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The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with “Emilia Pérez,” a polarizing musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender affirming surgery, leads this year’s race with 13 nods including Best Picture. It was followed closely by “The Brutalist,” a historical epic the examines the Jewish immigrant experience, and “Wicked,” the hit Broadway adaptation, which both nabbed 10 nominations.
Other Best Picture nominees include “Conclave,” a thriller about the election of a new pope, and “A Complete Unknown,” the Timothée Chalamet-led Bob Dylan biopic, alongside indies “Anora,” “Nickel Boys,” and “I’m Still Here,” as well as the body horror film, “The Substance,” and “Dune: Part Two,” one of the rare studio blockbusters to garner Oscar attention.
Although many of the Academy’s favorite films only recently arrived in theaters, many of them are already available to stream online (or to rent/purchase digitally on Prime Video and Apple TV), which means you can easily watch a large majority of the 35 Oscar-nominated feature films online before tuning into the Oscars on March 2.
Want a trip down memory lane? You can also check out where to stream all the Oscar-nominated feature films from 2024 and 2023 here and here.
See how to stream all the 2025 Oscar-nominated feature films below:
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Anora
Image Credit: Neon Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Sean Baker), Actress in a Leading Role (Mikey Madison), Actor in a Supporting Role (Yura Burisov), Original Screenplay (Sean Baker), Film Editing (Sean Baker)
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety Review: “Taken alone, ‘Anora’ is a profane kick. But seen in the context of Baker’s recurring fixations — from ‘Starlet’ to ‘Red Rocket’ — it stresses his belief that sex work is real work, that it’s more central to society than society wants to admit, and that by identifying with those we typically objectify, we can’t help but love them.”
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The Brutalist
Image Credit: A24 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Brady Corbet), Actor in a Leading Role (Adrien Brody), Actor in a Supporting Role (Guy Pearce), Actress in a Supporting Role (Felicity Jones), Original Screenplay (Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold), Original Score (Daniel Blumberg), Cinematography (Lol Crawley), Film Editing (David Jansco), Production Design (Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia)
Where to Watch: TBA
Variety Review: “If you see only one madly ambitious, wildly allegorical movie this year about a fabled architect whose dream is to design buildings that define the future, make that movie ‘”The Brutalist.’”
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A Complete Unknown
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (James Mangold), Actor in a Leading Role (Timothée Chalamet), Actor in a Supporting Role (Edward Norton), Actress in a Supporting Role (Monica Barbaro), Adapted Screenplay (James Mangold and Jay Cocks), Costume Design (Arianne Phillips), Sound (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco)
Where to Watch: TBA
Variety Review: “‘A Complete Unknown’” is a drama of scruffy naturalism, with a plot that doesn’t so much unfold as lope right along with its legendary, curly-haired, sunglass-wearing coffee-house troubadour hero.”
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Conclave
Image Credit: ©Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection Nominations: Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role (Ralph Fiennes), Actress in a Supporting Role (Isabella Rosellini), Adapted Screenplay (Peter Straughan), Costume Design (Lisy Christl), Original Score (Volker Bertelmann), Film Editing (Nick Emerson), Production Design ( Suzie Davies and Synthia Sleiter)
Where to Watch: Peacock
Variety Review: “One of the most satisfying twists in years, a Hail Mary that both surprises and restores one’s faith (maybe not everyone’s, but certainly that of the disillusioned).”
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Dune: Part Two
Image Credit: Niko Tavernise / Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection Nominations: Best Picture, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Max
Variety Review: “A massive gamble at a time of diminished moviegoing, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s multipart adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel graduates from the world-building thrills of the 2021 original to a meaty, all-encompassing narrative.”
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Emilia Pérez
Image Credit: Courtesy of EFA Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Cinematography, Film Editing, International Feature Film, Original Song, Sound
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety Review: “Like a rose blooming amid a minefield, it’s a miracle that Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ exists: a south-of-the-border pop opera about a most unlikely metamorphosis and the personal redemption it awakens in a stone-cold criminal.”
