Actors Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang announced the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity, scored 13 nominations.

The Academy Awards season begins with the announcement of all Oscar nominees."Emilia Pérez" leads the pack with 13 nominations, while "Wicked" and "The Brutalist" each scored 10.

The award ceremony will take place as scheduled on March 2 at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, with Conan O'Brien taking on hosting duties for the first time.

Hosted earlier this month, two wildly audacious films — Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar epic “The Brutalist” and Jacques ...