Why Did Zendaya Miss the 2025 Oscars?

Regardless of Dune Half 2 profitable a number of awards on the 2025 Oscars, Zendaya was nowhere to be discovered. Whereas certainly one of her motion pictures was nominated, one other was not nominated in any respect.

Her movie, Challengers, was snubbed. Though she has not confirmed that is why she didn’t attend, it’s essentially the most logical purpose. The actress can be at the moment filming Season 3 of Euphoria and is gearing up for Christopher Nolan‘s film The Odyssey. To not point out, she lately bought engaged to her Spider-Man costar, Tom Holland, so she may very well be busy wedding ceremony planning.

Zendaya was not nominated for Greatest Actress for Challengers, and the movie didn’t nab a Greatest Rating nomination, regardless of receiving widespread acclaim. Challengers acquired 4 Golden Globe nominations and took residence the award for Greatest Unique Rating.

Dune Half II acquired 5 Oscar nominations, together with Greatest Sound, Greatest Visible Results, Greatest Manufacturing Design, Greatest Cinematography, and Greatest Image. It received the awards for Sound and Visible Results.

Her Dune Half 2 costar, Timothee Chalamet, was in attendance. Together with Dune, he was nominated for Greatest Actor for A Full Unknown.

Nevertheless, she isn’t the one actor to not present as much as the award present. Jonathan Bailey skipped out on attending as a consequence of being in a play in London. He was nominated for Depraved. Harrison Ford additionally dropped out on the final minute after he was identified with shingles. The actor was imagined to current an award.

Followers observed Zendaya’s absence and took to social media to ask the place the actress was.

i’m so confused at how tiktokers and netflix actors are there however no zendaya or anya… #Oscars

— adam (@aa_aouni) March 3, 2025