With Oscar nominations being announced on January 23rd, Moviefone makes our predictions on who will be nominated for the 97th Academy Awards.

There is no official word if the 97th annual Academy Awards will be canceled. As of Jan. 14, 2025, the show is slated to air on its original date. Though the Oscars ceremony is set to go on as planned, the annual Oscars Nominees Luncheon—scheduled for Feb. 10—was canceled.

The Oscars nominations announcement has been delayed again. The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were originally supposed to be announced on Friday, January 17, 2025. Due to the fires in Los Angeles,

The Oscars will take place in March 2025. Learn below who some of the predicted winners of the upcoming awards show might be.

The Oscars are not canceled and there are no plans to move the March 2 event despite the devastation of the California wildfires, according to senior members of the Academy, who shut down a viral tabloid story about the show’s supposed cancelation from The Sun.

It started with a tabloid report in U.K. newspaper The Sun titled “OSCARS THREAT Oscars 2025 on verge of being cancelled as bosses secretly plot major changes to ceremony after LA wildfires.” The article went on to claim that “Official Academy Award committees,

In 2025, when it comes to the big, impending awards shows like the Grammys and the Oscars, the show will go on, albeit a bit differently this time out. Here's what will be different about the Oscars and the Grammys in 2025.

Many glitzy events in Los Angeles have been postponed due to the ongoing wildfires that have seen 150,000 citizens forced to evacuate