Coralie Fargeat and Brady Corbet are also among those in the running for more than one category at the 2025 Academy Awards.

This is the question foremost in my mind when I meet Brady Corbet, 36, on a concrete-grey day in a hotel suite in central London. He greets me warmly and talks expansively, but his dark glasses ...

By Nahal Garakani Click here for updates on this story January 23, 2025 (LAPost.com) -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and

Cynthia Erivo for Wicked, Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez, Mikey Madison for Anora, Demi Moore for The Substance and Fernanda Torres for I'm Still Here. Black Box Diaries, No Other Land, Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat and Sugarcane.

All five Academy Award nominees for Best Director on Thursday - Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, Sean Baker for Anora, Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, James Mangold for A Complete Unknown, and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance - are first-timers in the category.