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I’m Still Here
Image Credit: TIFF Nominations: Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role, International Feature Film
Where to Watch: TBA
Variety Review: “Having the fate of this well-appointed, upper-middle-class house evoke that of an increasingly oppressed Brazil might seem like a strained metaphor, but Salles’ deeply invested filmmaking is remarkable in its grace and naturalism.”
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Nickel Boys
Image Credit: ©MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection Nominations: Best Picture, Screenplay
Where to Watch: TBA
Variety Review: “For his narrative debut, the Oscar-nominated director envisions a radical new way of adapting Colton Whitehead’s novel, inviting audiences to more deeply identify with its protagonists.”
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The Substance
Image Credit: Christine Tamalet Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Actress in a Leading Role, Original Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling
Where to Watch: Mubi
Variety Review: “Shocking and resonant, disarmingly grotesque and weirdly fun, “The Substance” is a feminist body-horror film that should be shown in movie theaters all over the land.”
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Wicked
Image Credit: Universal Pictures Nominations: Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Film Editing, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Rent/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety Review: “Split into two halves — but satisfying enough to stand alone — the fabulous big-screen version of Broadway’s what-makes-a-villain spin on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ feels more relevant than ever.”
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Sing Sing
Image Credit: A24 Nominations: Actor in a Leading Role, Adapted Screenplay
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video
Variety Review: “Cages can’t contain the sheer amount of imagination on offer in ‘Sing Sing’ — not just in the way director Greg Kwedar and his writing and producing partner Clint Bentley conceived of the prison-set drama, but also as an animating force among its characters.”
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The Apprentice
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Nominations: Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety Review: “For its first half, ‘The Apprentice’ is kind of a knockout: the inside look at how Trump evolved that so many of us have imagined for so long, and seeing it play out is both convincing and riveting.”
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A Real Pain
Image Credit: ©Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Nominations: Actor in a Supporting Role, Original Screenplay
Where to Watch: Hulu
Variety Review: “It’s a delight and a revelation — a deft, funny, heady, beautifully staged ramble of a road movie.”
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September 5
Nominations: Original Screenplay
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video
Variety Review: “Multiple well-told accounts exist of the Munich massacre, including Kevin Macdonald’s excellent, Oscar-winning doc “One Day in September,” which makes the movie’s blind spots fairly easy to forgive.”
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Nosferatu
Image Credit: ©Focus Features/Courtesy Everet Nominations: Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Cinematography, Production Design
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety Review: “Visually striking as it is, with compositions that rival great Flemish paintings, the obsessive director’s somber retelling of F.W. Murnau’s expressionistic vampire movie is commendably faithful to the 1922 silent film and more accessible than ‘The Lighthouse’ and ‘The Witch,’ yet eerily drained of life.
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Gladiator II
Image Credit: ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Nominations: Costume Design
Where to Watch: Paramount+
Variety Review: “It is a solid piece of neoclassical popcorn — a serviceable epic of brutal warfare, Colosseum duels featuring lavish decapitations and beasts both animal and human, along with the middlebrow ‘decadence’ of palace intrigue.”
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A Different Man
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Nominations: Makeup and Hairstyling
Where to Watch: Max
Variety Review: “Featuring boundary-defying performances from both Stan and ‘Under the Skin’ actor Adam Pearson, director Aaron Schimberg’s dizzyingly rich think-piece raises bold questions about representation.”
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The Wild Robot
Image Credit: DreamWorks Animation Oscar Nominations: Original Score, Animated Feature Film, Sound
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety Review: “The film’s expressionistic environments can take one’s breath away. Sunsets, sea views and changing seasons suggest scenic calendar art come to life.”
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Flow
Image Credit: Janus Films and Sideshow Nominations: Animated Feature Film, International Feature Film
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety Review: “In practically every respect, ‘Flow”’could only be animated. And it could only be animated as hynotically as this by Zilbalodis, the one-man world-builder responsible for the 2017 indie marvel ‘Away.’
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Inside Out 2
Image Credit: Pixar/Disney Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: Disney+
Variety Review: “‘Inside Out 2’ marks a triumphant creative return for Pixar, bringing off the thing that this studio, at its best, has done better than anyone: finding the sweet spot that merges the gaze of children and adults.”
