In just over six weeks, an Oscars night like no other will take place in Hollywood. In the shadow of the wildfires which are still raging and have so devastated Los Angeles, destroying 10,000 homes, the event on Sunday, March 2, will be muted, sombre and reflective when it is usually anything but.
![[The star of Anora, a comedy about a Russian-American sex worker, Karla Sofia Gascon (pictured), is the first trans woman to gain a best actress nomination]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/21/94453847-0-image-a-15_1737668063183.jpg)
The nominations were announced yesterday – with Demi Moore, 62, in the running for Best Actress, and poised to hit a career high few believed she'd ever reach for her role as a washed-up actress and fitness guru Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. She comes into awards season as the clear favourite after her win – her first ever award – and that emotional speech at the Golden Globes.
![[The bookies think Brady Corbet's three hour 15 minute epic The Brutalist about Hungarian immigrant architect Laszlo Toth, played by Adrien Brody (pictured), is in the lead – just]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/21/94454611-14319265-image-a-22_1737668849027.jpg)
There were Oscar snubs for fellow long-serving A-listers Angelina Jolie, 49, and Pamela Anderson, 57, who had hopes of landing best actress nods for their roles in Maria and The Last Showgirl respectively. Nothing, either, for Nicole Kidman, also 57 and the hardest-campaigning patron of middle-aged sex-bombs, in the 'feminist' erotic drama Babygirl.
![[There were Oscar snubs for fellow long-serving A-listers Angelina Jolie (pictured), 49, and Pamela Anderson , 57, who had hopes of landing best actress nods for their roles in Maria and The Last Showgirl respectively]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/21/94453853-0-image-a-14_1737668056934.jpg)
Despite a huge media campaign and surely more on-screen orgasms than any previous mainstream. cinematic release, it turns out the 10,000 voting members of the Academy were not impressed. In just over six weeks, an Oscars night like no other will take place in Hollywood. Demi Moore (pictured), 62, is in the running for Best Actress, and poised to hit a career high few believed she'd ever reach for her role as a washed-up actress and fitness guru Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance.
![[A number of well-informed observers think the bookies are missing a trick and that the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, has all the momentum necessary to pull off an upset. That film, which has just come out and stars Timothee Chalamet (pictured), is being met with enthusiasm by all of the Academy voting branches]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/21/94453843-0-image-a-17_1737668073554.jpg)
