Biggest Snubs of the 2025 Oscars: Who Deserved to Win?:

The Oscars are frustrating in some way or another when your favorites don’t win, but one’s realization of bigger and more global snubs always makes up for that. The 2025 Academy Awards was no different.

And I am sure awards such as these, subjective as they may be, has everyone talking. And Lo and Behold, Anora, with five Oscars to it’s name, swept the awards for the night. But was that actually justified? Let’s analyse.

I personally think that film should win because she won the best picture for Anora and that it single-handedly grabs our attention, but not without Mikey Madison to help it. And of course, Anora brought home the award. This is yet another reason Conclave deserved this award for placing a potential stiff drama on Catholicism into a full-fledged gripping drama along with a great ensemble.

Brutalista

Unofficial Biography

Dune: Part Two

Emilia Pérez

Still Keeping My Presence

Nickel Boys

Substance: Nick Naylor

Wicked

WireImage

Best Director

SBaker, Anora – Winner

(Not nominated) Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two – Best direction nomination includes vital parts of film reality and at first glance the omissions, especially Vileneuve and Chu’s for Wicked seemed pretty strange. Ease in reporting this is equally appalling; given the new information that Oscar voters outrightly admitted to not watching Dune two after disliking the first one, it's mind-numbing. Look, I'm sure he has his moment coming, but this is where his sheer absence is celebrated, astonishingly so.

Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez

Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Coralie Fargeat, The Substance

James Mangold, A Complete Unknown

Best Actor In A Lead Role

Ralph Fiennes, Conclave – Deserved To Win - While Adrien Brody is awarded for The Brutalist, Brody is the focus right now due to an outrageous acceptance speech he gave at the awards saying much more than necessary for getting an award. He went on to say that he got nominated for The Brutalist for its use of AI in accent work. Usually they don’t applaud your performances. Fiennes deserve this award for Conclave, but now he gets three nominations without single wins. It is a stellar performance and better than Brody’s.

Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown

Colman Domingo, Sing Sing

Sebastian Stan, The Apprentice