The biggest Oscar nomination in 2025

Denzel Washington, Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams, Tilda Swinton and Daniel Craig were just some of the big names and precursor award winners who were shut out of this year’s Academy Awards as Oscar nominations in 2025 was announced.

When the list of nominees came out Thursday morning, a little history was also made: Karla Sofía Gascón, the star of “Emilia Pérez,” became the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for an Oscar.

Best Actress

Kidman, whose performance in “Babygirl” as a corporate executive having an affair with a much younger underling won her the best actress award at the Venice Film Festival, was not nominated.

Also left out: Angelina Jolie, who plays opera star Maria Callas in “Maria”; Amy Adams, as a young mother who undergoes a terrifying transformation in “Nightbitch”; Kate Winslet, who plays war photographer Lee Miller in “Lee”; Saoirse Ronan as a recovering alcoholic in “The Outrun”; Tilda Swinton as a woman seeking to end her life in “The Room Next Door”; Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a wife and mother who lashes out against the indignities of the world in “Hard Truths”; and Pamela Anderson as a Las Vegas dancer in “The Last Showgirl.”

Gascón, nominated for his performance as a Mexican drug lord who passes for a woman, was also nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe. She also shared the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival with her “Emilia Pérez” costars, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz.

Best Supporting Actress

Saldaña, a Golden Globe winner, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but Gomez was not. The category also lacked some other major contenders, including Margaret Qualley in “The Substance”; Elle Fanning in “A Complete Unknown”; Jamie Lee Curtis in “The Last Showgirl”; and Danielle Deadwyler in “The Piano Lesson.”

Best actor

The list of best actor nominees closely mirrors the Screen Actors Guild ranks, except that Daniel Craig’s role as a gay man who pursues a younger man in “Queer” did not make the Oscar nominations list. In its place was Sebastian Stan’s performance as young Donald Trump in “The Apprentice.”

Also missing from the cast: Paul Mescal in “Gladiator II” and Hugh Grant in “Heretic”.

Best Supporting Actor

Denzel Washington, who plays a slave owner in “Gladiator II,” did not make it among the supporting actor nominees, nor did Stanley Tucci in “Conclave,” Peter Sarsgaard in “September 5,” or SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey, who played Fiyero in “Evil.”

Clarence Maclin, who played a version of himself — an incarcerated man who joins a prison theater group — in “Sing Sing” was not nominated for his performance, though he shared a nomination for best original screenplay.

Best instructor

“Wicked” collected 10 nominations in total, but one that was missing was its director, Jon M. Chu.

But he was in good company: Denis Villeneuve (“Dune: Part Two”), Edward Berger (“Conclave”) and Ridley Scott (“Gladiator II”) were also not nominated in this category.

Overall, “Emilia Pérez” leads the Oscar race with 13 nominations. “The Brutalist” and “Wicked” each have 10.

The Oscars will be presented on March 2 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.