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Among this year’s Best Supporting Actress contenders - the iconic and incomparable Amy Madigan in Weapons!

2025 Oscar Nomination Predictions (October)

October 15, 2025 by Andrew Carden in Oscars

From most to least likely to earn a nomination:

Best Picture

  1. One Battle After Another

  2. Hamnet

  3. Sentimental Value

  4. Sinners

  5. Wicked: For Good

  6. Marty Supreme

  7. Avatar: Fire and Ash

  8. It Was Just an Accident

  9. The Secret Agent

  10. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
    —

  11. Jay Kelly

  12. No Other Choice

  13. Rental Family

  14. Bugonia

  15. Is This Thing On?

Best Director

  1. Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

  2. Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

  3. Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value

  4. Ryan Coogler, Sinners

  5. Jafar Panah, It Was Just an Accident
    —

  6. Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent

  7. Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice

  8. Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme

  9. Scott Cooper, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

  10. Jon M. Chu, Wicked: For Good

Best Actress

  1. Jessie Buckley, Hamnet

  2. Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: For Good

  3. Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value

  4. Emma Stone, Bugonia

  5. Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
    —

  6. Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another

  7. Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love

  8. Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

  9. Sydney Sweeney, Christy

  10. Julia Roberts, After the Hunt

Best Actor

  1. Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

  2. Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme

  3. Jeremy Allen White, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

  4. Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

  5. Brendan Fraser, Rental Family
    —

  6. George Clooney, Jay Kelly

  7. Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

  8. Jesse Plemons, Bugonia

  9. Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

  10. Will Arnett, Is This Thing On?

Best Supporting Actress

  1. Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good

  2. Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value

  3. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value

  4. Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

  5. Regina Hall, One Battle After Another
    —

  6. Glenn Close, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

  7. Gwyneth Paltrow, Marty Supreme

  8. Odessa A'zion, Marty Supreme

  9. Amy Madigan, Weapons

  10. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ella McCay

Best Supporting Actor

  1. Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

  2. Paul Mescal, Hamnet

  3. Sean Penn, One Battle After Another

  4. Jeremy Strong, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

  5. Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
    —

  6. Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly

  7. Jonathan Bailey, Wicked: For Good

  8. Delroy Lindo, Sinners

  9. Josh O’Connor, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

  10. Ben Foster, Christy

Best Original Screenplay

  1. Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, Sentimental Value

  2. Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme

  3. Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar, Shadmehr Rastin and Mehdi Mahmoudian, It Was Just an Accident

  4. Ryan Coogler, Sinners

  5. Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, Jay Kelly
    —

  6. Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent

  7. Will Arnett, Mark Chappell, Bradley Cooper and John Bishop, Is This Thing On?

  8. Hikari and Stephen Blahut, Rental Family

  9. Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon

  10. Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, The Testament of Ann Lee

Best Adapted Screenplay

  1. Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another

  2. Maggie O’Farrell and Chloe Zhao, Hamnet

  3. Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

  4. Lee Ja-hye, Lee Kyoung-mi, Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, No Other Choice

  5. Scott Cooper, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
    —

  6. Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams

  7. Will Tracy, Bugonia

  8. Dana Fox and Winnie Holzman, Wicked: For Good

  9. Nia DaCosta, Hedda

  10. Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein

Best International Feature

  1. Sentimental Value (Norway)

  2. It Was Just an Accident (France)

  3. The Secret Agent (Brazil)

  4. No Other Choice (South Korea)

  5. Left-Handed Girl (Taiwan)
    —

  6. The President’s Cake (Iraq)

  7. Mr. Nobody Against Putin (Denmark)

  8. The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

  9. Sound of Falling (Germany)

  10. Sirāt (Spain)

Best Casting

  1. Cassandra Kulukundis, One Battle After Another

  2. Francine Maisler, Sinners

  3. Bret Howe and Mary Vernieu, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

  4. Yngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman, Sentimental Value

  5. Nina Gold, Hamnet
    —

  6. Francine Maisler, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

  7. Jennifer Venditti, Marty Supreme

  8. Tiffany Little Canfield and Bernard Telsey, Wicked: For Good

  9. Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident

  10. Douglas Aibel and Nina Gold, Jay Kelly

More categories to come!

October 15, 2025 /Andrew Carden
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