Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations introduced January 17, 2025. Closing voting is February 11-18, 2025. And at last, the 97th Oscars telecast will probably be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air dwell on ABC at 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT. We replace our picks by means of awards season, so hold checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.
As we enter the autumn/vacation season, “Depraved” (Common) and “Gladiator II” (Paramount) are gathering nice early buzz. Different standouts embody “Conclave” (Focus Options), “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix), “Blitz” (Apple TV+), and “Maria” (Netflix). Nonetheless to come back are the extremely anticipated “Nosferatu” (Focus Options), and “A Full Unknown” (Searchlight Footage). Additionally within the working, after all, is “Dune: Half Two” (Warner Bros.).
“Depraved,” Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical fantasy by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, explores the teenager friendship between the Depraved Witch and Glinda the Good Witch earlier than they turn into rivals. Cynthia Erivo stars as Elphaba Thropp, the compassionate lady born with inexperienced pores and skin, and Ariana Grande performs the immodest Galinda Upland. Costume designer Paul Tazewell (who beforehand teamed up with Chu on “Within the Heights”) is not any stranger to the world of Oz. He beforehand designed 5 productions of “The Wiz” and labored on “The Wiz Reside!” Tazewell’s method to Elphaba and Glinda’s costumes was to create intentional variations and spotlight the juxtaposition of darkish and light-weight, textured versus refined, utilizing a reference to nature for Elphaba and a floating sensibility for Galinda.
“Gladiator II,” Ridley Scott’s sequel to his Oscar winner, takes place 20 years later because the Roman Empire continues to implode, offering a legacy-building alternative for go-to costume designer Janty Yates (who received the Oscar for “Gladiator”) and co-designer Dave Crossman (“Napoleon”), who created the costumes for the Roman navy and gladiators. It considerations Lucius (Paul Mescal), the previous inheritor to the Empire, compelled to enter the Colosseum as a ruthless gladiator. His armor seems impressed by Russell Crowe’s Maximus from the primary movie. Denzel Washington’s Macrinus, a former slave turned service provider, makes use of Lucius as a part of his energy play by pitting him within the enviornment in opposition to Pedro Pascal’s Roman basic, Marcus Acacius. For Macrinus, Yates took inspiration from painters Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Fixed and Jean-Leon Gerome to ship classical Roman apparel with opulence. She went excessive for the eccentric Emperors Geta (Joseph Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) with loads of embroidery, gold on gold, and silver on silver. There’s a little bit of a contemporary contact to Lucius’ mom, Lucilla (reprised by Connie Nielsen), whose costumes pay slight nods to Twentieth-century designers Halston and Courreges.
“Nosferatu,” director Robert Eggers’ transforming of F.W. Murnau’s legendary silent vampire movie (remade by Werner Herzog in 1979), is a brand new tackle the pre-Victorian haunted story of gothic horror. It stars Invoice Skarsgård because the notorious Depend Orlok, Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter, the article of his want, and Nicholas Hoult as her husband. The social standing of the characters is a part of the costumes’ DNA and impacts the whole lot. Go-to costume designer Linda Muir rigorously designed Ellen’s wardrobe, for instance, to convey her troubled frame of mind. An other-worldly connection to Orlok lends an ethereal high quality to her garments.
“Conclave,” director Edward Berger’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning “All Quiet on the Western Entrance,” is a spiritual thriller tailored from the Robert Harris novel a few Cardinal (Ralph Fiennes) tasked with discovering a successor to the deceased Pope, who harbored a harmful secret. Costume designer Lisy Christl (“All Quiet on the Western Entrance”) clothes the papal trappings for a forged that features three different Cardinals (performed by Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Lucian Msamati). Christl received inventive with completely different materials, stitching, and deeper colours. Since so lots of the characters are wearing an identical pink robes, she differentiated by means of such particulars as crosses, rings, sneakers, and overcoats.
“Emilia Pérez,” the musical crime thriller from Jacques Audiard, stars Zoe Saldaña as a disgruntled lawyer who assists the titular Mexican cartel chief (Karla Sofía Gascón) in present process gender affirmation surgical procedure. Selena Gomez performs the spouse of the cartel chief. The director audaciously affords an operatic fever dream in regards to the hope of a brand new life by means of tune and dance — however it’s additionally in regards to the issue in main double lives. Virginie Montel designed the costumes with a theatrical aptitude that expresses the characters’ fantasies throughout the musical sequences.
“Blitz,” from British director Steve McQueen, considerations Londoners throughout the Blitz of World Warfare II in 1940. The harrowing drama focuses on a younger biracial boy (Elliott Heffernan) trying to reunite along with his mom (Saoirse Ronan) and grandfather (Paul Weller) in London. Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran (who beforehand labored with McQueen on “Small Axe”) used London as a personality in her method as a sprawling metropolis devoid of cliche and repetition. Regardless of the harrowing circumstances, folks nonetheless dressed up and created a search for themselves that mirrored their character. Ronan and the opposite feminine munitions employees differentiated themselves by means of head scarves and heels and the way in which they accessorized their fits.
“Maria,” Pablo Larraín’s biographically-inspired drama about opera singer Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie), takes place throughout her remaining years in Paris within the ’70s. It continues the director’s cycle of psychological portraits (“Jackie,” “Spencer”) and accommodates a visible idea that fuses the ’40s by means of the ’70s interval with surreal musical sequences. Costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini took inspiration from Callas’ authentic wardrobe; nevertheless, no new fur was sourced for Jolie’s clothes.
