To whet your appetite for the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, let’s take a look back at memorable winners and moments during this “Super Bowl of Entertainment.”

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) Ariana Grande arrives at the Oscars Nominees Dinner on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

The 97th Academy Awards aka Oscars 2025 is right around the corner and here are our best predictions for who will clinch the awards.

The stars were out for an Oscar nominee event held Tuesday. The Academy opted to hold a dinner for nominated artists prior to this Sunday’s Academy Awards instead of the annual luncheon, which had been canceled in the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year.

Nominees for the 97th Academy Awards gathered at the Academy Museum to keep up the annual tradition of taking a class photo of the year’s contenders.

The annual event was postponed because of the L.A. wildfires, but finally returned as part of Oscars week, but without the applause meter (or Karla Sofía Gascón).

Oscar nominees gathered for the 97th Annual Academy Awards Nominees Dinner and took the annual Oscar Class Photo. This year's nominees include Zoe Saldaña, Demi Moore, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Monica Barbaro,

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored its 2025 Oscar nominees Tuesday night with a dinner at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. The event was used to finally get the 97th Oscars nominees class photo,