OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2025: Can DUNE 2 Pull Off a SHOCKING Best Picture Win?

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Kristian Harloff

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

The Oscar nominations are finally here! The usual suspects made the cut, and Dune: Part Two landed a Best Picture nomination—but Denis Villeneuve was snubbed, as many predicted. Could Dune pull off an upset and take home the top prize? We break down all the Oscar nominees, including how Emilia Pérez leads the 2025 Academy Awards nominations with a record-breaking 13 nods, surpassing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Roma.

Following close behind are The Brutalist and Wicked, each securing 10 nominations. Other top contenders include A Complete Unknown and Conclave, both earning eight nods. These films will compete for Best Picture alongside Anora, Dune: Part Two, I’m Still Here, Nickel Boys, and The Substance.

Big news in the acting categories as Demi Moore and Isabella Rossellini land their first-ever nominations, while Karla Sofía Gascón makes history as the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for Best Actress. Plus, Netflix leads all studios with 16 nominations.

On today's show, we're diving deep into all the major categories, surprises, and snubs. Plus, big news outside the Oscars—Jon Bernthal joins The Odyssey, Robert Eggers takes on a werewolf movie, and more updates on The White Lotus. Is The Odyssey set to be Christopher Nolan's biggest hit yet?

Join us as Kristian and Steph break it all down! Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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0:00.0	Oscar nominations are in.
0:04.6	Diney got snubbed like we thought he would.
0:07.9	Tons of nominations for Amelia Perez.
0:11.4	But Dune did get nominated for Best Picture.
0:14.4	Now, could this be one of the rare occasions?
0:18.0	Where, and it's happened before, where the movie wins,
0:20.6	even though the director was not
0:21.8	nominated i don't know i'll have to discuss speaking of oscar nominations oscar wins
0:28.4	christopher nolan no stranger to that let's look at oppenheimer um well he is arguably one of
0:35.7	the best directors working today.
0:38.9	And Nolan has the Odyssey coming out and just cashed John Bernthal.
0:42.4	And so the debate then starts, is this going to be Nolan's biggest movie?
0:47.3	I think that'll happen every time he puts out a movie.
0:50.7	People will be saying, is this going to be the biggest one yet?
0:54.1	Because it's just more
0:55.0	and more anticipated every time you puts one out um there's some other stuff going out there
1:01.1	for shores other things we'll discuss the white lotus got picked up for season four maybe that
1:05.0	means i should watch seasons one through three um there was another story that that dropped
1:10.4	where was it the one that i thought was pretty damn interesting that I want to discuss?
1:14.2	Where did it go?
1:15.2	I don't know.
1:15.6	But somebody said that apparently the budget for Captain America Brave New World is $180 million.
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