THE 2025 OSCARS BY THE NUMBERS 

Wallethub has analyzed the 2025 Oscar nominations by the numbers and there are some fun ones! Did you know it takes 600 hours just to install the red carpet and 500 workers? Or that the Oscar campaigns can cost (in total), $100 million? Here are your Academy Award Nominees…..in numbers!

Oscar Economics 

$57.7M: Total cost of the Oscars ceremony  

$24,700: Cost of the 50,000-square-foot Oscars red carpet

600: Hours to install the 100K square feet of red carpet for a crew of 500 workers

$400: Estimated value of each 24-karat gold-plated Oscar statuette

$10M – Total cost of an A-list actress’s Oscars ensemble ($1.5M for the average attendee and $266K for a first-timer)

$18.1M: Cost of Cate Blanchett’s 2014 attire (most expensive in Oscars history)

$40M: Cost of Lady Ganga’s Tiffany diamond necklace (the most expensive jewelry worn at the Oscars)

$100M+: Amount Hollywood spends on awards-season lobbying each year

$20K: Cost for streaming one film for voters (replacing the more costly option of physical copies, costing over $1M per film)

$175M+: L.A.’s annual economic boost from the Oscars 

$83K: Price for a couple to attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party

$6.6M: Average increase in domestic box office sales for a Best Picture winner

40%: Boost in pay for a Best Actor/Actress winner on their next film

$170K: Value of the Oscars goodie bag

$1.2M: Cost of the Chadwick Boseman NFT included in 2021’s gift bag 

Best Picture Nominees

1: Best Picture nominees with the lowest budgets have the highest Rotten Tomatoes ratings (“I’m Still Here”)

“ANORA”

Budget: $6,000,000

Gross Sales: $33,700,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93%

“THE BRUTALIST” 

Budget: $9,600,000

Gross Sales: $5,900,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93%

“A COMPLETE UNKNOWN” 

Budget: $60,000,000

Gross Sales: $63,400,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80%

“CONCLAVE”

Budget: $20,400,000

Gross Sales: $78,000,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93% 

“DUNE: PART TWO”

Budget: $190,000,000

Gross Sales: $714,400,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%  

“EMILIA PÉREZ”

Budget: $26,000,000

Gross Sales: $10,700,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76%  

“I’M STILL HERE” 

Budget: $1,480,000

Gross Sales: $14,100,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 95% 

“NICKEL BOYS”

Budget: $23,200,000

Gross Sales: $1,500,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 90%  

“THE SUBSTANCE” 

Budget: $17,500,000

Gross Sales: $76,500,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89% 

“WICKED”

Budget: $150,000,000

Gross Sales: $710,500,000
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%  

36%: Golden Globes’ 10-year record predicting the Oscar for Best Picture 

Accurate Predictions

2016: Moonlight

2018: Green Book

2020: Nomadland

2024: Oppenheimer

238 Minutes: Duration of the longest Best Picture winner, “Gone with the Wind” (1939)

214 Minutes: Longest Best Picture nominee in 2025, “The Brutalist”

0 out of 10: Best Picture nominees have a runtime of less than 2 hours

149 Minutes: Average duration of a 2025 nominee

Best Actor & Actress in a Leading Role

Scorecard for the people in each category, like the best picture nominees. Have age, career earnings, previous Oscar nominations/wins. Then any other fun facts you can find.

CYNTHIA ERIVO (Wicked)

Age: 38

Net Worth: $3M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 2 (0 win)

KARLA SOFÍA GASCÓN (Emilia Pérez)

Age: 52

Net Worth: $2M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 0 (0 wins)

MIKEY MADISON (Anora)

Age: 25 

Net Worth: $1M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 0 (0 wins)

DEMI MOORE (The Substance)

Age: 62

Net Worth: $200M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 0 (0 wins)

FERNANDA TORRES (I’m Still Here)

Age: 59

Net Worth: $5M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 0 (0 wins)

ADRIEN BRODY (The Brutalist)

Age: 51

Net Worth: $10M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 1 (1 wins)

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET (A Complete Unknown)

Age: 29

Net Worth: $25M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 1 (0 wins)

COLMAN DOMINGO (Sing Sing)

Age: 55

Net Worth: $2M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 1 (0 wins)

RALPH FIENNES (Conclave) 

Age: 62

Net Worth: $50M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 2 (0 wins)

SEBASTIAN STAN (The Apprentice)

Age: 42

Net Worth: $8M
Previous Oscar Nominations: 0 (0 wins)

8 Out of Last 10 Years: A Golden Globe winner for Best Actress has also won the Oscar

Golden Globes winners in 2025

Best actress in a film (comedy/musical)

WINNER 2025: Demi Moore, The Substance  

Best actress (drama)

WINNER 2025: Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

TV & Advertising

200+: Countries and territories in which the Oscars will be televised 

$1.95M: Cost of a 30-second ad during the Oscars (72% less than the Super Bowl)

$127M+: Ad revenue for ABC on Oscar Sunday

$20M: Ad revenue generated by the Red Carpet Show

21M: Average viewers of the 2024 Academy Awards (up 6% from 2023)

203 Minutes: Length of the 2024 Oscars broadcast

263 Minutes: Length of the 2002 Oscars broadcast (longest on record)

97th Academy Awards —Major Storylines  

1^st: Openly transgender actor nominated (Karla Sofia Gascon)

3: Actors of color nominated this year

1: Best Director nominations for women in 2025 (only the 9th woman ever nominated in this category) 

487: Members were added to the Academy in 2024 

44%: Women

41%: Underrepresented ethnic/racial communities

19: Oscar Winners

71: Oscar Nominees

56: Countries outside of the U.S.

1: Of this year’s acting nominees were nominated in 2024

13: Of this year’s acting nominees are nominated for the first time

4^th: Consecutive time in 5 years when the Oscars telecast will have a host (Conan O’Brien – marking his debut as the host)

Most Nominated Studios

Netflix – 16

A24 – 14

Universal – 13

Focus Features – 12

Searchlight – 10

Neon – 7

Mub – 6 

Warner Bros. – 5

Paramount – 3

Sony Pictures Classics – 3 

Briarcliff Entertainment/Rich Spirit – 2 

Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios – 2 

Sideshow/Janus Films – 2

20th Century – 2

Disney+ – 1

IFC Films – 1

Kino Lorber – 1

MTV Documentary Films – 1

National Geographic Documentary Films – 1

Picturehouse – 1

Walt Disney – 1

13: Nominations for “Emilia Pérez,” most in 2025 

5: Rules were added to prevent another “La La Land” / “Moonlight” mishap

• The celebrity presenter and stage manager will confirm that they have been given the correct envelope
• PwC partners are prohibited from using cell phones or social media during the show.
• The two PwC accountants holding the envelopes will have memorized the winners’ list
• Addition of a third balloting partner, who will sit in the control room, will also know the winners by heart
• All three accountants will attend rehearsals, and practice what to do if anything goes wrong

89: Countries submitted movies to be considered for best international feature film (nominated: France, Brazil, Latvia, Germany, Denmark)

1^st: Latvian film to be nominated – “Flow”

Sources: The information in this report is based on WalletHub projections, news reports and data from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.