DATA: Records That Were Broken At the 2025 Academy Awards Ceremony

VegasInsider.com has updated our list of all the records that were broken during the 2025 ceremony. To see all the records that were broken this year in detail, have a look below. 

To highlight a few of the records that were broken at the 2025 Oscars, Sean Baker tied Walt Disney’s record for the most Oscar wins in a single night (4 Oscars), Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”) broke Chartlon Heston’s record from 1960 for the longest on-screen performance for a Best Actor winner, Paul Tazewell (“Wicked”) became the first black male costume designer to ever win an Oscar in the Best Costume Design category, while Diane Warren officially tied the record as the most nominated individual without a competitive win at the Oscars (16 nominations). 

OVERALL

  • Sean Baker tied Walt Disney’s record for the most Oscar wins in a single night - Disney won 4 awards in 1954 and Baker won in 4 categories at the 2025 Oscars for “Anora”: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing & Best Original Screenplay 

  • Diane Warren officially tied the record as the most nominated individual without a competitive win at the Oscars - Warren has been nominated in the Best Original Song category record-breaking 16 times which makes her the most nominated individual without a competitive win, regardless of a category (in a tie with a recording mixer Greg P.Russell) - in 2025, Warren was nominated for the song “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”

Best Picture

  • “Anora” became the 4th movie to win Palme D’Or from the Cannes Festival as well as the Best Picture Oscar (thus joining “The Lost Weekend”, “Marty” & “Parasite”)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

  • Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”) broke Chartlon Heston’s record from 1960 for the longest on-screen performance for a Best Actor winner - while Heston won with a performance of 2 hours and 1 minute, Brody’s performance took 2 hours and 8 minutes of screen time (having said that, the record for the longest Oscar-winning acting performance remains unbeaten since it belongs to the Best Actress winner Viven Leigh whose performance in “Gone With The Wind” took up 2 hours 23 minutes of screen time)

  • Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”) joined an elite group of 10 actors who have won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar 2 or more times - Brody previously won for “The Pianist” in 2003, his win in 2025 was his second

Best Costume Design

  • Paul Tazewell (“Wicked”) became the first black male costume designer to win an Oscar in the Best Costume Design category and only the second black designer to ever win following Ruth E. Carter who won 2 Oscars in the category for the “Black Panther” franchise

Best Original Song 

  • Diane Warren extended her record as the most nominated individual without a win in the Best Original Song category - her nomination for “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight” was Warren’s 16th nomination without a win

  • Jacques Audiard (“El Mal” from “Emilia Pérez”) became the first individual to win in the Best Original Song category the same year that he was nominated in the Best Director category for the same movie 

Best Editing

  • Sean Baker (“Anora”) became only the third director to win an Oscar for editing a movie they also directed, joining James Cameron (who won for editing “Titanic”) and Alfonso Cuarón (who won for editing “Gravity”), however, Sean Baker became the first director to win for a sole editing credit since both Cameron and Cuarón won as part of a group

Best Sound

  • Richard King (“Dune: Part Two”) tied the record for the most wins in the Sound categories at the Oscars - prior to 2025, King had won 4 Oscars in the Best Sound Editing category before Best Sound Editing & Best Sound Mixing categories were merged into Best Sound category, and he won his 5th Oscar in the Best Sound Category for “Dune: Part Two”, thus tying the record of sound engineers Fred Hynes, Douglas Shearer & Thomas T. Moulton who won 5 Oscars in the Best Sound Mixing category

Best International Feature

  • Brazil (“I’m Still Here”) won their first Oscar in the Best International Feature category

Best Animated Feature

  • “Flow” became the first dialogue-free movie to win in the Best Animated Feature category at the Oscars

  • Chris Sanders extended his record as the most nominated individual without a win in the Best Animated Feature category - “The Wild Robot” was his 4th nomination following nominations for “Lilo & Stitch”, “How To Train Your Dragon” & “The Croods”

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