A look ahead to the frontrunners and big contenders at this year's Academy Awards

We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions. While the other acting categories have a very clear frontrunner, the Best Actor Oscar race is pretty evenly split between "A Complete Unknown" star Timothée Chalamet and "The Brutalist" star Adrien Brody,

You get an Oscar, you get an Oscar, every Best Picture nominee gets an Oscar? Not always. For most of the past decade when the Oscars used the sliding scale in Best Picture, most, if not all, of the Best Picture nominees every year walked away with at least one Oscar.