We are launching our Gold Derby predictions center event for Oscars 2025 nominations today! It’s the earliest we’ve ever offered you the opportunity to predict the Academy Awards nominees to be announced over six months from now on January 17, 2025. Click here to jump in right away, helping us set the extremely early odds and rankings for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor.
As we begin this new event, there are 66 contenders for Best Picture. Please keep in mind that we will update the predictions center weekly by adding, deleting and changing movies, performers and more. These updates will be made based on new information from the studios/campaigners provided to us. A movie and its contenders can only be added once it has a U.S. distributor and an approximate or firm release date in 2024. In a few months, we will add all of the other crafts categories, plus animation, documentary, international and the shorts.
As you look over the many contenders, you will notice quite a few first-time nominees. However, here is a list of some of the high-profile directors (previous Oscar winners and nominees and a few rising stars) who have films in contention this year:
Pedro Almodovar with “The Room Next Door” (starring Tilda Swinton, John Turturro, Julianne Moore) for Sony Pictures Classics.
Edward Berger with “Conclave” (starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci) for Focus.
Jon M. Chu with “Wicked” (starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh) for Universal.
Francis Ford Coppola with “Megalopolis” (starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel) for Lionsgate.
Audrey Diwan with “Emmanuelle” (starring Noemie Merlant, Jamie Campbell Bower, Naomi Watts) for Neon.
Clint Eastwood with “Juror #2” (starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Kiefer Sutherland) for Warner Bros.
Robert Eggers for “Nosferatu” (starring Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp) for Focus.
Alex Garland with “Civil War” (starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny) for A24.
Luca Guadagnino with “Challengers” (starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor) for Amazon Prime.
Anna Kendrick with “Woman of the Hour” (starring Kendrick, Daniel Zovatto) for Netflix.
Greg Kwedar with “Sing Sing” (starring Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Paul Raci) for A24.
Yorgos Lanthimos with “Kinds of Kindness” (starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe) for Searchlight.
Richard Linklater with “Hit Man” (starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona) for Netflix.
Steve McQueen with “Blitz” (starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Stephen Graham) for Apple Original Films.
George Miller with “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” (starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth) for Warner Bros.
Tyler Perry with “Six Triple Eight” (starring Kerry Washington, Susan Sarandon, Oprah Winfrey) for Netflix.
Todd Phillips with “Joker: Folie a Deux” (starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga) for Warner Bros.
Halina Reijn with “Babygirl” (starring Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde) for A24.
Ridley Scott with “Gladiator II” (starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen) for Paramount.
Erica Tremblay with “Fancy Dance” (starring Lily Gladstone, Shea Whigham) for Apple Original Films.
Denis Villeneuve with “Dune: Part Two” (starring Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler) for Warner Bros.
Malcolm Washington for “The Piano Lesson” (starring John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler) for Netflix.
Robert Zemeckis with “Here” (starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright) for Sony.
PREDICT the 2025 Oscar nominations through January 17
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