In “Dune: Half Two,” costume designer Jacqueline West targeted on the Harkonnen of Giedi Prime and Arrakis whereas introducing the Imperial world. This entailed creating appears for a complete new set of teams. As well as, the staff got here up with new costumes for the Bene Gesserits, notably the southern Reverend Moms of the Fremen, and a brand new shade palette for the cave-dwelling Sietch, joined by Girl Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson).
Egyptian artwork was the inspiration for the southern Reverend Moms, which was ornate in a heat, sandy, natural shade palette, with mild olive greens, silver, and gold. The Sietch clothes accommodates easy natural materials original into free outfits, virtually like pajamas. For Christopher Walken’s Emperor, West was guided by Mongol ruler Kublai Khan sitting on a throne. Princess Irulan (Florence Pugh), like all Bene Gesserits, relies on medieval nuns. Her headdress was extra ornate, and she or he had a close-fitting chainmail hood with a mesh-like steel grille.
Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros.), the sequel to his horror comedy, sees Michael Keaton’s foul-mouth ghoul return from the afterlife to torment the Deetz household 36 years later. Oscar-winning go-to costume designer Colleen Atwood will get her first crack at costuming Keaton’s Beetlejuice and fortunately places him again within the iconic black-and-white striped swimsuit together with her personal trendy modifications, and the burgundy tux finds its method again as effectively. Dressing the remainder of the forged, together with the underworld, provided a gallery of goth, Victorian, and grunge.
Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing” (A24), the fact-based drama about an inmate theater troupe at Sing Sing led by Colman Domingo’s Divine G, is constructed round their try to stage the time-traveling comedy “Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code.” Costume designer Desira Pesta not solely reproduced the jail put on generally known as “The Greens” (which have been purposefully ill-fitting for Divine G), but additionally the eye-catching costumes for the play. In learning movies of the particular manufacturing, she seized on the notion that the lads had a childlike method to creating their costumes.
“Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million epic, includes Adam Driver’s idealistic architect rebuilding town as a utopia and the ensuing conflict with the ruling elite. Costume designer Milena Canonero, in her flamboyance, strove for the look of a hopeful New World however with the remnants of historic one which was disappearing.
As for the remaining: “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Warner Bros.), Todd Phillips’ musical thriller, picks up with Arthur/Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) going through the demise penalty for a number of murders and hanging up a delusional romance with Girl Gaga’s Harley Quinn whereas incarcerated in Arkham Asylum. Costume designer Arianne Phillips steps in for Mark Bridges, recreating and tweaking Arthur Fleck/Joker’s look whereas making a wardrobe for Harley Quinn that works within the context of musically impressed inside fantasies.
“The Brutalist,” from director Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”), is a 215-minute epic spanning 30 years within the lifetime of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian Jew and Auschwitz survivor, who struggles as a visionary architect earlier than being provided an enormous mission by Lee Van Buren (Man Pearce). The director tasked costume designer Kate Forbes with conveying the authenticity of the varied durations (notably mid-century American) together with paying tribute to films and stars of the post-war period. For Tóth, Forbes targeted on the mid-’50s and the Beat Technology, in addition to Hollywood actor Gregory Peck, utilizing V-cut sports activities jackets and knitwear to convey his independence and non-conformity.
Robert Zemeckis’ “Right here” (Sony Footage), based mostly on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire in regards to the inhabitants of a single home all through time, affords go-to costume designer Joanna Johnston a inventive method of chronicling altering fashions from the ’30s to the current day. The main focus is a pair performed by Tom Hanks and Robin Wright (reunited from “Forrest Gump”), who meet and marry within the late ’60s, increase a household, and develop previous collectively. Zemeckis has adopted a digital manufacturing methodology round Metaphysic Reside, the generative AI software program from Metaphysic, which face-swaps and de-ages the actors in real-time as they carry out.
“The Piano Lesson,” Malcolm Washington’s adaption of the August Wilson play starring John David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, explores the lives of the Charles household in 1936 Pittsburgh. Costume designer Francine Jamison-Tanchuck creates the wardrobe for this Despair-era working-class household. The ensemble forged additionally consists of Ray Fisher, Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts, and Corey Hawkins.
“Saturday Evening,” from director Jason Reitman, chronicles the lead-up to the premiere of NBC’s iconic late-night sketch comedy present, starring Gabriel LaBelle (“The Fabelmans”) as “SNL” creator/producer Lorne Michaels. Costume designer Danny Glicker (“Ghostbusters: Afterlife”) creates the interval wardrobes for these comedian legends that come collectively for this momentous present.
“A Full Unknown,” James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothée Chalamet, chronicles the folks star’s rise in New York’s West Village in 1961 to the controversial 1965 Newport Folks Competition, the place he turned electrical. Costume designer Phillips was chargeable for dressing Chalamet because the freewheelin’ Dylan.
Potential nominees are listed in alphabetical order; no movie will probably be deemed a frontrunner till we’ve seen it.
“Conclave”
“Dune: Half Two”
“Emilia Pérez”
“Gladiator II”
“Depraved”
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
“Blitz”
“The Brutalist”
“A Full Unknown”
“Right here”
“Joker: Folie à Deux”
“Megalopolis”
“Nosferatu”
“The Piano Lesson”
“Saturday Evening”
“Sing Sing”
