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The 2025 Oscars nominees are here. There aren’t too many surprises: Emilia Pérez swept the nominations, Gladiator II and Challengers were shut out, and the telecast itself will do away with the original song performances (though they still haven’t taken the advice to make the Oscars 30 minutes long).

If you’re looking to catch up on The Discourse around this year’s nominees before the ceremony on March 2, we have you covered. Let’s start with the Best Picture nominees, and with some endings: We wrote about why Best Picture nominee Anora had to end the way it did, and assessed the final twists in fellow B.P. nominees Conclave and Dune: Part Two (spoilers, obviously, for all). We spoke to Brandon Wilson and Ethan Herisse, the young stars of Nickel Boys, held space for two guys from Wicked—GQ Hype cover subject Ethan Slater and leg-day poster boy Jonathan Bailey— and chatted over stuffed cabbage with Jesse Eisenberg, who scored a Best Screenplay nom for A Real Pain (which earned Kieran Culkin a supporting-actor nomination as well)

Timothée Chalamet, now a two-time Academy Award nominee, is also a three-time GQ cover star; over the years, GQ’s Dan Riley (officially this magazine’s Global Content Development Director, unofficially GQ’s in-house Boswell to Timothée’s Dr. Johnson) has talked with a young and eager Chalamet in New York City in 2018 on the eve of his mainstream breakthrough in Call Me By Your Name, with a now-huge-and-still-wrapping-his-head-around-it Timmy on a porch in Woodstock in 2020, and in 2024 in New York City, as Chalamet prepared to embody Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, a process that among other things involved learning to play the harmonica from harmonica coach Rob Paparozzi (not an Oscar nominee, but would we be having this conversation if Chalamet had not become great at blowing harp? Doubtful).

Plus: We got the lowdown from Best Director nominee Brady Corbet on how he managed to make his midcentury epic for under $10 million and sat down with Best Supporting Actor nominee Guy Pearce to talk about his standout performance as Adrien Brody’s benefactor/tormentor in Corbet’s film. We talked with Malcolm and John David Washington about The Piano Lesson, which earned supporting actress Danielle Deadwyler her first Oscar nom. We celebrated Demi Moore’s now-Oscar-nominated performance in The Substance and explored just how many gallons of fake blood Best Director nominee Coralie Fargeat and the sickos on her effects team sprayed at the screen in the film’s gory barf-o-rama climax. We talked to Best Actor nominee Colman Domingo for a GQ Hype cover story right before Sing Sing was released (and checked in with Domingo’s costar Clarence Maclin as he got ready to hit the Golden Globes).

Oscar questions asked and answered: Why is the goat from Wicked so swaggy (and is that a Bode cardigan, Dr. Dillamond?) Did a young Bob Dylan invent bootcut jeans? Could Robert Eggers, director of the Best Cinematography-nominated Nosferatu, please recommend a good place to eat sausages in Prague? How (and why) did Alien: Romulus’ Oscar-nommed visual-effects team and director Fede Alvarez bring back a franchise veteran who died in 2020? Were Denzel Washington’s (now-Oscar-nominated) robes one of the best parts of Gladiator II, or the very best part of Gladiator II? (Apparently the Academy’s answer is “Yes,” since costume designers Janty Yates and Dave Crossman are the only people nominated for their work on Gladiator II—everybody watched that movie and said, “Huh. Beautiful gowns.”)

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