Potential historic moments to watch for at the 2025 Oscars

Keep your eyes peeled for each the past that could beryllium made astatine the 2025 Oscars.

The 97th Academy Awards, acceptable for March 2, could spot individuals and films alike people awesome and important wins.

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Check retired these moments to ticker retired for astatine the 2025 Oscars.

Another triumph for pistillate directors?

"The Substance" manager Coralie Fargeat became the 10th pistillate nominated for the champion manager Oscar past month.

Should she triumph for the buzzy body-horror film, Fargeat would go conscionable the 4th pistillate to bash truthful successful the astir 100-year past of the Academy Awards.

The 1st Brazilian champion histrion winner?

With her champion histrion Oscar information past period for her enactment successful "I'm Still Here," Fernanda Torres became the 2nd Brazilian histrion to beryllium nominated successful that category.

Better yet? She's pursuing successful the footsteps of her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who earned a champion histrion information for her enactment successful the 1998 movie "Central Station," making her the archetypal Brazilian histrion nominated successful the category's history.

Her parent didn't win, which means Torres -- caller disconnected a Golden Globe triumph -- has the accidental to go the archetypal Brazilian histrion to instrumentality location the coveted statuette.

Colman Domingo has different changeable astatine history

When helium was nominated for his enactment successful "Rustin" past year, Colman Domingo had the accidental to go the archetypal Afro-Latino to triumph the Oscar for champion actor.

He yet didn't win, but present helium has different changeable to bash truthful with his champion histrion information for his enactment successful "Sing Sing."

Latino practice astatine an all-time precocious successful acting categories

This twelvemonth marks the archetypal clip 4 Latino performers are nominated successful acting categories with Colman Domingo up for champion histrion for "Sing Sing," Torres up for champion histrion for "I'm Still Here," and some Zoe Saldaña and Monica Barbaro up for champion supporting histrion for "Emilia Pérez" and "A Complete Unknown," respectively.

Will 1 -- oregon much -- of them instrumentality location a trophy? We'll person to ticker and find out.

Will Diane Warren yet snag a win?

Diane Warren earned her 16th information for champion archetypal opus this year, marking her eighth consecutive information successful the category.

Up for "The Journey" from the movie "The Six Triple Eight," Warren has different accidental to yet triumph Oscar gold.

Warren's support isn't without an Oscar, however, arsenic she received an honorary grant successful 2022.

A caller EGOT among us?

With her champion histrion Oscar information for playing Elphaba successful "Wicked," Cynthia Erivo has different changeable astatine earning the coveted EGOT status.

Erivo's Tony, Grammy and Emmy are each associated with her epic crook arsenic Celie successful "The Color Purple" connected Broadway, with her winning those trophies successful 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively.

The prima has had 2 erstwhile shots astatine EGOTing, with 2 Oscar nominations for "Harriet" successful 2020 -- 1 for champion histrion and different for champion archetypal opus for "Stand Up" from the film.

"Wicked" is giving Erivo different accidental astatine EGOT glory.

Musicals participate the champion representation race

Two musicals -- "Emilia Pérez" and "Wicked" -- are up for the apical prize this year: champion picture.

This marks the archetypal clip since the 1969 Oscars that 2 musicals person been nominated successful the class astatine the aforesaid time. That year, "Oliver!" -- the eventual victor -- and "Funny Girl" were up for the coveted award.

If either "Emilia Pérez" oregon "Wicked" wins, it would beryllium the archetypal clip a philharmonic has won champion representation since "Chicago" did truthful astatine the 2003 Oscars.

A large triumph for trans representation?

Karla Sofía Gascón could marque past arsenic the archetypal openly trans histrion to triumph an Academy Award.

The "Emilia Pérez" prima is up for champion histrion for her titular relation a Mexican cause cartel person who fakes her decease and undergoes gender-affirming surgery, aboriginal attempting to close the wrongs of her past and reconnect with her erstwhile woman and children.

Elliot Page was antecedently nominated for an Oscar for his relation successful "Juno" successful 2008, anterior to coming retired arsenic transgender.

In caller weeks, Gascón has been nether occurrence for past violative societal media posts.

The Spanish histrion archetypal apologized for her posts -- which contained Islamophobic, racist and different violative remarks connected a wide scope of topics -- but aboriginal said she was a unfortunate of "cancel culture."

"Emilia Pérez" manager Jacques Audiard has condemned Gascón's posts, telling Deadline "what Karla Sofía said is inexcusable."

March 2 is Oscar Sunday! Watch the 2025 Oscars unrecorded connected ABC and Hulu.

Live reddish carpet sum starts astatine 3:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. PT with "On The Red Carpet astatine the Oscars."

Watch each the enactment connected the reddish carpet unrecorded connected ABC, streaming unrecorded connected OnTheRedCarpet.com and connected the On the Red Carpet Facebook and YouTube pages.

The 97th Oscars, hosted by Conan O'Brien, begins astatine 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. and volition beryllium followed by a peculiar preview of "American Idol."

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