What new records did this year's Oscars witness?

The 5 nominees for Best Director are all new faces to the Oscars.

In the Best Director category, this year's five nominees are all new to the Oscars, having never been nominated before. The last time this happened was in 1998, when James Cameron ( Titanic ), Peter Cattaneo ( The Full Monty ), Gus Van Sant ( Good Will Hunting ), Curtis Hanson ( LA Confidential ) and Atom Egoyan ( The Sweet Hereafter ) competed, and Cameron ultimately won.

In the Best Director category, this year's five nominees are all new faces to the Oscars.

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The 5 names nominated for Best Director at the 2025 Oscars include: Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) , Sean Baker (Anora) , Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) , James Mangold (A Complete Unknown) and Coralie Fargeat (The Substance) .

Anora director Sean Baker and Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard both received four nominations this year. In addition to director, producer and screenwriter, the former is also nominated for Best Film Editing, while the latter is nominated for Best Original Song. This situation is not often seen in Oscar history.

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In 1954, Walt Disney received six nominations, but for six different films; Francis Ford Coppola received five nominations in 1975, but for two films, The Conversation and The Godfather Part II . In 1992, Alan Menken received four nominations for one film , Beauty and the Beast ; in 2019, Roma director Alfonso Cuarón received four nominations for director, film, cinematography, and screenplay.

Emilia Pérez sets record with 13 nominations

Director Jacques Audiard's musical film Emilia Pérez makes history by receiving 13 Oscar nominations

Jacques Audiard's musical Emilia Pérez made history when it received 13 Oscar nominations, including important categories such as Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Notably, actress Karla Sofía Gascón became the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for an Oscar.

Emilia Pérez is a musical film set in Mexico, following the journey of a drug lord who decides to change gender to escape the law. The film made a big splash at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where the main cast including Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña shared the Best Actress award, while director Jacques Audiard won the Jury Prize.

With 13 Oscar nominations, Emilia Pérez is in a strong position to make her mark at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. However, the film will face stiff competition from other films such as The Brutalist and Wicked, which each received 10 nominations.

The Wild Robot director nominated for Oscar for 4th time

The Wild Robot director Chris Sanders gets his fourth Oscar nomination

In the Best Animated Feature category, director Chris Sanders of The Wild Robot is nominated for the fourth time. Previously, with The Croods , How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch , he was "second". Historically, Hayao Miyazaki and Pete Docter have also been nominated for this award four times and won two and three times, respectively.

In the Best International Feature Film category, Emilia Pérez and Me estás matando Susana were both nominated for Best Film, bringing the total number of such works to 11. Previous works include Z (1969), Life Is Beautiful (1998), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Amour (2012), Roma (2018), Parasit e (2019), Drive My Car (2021), All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and The Zone of Interest (2023). It can be seen that this trend has become stronger in recent years, the Oscars are increasingly accepting foreign films.

The records and changes at this year's Oscars not only reflect the growth and innovation of the film industry, but also demonstrate the growing emphasis on diversity and inclusion in the seventh art.

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