Oscars 2025 Submissions Now Open for 97th Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ website for submissions to be considered for the 2025 Oscars is now open, the Academy announced Friday.

The Academy is currently accepting general entries (best picture and other categories), animated features, animated shorts, documentary features, documentary shorts, international features, live action shorts, original scores and original songs.

Submissions are due on different dates between Aug. 15 and Nov. 14, depending on the submission’s category and the date of its qualifying run. (General entries, animated features, documentary features and short films of all sorts have two different due dates, one for submissions that qualified before July 1 and another for submissions that qualified on or after that date.)

The 97th Oscars will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Early contenders include spring indie Challengers; summer blockbuster Inside Out 2; Cannes standouts Anora, Emilia Pérez and The Substance; and Sing Sing, a drama that opens in theaters today.

The 2024 Oscars, which took place this past March, saw Oppenheimer named best picture and win six other awards including best director (Christopher Nolan), best actor (Cillian Murphy) and best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.). Best actress went to Poor Things‘ Emma Stone and best supporting actress was won by The Holdovers‘ Da’Vine Joy Randolph.