It’s that point of the yr when crimson carpets unfurl, cleavage heaves and the academy acknowledges and gilds the cinematic achievements of the yr previous.
The checklist of nominees within the Finest Image class is ten deep in 2025, together with such sunny subject material as homicide by the hands of a brutal army dictatorship, incarcerated kids, physique dysmorphia, jilted intercourse employees and corrupt clergy members.
Giddy up.
The 97th Oscars will happen on Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m. ET on the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. It is going to be televised on ABC and streamed on Hulu.
If the zodiac indicators themselves had been winners in academy classes, we’d place our bets that Aries would win Finest Stay Motion Quick Movie, as they go onerous however not for lengthy.
Taurus takes Finest Manufacturing Design as a result of they dwell to curate (cough) management an aesthetic agenda, Gemini is Finest Tailored Screenplay as they’re adept at manipulating different individuals’s messages, Most cancers is Finest Sound as a result of, from the silent remedy to hysterics, they know find out how to play the decibel recreation.
Leo is principal character vitality incarnate as Finest Actor/Actress in a Lead Function, Virgo with their unblinking judgment and thankless efforts are Finest Modifying; Libra, superficial — however superb at it — is Finest Cinematography; Scorpio is Finest Director as a result of they’re energy hungry puppet masters/shameless oligarchs, Sagittarius on account of their love of pageantry, is Finest Hair and Make-up Styling. Libra is cinematography as a result of they’re superficial however good at it.
Capricorns, sluts for good tailoring, are Finest Costume Design and Aquarius — with their pension for disappearing beneath masks of the literal and metaphorical selection — are Finest Hair and Make-up Styling.
Final however definitely not least deserving, Pisces, with their wild delusions and restricted consideration spans, are Finest Animated Quick.
Now that you just’ve been primed on the celebs at their award present, learn on to seek out out which nominated movie matches every zodiac signal.
The Brutalist
Starring IRL Aries Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” is an unflinching portrait of an immigrant architect dwelling the post-war American Nightmare.
The movie takes its title from an architectural fashion that favors naked supplies and uncooked types. As the primary signal within the zodiac, Aries is made from an analogous type of bald, daring purity. With an unapologetic 215-minute run time, “The Brutalist,” in true hearth signal vogue, dares its viewers to look away or pause for a piss.
Higher Man
Rulers of the second home of value and wealth and really a lot in tune with their indulgent, animal nature, Taurus people will admire the rise, plummet into extra and get well into riches trajectory of “Better Man.”
Based mostly on the real-life of British artist Robbie Williams, “Better Man” casts Williams as a chimp with an inferiority advanced and a way of self that’s dangerously tied to materialistic success, AKA the darkish, hungry coronary heart of many a bull.
Taurus is dominated by Venus, and nothing reveals the underbelly of that affect fairly like a dirty wealthy, emotionally bankrupt primate doing cocaine.
A Full Unknown
Dominated by Mercury, nobody wields or reveres the facility and potential of the written, spoken, shouted, or electrified phrase greater than Gemini. “A Complete Unknown” charts the rise and riotous sound of card-carrying Gemini Bob Dylan, performed by Timothée Chalamet.
Dune: Half 2
Most cancers is the signal of the familial and the divine female and Dune: Half 2 sees Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides preventing to avenge his household whereas coping with painful prophecies and the jarring, guttural sounds of incensed telepathic matriarchs with management points.
Checks out.
The Substance
Dominated by the solar, self-importance is Leo’s favourite sin and the lion delight doesn’t shrink back from the highlight, no matter whether or not the glare hits their finest angles or unseemly shadows.
In-kind, “The Substance” is a hyper-vivid, unapologetically brutal story of the lengths and depths one lady is keen to go in pursuit of being seen and celebrated.
I’m Nonetheless Right here
Starring real-life Virgo Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here” tells the true story of Eunice Paiva, a mom and activist whose dissident husband disappeared throughout the army dictatorship in Brazil.
Emilia Pérez
Libra is the signal of aesthetics and fairness and “Emilia Pérez” tells the dizzying story of a proficient lawyer contracted by a cartel kingpin who needs to bear gender-affirming surgical procedure.
Libra themes of the healing properties of magnificence, the hypocrisy of politics and restorative justice championed by the least doubtless of advocates are central to the story.
Nosferatu
Scorpio lords over the eighth home of intercourse, demise and different individuals’s assets, and Robert Eggers’s “Nosferatu” is a darkish homage to that unholy trinity.
Summoned to settle the property of a mysterious Rely, a person leaves his fragile spouse to the psycho-sexual affect of an undead entity.
Phantasmic orgasms, low-octave confessions of everlasting love and new which means of demise throes ensue.
Nickel Boys
Sagittarius is the signal of undaunted optimism. Dominated by Jupiter, planet of hope and success, archers are likely to imagine that the worst is over, the most effective is but to come back and resoluteness is the trail to progress, a perception made manifest in Elwood, the good protagonist of “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel of the identical title.
Conclave
Starring IRL Capricorn Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave” is a political papal thriller that pits non secular officers towards one another for the excessive place of pope. Capricorn is the signal of paternalism, custom and rising to the highest by no matter means needed, a recipe for faith if ever there was one.
Depraved
Aquarius is the signal of the enigmatic outsider and there has by no means been a extra completely misunderstood protagonist than Elphaba Thropp, performed in inexperienced glory by the incomparable Cynthia Erivo.
The good, illegitimate daughter of a corrupt ruler, Elphaba, is motivated by Aquarian themes of social justice and the cessation of persecution and is unafraid to go towards the grain of the ‘good’ in pursuit of what’s true and proper.
Anora
Nobody can get behind an unconventional romance fairly like Pisces. Directed by IRL Pisces Sean Baker, “Anora” follows the fated neon meet cute and subsequent marriage between the son of a Russian oligarch and an unique dancer from Brooklyn.
It’s an off-the-rails fairy story that features the very Piscean musing, “Love doesn’t look like this. It’s supposed to feel better than this, isn’t it?”
Anora additionally = Pisces, as this signal is the most probably to get on board the glitter prepare of the film’s tinsel hair development.
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Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently stories on planetary configurations and their impact on every zodiac signal. Her horoscopes combine historical past, poetry, popular culture and private expertise. To e book a studying, go to her web site.
