Out of 220 individual nominees, 65 women have been nominated for an Oscar this year. That’s down slightly from 2024, when there were 75 women nominees making up 32% of the nominee pool. After hours, weeks, months spent color-correcting a scene, laboring over the intricate hem of a costume design, or perfecting the key scene in an original screenplay, these women deserve to be recognized on their special day. Like Shiori Ito, the first Japanese woman director to be nominated in the documentary feature category, whose film Black Box Diaries isnโt even allowed to be shown in her home country. Or Emilia Pรฉrez film editor Juliette Welfling, the only woman in her category this year. Yes, Emilia Pรฉrezโs run toward the Oscars has been marred with controversy from the French directorโs depiction of Mexico to star Karla Sofรญa Gascรณnโs resurfaced offensive tweets. But film editing is an often invisible line of work, and this year itโs unfortunately made even more invisible by the murmurs on whether Gascรณn will show up.
