Six Actors on Actors, Variety Cover Stars Win Oscars

With the 2025 Academy Awards in the books, Variety is celebrating the Oscar wins of the stars and filmmaking talent that took home gold at the ceremony Sunday evening. Many of the night’s biggest winners graced the cover of Variety magazine, featured in the Actors on Actors series, guested on the Awards Circuit podcast and appeared in the crafts-focused Inside the Frame video series. Revisit the coverage below.

Variety Covers

Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), best actor: Inside Adrien Brody’s Private World: How ‘The Brutalist’ Pushed Him to the Limit — and Just Might Win Him Another Oscar

Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”), best supporting actress: Zoe Saldaña Rebooted: Why the Action Star Broke Her ‘Cycle of Sequels’ for ‘Emilia Pérez’ — And Her One Wish for Marvel’s Next Gamora

Actors on Actors

Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”), best actor: Adrien Brody and Tilda Swinton Get Existential, From ‘The Brutalist’ Suffering to Growing Old and ‘Thinking About Mortality Now’

Kieran Culkin (“A Real Pain”), best supporting actor: Kieran Culkin and Colman Domingo on Why Acting Methods Are Useless and Objecting to ‘When Actors Call Themselves Storytellers’: ‘Sorry, Jeremy’ Strong

Mikey Madison (“Anora”), best actress: Pamela Anderson and Mikey Madison Get Honest About Intimacy Coordinators, Acting Prep and Why Pam Is ‘Not Ashamed of the Choices I Made’

Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”), best supporting actress: An ‘Avatar’ Reunion: Kate Winslet and Zoe Saldaña on Growing Frustrated With Blockbusters, ‘Redefining Femininity’ and Why ‘Lee’ Couldn’t Be Directed by a Man

Directors on Directors

Sean Baker (“Anora”), best director, editing, original screenplay and picture: Brady Corbet and Sean Baker on Why It’s Hard Shooting Movies Like ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Anora’ in America and Why Obsessing Over Box Office Is Trump Coded

Awards Circuit Podcast

Mikey Madison (“Anora”), best actress: Mikey Madison on Her ‘Anora’ Oscar Moment and Why She Played a Saved Voicemail From Her Father to Shoot Crucial Final Scene

Zoe Saldaña (“Emilia Pérez”), best supporting actress: Zoe Saldaña Is ‘Processing’ the Karla Sofía Gascón Fallout, but ‘I’m Allowing Myself to Still Experience Joy’ Amid ‘Emilia Pérez’ Oscar Campaign

Inside the Frame

Lol Crawley (“The Brutalist”), best cinematography: ‘The Brutalist’ Cinematographer Lol Crawley Breaks Down Filming in VistaVision in an Active Marble Mine in Tuscany