Anora

Anorais looking more and more like the 2025 Academy Award ' Best Picture achiever , especially in light of its success at WGA on February 15 , 2025 . Since the award season kicked off , well afoot by the time the delayed2025 Oscars nominationswere harbinger , Anorahas danced in and out of the discussion of the serious contenders for Best Picture . The clowning - play about a sex worker who spontaneously marries a client may miss some of the big - scale , epic smell of some of its competition , butAnora , Conclave , The Brutalist , andEmilia Pérezall seem to be possible winners in the2025 Oscars tier ranking .

DespiteAnorabeing simultaneously screaming and heartbreaking , and generally being where this season assure an intersection between audience adoration and true frontrunner status , the Oscars is a complicated gameof appealing to critic outside the film itself and winning major harbinger awards . Emilia Pérez ’s shocking 13 nominationsinitially made it seem like the most logical film to bet on , butAnorahas picked up some surprising wins since then . It secured a particularly worthful honour at WGA , helping it pave a strategical track to Best Picture .

Anora’s WGA Win For Original Screenplay Is Great For Its Oscars Hopes

Anora Has Been Recognized For Its Stellar Writing

The Writers Guild of America add uponAnoraone of its two top prizes , the win for Best Original Screenplay , withNickel Boyswinning Best Adapted Screenplay . Moreover , Anorawon at both the Producers Guild and Directors Guild honor , in which it was competing largely against other2025 Oscars Best Picture nominees . The only picture show to ever succeed at WGA , PGA , and DGA and then lose Best Picture at the Oscars isBrokeback Mountain — a loss that is inherently divisive when the infamousCrashwon instead .

Demi Moore seems to be the Oscars frontrunner following her Golden Globe win , but Mikey Madison still has a opportunity at Best Actress .

SoAnorais seemingly on a direct route to Best Picture , also conceive its upset win at the 2025 Critics ' Choice Awards . After win nothing else the intact night , including Best Screenplay , which move toThe centre , Anoratook home the Critics ' Choice Award for Best Picture . Anora ’s castis also nominated across the board by the SAG Awards , another forerunner that could feign the final result at the Oscars . Most awarding body that have some overlap with Academy voters are selectingAnoraas the eq of Best Picture , which guide to only one logical finis .

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Anora Winning Best Original Screenplay Would Bolster Its Best Picture Odds

One Of The Two Oscars Screenplay Winners Is Often The Best Picture Winner

However , to win Best Picture , Anoralikely ask to conquer Best Original Screenplay first . Only six times since 2000 has the Academy choose a Best Picture winner that did not win in one of its two screenplay categories as well . Conclaveis a foregone conclusion for Best Adapted Screenplay , butAnorabeing favored by WGA , the awarding body that concentrates on writing , is a slap-up endorsement for it to win the same at the Oscars . Notably , Conclavewas not name for Best adapt Screenplay by WGA due to eligibility rules , allowingNickel Boysto win .

Conclave is a foregone conclusion for Best Adapted Screenplay , but Anora being favored by WGA , the present body that condense on piece of writing , is a great indorsement for it to win the same at the Oscars .

too , The Substance , apparentlyAnora ’s biggest competition for screenplay at the Oscars , was not nominated by WGA either . It ’s obvious that different awards bodies will weigh entirely different things to be the top offer , butifThe Substancehad been nominated at WGA , the competition would have been unlike and might have led to the Academy voting for its book overAnora . However , the writer of Hollywood have now spoken , and even if more critics like the zany nature ofThe Substance , the Academy may be inclined to acknowledge the ( somewhat ) more serious selection .

Mikey Madison and Mark Eidelstein celebrating their wedding in Las Vegas in Anora

Anora’s WGA Win Continues Its Strong Resurgence As The Best Picture Frontrunner

Anora Is Picking Up Momentum Again

WhileAnoramay have start out the time of year as the evident Best Picture achiever , it spend off passably follow the Golden Globes , which sawThe Brutalistwin in Drama andEmilia Pérezin Comedy or Musical . It lost Best Screenplay toConclavewhen the two were not considered in separate category . Demi Moore also overtook Mikey Madison as the favour star to make headway Best Actress . However , Anorasuddenly came back , with the lurid turning of events at the Critics ' Choice Awards and then consistently pull ahead everywhere else , and no one can number it out any longer .

2025 Academy Award Screenplay Nominees

Original Screenplay

Mikey Madison in Anora and Demi Moore in The Substance

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conform Screenplay

A Complete Unknown

The Brutalist

Ani (Mikey Madison) dancing at a night club in Anora

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Conclave

A Real Pain

Emilia Pérez

Headshot Of Mikey Madison

September 5

Ni Boys

The centre

Headshot Of Mark Eydelshteyn

Sing Sing

While the Golden Globes seemed to indicate otherwise , Anorahas now proven that it can take onConclave , The Substance , andEmilia Pérez . Anora ’s hunting expedition is also do good from the widespread audiences that want to see it win . Sean Baker has write and directed multiple powerful movies before that always somehow missed out on the Oscars , andAnoracould be the chance to recognize him for his entire life history . base on simple statistic , it is essentially unsufferable forAnorato not gain , specially when the Critics ' Choice Awards learn multiple surprisal this year , suggestingAnoralosing screenplay there was an anomaly .

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