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Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees Adds ‘Wicked’ & ‘The Wild Robot’, Sets Panelists
Wicked, Anora, Nickel Boys and Inside Out 2 are among the films set to take part in Deadline's 2025 Contenders Film: The Nominees awards showcase.
Panelists confirmed for Saturday’s showcase are writer-director Sean Baker, star Mikey Madison, and producers Alex Coco and Samantha Quan for Anora; writer-director Victoria Warmerdam and producer Trent for I’m Not a Robot; Kelsey Mann for Inside Out 2; director Cindy Lee and writer-producer-Darwin Shaw for The Last Ranger; writer-director Adam Elliot for Memoir of a Snail; co-writer/director RaMell Ross and producer Joslyn Barnes for Nickel Boys; director-producer-cinematographer Emily Kassie and director Julian Brave NoiseCat for Sugarcane; film editor Myron Kerstein, supervising sound editor and sound designer Nancy Nugent Title, supervising sound editor & sound designer/re-recording mixer John Marquis and re-recording mixer Andy Nelson for Wicked; and director Chris Sanders, composer Kris Bowers and supervising sound designer Randy Thom for The Wild Robot. Wicked, Anora and Nickel Boys are joined in this year’s Oscar Best Picture race by The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, I’m Still Here and The Substance. Nat Geo’s Sugarcane is competing in the Oscar Documentary Feature category with Black Box Diaries, No Other Land, Porcelain War and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, while I’m Not a Robot and The Last Ranger are in the Live Action Short Film category that also includes A Lien, Anuja and The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent.
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