From Gold Trophies to Big Paydays: How Oscars 2025 Will Give Career Boost to Winners

Oscars 2025 has got film fraternity and film fans across the globe glued to the screens as award winners graced the 97th Academy Awards ceremony held on March 2 in Los Angeles. Anora, a film directed by Sean Baker, got all the limelight at the Oscars 2025 as it won a total of five awards, including for the best picture and best actress for star Mikey Madison. Historical drama “The Brutalist” star Adrien Brody clinched the best actor award.

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What do Oscar winners get? 

Oscar awards doesn’t just shine light on the cinematic achievements of the winners but also set the path for possible future success with worldwide recognition. Oscar winners get a gold-plated trophy, which reportedly costs $400. Although the trophy is more of a symbolic win, according to the Academy Awards guidelines, the winners can’t sell their trophy. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) had introduced a $1 rule in 1951 wherein the Oscar winners are barred from selling or transferring their trophies without first returning it back to the Academy for the sum of $1. 

“Award winners shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the Oscar statuette, nor permit it to be sold or disposed of by operation of law, without first offering to sell it to the Academy for the sum of $1.00,” stated the Oscars award’s guidelines. 

Although Oscar laureates don’t receive any prize money, the award gives a substantial increase in their paycheck for subsequent. 

Here’s a list of other 2025 Oscar winners 

• Best actor in a supporting role: Kieran Culkin 

• Best actress in a supporting role: Zoe Saldana 

• Best cinematography: The Brutalist 

• Best international feature film: I’m Still Here 

• Best adapted screenplay: Conclave 

• Best original screenplay: Anora 

• Best animated short film: In the Shadow of the Cypress 

• Best documentary short: The Only Girl in the Orchestra