The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th Academy Awards on Wednesday morning. India’s official entry Laapataa Ladies is out of the race while Santosh, co-produced by the United Kingdom and its official entry this year, made it to the shortlist for the Best International Feature Film category. Guneet Monga, who earlier won an Oscar for her documentary The Elephant Whisperers, once again made it to the short list with live-action short Anuja. The film deals with child labour in garment industry.  

The Academy announced shortlists in categories like Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.  The French musical crime comedy Emilia Perez lead the race along with Jon M. Chu’s Wicked.

Here are the full 2025 Oscar shortlists:

Documentary Feature Film

The Bibi Files

Black Box Diaries

Dahomey

Daughters

Eno

Frida

Hollywoodgate

No Other Land

Porcelain War

Queendom

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Sugarcane

Union

Will & Harper

Documentary Short Film

Chasing Roo

Death by Numbers

Eternal Father

I Am Ready, Warden

Incident

Instruments of a Beating Heart

Keeper

Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World

Once upon a Time in Ukraine

The Only Girl in the Orchestra

Planetwalker

The Quilters

Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr

A Swim Lesson

Until He’s Back

International Feature Film

Brazil, I’m Still Here

Canada, Universal Language

Czech Republic, Waves

Denmark, The Girl With the Needle

France, Emilia Perez

Germany, The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Iceland, Touch

Ireland, Kneecap

Italy, Vermiglio

Latvia, Flow

Norway, Armand

Palestine, From Ground Zero

Senegal, Dahomey

Thailand, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

United Kingdom, Santosh

Makeup and Hairstyling

The Apprentice

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

A Different Man

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Perez

Maria

Nosferatu

The Substance

Waltzing With Brando

Wicked

Music (Original Score)

Alien: Romulus

Babygirl

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Blink Twice

Blitz

The Brutalist

Challengers

Conclave

Emilia Perez

The Fire Inside

Gladiator II

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1

Inside Out 2

Nosferatu

The Room Next Door

Sing Sing

The Six Triple Eight

Wicked

The Wild Robot

Young Woman and the Sea

Music (Original Song)

Forbidden Road from Better Man

Winter Coat from Blitz

Compress/Repress from Challengers

Never Too Late from Elton John: Never Too Late

El Mal from Emilia Perez

Mi Camino from Emilia Perez

Sick In The Head from Kneecap

Beyond from Moana 2

Tell Me It’s You from Mufasa: The Lion King

Piece By Piece from Piece by Piece

Like A Bird from Sing Sing

The Journey from The Six Triple Eight

Out Of Oklahoma from Twisters

Kiss The Sky from The Wild Robot

Harper And Will Go West from Will & Harper

Animated Short Film

Au Revoir Mon Monde

A Bear Named Wojtek

Beautiful Men

Bottle George

A Crab in the Pool

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Magic Candies

Maybe Elephants

Me

Origami

Percebes

The 21

Wander to Wonder

The Wild-Tempered Clavier

Yuck!

Live-Action Short Film

Anuja

Clodagh

The Compatriot

Crust

Dovecote

Edge of Space

The Ice Cream Man

I’m Not a Robot

The Last Ranger

A Lien

The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

The Masterpiece

An Orange From Jaffa

Paris 70

Room Taken

Sound

Alien: Romulus

Blitz

A Complete Unknown

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Perez

Gladiator II

Joker: Folie a Deux

Wicked

The Wild Robot

Visual Effects

Alien: Romulus

Better Man

Civil War

Deadpool & Wolverine

Dune: Part Two

Gladiator II

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Mufasa: The Lion King

Twisters

Wicked

The 97th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. The final nominations will be announced on January 17.