The Oscar nominations are in…which means so are the Oscar snubs of 2025. After this year’s delightfully unpredictable Golden Globes, Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced this year’s Oscar nominees live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre on January 23. And there were some shocking upsets.
Sure, some of those upsets were far from upsetting—see Monica Barbaro’s well-deserved supporting actress nomination for A Complete Unknown—but many of this year’s buzziest performers and creatives were knocked out of their respective categories before they could even step into the ring.
Arguably, the biggest snubs can be traced back to the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories, proving there were just too many stunning performances by women to possibly reward them all. Of course, that doesn’t mean the internet agrees with Academy voters about the women they left out…
Here are some of the biggest Oscar snubs of the 2025 Oscar nominations, and what people had to say about them.
Pamela Anderson, Best Actress—The Last Showgirl
Honestly, the Best Actress category seemed to be the most competitive of the year, with Demi Moore taking the lead as a likely front-runner (I’m still feeling emotional about her Golden Globes acceptance speech, by the way). While I can’t imagine removing any of the women who made the cut, I can’t help but ache for Pamela Anderson, who shone in The Last Showgirl, a Gia Coppola film about a Las Vegas dancer reckoning with the abrupt end of her show’s 30-year run. And neither can the internet.
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Despite this snub, it’s been an incredible awards season for Anderson, whose accolades include a Golden Globes nomination. “I share this beautiful nomination with The Last Showgirl family, my family, and my hard-working companions on this interesting journey,” Anderson said of the honour in December. “It is never too late to dream, to start again, to stay open to possibilities—we are not all so lucky.”
It will be her biggest role in decades, and she'll star alongside Jamie Lee Curtis and Kiernan Shipka.
Nicole Kidman, Best Actress—Babygirl
Somebody get me a glass of milk! Like Anderson, Kidman was left out of the Best Actress category after a very effective promo tour for Babygirl, in which she played a high-powered CEO attempting to keep her life from unravelling while exploring BDSM with a mysterious intern (Harris Dickinson) at her company. Of course, this is not the first time Kidman has been spurned by the Academy.
“The Academy snubs Nicole Kidman for yet another bold and daring performance,” wrote one X user. “Adding Babygirl to the long list that includes Birth, The Paperboy, To Die For, Destroyer, Dogville, Eyes Wide Shut, and the list goes on and on.”
Angelina Jolie, Best Actress—Maria
Although Timothée Chalamet has been (rightfully) lauded for his commitment to nailing Bob Dylan’s voice in A Complete Unknown, the Academy did not reward Angelina Jolie’s own vigorous vocal training for Maria. Though Jolie reportedly had no prior singing experience, she spent seven months working with vocal coach Eric Vetro to play opera singer Maria Callas in this Pablo Larraín biopic.
Unlike Chalamet, Jolie’s voice was blended with Callas’s voice in post-production, but that doesn’t seem to be a disqualifying factor for Academy voters. After all, Adrien Brody still scored a best actor nom for The Brutalist despite the film’s use of AI to enhance his Hungarian accent, and Austin Butler won best actor for Elvis with blended vocals in 2023.
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Best Actress—Hard Truths
Film critics are going to be particularly disappointed to see Marianne Jean-Baptiste omitted from the Academy’s Best Actress category, having already handed her a slew of awards for her turn in Hard Truths, a film about a viscerally unhappy woman’s tumultuous relationship with the world around her.
The National Society of Film Critics, Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Toronto Film Critics Association, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and New York Film Critics Circle all hailed her performance as the best of this year, just to name a few.
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Selena Gomez, Best Supporting Actress—Emilia Pérez
After winning big at the Golden Globes, Emilia Pérez dominated this year’s Oscar categories with 13 nominations, including a history-making nomination for Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans actress to be nominated for an Oscar. However, despite a big year for Emilia Pérez and former child stars like Ariana Grande and Kieran Culkin (both nominated for supporting roles), Selena Gomez was left out of this year’s Oscar race.
While this omission may have something to do with recent discourse about the pop star’s ability to speak Spanish in the musical dramedy, she earned a Golden Globes nomination for her role as Jessi, the American wife of a cartel leader that struggles to find her footing in Mexico.
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Back in May, Gomez shared Cannes Film Festival’s jury prize for Best Actress with her co-stars Gascón and Zoe Saldaña (both nominated for Oscars). At the time, Cannes jury president and Barbie director Greta Gerwig said singling out one winner would have “undermined the magic that they created together.” She continued, “Each of them is a standout but together they’re transcendent.”
Margaret Qualley, Best Supporting Actress—The Substance
It seems the Academy didn’t fully grasp the message from The Substance—or perhaps just didn’t watch until the end. There’s room to celebrate both Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley this awards season! Honestly, I’m not surprised this snub seems to have received the loudest pushback on X.
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Best Supporting Actress—The Last Showgirl
As I’ve already stated, women gave the most memorable performances across the board this year, which is why the competition for spots in the best actress and best supporting actress categories were so fierce. Though Curtis earned nominations from the Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy for her role in The Last Showgirl, the Academy probably figured her recent Best Supporting Actress win for Everything Everywhere All at Once should be enough to hold her over until her next buzzy movie.
Jon M. Chu, Best Director—Wicked
It’s Barbie all over again! Though Wicked secured 10 Oscar nominations—including Best Picture, Best Actress (Cynthia Erivo), and Best Supporting Actress (Grande), Chu was omitted from the directing category.
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Wicked star and 2023 Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh expressed her mixed emotions over the snub on The View, saying, “We are all crying from joy, but we must say we are also crying because Jon M. Chu and Alice Brooks, our DP, were not nominated but the rest of us are celebrating.”
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Challengers…Everything?!
I’m sorry…not one nomination?! Not even Best Original Score?!
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Between this and the Babygirl shutout, it’s safe to say prudes win again!
This article originally appeared on GLAMOUR US.
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