel-good, sunshine-drenched musical.

This year, the same sentiment could mean extra votes for Emilia Pérez, a Spanish-language musical with a transgender lead character.

It will be particularly interesting to see whether the Academy nominates The Apprentice, a portrait of Trump’s younger years as a real estate tycoon in New York.

Voters could see it as an important character study worthy of recognition in a polarised political landscape. But they could just as easily shut it out – some voters have said they didn’t want to watch it against the backdrop of the US election.

One thing is certain: expect President Trump to get quite a few unflattering mentions during acceptance speeches at the ceremony.

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The official name of the award that today’s hopefuls will be competing for is an Academy Award of Merit.

However, as that’s a bit of a mouthful, we’ll stick to calling them Oscars here, as they’re more commonly known.

The reason behind this isn’t entirely clear, but "Oscar" was officially adopted in 1939, ten years after the very first Academy Awards ceremony.

There are a few theories, but the prevailing rumour is that the nickname originated with a woman called Margaret Herrick, who worked for the organisation that hands out the awards. Apparently, she saw the award statue and said it looked like her Uncle Oscar.

Now, nearly 100 years later, Margaret’s relative continues to be immortalised in the prestigious awards given to film stars and celebrities.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

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Often with the Oscars, there is a clear best picture winner which steamrolls its way through awards season, such as Oppenheimer in 2024. This year, however, is wide open.

Different films have been winning prizes at the various events which precede the Oscars. There are six contenders which feasibly could take the top prize, depending on how the next few weeks shake out.

The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez won the two top film awards at the Golden Globes, and both have a lot of passionate supporters.

Meanwhile, Conclave and Anora are widely liked and less divisive than some other contenders, and could therefore benefit from the preferential ballot system.

The less likely but still possible winners are A Complete Unknown, which had a particularly strong showing at the SAG nominations, and Wicked, which is likely to be heavily nominated and is one of the most successful films financially.

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Oppenheimer led the 2024 nominations with 13, just shy of the record 14.

Poor Things was next with 11, while Killers of the Flower Moon received 10.

There was some surprise that Barbie didn’t get more – it ended up with eight nominations.

Oppenheimer delivered on awards night, winning seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Best Director for Christopher Nolan.

Poor Things came in second once more, picking up four awards.

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Entertainment reporter

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Established directors such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson often tend to populate this category, cropping up the Oscars again and again.

This year, however, almost all of the major contenders for best director would be first-time Oscar nominees.

Brady Corbet(The Brutalist), Edward Berger(Conclave), Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) and Sean Baker (Anora) are all likely to be recognised.

They could be joined by Coralie Fargeat(The Substance), RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys) and Mohammad Rasoulof(The Seed of the Sacred Fig).

Even the less likely contenders, such as James Mangold (A Complete Unknown), Jon M Chu (Wicked), Denis Villeneuve (Dune: Part Two) and Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine As Light), would be first-time nominees in the category.

Steven McIntosh
Entertainment reporter

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We may not have Barbie or Oppenheimer this year, but there are plenty of other blockbusters which could show up at the Oscars.

Box office smashes in 2024 included Wicked, which almost certainly will be nominated for best picture, and Gladiator II, which almost certainly won't be.

Other sequels which cleaned up financially include Dune: Part Two, the second instalment of the sandy sci-fi adaptation, which is likely to be nominated for best picture as well as several technical prizes.

Elsewhere, Inside Out 2, the highest-grossing film of last year, will likely make the best animated film category, alongside the popular The Wild Robot.

But box office takings aren't everything. Both animated films could be beaten by a much smaller contender, the charming Latvian film Flow, about a cat who must work with other animals to survive after a flood.

Rorey Bosotti
Live page editor

Good afternoon and welcome to our coverage of the 97th Academy Awards nominations.

The original nomination ceremony was postponed because of the devastating wildfires burning in Los Angeles. But today, we'll find out who's made the cut in this year's race to the Oscar - and there's still a lot of uncertainty on which films and actors will get a nod.

Box office smash Wicked is widely expected to secure a spot in the best picture category, with co-leads Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande eyeing a nomination in the best actress and best supporting actress categories, respectively.

Other contenders for the best picture statue include the Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez and the political thriller Conclave, although Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown - and lead Timothée Chalamet - could still nab a nomination.

We'll be following the ceremony live to bring you the latest on this year's nominations across 23 categories, so stick with us for fresh updates and analysis.

You can follow the ceremony live by clicking Watch Live at the top of the page from 13:30 GMT (08:00 EST).