The date for the 2025 Oscars and the announcement of the nominations has long been set. Meanwhile, there are more details and favorites for the Academy Awards.

Both Oscars 2024 admitted the 13-time nominated biopic “Oppenheimer” won seven trophies, including the award for Best Film. Shortly after the 96th Academy Awards, the date for the 2025 Oscars and the announcement of the nominations were set. After the nominations for the Golden Globes, the first films are emerging as favorites for the 2025 Oscars.

You can find out here when the 97th Academy Awards will take place, where you can tune in in Germany and what rule changes there will be for the Oscars 2025.

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Oscars 2025: When will the 97th Academy Awards be presented?

Next year it will be “And the Oscar goes to…” again when the famous film prize will be awarded for the 97th time. The date for the next Academy Awards is Sunday March 2nd, 2025. This means that next year the award ceremony will take place on the first Sunday in March; in previous years the award ceremony took place on the second Sunday in March. Next year, the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles will once again serve as the venue, as has been the tradition since 2002 – with the exception of 2021, where the award ceremony was changed due to the pandemic.

Oscars 2025 on TV and stream: Where is the ceremony taking place in Germany?

Even if there is currently no precise information about the broadcast of the famous film awards ceremony in Germany, the Oscars will certainly be broadcast live again in this country in 2024. The broadcaster ProSieben once again secured the broadcasting rights, so that the Oscar ceremony, including the respective preliminary reporting, will be broadcast on free TV and, at the same time, in a live stream, just like in 2024 and in previous years Joyn will run. After the award ceremony, the Oscars are usually available to stream on demand, and for a while they are even free. The ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles begins on March 2, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. (local time). In this country we can probably do it in the night from Sunday to Monday, from around midnight on March 3, 2025 turn on.

Oscar predictions: These film favorites and stars have good chances in 2025

After a very diverse cinema year in 2024, the 2025 Oscar season promises to be an exciting race with a variety of outstanding films and impressive acting performances. The Oscar nominations announced is for Friday, December January 17, 2025planned. Based on recent Golden Globes nominations, current industry forecasts (via Variety) as well as the announcement of the Shortlists The first film favorites and stars are already emerging who have a good chance of winning a golden statue in 2025.

The favorites for the Best Film category include blockbusters such as “Dune 2”, “Gladiator 2” and “Wicked”but also the romantic sports drama “Challengers”the sci-fi horror “The Substance”the gangster musical “Emilia Perez” or the Vatican thriller “Conclave”for which the respective directors could also be nominated. The novel adaptation, for example, has a good chance of winning the Oscar for Best Animated Film “The Wild Robot” or the Disney sequel “Everything is upside down 2”.

Candidates for the Best Actress category include Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked”), Karla Sofía Gascón (“Emilia Pérez”), Mikey Madison (“Anora”) and Angelina Jolie (“Mary”). Daniel Craig (“Queer”), Ralph Fiennes (“Conclave”), Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”) and Colman Domingo (“Sing Sing”) are nominated.

Stars and films on the shortlist for the 2025 Oscar nominations

The Academy has now published the so-called shortlists. In the categories for which a shortlist is created, only films that are on this shortlist can receive an Oscar nomination. The shortlist serves as a kind of pre-selection to narrow down the final nominations. And is considered in the industry as the first indication of possible winners.

The Academy has announced the shortlists for the 97th Academy Awards in 10 categories published. You can see all the films and artists in the shortlist categories read here. For the sake of clarity, we have recorded a few particularly notable mentions for you in the following list:

• “Emilia Perez” was shortlisted in several categories including Best International Film and Best Original Song for “El Mal” and “Mi Camino”.
• The musical film adaptation “Wicked” made it into the categories Make-up and hairstyling, Best Film Music (Original Score), sound and Visual effects on the shortlist.
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were hired for their work “Challengers” both for Best Film Music (Original Score) as well as for Best Original Song put on the shortlist with “Compress/Repress”.
• Hans Zimmer was awarded for his composition for the film “Flash” in the category Best Film Music (Original Score) recognized on the shortlist
• “Dune 2” was in the categories Visual effects, clay and Make-up and hairstyling placed on the shortlist.
• “Alien: Romulus” is on the shortlist for Best Film Music (Original Score).
• The composition of Danny Elfman for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” was in the category Best Film Music (Original Score) recognized.
• The composition of Bryce Dessner for “Sing Sing” has a place on the shortlist for Best Film Music (Original Score) receive.

There are no shortlists in the remaining categories such as Best Film, Best Director, Best Actors or Best Screenplay. Here the selection is made directly based on the nominations.

Oscar candidate for Germany as Best International Film 2025

The film will be released in Germany in 2024 “The Seeds of the Sacred Fig Tree” into the Oscar race. The film by the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who fled to Germany, was mainly shot in this country and can therefore compete as a German Oscar entry. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree” is about the effects of the political protests on a family in Iran and will be released in cinemas here on December 26, 2024. Can the drama prevail against international competition?

The trailer gives you a first impression:

New rules for the 2025 Oscars

There will be some changes to the categories and nominations for the 97th Academy Awards. Things will be different, especially in the area of ​​music, but a special rule from the pandemic period will also now be abolished. These new (nomination) rules apply according to Focus film for the Oscars 2025:

• There is an expanded preselection in the “Best Film Music” category: In the future, the shortlist will feature 20 instead of 15 films. From 2025, up to three composers will each receive their own statue, but only classical bands will be recognized as a group.
• From 2025, a film can be nominated for “Best Documentary” or “Best Animated Film” and “Best International Film” at the same time.
• In the future, applicants for the two screenplay categories will have to send the Academy a version of the final script.
• The Irving Thalberg Award, which is awarded irregularly for the life’s work of producers, will in future take the form of a classic Oscar statue instead of a bust of the namesake and producer Irving Thalberg.
• The special rule introduced during the pandemic for screening in drive-in cinemas will no longer apply to qualify for the “Best Film” category from 2025. To qualify for the nomination, a film must have opened for at least one week in one of the US regions (Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, the Hudson Bay area or the Dallas area) by January 24th.

One new category for “Best Casting” will not be introduced until the Oscars in 2026. This is the first new regular award since the introduction of the Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2002.

Stars at the Oscars 2024: Who is there?

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ceremony for the fourth time in 2024; he will be the 97th Academy Awards Moderator however from Conan O’Brien replaced. We can certainly expect many well-known stars on stage but also among the “presenters”. Since it is customary for the Oscar to be awarded by some of the previous year’s winners, the following stars can be expected among the “presenters”:

• Emma Stone (“Best Actress” 2024, “Poor Things”)
• Cillian Murphy (“Best Actor” 2024, “Oppenheimer”)
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“Best Supporting Actress” 2024, “The Holdovers”)
• Robert Downey Jr. (“Best Supporting Actor,” “Oppenheimer”)

It is not yet known which stars will present the Oscar in the other categories. Our gallery shows 17 stars who have unfortunately always come away empty-handed at the Oscars:

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