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Memoir of a Snail
Image Credit: Courtesy of Annecy Animation Festival Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: AMC+
Variety Review: “There’s a magic to 100%-CG-free stop-motion, with its cellophane flames and tears made of sexual lubricant. Don’t be surprised if “Memoir” has you shedding real ones in your seat.”
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Wallace & Gromit
Image Credit: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety Review: “Although less ambitious than ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,’ Aardman’s adorable new feature gives fans what they want: the return of a cold-hearted penguin and more puns than you can count.”
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Maria
Image Credit: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Cinematography
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety Review: “’Maria,’ as shot by the great Edward Lachman, has an autumnal visual warmth that’s beautiful and seductive. The flashbacks are in black-and-white, and they color in Maria’s past, though in a way that leaves us with as many questions as answe
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Black Box Diaries
Image Credit: Courtesy image Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Paramount+ With Showtime
Variety Review: That raw first-person perspective, untempered by the interests of another filmmaker and given narrative rigor by Ito’s substantial journalistic skills, makes “Black Box Diaries” not just a damning analysis of patriarchal power structures in contemporary Japan, but a vivid evocation of the day-to-day psychological swings and breaks that come with living as a survivor.
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No Other Land
Image Credit: Courtesy of Yabayay Media Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: TBA
Variety Review: “Young Palestinian activist Basel Adra teams with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham to chronicle the despair of the displaced in his home territory — the resulting film could open eyes and change minds.”
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Porcelain War
Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: TBA
Variety Review: “The filmmakers make copious use of camera drones to capture these other drones in action; the resulting scenes of aerial warfare are both vertiginously impressive and discomfitingly gung-ho.”
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety Review: “’Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ might sound overwhelming or too academic, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s an entertaining and instructive documentary that presents a huge canvas on which it masterfully explains a complicated historical moment.”
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Sugarcane
Image Credit: Christopher LaMarca Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Hulu
Variety Review: “’Sugarcane’ is the product of humane and insightful filmmakers who are determined to never let anyone forget, and put their moral outrage to exemplary good use.”
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The Girl With the Needle
Image Credit: Courtesy of EFA Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+
Variety Review: “The Involuntary descent, to not just a grimy gutter but a near-Hadean underworld of human cruelty, is the chief horror in ‘The Girl With the Needle,’ Magnus von Horn’s extraordinary and upsetting film — an adult fairytale abundantly populated with witches and wretches, but where society is revealed as the true monster.”
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Image Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video
Variety Review: “By the nail-biting finale of this masterful allegory, decades of compromise have eroded what he stands for, threatening to bury him and the authoritarian system he represents.”
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Six Triple Eight
Oscar Nominations: Original Song
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety Review: “Impressive in both its subject and suggested scope, Perry’s sweeping film reflects how the achievement of these women directly impacted the troops’ morale, despite the adversity they faced from skeptical superior officers”
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Elton John: Never Too Late
Image Credit: Walt Disney Pictures Oscar Nominations: Original Song
Where to Watch: Disney+
Variety Review: “The film is astonishing archival detail, cutting back and forth between that and the lead-up to his 2022 Farewell Concert in Dodger Stadium.”
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Alien: Romulus
Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Hulu
Variety Review: “When I say that ‘Alien: Romulus’ is one of the best ‘Alien’ sequels, that it delivers the slimy creep-out goods in a way that none of the last three “Alien” films have, I don’t mean to suggest that the shock and awe is back, or that the movie has reinvented this series in any visionary mind-fuck way. Quite the contrary. This is closer to a grandly efficient greatest-hits thrill ride, packaged like a video game. Yet on that level it’s a confidently spooky, ingeniously shot, at times nerve-jangling piece of entertainment.
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Better Man
Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video
Variety Review: “First off, Americans don’t really know who [Robbie Williams] is, making it easy to accept whatever Gracey puts in his place. Better still, his simian CG counterpart proves far more expressive than most human actors, meaning the movie is built around an animated performance powerful enough to wring tears.”
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Hulu
Variety Review: “’Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ invites us to embrace the drama of apes fighting apes. By the end, though, in what is in effect a teaser for the next sequel, it looks as if the franchise’s blowhard version of the human race will be back after all.”