Academy Award Winners 2025
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the winners of the 98th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2025.
In the Best Original Music category, the winner was Ludwig Göransson, who won the award for his score for Sinners, director Ryan Coogler’s historical horror-drama about a pair of brothers who return home to depression-era Mississippi to open a juke joint blues club, only to see it attacked by vampires and members of the local Ku Klux Klan. This is the third Oscar win for Göransson – he previously won for Black Panther in 2018, and for Oppenheimer in 2024. In the acceptance speech Göransson, said:
Wow. My dad bought his first blues album in Sweden, 1964. It was a John Lee Hooker album, and even though it was on the other side of the world from a place my dad had never been, and a place he could not relate to, the music was so powerful that it changed my dad’s life and he devoted his whole life to music, and when I was about seven years old, a little boy, he put a guitar in my arms and I loved the guitar and it became everything to me, and it was the guitar that opened a lot of doors for me, and it was the guitar that brought me over to the States, and it was the guitar that eventually led me to one of the greatest storytellers of our time, Ryan Coogler. Ryan, thank you for your vision, and making a movie that resonated with the whole world. Thank you.
The other nominees were: Joscelin Dent-Pooley (Jerskin Fendrix) for Bugonia, Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another, and Max Richter for Hamnet.
In the Best Original Song category, the winners were Eun-Jae Kim (“Ejae”), Mark Sonnenblick, Soon-Heon Jeong (“24”), Gyu-Kwak Joong, Yu-Han Lee, Hee-Dong Nam (“Ido”) and Teddy Park for “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters.
The other nominees were Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner for “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams, Nicholas Pike for “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!, Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson for “I Lied to You” from Sinners, and Diane Warren for “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless.
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