Guy Pearce arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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The cream of Hollywood will assemble this morning to see which of the year’s most acclaimed films, performers, and creators are acknowledged in the 2025 Academy Awards.

Multiple Australians are also in the running for an awards nod. Here’s what you need to know.

Guy Pearce arrives at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Guy Pearce, pictured at the Golden Globes, is nominated for an Oscar. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

When do the Oscars start?

The ceremony will begin at 11 am AEDT.

Coverage of the red carpet will begin about half an hour earlier, at 10.30 am AEDT.

Who is hosting the ceremony?

Late-night TV icon Conan O’Brien will be filling hosting duties.

He’ll be accompanied by a range of performers who are typically drawn from the ranks of the nominees.

Award announcers, usually former Oscar winners themselves, will also take the stage.

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The ceremony will begin at 11am AEDT. (Getty)

What’s different about this year’s ceremony?

While the Oscars themselves are keeping to schedule, the devastating LA wildfires saw changes to the lead-up.

The voting period was extended by a week, delaying the announcement of the nominees.

The Oscar Nominees Luncheon was also cancelled.

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TV’s Conan O’Brien will host the ceremony. (NBC)

Who are the Australians up for an award?

Guy Pearce headlines the list of Australians going for an Oscars gong, after he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Award for The Brutalist.

The film is also up for Best Picture, Best Actor (Adrien Brody), Best Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones), and Best Director (Brady Corbet).

Pearce faces stiff competition, particularly in the form of Kieran Culkin for his turn in A Real Pain.

Culkin has swept the awards season so far, with Pearce recently joking in an interview that he was sure to lose the Oscar to his fellow actor.

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Aussie filmmaker Adam Elliot. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SCAD)

Other Australians up for a golden statuette include former winner Adam Elliot, nominated for Best Animated Feature Film for Memoir of a Snail.

Melbourne-based producer Liz Kearney is also nominated for the same film.

Elliot previously won Best Animated Short in 2016 for Harvey Krumpet.

Australian cinematographer Greig Fraser has been nominated for his work on Dune: Part Two, after winning the Oscar in 2022 for the previous film in the prospective trilogy.

Australian producer Maya Gnyp is included in the nomination for Best Documentary Short Film for I Am Ready, Warden, alongside US director-producer Smriti Mundhra.

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The Aussies up for Oscar nominations (and the talents who missed out)

The film follows the last week in the life of a former US Marine, John Henry Ramirez, spent on death row.

Australian Rodney Burke, special effects supervisor on Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, was nominated for Best Visual Effects Oscar.

He’ll be competing in the category with fellow Australians Luke Millar and David Clayton, who worked on the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man, which saw the singer rendered as an anthropomorphic chimpanzee.

Who are the other nominees?

You can check out a rundown of the Best Picture nominees, and how to watch them, here.
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